Doctor's Orders (Star Trek: Enterprise)
"Doctor's Orders" is the sixteenth episode from the third season of the television series Star Trek: Enterprise. It's the sixty-eighth episode of the series, first airing on February 18, 2004.
Plot
While traveling through the Delphic Expanse, Enterprise encounters a trans-dimensional disturbance that lies directly within its navigational course. The crew also learns that the disturbance causes permanent neurological damage to humans. Apparently, the risk to Vulcans is similar. To avert the danger, an idea to have Doctor Phlox disable the neocortex of all crewmembers, except himself, is deliberated. During that time, all responsibility for the well-being of the ship and the crew would lie with him, and despite Commander Tucker's misgivings, Archer approves it.
While the crew is sedated, Phlox attends to his extended duties aboard the ship. As he does so, he takes the opportunity to compose a letter to an acquaintance of his. Unfortunately Phlox himself begins to hallucinate, and he is easily spooked by regular ship noises. In Engineering, falsely perceiving movement, he becomes increasingly tense and nervous. This becomes paranoia when he later believes two Insectoids have somehow boarded the ship.
