Rated PG13: Parental guidance is recommended for children under 13. It contains adult themes and some mild horror.
Producers note: As the character of ‘Angela’ never appeared on any episodes of Enterprise, her image was hard to create. With this in mind, Farewell the Tranquil Mind has been altered, though the premise of the story remains the same.
We open with T’Pol taking a hot shower with plenty of steam, then two hands appear, touching her shoulder, it is Trip. She turns around and faces him then kisses him passionately. At that moment Trip says 'I'm so glad were together', they kiss again only to be interrupted by a female voice, it is Angela! 'May I Join' Angela asks, Trip says 'sure, the more the merrier', at this point T’Pol has a mortified look on her face. Angela stands next to Trip and they get close to T’Pol. 'My, we are going to have some fun, aren't we my dear' as she looks devilishly at T’Pol. As they advance towards T’Pol both Angela and Trips faces change in to that of hideous monsters, they lunge at T’Pol. T’Pol then wakes up, the victim of another bad dream, which is the third one this week she has had. At around the same time Trip has some disturbing dreams about T’Pol with baby Elizabeth.
It turns out most of the crew are having bad dreams. The whole crew in general seems to be very short tempered. Things seem to be in a downward spiral. Dr. Phlox determines that the crew is experiencing bad dreams and nightmares almost every night causing unstable brain chemistry.
It turns out that a non corporeal entity is triggering and feeding off the negative R.E.M. sleep of the crew. All attempts to get the alien off the ship fail. Phlox comes to the determination that if they starve the entity it will leave the ship. So Phlox administers a special drug to keep the whole crew awake as long as possible, they crew must also watch over each other and keep each other awake. A couple days go by and the entity is weakened but is still on the ship, how much longer can the crew go without sleep??
Reminder: This is PG so with the shower scene we won't be showing anything revealing even though all three have no clothes on.)
This episode about lack of sleep dedicated to Tim Brazeal
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