Season 4
Episode 92 Divergence
In the conclusion, Commander Tucker who left Enterprise only an episode ago has to come back and fix the engine that won’t turn off. He does some cool transfer from ship-to-ship during warp speed. It was certainly a new gimmick for Star Trek and thoroughly welcomed.
Once aboard Tucker fixes the engine but has to stick around for repairs. Lieutenant Reed is in trouble for lying to the Captain because of his affiliation with the Black Ops group Section 31. A hidden organization that carries out covert stuff in Earth’s best interests and later the Federation’s best interest.
Meanwhile Dr Phlox is working on a cure for the Augment Klingon super virus. The results cause Klingons to lose their ridges and look more human. Basically their makeup matches that of Star Trek the original series. It explains why the 1960s show with less of a make-up budget had the aliens just look really tan.
It’s a gag that started out on the Star Trek Deep Space Nine episode Trials and Tribulations where the DS9 people traveled back to Captain Kirk’s time. That episode intercut clips from the Star Trek original series episode The Trouble With Tribbles. The show had to explain why the Klingon Worf looked so much different than the Klingons in that episode. Saying better makeup effects really wouldn’t work within the show narrative. Their vague explanation is that Klingons are allergic to tribbles. So thus, tribbles somehow cured the side effects of Phlox’s cure to the mutated Augment disease.
It’s truly amazing how clever the show was to incorporate the different Klingons. It’s the result of failed genetic engineering experiments. It’s a question fans weren’t seriously asking about. It’s just something people accept as an inconsistency but Enterprise insisted on tightening up the storyline. Every time Enterprise made an episode that bridged the gap between themselves and the original series, they knocked it out of the park. Affliction and Divergence are some of the best examples of how to do a prequel story correctly.
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