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John Billingsley on the Best and Worst Episodes of Enterprise

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By GustavoLeao / 04:50, 18 August 2010 / Enterprise

StarTrek.com, the new official Star Trek website, posted the first part of a new interview with Star Trek Enterprise actor John Billingsley (Dr. Phlox) in which he answered fan questions. Here is an excerpt.


Did you have a favorite episode that was NOT a Phlox episode, that you just thought was good Star Trek?


I'd say the one ("Similitude") in which we cloned Trip (Connor Trinneer). I thought that was the best episode for a lot of reasons. Everyone in the cast was involved and everyone had an emotional through-line. Some episodes, of any show, actors are used to convey information or they're shunted aside. That episode, I thought it was the best of our ensemble pieces and it did what Star Trek does best, which is to deal with a topical question that has some sociological significance in a way that brings humanist values into play. And I got to handle a baby.


And what was your least favorite episode of Enterprise?


I think it was the episode with Padma Lakshmi (entitled "Precious Cargo"). It wasn't her fault, but she played an alien princess. She and Trip were on the run from whoever was pursuing her. I don't remember all the details. I thought that was an unfortunate episode all around. It just didn't work. Again, no fault of the actors. It just didn't come together. And it was at a touchy point in our second season. We were holding on to not-great, but adequate audience numbers and after that episode our numbers just plummeted and we never got the audience back again.

The full interview is here.



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By: prometheus 59650 (Odo's file, contact, web site) @ 07:03:45 on Aug 18, 2010

"A Night in Sickbay was worse. Illustrated to me everything that was wrong with the writing of the show.

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