"The Forgotten" is the title of an episode from the third season of the television series Star Trek: Enterprise. By some accounts, it was also the 700th television episode of Star Trek to be broadcast, including the animated series (the 700th live action episode is part one of "In a Mirror, Darkly").
Seth MacFarlane, the creator of the animated show Family Guy and an avid Star Trek fan[citation needed], has a guest appearance in this episode as Ensign Rivers.
Captain Archer invites Degra on board Enterprise in an attempt to gain his trust. Commander Tucker undermines the captain's credibility when he repeatedly reviles Degra for the suffering his species caused when it attacked Earth in April, 2153, and consequentally killed Tucker's sister.
Meanwhile, a dangerous plasma fire erupts unnoticed on Enterprise's hull. Initially, the blaze is small, but it eventually grows into a spectacular, tall, green column of flame. The fire expands progressively until Tucker and Lt. Reed don space suits, venture onto the hull, and extinguish it. During this procedure, Ensign Sato informs Archer that Reed's proximity to the fire had caused the interior temperature of his suit to reach a dangerous forty-four degrees Celsius (121.2° Farenheit). To avoid heat exhaustion, Archer repeatedly orders Reed to return to the interior of Enterprise, but Reed remains until his task is complete. He successfully extinguishes the fire with Tucker, but becomes unconscious. When he returns to Enterprise, an emergency medical team led by Dr. Phlox gives him immediate attention.
Sub-Commander T'Pol enters Sickbay discusses and discusses with Phlox the consequences of her Trellium addiction that had been introduced in the previous episode. She is troubled when Phlox tells her the addiction had likely caused permanent damage to her ability to control emotions. "You used Trellium for three months," he says. "You may have to learn to live with your emotions." This prognosis is more pessimistic than the one Phlox offered earlier.
Archer orders Tucker to write a letter to the parents of Jane Taylor (Kipleigh Brown), a member of his engineering team who died in one of Enterprise's recent battles.
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