Daedalus

This Story: Season 4 Episode 10 (production code 186)
ENT Overall: Episode 86
Trek Overall: Story 675, Episode 714
Airdate: 14 Jan 2005
Written by Ken LaZebnik & Alan Brennert
Directed by David Straiton

Notes

• The first episode to air in the final year for the show – 2005.
• Establishes that the inventor of the transporter was Dr Emory Erickson.  I don’t believe that fact has come up in any televised episode since.
• Erickson was played by Bill Cobbs.  Cobbs was in two of my favorite movies of all time – “The Taking of Pelham 1-2-3” (the 1974 original) as well as Trading Places. He was also in a few other TV series I liked – “Superior Donuts” & “Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.“.   Man has a metric buttload of credits.  RIP dude.
• The episode’s title is from Greek mythology.  In that, Deadalus is an inventor whose invention kills his son (Icarus).
• Plot points from this episode feel similar to both the Voyager episode “Jetrel” and the TOS episode “The Ultimate Computer“.
• This is an odd observation, but the last thing in the pre-title sequence is Erickson laughing heartily.  I thought it worked well as a transition to “Faith of the Heart” and the titles.  More than most episodes.

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