Star Trek: 10 Plot Twists Everyone Saw Coming

8. Virtually Vulcan

There was something oddly familiar about Doctor's Orders, the third season episode of Star Trek: Enterprise. Crossing a dangerous region of space with the crew in a comatose state? Now, where have we heard that before? This time, there was no Tom Paris to put back to bed, nor EMH on call. The Doctor was Phlox, and his familiar was T'Pol.

The twist wasn't 'they did that already in the One from Star Trek: Voyager,' but it was about as self-evident. T'Pol, or so it would seem, said it as much to Phlox:

You once told Ensign Sato that it's considered healthy for Denobulans to hallucinate.

He had indeed said that in an earlier episode of the season, Exile. Here, in Doctor's Orders, Phlox was actually reinforming himself. He still hadn't caught on, but we had!

Unlike Seven of Nine, and unless you count Porthos, Phlox was truly on his own for the journey in reconfigured space. T'Pol had been a hallucination throughout, but a decidedly friendlier one than that Xindi insectoid! Other clues included the science officer's sudden and inconvenient lack of science. The ending in T'Pol's quarters wasn't a surprise. It was arguably still a well-executed attempt. Does that mean, however, that Phlox never checked up on the real T'Pol that whole time?