- Divergence (Star Trek: Enterprise)
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"Divergence" Star Trek: Enterprise episode Archer with Klingon ridges, a result of being injected with the Klingon virus.
Episode no. Episode 92 Directed by David Barrett Written by Judith Reeves-Stevens
Garfield Reeves-StevensProduction code 092 Original air date February 25, 2005 Episode chronology ← Previous
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"Bound"List of Star Trek: Enterprise episodes "Divergence" is the title of a Star Trek: Enterprise television episode from season four.
Plot
As the Enterprise crew (aided by Columbia) race to prevent the impending destruction of the Enterprise (resulting from sabotage by a group of Klingon-Augment hybrids), Phlox fights a desperate battle against time to come up with a cure for the virus before a Klingon task force arrives to stop the diseases by eradicating the colony.
Picking up from the cliffhanger Affliction, Enterprise's engine is sabotaged and is near overload. The Columbia sends Trip to reboot the reactor. Phlox rushes to cure the Klingon plague before the forced sterilization of the colony. With Reed in the brig, Archer contacts Harris for answers to the lieutenant's betrayal.
Captain Archer finds out the Klingon augments had booby-trapped Enterprise. The ship cannot drop below warp five. The Columbia comes to help. Trip has an idea to reverse the Klingon modifications, but at this kind of speeds, he cannot use the transporter. Reed is taken out of the brig for a dangerous plan. Meanwhile, Antaak and Phlox find a cure that will neutralize the virus without turning the victim into an augment. They fear General K'Vagh will not accept it and decide to deceive him. On Enterprise, Captain Archer finds out Reed was contacted by a certain Harris. He wants to know more, putting Reed in another dilemma.
Arc significance
Millions of Klingons are transformed into the type of Klingons seen in Star Trek: The Original Series, and it is stated that this condition will be passed onto their children, but may someday be reversible. The Klingons are restored to their original appearance some time between the end of The Original Series and "Star Trek: The Motion Picture" (1979). (Alternatively, the "TOS" Klingons may well last until just before the Khitomer Conference of 2293 as seen in "Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country" (1991). It is in the parallel events of the Star Trek: Voyager episode "Flashback", that we see the (chronologically) first canon evidence of a "TOS" Klingon- Kang, specifically -having reverted to "standard" Klingon appearance.) In the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "Trials and Tribble-ations" it becomes clear that the reasons for the Klingons' altered appearance were never made public, and because the Klingons considered the transformation shameful they never discussed it with outsiders.
External links
- Divergence at the Internet Movie Database
- "Divergence" at TV.com
- Divergence at Memory Alpha (a Star Trek wiki)
- Divergence at StarTrek.com
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