Fusion

This Story: Season 1 Episode 17 (production code 117)
ENT Overall: Episode 17
Trek Overall: Story 608, Episode 645
Airdate: 20 Feb 2002
Story by by Rick Berman & Brannon Braga
Teleplay by Phyllis Strong & Mike Sussman
Directed by Rob Hedden

Notes

• Running Decon Gel Scene Appearances: T’Pol (2), Trip (1), Hoshi (1), Malcolm (1). None this episode.
• This is the only episode of Star Trek directed by Rob Hedden.  He’s also the director of one of the most unintentionally funny horror movies I’ve ever seen – “Friday the 13th Part 8: Jason Takes Manhattan“. :)
• A working title for this episode was “Equilibrium”.
• Tavin is played by Robert Pine.  Pine is the real life father of actor Chris Pine, who played James T. Kirk in the three JJ Abrams Star Trek movies.
• One of the flashback/fantasy scenes has a prop that originally appeared in the DS9 episode “Let He Who is Without Sin…“.
• The street scenes were filmed at the traditional Paramount New York Street backlog, which has appeared NUMEROUS times in various incarnations of Trek.
• The first time in any incarnation of Trek that we see the inside of a Vulcan ship.
• T’Pol contracts a disease from a forced mind meld in this episode.  This isn’t revealed until the next season episode “Stigma“, and she’s ultimately cured of it in the Season 4 episode “Kir’Shara“.
• There is a loose connection to Star Trek V: The Final Frontier here relative to the group that Sybok belonged to.
• Tucker says that he has a brother in this episode, but it’s never brought up again.  He does mention later he has a sister, but the brother isn’t mentioned anymore after this episode.

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