Chosen Realm

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"Chosen Realm"
Star Trek: Enterprise episode
Episode no. Season 3
Episode 12
Directed by Roxann Dawson
Written by Manny Coto
Featured music Paul Baillargeon
Production code 312
Original air date January 14, 2004 (2004-01-14)
Guest actors
  • Conor O'Farrell - Pri'Nam D'Jamat
  • Vince Grant - Yarrick
  • Lindsey Stoddart - Indava
  • Tayler Sheridan - Jareb
  • David Youse - Nalbis
  • Gregory Wagrowski - Ceris
  • Matt Huhn - N.D. Triannon
  • Kim Fitzgerald - Crewman
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"Chosen Realm" is the twelfth episode from the third season of the science fiction television series Star Trek: Enterprise. It is the sixty-fourth episode of the series, first airing on January 14, 2004.

Plot

The episode begins with Commander Tucker and Ensign Mayweather gathering readings on a third sphere in the Delphic Expanse. Some time later, Enterprise receives a distress call from a Triannon ship which reports that it has been damaged by a spatial anomaly. Enterprise takes them aboard, and D'Jamat, the leader of the group, has dinner with Captain Archer where he explains they have been on a year-long pilgrimage to a sphere. They believe deities, called the "Makers," constructed the spheres to transform the expanse, their “Chosen Realm,” into a paradise. D'Jamat then rejects T'Pol's scientific logic that there are only 59 known spheres.

Some time later, D'Jamat and his group carry out a seizure of the ship and demand control be turned over or it will be destroyed, and demonstrates this by having one of his group self-detonate, killing one crew member. Having little choice, Archer submits. D'Jamat then sets a course for his home world and explains that he intends to use Enterprise to end a religious civil war that has embroiled his planet for a century. D'Jamat also examines the ships records and finds that Enterprise had extensive contact with the spheres - a severe violation according to his beliefs. He then erases 19 XB of sphere data, and demands that Archer choose one crew member to die.

While Archer is contemplating his decision he approaches Yarrick, D'Jamat's deputy, questioning his resolve, but Yarrick rebuffs him. Archer then tells D'Jamat that he has selected himself to be killed, but requests it be done using a device they use for "waste disposal" in fact the transporter, which T'Pol uses to beam Archer elsewhere on the ship. Archer then contacts Doctor Phlox and they produce an airborne agent to neutralize the Triannon's organic explosives. Archer again confronts Yarrick and convinces him to help disperse the agent throughout the ship. Meanwhile, four ships from the "heretic" Triannon faction intercept Enterprise. During the fight, the crew manages to subdue D'Jamat and end the battle. In the brig, D'Jamat remains convinced his actions were justified, so Archer takes him down to the planet - which lies in ruins, having been ravaged by the war. The episode ends with the Triannons staring in horror at the completely devastated world.

Cast

Reception

Chosen Realm is noted as a "menacing" plot and and a story in which there is a threat to Archer and the crew of Enterprise caused once again due to poor levels of preparedness or risk assessment of their interaction with a previously unfamiliar alien species.[1]

Movie Blog[2] and Bureau42[3] both noted how this episode completely recycles the ending of the TOS episode Let That Be Your Last Battlefield, with Bureau42 noting the simple switch of "using religion instead of racism".

Jammer[4] discusses how Season 3 has taken on the habit of grabbing action/fighting sequences to drive the climax of episodes. So the absurd taking control of the Enterprise again by aliens provides an opportunity for "the action climax ... to become a predictable punctuation mark".

See also

External links

  1. ↑ The Literary Galaxy of Star Trek: An Analysis of References and Themes in the Television Series and Films by James F. Broderick, 2006 (Page 151)
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