Carbon Creek

This Story: Season 2 Episode 2 (production code 127)
ENT Overall: Episode 28
Trek Overall: Story 618, Episode 656
Airdate: 25 Sep 2002
Written by Rick Berman, Brannon Braga, & Dan O’Shannon
Teleplay by Chris Black
Directed by James A. Contner

Notes

• Running Decon Gel Scene Appearances: T’Pol (2), Trip (2), Hoshi (1), Malcolm (1). No scene this episode.
• The first episode of Season 2 to be produced, but was aired second mostly due to the minimal cast needed.
• Several of the main cast do not appear: Reed, Phlox, Mayweather, Sato.
• The last episode (of fourteen in a row) with a writing, story, or teleplay credit to Rick Berman & Brannon Braga.  That’s a record across all incarnations of Star Trek.
• The story of how velcro was invented differs greatly from the real life invention of that.
• In the episode, the TV show “I Love Lucy” is mentioned.  That’s hilarious as Lucille Ball’s Desilu Studios originally produced Star Trek back in the 60’s.
• Trip makes mention of a statue at the place that Humans and Vulcans first met.  This is a Star Trek: First Contact reference where Barclay talks about that.  We finally get to SEE the statue in the Lower Decks episode “Grounded“.
• J Paul Boehmer plays the Vulcan Mestral here.  He’s also the titular Borg drone in “Drone” (named ‘One’), a Cardassian named Vernal from DS9’s “Tacking Into the Wind“, a Nazi SS character (“Kapitan”) in Voyager’s “The Killing Game” , and two different Nazi SS characters in the Enterprise episodes “Zero Hour” and “Storm Front“.
• Stron is played by Michael Krawic.  He was also Samuels in DS9’s “The Maquis Pt I” and Rahmin in Voyager’s “Day of Honor“.
• A Vulcan Captain is played by David Selburg.  He was also Whalen in TNG’s “The Big Goodbye“, Syrus in TNG’s “Frame of Mind“, & an Ocampan named Toscat in Voyager’s “Caretaker“.
• Baseball is referenced here.

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