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Writers:
Gene Roddenberry (creator "Star Trek")
Rick Berman (creator) ...
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TV Series:
Original Air Date:
25 September 2002 (Season 2, Episode 2)
Plot:
Celebrating T'Pol's one year anniversary as a member of the Enterprise's crew, Archer and Trip have dinner with her... more | add synopsis
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The Unknown First Contact more (4 total)
Cast
(Episode Credited cast) | Scott Bakula | ... | Captain Jonathan Archer |
 | John Billingsley | ... | Dr. Phlox (credit only) |
 | Jolene Blalock | ... | Sub-Commander T'Pol / T'Mir |
 | Dominic Keating | ... | Lieutenant Malcolm Reed (credit only) |
 | Anthony Montgomery | ... | Ensign Travis Mayweather (credit only) |
| Linda Park | ... | Ensign Hoshi Sato (credit only) |
| Connor Trinneer | ... | Commander Charles 'Trip' Tucker III |
 | Ann Cusack | ... | Maggie |
 | J. Paul Boehmer | ... | Mestral |
| Hank Harris | ... | Jack |
 | Michael Krawic | ... | Stron |
 | David Selburg | ... | Vulcan Captain |
 | Clay Wilcox | ... | Billy |
| Ron Marasco | ... | Vulcan Captain Tellus |
| Paul Hayes | ... | Businessman |
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Episode #2.2, "Carbon Creek," which aired on 25 September 2002, included a reference to the TV series "The Twilight Zone" (1959), in which William Shatner once guest starred. As it happened, the debut episode of a revived version of the series aired immediately after the Enterprise broadcast. It also features a joke involving the TV series "I Love Lucy" (1951) which was produced by Desilu - the company that produced "Star Trek" (1966). Lucille Ball has also been credited with saving the original series from early cancellation. The episode includes a scene in which T'Pol's great-great-grandmother introduces Velcro to earth. One of the Vulcans involved is named Mestral, after the real-life inventor of Velcro, George de Mestral. more
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Anachronisms: In "Carbon Creek," modern-day dollar bills released in the late 1990s (most notably a $50 note) are seen in the bar's tip jar, despite supposedly being set in the late 1950s. more
Quotes:
T'Mir:
You're to have no further contact with that woman!
Mestral:
You can't make that decision.
T'Mir:
I'm still in command.
Mestral:
Command of what? Our mission is over. It's time to accept the fact that we may never leave this world.
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References "I Love Lucy" (1951) more
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While celebrating the first year of T'Pol in Enterprise in a dinner party with Trip and the honored guest, Archer informally asks her about her leave on Earth in the small Pennsylvanian town Carbon Creek. T'Pol tells that her great-great-grandmother T'Mir and the Vulcans Mestral, Stron and the captain of a small Vulcan aircraft that was observing the Sputnik crash on Earth in the 50's. The captain dies and the trio waits for rescue in the woods, but they are not sure whether the distress call has been really sent. When their rations finish and without means of communication, they move to Carbon Creek to get food, interacting with the inhabitants, finding job in the community and feeling the warm welcome of the gentle dwellers.
"Carbon Creek" is a great episode about the unknown first contact of Vulcans on Earth. The story is ambiguous and it is never clear whether T'Mir and T'Pol are the same character, or T'Mir is really her great-great-grandmother. Trip in some moments is very inconvenient with his observation about T'Pol age, but this query may be a clue that they are the same person. My vote is nine.
Title (Brazil): "Carbon Creek"