Star Trek: Enterprise (TV Series)

Dead Stop (2002)

John Billingsley: Dr. Phlox

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• Lieutenant Malcolm Reed : It can't be ethical to cause a patient this much pain.

  Dr. Phlox : It's unethical to harm a patient; I can inflict as much pain as I like.

• Lieutenant Malcolm Reed : [on the device that is treating his leg]  Are you sure this thing knows what it's doing?

  Dr. Phlox : That's the third time you've asked.

  Lieutenant Malcolm Reed : You didn't answer me the first two times.

• Dr. Phlox : The wound might heal faster if you'd allow me to apply a few more Regulan bloodworms.

  Lieutenant Malcolm Reed : You're not putting any more of those things inside my leg. You still haven't found the last one.

• [Phlox has discovered something odd during Travis' autopsy] 

  Archer : Did you find something?

  Dr. Phlox : As a matter of fact, I did. This is not Ensign Mayweather.

  Archer : What?

  Dr. Phlox : It's a nearly perfect replica. I've never seen a lifeform duplicated in such extraordinary detail, from its epidermis down to its cellular proteins. This is remarkable work.

  Archer : If it's so perfect, how do you know it's not him?

  Dr. Phlox : You recall what happened to Crewman Fisher last month after our visit to Tessik Prime?

  Archer : He came down with Rigelian fever.

  Dr. Phlox : I inoculated the entire crew to prevent an outbreak. Would you mind rolling up your sleeve?

  [Phlox puts a cuff over Archer's wrist and shows his bloodstream on the monitor] 

  Dr. Phlox : The vaccine contained millions of genetically altered microbes. Most of them are still in your bloodstream. They typically survive for, oh, at least several weeks.

  [Phlox places a cuff on the corpse] 

  Dr. Phlox : Every one of the alien microbes in this body is dead.

  Archer : Couldn't they have been killed by the isolytic shock?

  Dr. Phlox : These microbes thrive on isolytic energy. If anything, they would have multiplied. I believe that someone, or something, has abducted Ensign Mayweather and left this facsimile in his place.

  Archer : Apparently bulkheads aren't the only thing this station can replicate.

• Dr. Phlox : [examining a corpse]  Subject's name: Ensign Travis Mayweather, Human male. Weight: 72 kilograms. Age: 26 Earth years - far too young to be on this table.

• Dr. Phlox : It's ironic in a way. The station can duplicate a dead human body in all its exquisite detail, yet a living, simple, one-celled organism is beyond its capability.

• Ensign Hoshi Sato : I was hoping it was another one of his practical jokes. Travis called me down to decon a few weeks ago. He said that he brought some kind of gelatinous life form aboard. He said it might be sentient and that the captain needed me to figure out how to communicate with it.

  Dr. Phlox : I don't recall that.

  Ensign Hoshi Sato : There was no life form. It was only strawberry gelatin.