Vanishing Point (Star Trek: Enterprise)
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 Hoshi questions the nature of her existence after using the transporter. |
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| Episode no. | Season 2 Episode 10 |
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| Directed by | David Straiton | ||
| Written by | Rick Berman Brannon Braga |
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| Featured music | Jay Chattaway | ||
| Production code | 210 | ||
| Original air date | November 27, 2002 | ||
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"Vanishing Point" is the 36th episode (production #210) of the television series Star Trek: Enterprise, the tenth of the second season.
Ensign Hoshi Sato passes through the transporter and finds that she is disappearing. At the same time, she is the only person who can see aliens planting explosives in key ship systems, with no way to warn the crew.
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Ensign Hoshi Sato and Commander Trip Tucker are on a planet, taking pictures and gathering data from a set of ruins. They must leave their work when a diamagnetic storm approaches. But before they can make it to the shuttlepod, another storm closes very fast and they are forced to use the transporter.
Being the first time she used the transporter, Hoshi feels that things are not right after the incident. She sees her reflection in the mirror fade away and water drops passing through her hands when she takes a shower, besides other things. She goes for a night's sleep, hoping to feel better in the morning. She is wakened by an emergency call from the bridge and realizes she overslept by three hours. Back on the bridge, Captain Archer informs her that Trip and Ensign Mayweather have been taken hostage on the planet (by aliens that weren't detected the day before), but Hoshi is not able to be of any help, failing to understand a "simple bi-modal syntax" (as we learn later from Sub-commander T'Pol).
After some visits to Sickbay, Dr. Phlox still can't find anything wrong, attributing Hoshi's strange experiences to a trauma caused by the transporter. But only a little while later, when in the gym, Hoshi completely vanishes, still being conscious but not being able to interact with her environment.
The crew begin to search actively for her. She learns that Phlox hasn't seen any details that seem to explain her present condition. She also learns that the initial problem was in the transporter, confirming her initial theory. She is not able to tell the crew that she is still alive and can't help but watch when Archer calls her father to inform him of her death.
In her wandering through the Enterprise, Hoshi encounters two aliens that are planting bombs throughout the ship. She is not able to warn anyone and, in the end, she takes it on herself to save the ship. That eventually leads her to use a transporting device from the aliens and she is mysteriously taken back to the transporting room where Lt. Reed explains that she has been trapped for 8.3 seconds in the pattern buffer because of the storm, and that all her recent experiences were dreams.
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[edit] External links
- Vanishing Point at the Internet Movie Database
- "Vanishing Point" at TV.com
- Vanishing Point at Memory Alpha (a Star Trek wiki)
- Vanishing Point at StarTrek.com
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