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This Story: Season 3 Episode 23 (production code 175)
ENT Overall: Episode 75
Trek Overall: Story 665, Episode 703
Airdate: 19 May 2004
Written by André Bormanis & Chris Black
Directed by Robert Duncan McNeill

Notes

• This episode won an Emmy award for “Outstanding Special Visual Effects for a Series”.
• The fifth and final appearance of Steven Culp as Major Hayes.
• The visual effect for the subspace vortex has been used a few times before.  It was a Borg transwarp hub effect in Voyager’s “Endgame” as well as a slipstream effect in the Voyager episodes “Hope and Fear” and “Timeless“).
• The first time T’Pol calls Trip by that name.
• The Xindi method to take control of Hoshi reminds me somewhat of the way Khan controlled Chekov – although it wasn’t a slug in the ear.  :)

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