Oasis

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Oasis
ENT, Episode 1x20 (#19) Production number: 020 First aired: {{#ifexpr:(2002>1963)\|03 April 2002\|03 April 2002}}{{#if:\| ENT episode to be aired\|}}
Image:Kantare supply ship (profile).jpg
{{#if:\|Written By \|Teleplay By Stephen Beck Story By Rick Berman & Brannon Braga & Stephen Beck }}Directed By Jim Charleston
Date: Unknown

The crew finds a derelict spaceship from which they can salvage some supplies... only they find that the ship is not quite as deserted as they were led to believe.

Summary

Archer is talking with an alien trader named D'Marr about the possibility of buying spare parts. Saying he specializes in exotic goods, D'Marr still helps by giving coordinates where Enterprise could find all the materials she needs. There is a ship crashed on a nearby planet. The only problem is that the ship is supposedly haunted.

Enterprise enters orbit of the said planet, where the crew finds the ship as predicted. No life signs are detected and an away team is dispatched to recover some useful parts. On the planet, they experience some "ghosts" and soon discover that a whole little colony has been living in a small oasis hidden behind a dampening field.

These Kantares were on their way home when they were attacked by unknown aliens and forced to crash land on that planet. They had been surviving since but were not able to get the ship flying again. They also say that no distress calls were sent to avoid giving away their position (the dampening field serving the same purpose). These events supposely happened about 3 years ago.

Trip begins to work on repairing the ship systems and fraternizes with Liana, the daughter of the ship's chief engineer. For the rest of the Enterprise crew, things do not go so straightforwardly. They discover a number of inconsistencies in the story they have been told: the ship appears to have crashed some 22 years ago instead of 3 years, the oasis is not big enough to sustain the whole colony and they don't seem to have suffered any attack. An escape pod is also found in orbit and the body in it is the same person as a living colonist on planet.

We understand that T'Pol also discovers something but we never know what it is as she is captured by the colonists before she can contact Enterprise. A team returns to the planet to get some explanations, but the colonists start to be aggressive, forcing Trip to do repairs while forcing the rest to go back to Enterprise.

A rescue team is sent on the planet to get T'Pol and Trip back. Things get ugly and people begin shooting at each other. When a phase pistol beam passes right through a colonist, we begin to understand the meaning of the ghost story D'Marr told at the beginning of the episode.

Liana tells Trip the secret about the colony and he convinces her to deactivate the colonists (that were in fact holograms) before anyone gets hurt, leaving only her and her father. No more lies needing to be told, Ezral then explains the real circumstances of the crash. They were caught in a plasma storm and, the ship being too damaged, they had to crash on the planet. The only problem was that he left his station during the landing to prevent his daughter's death, causing the death of the rest the crew by his negligence. He then created all the crew as holograms so that he and Liana would not be alone.

Trip agrees to assist in repairing the holographic system, but still says that Liana deserves more than to live her life alone with her father on that forgotten planet. Ezral says that he is happy there, but in the end, he is finally convinced by Archer that what is best for him may not be the best for his daughter.

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Background Information

Rene Auberjonois (Ezral) is better known as Constable Odo in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Colonel West in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country. Rudolph Willrich also guest starred in DS9 as the Bolian Starfleet Academy Commandant in "Paradise Lost".

The premise of this episode is very similar to the DS9 episode "Shadowplay". Rene Auberjonois saw the similarities (Odo and Jadzia Dax had played the roles played by the Enterprise crew in this episode) and told Scott Bakula that DS9 had done a similar episode.

Ezral and Liana are also very similar to the characters of Prospero and Miranda from William Shakespeare's The Tempest.

When questioning Ezral about what he would do if Liana was ever to get hurt, Tucker sardonically suggested that he might program a holographic doctor to treat her. This is presumably (or coincidently) a tip-of-the-hat to the EMH.

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