Did They Change Phlox's Makeup On Star Trek Enterprise

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"If you're going to attempt to embrace new worlds, you must try to embrace new ideas."

Doctor Phlox was the Denobulan chief medical officer of Enterprise NX-01 during its historic voyage.

Contents

• 1 Early on life and career
• 2 Aboard Enterprise
  • 2.1 Year 1
  • two.2 Year 2
  • 2.3 Year 3
  • ii.4 Twelvemonth 4
• 3 Subsequently career
• 4 Family
• 5 Relationships
  • 5.1 Jonathan Archer
  • five.2 Hoshi Sato
  • 5.three Cutler
  • v.four Dr. Lucas
• 6 Alternate realities and timelines
• 7 Appendices
  • 7.1 Appearances
  • 7.ii References
  • 7.iii Background data
    • seven.three.1 Reception
  • 7.four External links

Early life and career

Phlox was born sometime in the late 21st century on Denobula, in the Denobula Triaxa system. Equally a child, he was informed about the "evil Antarans" by his grandmother. Phlox promised himself he'd give his children an objective view of the Antarans. (ENT: "The Breach")

In the writers' first draft script of "Dear Doctor", Phlox revealed that his training had been at a research hospital on Denobula. In the episode's final draft script, it was established that his first consignment after medical grooming was at a mining compound in the rainforests of Pree'nos. There, although his fellow Denobulans tried to make the facility equally similar as possible to Denobula, Phlox became fascinated by other aspects of the locale. "I plant myself drawn exterior the walls," he recalled, in a scripted voiceover, "to the camps of the Pree' themselves [...] I couldn't help thinking, why come all that way just to ignore the new earth around you?"

Non long after Phlox became a physician circa 2115, there was an explosion in a cargo ship orbiting Denobula Triaxa. Phlox was function of the first medical team to make it at the scene, where they discovered seventeen bodies on the bridge lone. That was the first time Phlox had seen that many dead people in i identify before. (ENT: "Fight or Flying", "Harm") Phlox was once nearly overwhelmed with fifty patients in a refugee camp while serving on Matalas. (ENT: "Honey Doctor") Phlox also once served as a medic in the Denobulan Infantry. While in the infantry, he learned that battlefields are unpredictable places, even nether a flag of truce. (ENT: "Cease Burn down") During his first xl years of service equally a doctor, he twice had to perform deportment that he considered unethical. (ENT: "Damage")

It remains unmentioned in which conflict Phlox served.

Doctor Phlox serving at Starfleet Medical on Earth in 2151

Sometime prior to 2149, Md Phlox joined the Interspecies Medical Commutation. That year, he attended an IME conference on Tiburon, where he briefly met a member of the Mazarite delegation. Years afterwards, he found out that it was actually Dr. Antaak, a Klingon expert in mutagenic enquiry, who was impressed by his work on viral propagation. (ENT: "Affliction") By 2151, Phlox was working every bit a doctor at Starfleet Medical in San Francisco. (ENT: "Cleaved Bow")

In voiceover dialogue that was in the final draft script of "Dear Dr." though not in that installment'due south last version, Phlox reckoned that his feel on Pree'nos, when he came to the stance that he wanted to embrace other cultures, was what led him to Globe and, subsequently, to other destinations in infinite.

In the writers' first draft script of "Dear Md", Phlox mentioned that he had never complained about the weather in San Francisco.

During his six months stationed at Starfleet Medical, he developed a fondness for Chinese food, particularly egg drop soup, and was a regular customer at Madame Chang's. (ENT: "Broken Bow", "Illness") Phlox also spent time in Tibet and visited at to the lowest degree 1 of its monasteries like his future captain, Jonathan Archer. (ENT: "The Andorian Incident", "Cold Front")

Over the course of his career, Phlox obtained a dozen scientific degrees, including half dozen in Interspecies Veterinary Medicine, and others in dentistry, hematology, botanical pharmacology, and psychiatry. None of Phlox's qualifications were related to warp theory or quantum physics, though. (ENT: "A Night in Sickbay", "Doctor's Orders", "The Communicator") Geneticist Arik Soong once confessed that Phlox'south reputation in the sciences rivaled that of his own. (ENT: "Borderland")

Phlox fifty-fifty once observed a surgical procedure in which a Bynar surgeon removed a Bynar child's parietal lobe and replaced information technology with a synaptic processor. He afterward described the operation to Malcolm Reed as having been "very impressive". (ENT: "Regeneration")

Aboard Enterprise

Year 1

Phlox smiles a Denobulan smiling

After displaying considerable expertise at sustaining the life of Klaang the Klingon courier, Phlox was brought on lath Enterprise for the maiden voyage in April of 2151. Having lived on World for "many years", he ended that while Humans were anatomically simplistic, they fabricated up for their biological deficiencies with their mannerly optimism – and with their Chinese cuisine. During the mission Phlox determined that a captured Suliban had been genetically altered. (ENT: "Cleaved Bow")

Phlox used very unorthodox medical practices due to the relatively primitive medical technology of the early 2150s. He ofttimes used animals in various ways to help in his patients' healing; his sickbay on Enterprise was quite a menagerie. Animals in it included an Altarian marsupial, immunocytic gel worm, Edosian slug, osmotic eel, Regulan bloodworms, tribbles, a Lyssarian Desert Larvae, a Calrissian chameleon, and a Pyrithian bat. (ENT: "Broken Bow", "Ii Days and Two Nights", "Similitude", "Called Realm") Phlox commonly used radiation in his treatments, specially omicron radiations, and on occasion had to think like an engineer. (ENT: "Cogenitor", "Regeneration", "Bounty", "The Shipment", "Observer Effect")

In ultimately omitted dialogue from the final draft script of "The Aenar", Captain Archer speculated that Phlox would "love" to proceed a few water ice-bores from Andoria in his shipboard menagerie.

Early in the mission, the crew of Enterprise establish a stranded transport with its entire crew complement expressionless. Phlox determined that the bodies had been drained of vital fluids. But the away team had to evacuate when a vessel approached. Dr. Phlox performed an autopsy on one of the dead bodies, and learned that it been drained for triglobulin, a fluid that could be used to create medicines. (ENT: "Fight or Flight")

His medical abilities were soon tested when the crew of Enterprise discovered an unexplored planet, and an abroad team from the starship became dangerously paranoid. Phlox was able to decide that pollen from the planet'due south ethnic plant life was affecting the squad. Non only were they delusional, just the pollen was toxic. Phlox was able to produce an antitoxin and save the crewmembers. (ENT: "Strange New Earth")

Phlox afterward adamant that Chief Engineer Charles "Trip" Tucker had become pregnant afterward an intimate run into with a Xyrillian female. Dr. Phlox determined the growth in Tucker's body was an embryo forming in his ribs. Phlox also determined that the embryo was not Tucker'due south kid, but that he was merely serving as a host. Phlox refused to perform any procedure to remove the embryo without learning more about the Xyrillian gestation process. (ENT: "Unexpected")

His medical expertise once again proved useful when Enterprise encountered a lost Globe colony named Terra Nova. An asteroid impact had poisoned the planet's atmosphere since late 2078. Mistakenly believing that Earth had attacked the planet, the Novans were forced to seek refuge underground. Phlox after discovered that their water supply was poisoned past radiation. He gained the confidence of the Novans when he cured Nadet, an older Novan, from lung cancer. This helped to build trust between the Novans and the crew of Enterprise. (ENT: "Terra Nova")

Eventually, Phlox also became a advisor on the starship, who helped the other crew members with their problems. In June of 2151, Sub-Commander T'Pol confided in him that she had been arranged to exist married. The marriage was causing some concern for T'Pol, since she would have to leave Starfleet immediately and remain away for at to the lowest degree one (Vulcan) year. (ENT: "Breaking the Water ice")

Afterward that year, the Enterprise answered a distress telephone call from a cargo ship. The acting captain claimed that the call was a mistake and asked the Enterprise to get out. Dr. Phlox insisted on treating the injured captain. Phlox determined that Captain Keene required two or three days of handling. (ENT: "Fortunate Son")

Phlox provided a clue to Malcolm Reed's favorite food for his surprise birthday party. He told Hoshi Sato, who was in charge of the arrangements, that Reed had been taking regular injections to counter an allergy to bromelain, a plant enzyme found in pineapple. Sato decided that the block would be a pineapple one. (ENT: "Silent Enemy")

Phlox with Crewman Cutler in September of 2151

In September of 2151, Enterprise visited Valakis, a pre-warp civilization with two distinct humanoid races – the Valakians and the Menk. He became involved with a crewmember by the proper name of Cutler at this time. Phlox attempted to find a cure for a affliction that was afflicting the Valakians, but not the Menk. Phlox learned that the Valakians were non suffering from a curable disease, but a genetic mutation that would somewhen result in their extinction.

Despite the discovery of a cure, Phlox and Archer disagreed on whether to assistance the Valakians, every bit the doctor objected to interfering in their development and advised that nature should be immune to take its course. Archer finally agreed and they transported to the planet'due south surface with medicine to ease the Valakians' symptoms. However, the officers refused to provide the Valakians with warp bulldoze, which they wanted in guild to seek other races that could help them. (ENT: "Dear Medico")

The adjacent month, Enterprise detected a Klingon Raptor-class, adrift in the atmosphere of a gas giant. Phlox determined that a Klingon rescued from the ship had been poisoned by a neural toxin. In fact, the unabridged coiffure of the Klingon transport was being poisoned. Phlox found a cure for the toxin and cured the Klingon coiffure. (ENT: "Sleeping Dogs")

Phlox performs cosmetic surgery on Reed

While investigating a rogue planet, Archer met a group of hunters called the Eska. They explained that they were hunting wraiths. After one of the hunters was injured by a wraith, Dr. Phlox tended to the injuries. A prison cell sample from the wraith found in the wound of the hunter helped Phlox to determine that the wraiths were sentient beings who were shapeshifters. The hunters used scanners to track the beings by their chemical signatures. Archer asked Dr. Phlox to come up up with a way to mask the wraiths' chemic signatures, shielding them from the hunters' scans. Phlox was able to practice and so, and the hunters left the planet. (ENT: "Rogue Planet")

Phlox cosmetically transformed Reed into a Suliban and then he could infiltrate a prison to rescue Archer and Mayweather. (ENT: "Detained")

Year 2

In 2152, during the second year of Enterprise'due south voyage, Archer and several other crew members were attacked by an organism that entwined them in its tentacles. Dr. Phlox analyzed a piece of the organism and determined that the tendril appeared to be capable of surviving independently, that it possessed a sophisticated nervous organisation, and was a sentient being. Phlox tried to gratuitous them by using EM radiations, merely the organism was integrating the crewmembers' nervous systems into its own and they could end upwardly killing the crew. The crew members were finally released when Sato managed to communicate with the organism and it was returned to its dwelling house planet. (ENT: "Phonation Sola")

Crewman Cutler and T'Pol take to interrupt Phlox's hibernation in his quarters

Phlox also saved Ensign Travis Mayweather's life after the helmsman was injured in a stone-climbing incident. The Denobulan had to be woken during his annual six-day hibernation sleep, and acted somewhat irrationally as a result. (ENT: "Two Days and Two Nights")

After existence damaged past a Romulan minefield in Apr of 2152, Enterprise stopped at an automatic repair station. Ensign Mayweather was manifestly killed on the infinite station and his inanimate body was returned to the starship. Yet, Phlox determined that the body was really a duplicate of the helmsman due to the fact that various microorganisms in his bloodstream – office of a vaccine Phlox had recently given the crew – were all dead; if Mayweather had died under the circumstances that had apparently killed him, the organisms should have been fine. In reality, the station was using Mayweather'south brain as a reckoner processor. (ENT: "Dead Stop")

Phlox saved Porthos, Archer's dog, past performing an underwater operation and replacing the brute's pituitary gland with one from a Calrissian chameleon. The domestic dog had get ill when information technology accompanied Archer on a visit to the Kreetassan's homeworld, where Archer managed to offend the Kreetassans while negotiating for a much-needed plasma injector. (ENT: "A Dark in Sickbay")

During a visit to a small mining colony, Archer negotiated an agreement to obtain deuterium in exchange for medical supplies and assistance in repairing the colony's extraction pumps. Phlox gave the medical supplies to Due east'Lis, a doctor in the colony. He offered her an osmotic eel, which was used to cauterize wounds. She joked that she wouldn't know what to feed it. (ENT: "Marauders")

While working on a Suliban cloaked craft, particle radiation caused Tucker'south arm to become invisible. They were going to use the ship in the rescue try of Archer and Reed who were going to exist executed on a pre-warp planet. Phlox informed Tucker that it would eventually materialize on its ain. Tucker told Phlox he couldn't work this fashion. Phlox gave him a glove to put on. (ENT: "The Communicator")

Afterward an encounter with a black hole whose radiation had affected the crew by causing obsessive behavior, Phlox wanted to perform major surgery on Mayweather to cure him of a simple headache. Phlox seemed to be more sensitive to the effect than the Human coiffure. T'Pol stormed into the sickbay to relieve Mayweather only Phlox threatened her with a surgical pocketknife, simply to be neutralized by T'Politician with a Vulcan nerve pinch on the concluding minute saving Mayweather's life. The effects dissipated later the starship passed the black hole. (ENT: "Singularity")

When the Enterprise crew discovered a futuristic vessel with a expressionless humanoid in information technology, Phlox discovered that the corpse had genetic cloth belonging to several other species, including Vulcans. He believed that the individual seemed to be the upshot of several generations of interspecies breeding. Phlox as well visited Archer in a Klingon prison to examine him. He pretended that Archer might have a contagious disease then that the guard would exit them alone. He and so informed Archer that a rescue attempt was planned. (ENT: "Time to come Tense", "Judgment")

Phlox was attacked by an alien using Sato'south body as he attempted to find a cure for the alien possession. The aliens had attempted to enter his body, just they could non survive in his body due to his biological make up. Phlox was able to release carbon dioxide into Enterprise'southward living quarters, rendering the affected crewmembers unconscious, and forcing the aliens to get out the crew'south bodies as they weren't able to survive. He helped Tucker determine that the cogenitor of the Vissians was an intelligent being and had the same mental capabilities equally the Vissians. While going through decontamination with T'Pol to rid themselves of a virus, T'Pol became very amorous toward Phlox equally the virus had activated her mating cycle ahead of schedule and was causing her to undergo pon farr. Phlox tried to discover a handling, simply T'Pol knocked Phlox out and escaped. Phlox found a cure for her, before the virus killed her. T'Pol was embarrassed, but Phlox promised not to mention what happened to anyone. (ENT: "The Crossing", "Cogenitor", "Compensation")

Phlox undergoes his painful cure

It was shortly later on these events that Enterprise was sent later a group of cybernetic beings that had recently attacked a research team in the Arctic. (Although unknown, these were some of the Borg who had attempted to prevent World's Starting time Contact.) During this attack, Phlox was infected with Borg nanoprobes, just his immune system managed to proceed them under control until he was able to destroy the nanobots by subjecting himself to a potentially lethal radiation dose. During this fourth dimension, he was briefly linked to the Borg hive mind. He described this as being connected with the remainder of the aliens, as if he was part of a collective consciousness. Phlox too said that they were trying to send some sort of message. The message was coordinates, telling their homeworld how to find Earth. (ENT: "Regeneration")

Phlox learned that T'Pol had been afflicted with Pa'nar Syndrome, a mortiferous brain disorder, later she had been forced to participate in a listen meld against her will. Phlox attended a medical briefing on Dekendi Three with a group of Vulcan doctors, only his efforts to obtain information concerning the disease were rebuffed. The Vulcans viewed the status, and those who were affected by it, as outcasts. Phlox could not tell them that T'Pol had the illness, equally the Vulcan High Command would demand that she return to her homeworld for punishment if they found out. T'Politician was left lone when ane of the doctors confessed that he besides performed mind melds.

During this incident, one of Phlox's wives, Feezal, visited him on Enterprise. She made advances towards Commander Tucker. Although the engineer informed Phlox of Feezal'due south unsaid sexual gestures, the doc advised Tucker non to ignore the romantic overtures. (ENT: "Stigma")

During an evacuation mission, Phlox attempted to treat an Antaran named Hudak. The Antarans and Denobulans had been enemies for centuries, and Hudak consequently refused treatment. When Archer ordered Phlox to treat the Antaran, the Denobulan doctor replied by acknowledging his ain responsibility to respect the wishes of his patients and yet refused to treat Hudak. Subsequently several discussions with the patient (which were initially very difficult), Phlox was able to convince him that he was neither bigoted nor hated Antarans. The Antaran later on consented to treatment. (ENT: "The Breach")

In the final draft script of "The Breach", a scene description during one of the start conversations Phlox has with Hudak stated, "We've never seen Phlox lose his temper earlier, if we even realized that he had one."

Year 3

In April 2153, an unidentified alien probe attacked World before cocky-destructing. Captain Archer was shocked to learn that the probe had been congenital by an alien race called the Xindi that was building an extremely powerful weapon designed to demolish Earth. Starfleet permitted Archer to control Enterprise on a mission to find, and destroy, the weapon in the perilous Delphic Area.

T'Pol and Phlox wonder how best they tin can respond to the assail on Humanity

Although the coiffure were asked to choose whether to participate in the mission or to leave the ship, Phlox found the decision, to stay, piece of cake to brand. He based his choice on his strong loyalty to Archer and his realization that his medical skills would exist needed more than ever. (ENT: "The Expanse")

Shortly subsequently the starship entered the Delphic Expanse, Phlox became concerned nearly Commander Tucker, who had been experiencing trouble sleeping due to stress from his sis's decease during the first Xindi attack. The doctor asked T'Pol to administer Vulcan neuro-pressure level to Tucker, and she somewhen complied.

Showtime contact with the Xindi was made on a trellium mining planet, where a Xindi-Primate named Kessick worked. Members of Enterprise's crew attempted to assist the Xindi escape, but Kessick was killed in the attempt. Earlier he died, he told Phlox the coordinates for the Xindi homeworld. Nonetheless, the crew unfortunately constitute that the planet had been destroyed in the 2030s. (ENT: "The Xindi")

As the mission continued, the crew of Enterprise discovered a planet where all life had get extinct. An away team sent from Enterprise began to develop alien characteristics, due to a virus created by the planet'due south inhabitants in a final endeavor to repopulate their homeworld. Although Phlox found a cure, he preserved the virus to save with the remains of the species. (ENT: "Extinction")

He afterward tried to examine a Xindi weapon that was organic. The weapon was a booby-trap and almost caused an explosion. He was able to determine that using delta radiation would render the weapon harmless. (ENT: "The Shipment")

Phlox treated Bethany, a Human inhabiting a planet similar to the Old W of World. The original Humans were abducted by a race called the Skagarans. They revolted and overthrew the Skagarans, making them second-class citizens without rights. She was wounded in a gun fight and beamed aboard Enterprise, where Phlox took the bullet out of her and besides discovered that she was part Skagaran. (ENT: "North Star")

In a test of his medical ethics, Phlox created a clone of Tucker in society to relieve the original Human, who had been injured in an accident. The clone, named Sim, could live for only fifteen days, but its organs could be used to heal Tucker. Sim discovered an enzyme that could possibly allow him to survive longer than fifteen days. Phlox examined the enzyme and verified the possibility, but the treatment was dismissed as it would take too long to confirm whether it had worked, leaving them with no opportunity to save Trip if the process failed. Because Phlox refused to kill another sentient being, it seemed likely that Tucker would die. Eventually, Sim gave up his life and so Tucker could live and assistance to complete the Xindi mission, his last words existence to assure Phlox that Phlox had been a proficient "male parent" to him in his brief "childhood". (ENT: "Similitude")

In an ultimately unused line of dialogue from the final draft script of "Similitude", Phlox advised Archer, prior to Sim being developed, that the creation of the mimetic simbiot should exist begun "the sooner the ameliorate."

Unlike well-nigh Denobulans, Phlox did not unremarkably hallucinate to salvage stress. During the search for the Xindi weapon, he admitted to having frequently envied those who were able to do then, equally he had a habit of keeping "too much bottled up inside". (ENT: "Exile")

Phlox helped Archer neutralize the Triannons who had hijacked the Enterprise. After he distracted his baby-sit past releasing his bat and claiming it was poisonous, he formulated an airborne agent that neutralized the Triannons' organic explosives, assuasive Archer and the MACOs to retake the transport. (ENT: "Chosen Realm")

Degra, the Xindi who designed the weapon that would destroy Globe, was captured by the Enterprise. In guild to fob him into revealing the location of the weapon, Phlox found out that it was possible to erase the Xindi'southward almost recent memories. After Degra revealed the location, Archer had Phlox wipe Degra's memory over again, so he would not remember giving the location of the weapon or existence on the Enterprise. (ENT: "Stratagem")

Enterprise encountered a spatial distortion. They discovered a small craft in the anomaly piloted by an alien who was unconscious. Phlox examined the alien and determined that the alien was suffering from rapid cellular degeneration. The alien was a member of the sphere builders who were behind the plot to have the Xindi destroy Earth. The alien asked Phlox if he was going to die and Phlox told him he was doing everything he could to help him. Later the conflicting attacked Phlox and knocked him out in an unsuccessful escape attempt.

Phlox as well informed T'Pol that Amanda Cole was having headaches due to Tucker's improper use of Vulcan neural pressure techniques. He asked T'pol to talk to Tucker about it, and if she could run across Cole and help her with her headaches. It was clear that T'Politico was not pleased and was jealous. (ENT: "Harbinger")

In January 2154, Phlox determined that Archer was infected with a Xindi-Insectoid toxin that endangered the mission. (ENT: "Hatchery")

Phlox enjoys a basin of popcorn on a lone "movie dark" while piloting Enterprise alone for 4 days in 2153

The following month, Phlox was left to run Enterprise by himself due to a trans-dimensional disturbance that could be fatal to the crew. His Denobulan physiology fabricated him allowed to the furnishings of the disturbance. He placed each crewmember in a comatose state and watched over the transport. However, the solitude of the situation caused him to feel hallucinations. T'Politician joined him considering Vulcans were immune to the disturbance'southward furnishings likewise. Phlox believed he saw a Xindi-Insectoid on the ship and kept hearing strange noises. He also discovered that Enterprise wouldn't clear the disturbance before the crew awoke. Phlox, with T'Political leader'due south help, took the send to warp and saved the coiffure. As he awoke the crew, Phlox discovered that T'Politico had been in stasis the whole time and that she was i of his hallucinations. (ENT: "Dr.'s Orders")

Phlox actor John Billingsley had mixed feelings nigh his graphic symbol existence given more screen time than usual in "Medico's Orders". "The good news is that I didn't have likewise many lines to learn," he commented, "the bad news is that it'southward working nearly 16 hours a solar day when you lot cistron in the makeup time." Billingsley also idea he was less well equipped to portray Phlox in "Dr.'south Orders" than in some other episodes, remarking, "For my tastes and for what I think I'chiliad all-time utilised to practise, the episodes that are more reflective, philosophical and meditative – that deal with issues such as cultural conflict – I think those are the things that I am probably best equipped to practice." [1] Conversely, the depiction of Phlox in "Doctor's Orders" pleased serial co-creator and Executive Producer Brannon Braga, who noted virtually Billingsley'south operation in the outing, "He was wonderful." Braga also liked how Phlox'south relationship with T'Pol is featured in "Doctor's Orders". (Star Trek: Communicator issue 151, p. 32)

Phlox afterwards discovered that T'Political leader had become addicted to trellium-D, which had damaged her neural pathways and made her less able to repress her emotions. (ENT: "The Forgotten")

The starship's mission in the Delphic Expanse came to a successful determination when the Xindi weapon was destroyed and the spheres eliminated. As Enterprise attempted to destroy the spheres, Phlox told the MACOs to recoup their weapon frequencies for trans-dimensional firing. This helped them to hold off the Sphere-Builders until the spheres could be destroyed.

The vessel returned to Earth shortly thereafter. (ENT: "Zippo 60 minutes", "Tempest Front, Part II")

Year iv

Phlox blowing up his face

Phlox was nowadays at a ceremony held in Bay Stadium to gloat Enterprise'south return to Earth. He collected some equipment from Enterprise, before visiting a bar on Earth with other members of the starship'southward crew. When a xenophobic Human assaulted him there, Phlox expanded his face in an instinctive defensive posture. (ENT: "Home")

Phlox returned to Enterprise before it resumed its normal missions, taking a Dr. Arik Soong on board. Soong had created a group of Homo Augments, some of whom had attacked and commandeered a Klingon Bird-of-Prey, and was brought on board Enterprise to help capture them. Phlox met Soong on the starship and criticized his attempt to redesign the Human being species using genetics without responsibly learning from the Eugenics Wars. Soong later escaped with the Augments. (ENT: "Borderland")

When a swain named Udar was found past an away team from Enterprise and brought on board the send, Phlox examined him. The doctor told Captain Archer that Udar was in adept status except from beingness dehydrated and suffering from malnutrition. Archer believed he was an Augment but Phlox corrected the captain that Udar was an anomaly whose DNA was similar but not identical to the Augments and had been built-in without their enhanced abilities.

Phlox later told Archer that Udar was ready to be released from sickbay. The helm gravely informed Phlox that his old friend, Md Jeremy Lucas, was at Common cold Station 12, an outpost that the Augments were planning to capture every bit it independent the embryos of many unborn Augments. The Denobulan medico was shocked to learn the news merely appreciated Archer telling him. According to Phlox, Dr. Lucas had revealed he was existence transferred in his last communique just had not revealed his next consignment.

Having spent a few months at Cold Station 12 himself, Phlox was familiar with the security protocols and technology there. He urged Captain Archer to include him in the away team to retake the station and Archer soon accustomed.

When Enterprise arrived at the outpost, Soong and the Augments had taken the staff hostage. In society to steal the embryos, they required admission codes from Dr. Lucas. He refused to give them the codes, even though they killed one of his assembly. After capturing the away team from Enterprise, Malik, the leader of the Augments, threatened to kill Phlox unless Lucas complied which he ultimately did. (ENT: "Cold Station 12")

Later that year, Admiral Forrest was killed in the bombing of the United Earth Embassy on Vulcan. The Vulcan Loftier Command blamed a religious faction for the terrorist human activity. Phlox was able to prove that DNA on the bomb was a forgery and that a fellow member of the Loftier Command had planted the explosive in order to exterminate the religious faction. (ENT: "The Forge")

Phlox with a computer brandish of an apparently incurable disease

After returning from an away mission, Commander Tucker and Ensign Sato became ill. Phlox announced that they had an incurable silicon-based virus. With no known cure in the Denobulan medical database, he administered them with medicine to make them sleep and to ease their hurting. When they of a sudden awoke and aliens announced they had possessed the officers' bodies to experience Human being feelings, Phlox was shocked. Before he could warn Archer, however, his memory was erased. The aliens were actually harmless and after experiencing Homo awareness, they cured the infected coiffure members. (ENT: "Observer Effect")

Phlox's medical expertise came into play during the incident with the Romulan drone ship. Later on Shran's transport was destroyed by the drone ship, Phlox treated the survivors. He was unable to save Talas, Shran's second in command and his honey interest, who had been shot by a Tellarite. Phlox helped construct a telepresence unit to interfere with the Romulans' navigation of the drone transport. He believed that it would be dangerous since the wearer might suffer neurolytic stupor and brain damage. He monitored T'Pol who wore the interface. He treated her afterward she went into daze.

When Jhamel, an Aenar, tried to contact her blood brother Gareb, who was being used by the Romulans to pilot the drone vessel though a neural interface, she likewise suffered a seizure. Against Phlox'south advice, Jhamel tried again and was able to contact her brother and stop the assail confronting Enterprise. (ENT: "Babel One", "United", "The Aenar")

Klingons bringing Phlox to Qu'Vat Colony

In November of 2154, Phlox was approached by the Interspecies Medical Exchange and asked if he was interested in becoming their Director of Xenobiology. Shortly earlier he was captured by Rigelians working for the Klingon Empire, Ensign Sato revealed that Phlox often frequented a restaurant chosen "Madame Chang'southward". Following his kidnapping, the Denobulan was taken to Qu'Vat Colony, where, with the assistance of Medico Antaak, Phlox was forced to help the Klingons develop a vaccine for a mutagenic virus. Phlox realized the Klingons were trying to create Augments. Antaak said the Klingon Augments looked Human, but their neural pathways began to dethrone and they died in agony. One Augment had the Levodian flu, and his Augment genes modified the virus and information technology became airborne, resulting in the electric current plague.

After examining Phlox's inquiry, Antaak believed the physician had discovered a cure for the plague. Phlox and Antaak could cure the virus in its early on stage. It would still change the Klingon'southward appearance and exit them with somewhat ambitious personalities – an effect that would remain for about a century or so – but not add any augment powers, such as enhanced strength and speed. Phlox was able to cure the plague, saving the Klingon race, but catastrophe their experiments in augmentation. (ENT: "Disease", "Divergence")

When Orion women boarded the Enterprise as part of a merchandise deal with the Orions, strange things started to happen on the ship. The men became aggressive and delusional, while the women suffered from headaches and listlessness. Phlox determined the women had exposed the ship to a very potent pheromone in an attempt to disturb the ship so that it can be captured by the Orions. T'Politico was non affected past the women and was able to direct the send and defeat the Orions. (ENT: "Spring")

During the briefing apropos the formation of a coalition of planets, a adult female flare-up in and collapsed to the ground. Before she died, she pressed a vial containing Human hair into T'Political leader's hand. Phlox examined the hair and stated that the DNA was part Human and part Vulcan. The Dna was Tucker's and T'Pol's. A baby had been cloned by a terrorist organization known equally Terra Prime who was dedicated to driving all aliens off Earth. Although the organization's plot to destroy the coalition of planets was stopped, Tucker'south and T'Political leader'south girl, who they had named Elizabeth, was dying. Phlox adamant that their DNA were not compatible. Later on the child died, Phlox discovered that at that place was a flaw in the cloning. He told Tucker that there was no medical reason why a Homo and a Vulcan could not take a good for you child. (ENT: "Demons", "Terra Prime")

Afterwards career

A holographic representation of Doctor Phlox in 2161

Phlox continued to serve aboard Enterprise, when the ship traveled dorsum to Earth to be decommissioned prior to the signing of the Federation Charter. On the mode there, Enterprise was diverted for 1 last mission to rescue Talla, daughter of the Andorian Shran, a former member of the Andorian Imperial Baby-sit who was once an ally of Archer. Although the mission was a success, the ship was later on boarded past the alien kidnappers and Commander Tucker was critically injured while trying to save Captain Archer's life. Phlox did everything he could practice to save Tucker, only he ultimately died.

Shortly thereafter, Phlox attended the founding ceremony of what would get the United Federation of Planets, forth with his wives. He was amazed at the number of alien dignitaries attention the ceremony and believed information technology was only a matter of time before the fledgling alliance expanded. (ENT: "These Are the Voyages...")

Phlox's template became a part of an historic holodeck program depicting the final voyage of the NX-01 Enterprise, which was available for use aboard Federation starships in the 24th century. Commander William T. Riker accessed this program aboard the USS Enterprise-D in 2370 to help him with a moral dilemma. Riker interacted with the Phlox character to acquire data on the personality of Commander Tucker, whose defiance of orders and eventual cede helped Riker solve his ain dilemma. (ENT: "These Are the Voyages...")

Family unit

Phlox had 3 wives, each with three husbands, including Phlox, resulting in a full of 720 relationships, 42 of which had romantic possibilities. There were 31 children in his extended family, and he had five children of his own: 3 sons and two daughters. His poor singing of Denobulan lullabies fabricated them cry. All his children left years earlier his assignment to Enterprise. His daughters were a surgeon and a biochemist. His oldest son was an artist, specifically a potter, and lived in the same boondocks as his female parent. He hadn't spoken to his two younger sons (one of whom was named Mettus) in several years, as they never saw eye-to-eye with Phlox. Mettus held primitive, anti-Antaran behavior fifty-fifty though Phlox tried to instill in him the ideal to embrace other cultures. (ENT: "Tempest Front", "A Night in Sickbay", "The Alienation")

Relationships

In that location was once a misconception that Phlox would accept an affair with Trip Tucker. The player who played the latter character, Connor Trinneer, mistakenly assumed that was going to happen when he visited the writers' offices and noticed a story note on a board that read, "Phlox/Trip/Trisexual", unaware information technology was actually a reference to the narrative for the episode "Cogenitor". (Beyond the Final Borderland, p. 380)

Jonathan Archer

Phlox became one of Archer's near trusted advisers and on many occasions his advisor. He as well frequently played devil's advocate for Archer. At that place were a few issues that they came into disharmonize over, but this simply strengthened their friendship.

Early in the mission the Enterprise answered a distress telephone call from a from a planet called Valakis whose population had two species, the Valakians, and the Menk. The Valakians were being killed due to an unknown epidemic. Phlox discovered that the illness was genetic. Archer wanted to know if a cure was possible. Phlox stated that he had a cure, but that it might not be ethical to administrate information technology, because such a cure would interfere with nature. The Menk were on the verge of evolving to get the dominant species on the planet, which wouldn't happen equally long every bit the Valakians were around. Archer believed that they had a moral obligation to provide a cure. Phlox argued the opposite and in the end convinced Archer that they had no right to play God. Phlox gained a new respect for Archer. (ENT: "Dearest Dr.")

Later that year Phlox brash Archer on how to bargain with a Klingon named Bu'kaH in gild to persuade her to assistance with a rescue attempt. (ENT: "Sleeping Dogs")

Phlox endeared himself to Archer when he saved Archer's dog Porthos. This occurred during some other diplomatic incident with the Kreetassans. Archer was aroused and refused to try and settle the dispute even if it meant the Enterprise would non receive supplies it needed. Spending the nighttime in sickbay, Phlox was able to go Archer to open up well-nigh a variety of bug including his attraction to T'Pol. Phlox cleverly discussed his extended family unit and cultural differences, pointing out that each species has different customs that must be respected, giving Archer a greater understanding of other cultures and persuaded him that he must apologize to the Kreetassans. (ENT: "A Dark in Sickbay")

Phlox too accustomed communication from Archer when an Antaran refused to be treated by Phlox. The Denobulans and Antaran were mortal enemies. Archer ordered Phlox to do and then, but the doctor would not treat the Antaran without his consent. Archer convinced Phlox to fix aside his preconceptions and endeavor to persuade the Antaran to accept treatment. Phlox's attempts were successful and the Antaran gave his consent. (ENT: "The Breach")

Phlox and Archer connected their friendship for the residue of Enterprise's mission, depending on each other for not but friendship, but counseling.

Hoshi Sato

Though Dr. Phlox was one of two aliens aboard Enterprise, he was able to socialize with the Enterprise coiffure, striking up friendships with many of the crew.

Phlox was also cardinal in helping Hoshi Sato realize that she belonged on Enterprise. On a mission involving the Axanar, Phlox began to build a relationship with Sato. He also helped Sato to survive the mission when she panicked after aliens attacked Enterprise. He pointed out that she had to adapt to her new surroundings. (ENT: "Fight or Flight")

She and Phlox connected to confide in each other. They shared meals together, and he taught her Denobulan. They also discussed private issues. She tried to find out whether he had a lover back habitation and he would ask her advice about a crewmember named Cutler, who was sending him romantic signals. (ENT: "Dearest Doctor")

When Phlox was infected with nanoprobes in 2153, Sato offered to keep him visitor in sickbay, every bit he had done the aforementioned for her "more times than I can count". Phlox politely refused, making sure that Sato would be safe if the nanoprobes took over him completely. (ENT: "Regeneration")

Cutler

During a visit to the planet Valakis, Phlox had his first intimate encounter with a member of the starship's crew. Crewman Cutler, a female biologist assigned to Enterprise, became romantically interested in him. She helped him in his efforts to cure a illness that was afflicting the Valakians. Phlox was teaching her to be a part-time medic. Phlox asked her about her allure to him. He said that he already had three current wives dorsum dwelling, which was perfectly normal for his culture. Taken aback, Cutler admitted her interest in him, simply she didn't desire to be wife number four, just a friend. Phlox and Cutler ultimately decided to simply continue their ideal friendship. (ENT: "Dear Doctor")

Dr. Lucas

Phlox had another Human friend in regular correspondent Dr. Lucas, a colleague from the Interspecies Medical Commutation. Lucas was the first Human being serving on Phlox's homeworld of Denobula. Lucas helped Phlox settle in when he came to Earth, and Phlox tried to help Lucas become accustomed to the Denobulan culture. He confided in Lucas about his relationships with the coiffure. This friendship came into play during the Augment Crunch. Malik, an Augment, attacked Cold Station 12 where Lucas was stationed after his duty on Denobula. The Enterprise tried to intervene and crewmembers were captured past the Augments. When they realized Lucas' connectedness to Phlox, they threatened to impale the Enterprise doctor with a deadly pathogen if Lucas didn't give up the access code so they could take the augment embryos. Fearing for his friend's life, Lucas disclosed the information. (ENT: "Dear Doctor", "Cold Station 12")

Alternate realities and timelines

Phlox in an alternating 2165

In an alternate timeline wherein Archer was infected by interspatial parasites from a spatial bibelot and consequently developed anterograde amnesia, Phlox was unable to remove the organisms, because they existed in a spatial domain exterior the one inhabited by Phlox, Archer, and the others. Afterwards the Xindi destroyed Globe and most of mankind, Phlox did not accompany Enterprise to the Ceti Alpha arrangement. Rather, he returned home to Denobula, where he spent a decade consulting with his planet'southward best neurosurgeons and quantum physicists on the all-time manner to remove the parasites from Archer's brain. Having been told this could only be done with a subspace implosion which would kill Archer as well, Phlox prepare to work on creating a not-lethal way to care for the helm. When such a way was developed in 2165, he returned to Ceti Alpha Five with this cure.

Phlox's arrival on Ceti Alpha Five was featured in a brusk scene which was written into the final draft script of "Twilight" but is non in that episode'due south concluding edit. A scene clarification from the scripted scene described the 2165 version of Phlox thus; "He's a footling older, and his hair a little longer, but he's the aforementioned old Phlox." The scene continued with Phlox saying to Archer, who had answered the door to him, "Greetings, Helm!" despite the fact Archer was no longer a captain.

Phlox thereafter treated Archer aboard Enterprise, equally just a warp engine could produce the power necessary to destroy the parasites. After an initial treatment, Phlox and T'Politico made an astonishing discovery: the parasites eradicated so far had disappeared from Archer's encephalon in all scans from the twenty-four hour period he was infected. If he could be fully cured, history could be changed, and Humanity and Globe could perchance be saved.

However, Phlox had been tailed to Ceti Alpha V by Yerdrin Lek, who gave the location of the Human colony to the Xindi. Knowing a armada was on the way to terminate off the Human race once and for all, Captain Tucker, needing all available power for weapons, ordered the treatment halted. After Xindi warships destroyed the bridge, Phlox and T'Pol brought Archer to Technology, hoping to finish what they started. They arrived only to find that the sleeping room used in the handling had been damaged beyond repair. Notwithstanding, Archer, now enlightened that curing him would mean he was never infected in the starting time identify, recalled that a subspace implosion could destroy the parasites, and the three set out to alter the warp core to crusade i. Phlox and T'Pol remained to assist Archer in triggering the overload even when Archer gave them the take chances to depart, reasoning that the Xindi would not be interested in them when Xindi's sole vendetta was with the Human race. Along with T'Pol, Phlox was killed in one case the Xindi boarded Enterprise, just Archer, with his dying breath, was able to cause the implosion, destroying the parasites and restoring the timeline. (ENT: "Twilight")

In a different timeline where Enterprise was stranded in 2037, Phlox had nine children with Corporal Amanda Cole. Many of the ship's crew were descendants of Phlox. Phlox also discovered a way to combine the Vulcan and Human genomes, allowing Tucker and T'Pol to mate and produce Lorian. In this timeline, Phlox had died by 2154. (ENT: "E²")

Main medical officers of the starships Enterprise
	Enterprise NX-01:	Phlox
	USS Enterprise:	Apr • Boyce • M'Benga • Piper • McCoy • Chapel
	USS Enterprise-A:	McCoy
	USS Enterprise-D:	Crusher • Pulaski • Ogawa
	USS Enterprise-E:	Crusher
	ISS Enterprise NX-01:	Phlox
	ISS Enterprise NCC-1701:	McCoy
	USS Enterprise:	Puri • McCoy
	USS Enterprise-A:	McCoy

Appendices

Appearances

• Star Expedition: Enterprise except:
  • "Desert Crossing"
  • "Carbon Creek"
  • "Precious Cargo"
  • "First Flight"
  • "Carpenter Street"
  • "Proving Basis"
  • "Awakening"

References

• ENT:
  • "Desert Crossing"
  • "Showtime Flight"
  • "Carpenter Street"

Groundwork information

John Billingsley goes before the cameras equally Phlox

Phlox was portrayed by John Billingsley.

In the series bible for Star Trek: Enterprise, Phlox was described thus; "Full name is 'Phloxx-tunnai-oortann' only he goes past 'Phlox' for our benefit. Our near exotic grapheme, the Doctor is an eccentric alien with an oblique sense of humour that no one quite understands. Because he speaks with an accent, and isn't familiar with Globe cultures, there are many humorous misunderstandings. Phlox thinks that humanity is fascinating – the complex sexual mores (his species reproduces asexually), social community... oh my, what wonderful creatures! To say the Doctor has made himself 'at home' on the Enterprise is putting it mildly. He'due south filled Sickbay with all sorts of bizarre medical instruments, conflicting plants and spores, and stasis chambers filled with small, living creatures. He practices a brand of 'intergalactic medicine' the likes of which nosotros've never seen. This makes the most routine visit to Sickbay an unexpected risk."

In a character breakdown sheet that Paramount sent to talent agents while initially seeking an player to play Phlox, the character was described thus; "Exotic alien. Medical officer. Appears to be in his 40s, but we're not certain of his existent age. Phlox speaks with a slight alien accent and has an eccentric sense of humor that no one quite understands. He thinks that humanity is fascinating. The Doctor has filled Sickbay with all sorts of bizarre medical instruments, alien plants and spores, and stasis chambers with small, living creatures. He practices a make of 'Intergalactic medicine' the likes of which we've never seen. This makes the most routine visit to Sickbay an unexpected adventure." [2]

In the script of ENT: "Broken Bow" (both the second draft and the revised terminal draft of the teleplay), Phlox was described as "an exotic-looking alien physician [...] [with a] slight, distinctive emphasis." [3]

Among those who auditioned for the role of Phlox was John Billingsley. "Honestly, what I totally dug about this guy when I went in to read for him," Billingsley reminisced, "was that he's a happy-go-lucky fella." (Star Trek: The Magazine Volume 2, Effect 7, p. 28) Brannon Braga noted nigh Billingsley, "[He] just blew us away in the reading." ("Broken Bow" audio commentary, ENT Flavour one DVD/Blu-ray)

The function of Phlox was conceived and bandage before his species and homeworld were named. "We had i conversation in which we spoke in very full general terms about the philosophical attitude of this guy, and we were totally simpatico," remembered John Billingsley. Unaware of what the character'south time to come held, Billingsley, from then on, formulated some early thoughts of his ain about Phlox and how he was regarded on his domicile planet. For instance, the player thought of Phlox every bit "more political party animal" than the others of his kind. Due to Phlox's cheerfulness, Billingsley regarded Phlox equally the one grapheme from his acting career which he based most on himself, the histrion simultaneously recognizing this equally somewhat odd. Though Billingsley didn't consider himself challenged by the cosmos of an entirely new conflicting, he did retrieve it was challenging to endeavour to decide why Phlox was the style he was, despite meanwhile loving that task. (Star Trek: The Magazine Volume 2, Issue 7, p. 28)

John Billingsley has his Phlox makeup tweaked

John Billingsley found some of his regular preparation for playing Phlox was grueling, due to the makeup required for the function. This was because its awarding meant he usually had to go far two-and-a-half hours earlier than the product coiffure and, to have it removed, he needed to depart an hr afterwards everyone else had already left. (Star Trek: Communicator issue 152, p. 26)

Pilus stylist Michael Moore institute that Phlox'due south hairstyle essentially fell together naturally, without investing much consideration or effort in it. "It but kind of happened," Moore laughed. "We had the front made, and nosotros weren't sure what we wanted to practice with it. Nosotros knew we wanted to apply [John Billingsley'due south] own hair for the back. I put some curl in it and went with it. Rick [Berman] came down and looked at information technology and said, 'Good!'" In regards to how he inverse the hairstyle in the series' tertiary season, Moore concluded, "I made it more than similar a guy with longer hair, and he only combs information technology back." (Star Trek: Communicator issue 152, p. 31)

Early in the series run of Star Trek: Enterprise, Brannon Braga considered Phlox a challenge to depict. "I don't desire our medico to just become an amalgam of medical ethic stories," Braga admitted, presently later ENT Season 1 began. "He's a really weird alien, a kind of Dian Fossey aboard the transport; he'south amongst the primates. He's hopefully going to study humans and get out and virtually a little more than. But the biggest danger with him, which we have avoided then far, is making him like Neelix. The impulse is to make him really cutesy and kind of wacky, and we don't want to exercise that." (Star Trek: The Magazine Volume 2, Event 9, p. 22)

Following ENT's second season, the evidence's writing staff planned to use Phlox "as much every bit possible," in Brannon Braga'south words. (Star Trek: Communicator issue 145, p. 30)

Reception

There has been some criticism from Star Trek fans that Phlox seems too similar to Star Trek: Voyager graphic symbol Neelix. Mark Jones and Lance Parkin, writers of the review reference book Beyond the Last Frontier (p. 364), even went as far as to annotate that Phlox was "condemned by fans at first equally existence a second Neelix."

Phlox turned out to be an extremely popular character. "A lot of that comes from the way John Billingsley plays him," Brannon Braga noted. Braga believed that, for example, Billingsley was such a adept actor as to ensure Phlox was definitely considered a new character. "Any fears people had initially that he might be similar Voyager'due south Neelix are long gone," Braga stated, following ENT Season 2. "Nosotros've actually hit a home run with Phlox, in large part due to John." (Star Trek: Communicator issue 145, pp. 29-thirty)

In Beyond the Final Borderland, Marking Jones and Lance Parkin additionally expressed their ain stance of Phlox, remarking, "John Billingsley, like Robert Picardo and Brent Spiner before him, has taken what might take been a gimmicky character, Dr. Phlox, and fabricated him very rounded and appealing." Jones and Parkin also conveyed pleasance at seeing Phlox exist represented equally having "hidden depths and secrets (just thankfully not sinister ones)." (Beyond the Terminal Frontier, pp. 357 & 364)

External links

• Phlox at StarTrek.com, the official Star Expedition website
• Phlox at Retentiveness Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Expedition works
• Phlox (Star Trek) at Wikipedia

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