Observer Effect
Joe Siegler
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Observer Effect
This Story: Season 4 Episode 11 (production code 187)
ENT Overall: Episode 87
Trek Overall: Story 676, Episode 715
Airdate: 21 Jan 2005
Written by Judith & Garfield Reeeves-Stevens
Directed by Mike Vejar
Notes
- Two bottle episodes in a row.
- One of I believe only two episodes that contain zero guest stars of any kind – the only actors are the regular cast (except a couple of background characters in a single scene at the start).
- Hoshi speaks eight languages in this episode (one of which is English).
- We have a decon scene in this episode (the first since “Bounty“), but it’s not one of the gel kind we got in the first two scenes.
- The Organians are used here – but not seen, since they’re non corporeal and inhabit our crew. The only other time they were “seen” was in their other appearance in the TOS episode “Errand of Mercy“.
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[ Wikipedia | Memory Alpha | IMDB | First Flight Podcast | Amazon US DVD | Amazon US Blu-Ray ]#StarTrekMarathon #StarTrek Enterprise Episode 87 - Observer Effect - 21 Jan 2005A bottle ep, as only the main cast appear - there's zero guest stars. It's a meh ep, although Hoshi got some good character dev. Another of those "Hey, aliens are going to take over our crew to see how they behave"
— Joe Siegler (@joesiegler.blog) September 14, 2026 at 8:20 AM
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ones. We've DONE THAT BEFORE - on Enterprise (hello "The Crossing"). The only amusing part of that is the aliens are The Organians - the same race from TOS's "Errand of Mercy". An interesting angle for a TOS fan, but the "crew taken over by aliens" thing is an "OH GOD - NOT THIS AGAIN" for me. Meh.
— Joe Siegler (@joesiegler.blog) September 14, 2026 at 8:20 AM
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One thing I thought of after I posted this.. There were some nice directorial choices. Interesting camera angles, and several scenes that we as the audience saw only on a monitor on the ship being filmed by the camera. I quite liked that part of it, to be honest.
— Joe Siegler (@joesiegler.blog) September 14, 2026 at 8:23 AM
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