The Crossing
- Episode aired Apr 2, 2003
- TV-PG
- 43m
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6.9/10
1.6K
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Enterprise is held captive by non-corporeal beings who claim to be explorers.Enterprise is held captive by non-corporeal beings who claim to be explorers.Enterprise is held captive by non-corporeal beings who claim to be explorers.
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Matt Kaminsky
- Crewman #2
- (as Matthew Kaminsky)
Valarie Ianniello
- Female Crewman
- (as Valerie Ianniello)
Jef Ayres
- Crewman Haynem
- (uncredited)
Solomon Burke Jr.
- Ensign Billy
- (uncredited)
Mark Correy
- Engineer Alex
- (uncredited)
Glen Hambly
- Enterprise Ensign
- (uncredited)
Scott Sterling Hill
- Ensign Cole
- (uncredited)
Roy Joaquin
- Enterprise Sciences Crewman
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThe fact that the secondary bridge was left in the catwalk after The Catwalk (2002) may demonstrate the original Starfleet concept of a battle bridge or Auxiliary Control Center.
- GoofsThere are several inconsistencies with whether or not the aliens gain knowledge of their hosts. They seem to be aware of many things that they would have no way of knowing without acquiring their hosts' knowledge (e.g. Reed thinks that T'pol is the most attractive female) but not others (e.g. that the female crewman was female).
- Quotes
Captain Jonathan Archer: You're taking over my crew! Why?
Alien in Sato's body: I understand how you may be frightened by all this - losing your substance, existing as perceptive energy. But you'll be grateful, once you've made the crossing, I promise you.
Captain Jonathan Archer: We're kind of fond of our substance. We're not very anxious to give it up!
- SoundtracksWhere My Heart Will Take Me
Written by Diane Warren
Performed by Russell Watson
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Sorry your ship is falling apart - let's help hasten your demise with a few torpedoes
As some of the previous commenters have already pointed out, the plot of this episode is certainly exciting and could have been a well-thought-out Star Trek story. However, in ENT (as in TOS) conflicts are too often resolved with fists instead of words. However, if you look at TNG and VOY in particular, diplomacy is clearly the focus there. As is curiosity about new species and intercultural exchange.
Here, on the other hand, Archer is suspicious and hostile towards this unknown incorporeal species from the start. It doesn't even occur to him to try to understand the motives of this species, to enter into an exchange with it in order to find out more about their way of life. In the series that take place after ENT, the captains would definitely have first tried to establish contact with this species. After all, the core of Star Trek is to make first contact with extraterrestrial life forms and help those in need. What better way of exchange could there be than to help a species whose ship is falling apart and save its crew from impending death? The authors could have shown what it feels like to be incorporeal and live through the experiences that Trip describes, thereby broadening the horizons of the body-bound bipeds.
Instead, of course, this species has to act hostile and take over the bodies of everyone on the Enterprise in order to save at least a few dozen individuals of their species. And the captain's response to this desperate act by a species that wants to save itself from a slow death: destruction of their ship and thus a quick death. Bravo Archer! This deserves an A+ in the diplomacy handbook for captains!
I still think this Enterprise crew is a bunch of trigger-happy cowboys and not at all open-minded explorers. Scouts and ambassadors who are the first of their kind to set off into the vastness of space in order to expand their limited view of their own lives on a small, insignificant sphere in the Milky Way. Instead, they play space police and leave a trail of destruction behind them.
And Reed's performance as he becomes possessed by one of the life forms can only be described as creepy. In DIS, the woman in the elevator would probably have run straight to the ship's CDO, CHRO or the works council and there would have been mediation with Reed afterwards, including a lesson in equal rights and the inappropriateness of sexually suggestive innuendos and harassment of subordinate officers.
Here, on the other hand, Archer is suspicious and hostile towards this unknown incorporeal species from the start. It doesn't even occur to him to try to understand the motives of this species, to enter into an exchange with it in order to find out more about their way of life. In the series that take place after ENT, the captains would definitely have first tried to establish contact with this species. After all, the core of Star Trek is to make first contact with extraterrestrial life forms and help those in need. What better way of exchange could there be than to help a species whose ship is falling apart and save its crew from impending death? The authors could have shown what it feels like to be incorporeal and live through the experiences that Trip describes, thereby broadening the horizons of the body-bound bipeds.
Instead, of course, this species has to act hostile and take over the bodies of everyone on the Enterprise in order to save at least a few dozen individuals of their species. And the captain's response to this desperate act by a species that wants to save itself from a slow death: destruction of their ship and thus a quick death. Bravo Archer! This deserves an A+ in the diplomacy handbook for captains!
I still think this Enterprise crew is a bunch of trigger-happy cowboys and not at all open-minded explorers. Scouts and ambassadors who are the first of their kind to set off into the vastness of space in order to expand their limited view of their own lives on a small, insignificant sphere in the Milky Way. Instead, they play space police and leave a trail of destruction behind them.
And Reed's performance as he becomes possessed by one of the life forms can only be described as creepy. In DIS, the woman in the elevator would probably have run straight to the ship's CDO, CHRO or the works council and there would have been mediation with Reed afterwards, including a lesson in equal rights and the inappropriateness of sexually suggestive innuendos and harassment of subordinate officers.
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