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Jul 20, 2023 · Lost in Translation: Directed by Dan Liu. With Anson Mount, Ethan Peck, Jess Bush, Christina Chong. Uhura seems to be the only one who can hear a strange sound that seems to trigger terrifying hallucinations.
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- 2023-07-20
Jul 21, 2023 · Elsewhere in the hallways, Uhura boards a turbolift and hears the strange, metallic ringing again. Out of nowhere, she spots a grotesque, zombie-like version of Hemmer and staggers back in fear. "Lost in Translation". StarTrek.com. In Sickbay, Doctor M’Benga runs a neurological analysis on Uhura and determines she was hallucinating.
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Uhura seems to be the only one who can hear a strange sound. When the noise triggers terrifying hallucinations, she enlists an unlikely assistant to help her track down the source.
Teaser
The USS Enterprise arrives at Bannon's Nebula on the edge of explored space, where Starfleet is building the Bavali Station, an outpost and refinery designed to harvest deuterium, used as fuel for starships. Captain Pike muses on the idea that a million years in the future, the stars born in the nebula would shine on explorers just like them, but the area would seem to be different. He looks over at Uhura at communications, asking if she was awake. Uhura replies that her eyes were technically open but admits she had not been getting much sleep for several nights. Pike is appreciative of her coordinating the mission but advises her that one should only "burn the candle at one end". Uhura then receives a message from the refinery, sending their greetings and reporting they were ready for the Enterprise's engineering details. Pike has her inform Chief Kyle to stand by. Just then, Una emerges from the turbolift, remarking that congratulations were in order for Pike's promotion to fleet captain. Pike explains he has been given command over both the deuterium refinery and the USS Farragut until the station is brought online. Ortegas calls it the "shiniest gas station" she has ever seen, but Pike believes it more than just a "gas station", but the jumping-off point for the next age of exploration. Una jokingly expresses her fear of missing Pike's speech; Pike quips that he had started earlier, but Uhura had fallen asleep. Spock had thought the nebula's proximity to Gorn space was the reason for the mission, and Pike concedes he is probably right; the Gorn presence has been growing, and the station would help counter it. Spock reports that the Enterprise's Bussard collectors were operational while the refinery was off-line; though slower than the refinery, he advises that it might be logical to use the opportunity to refuel. Pike is of the same mind, and orders Ortegas to find a dense pocket of deuterium and "do some laps" – but not to take more than they needed. Just then, Uhura hears a strange signal in her earpiece, but when she tries to bring it up on speakers or find the recording, it is gone. She swears there was something there and goes to conduct a full diagnostic on the communication system. Uhura heads up into one of the nacelles, reviewing a recording by Hemmer on how to re-calibrate the system, when she is approached by Pelia. Uhura explains that she had asked for these calibrations so often that Hemmer had eventually showed her how to do it herself, and they recorded the process. Pelia recalls Hemmer had been one of her best students at Starfleet Academy, before backtracking (admitting she only said that because he was dead) and saying he was only "okay", but still impressed with where he managed to find himself. She then asks why Uhura had never spoken to her before. Uhura is sure she has, but Pelia knows she hasn't. She admits she had been very busy and welcomes Pelia to the Enterprise. As the chief engineer returns to work, Uhura looks back at the recording she made with Hemmer, where he is reassuring her that he would not let her blow up the ship. Uhura pauses the video, looking at it for a moment, before returning to work. Walking the corridors with Una, Pike calls the whole project a "fiasco", saying the refinery was supposed to be online two months prior. The delay was caused by what Starfleet called "organizational difficulties", including having the previous superintendent recalled to Earth, and believes the project could use some of Una's "managerial fervor". The first officer sarcastically remarks on the pleasures of cleaning up other people's messes. As Uhura steps into the turbolift to return to the bridge, she hears the same droning signal she had heard in her earpiece. Looking around, she sees Hemmer as a rotting corpse, snarling and lunging at her, causing her to fearfully back up against the wall of the lift.
Act One
In sickbay, Dr. M'Benga runs scans; based on what Uhura saw and heard, as well as increased activity in the visual cortex of her brain, he believes she was experiencing hallucinations. She had said she was watching a video of Hemmer, and his death on Valeo Beta V was still fresh in her mind. Uhura doesn't think Starfleet officers should randomly hallucinate, but M'Benga assures her she did nothing wrong – and the hallucination was not random. While she was in the nacelle, she was exposed to a small amount of refined deuterium and chalks it up to a mild case of deuterium poisoning, which could cause hallucinations. He gives her something to treat it, but also notes an imbalance in her serotonin and cortisol levels, indicating she wasn't sleeping. M'Benga warns that exhaustion could exacerbate the effects of deuterium poisoning and advises her to rest. Uhura wonders how she is supposed to sleep after what she just saw. M'Benga empathizes, but also recognizes a stubborn patient when he sees one and relieves her of duty until he is satisfied that she has slept. Aboard the refinery, Una is leading the effort to bring the refinery online, sending a team to deck seven to stabilize the life support system. Pelia approaches, saying it was not as bad as it looked – it was "way worse". Una sees the central refining and storage systems were in good order, but Pelia points out the maintenance logs, which give her the feeling that things were breaking down faster than the crew was able to repair them. Luckily, Una points out, there were three crews at work now; the Enterprise and Farragut teams could fix the problem systems, while the station's teams could get the refinery running. Pelia is sure that she can "smell" an underlying issue that needed to be checked out. Una tells her she does not base her decision making on "feelings" and "smells", and any underlying issues would become clear as they proceed. Pelia just smiles and chuckles knowingly, before heading back to work. In her quarters, Uhura tosses and turns restlessly, before finally rising from her bed. As she gets to her feet, however, she finds herself outside, and begins hearing the droning noise again, before looking to see a plume of smoke rising from the nearby woods. Then she suddenly awakens, back in bed in her quarters, wondering what she just saw. In the transporter room, James T. Kirk beams over from the Farragut, greeted by his elder brother Sam. "Hell of a ship," Jim notes, before jokingly asking how Sam was part of the crew; Sam shoots back that Pike had asked for the more handsome Kirk brother and offers a tour. Jim accepts, as long as it ended at the bar. In the crew lounge, over a glass of Scotch whisky, Jim asks what was new and exciting in the world of xenoanthropology. Sam says everything was new and exciting in that field, but rather than give an answer he is sure Jim doesn't care about, he asks about his news. Jim detects a bit of hostility, and he soon finds out why: Sam has found out that Jim has been tapped as the Farragut's new first officer, the youngest in the fleet… breaking the record set by their father, George, on the USS Kelvin. Jim points out that Sam was the one with their father's first name, even though he chose not to use it, and he felt he had to do something to "keep up". Sam thinks Jim's rise makes him look bad, remembering how their father had "old-fashioned ideas" about what a successful career and fulfilling life looked like… and it was looking more like what Jim was doing. Jim asks why, if Sam was concerned about impressing their father, he was "wallowing" in a science lab, and Sam is offended by the implication. Jim believes records were made to be broken, and he put in extra work to break this one but believes they could make the "old man" proud in their own way. "Or not at all," Sam replies bitterly, as he finishes his drink and walks away. Aboard the refinery, Una is relieved to see life support back online, but then the system begins failing almost immediately. As Pelia approaches, Una tells her they had to send a team to deck five to work on the EPS regulators. But Pelia has more worrisome news, having found something in the fuel regulation system. Pelia and her teams began looking into the functioning systems, despite Una's orders; Pelia justifies it by saying if she had followed Una's orders to the letter, she would never have found evidence of sabotage, which gets Una's full attention. In the lounge, Spock is playing three-dimensional chess with Nurse Chapel, and brings up a matter he wishes to discuss, regarding the relationship they had begun. Given a starship's command hierarchy and the rules about fraternization among the crew, he believes he has to inform Starfleet. Chapel is reluctant, comparing it to the concept of Schrödinger's cat, the "cat" being their relationship existing (or not) in a "box"; if they let anyone see inside the "box", the "cat" might disappear. Uhura then approaches, admitting that she should be resting; Chapel remarks on how people tended to ignore the "orders" part of "doctor's orders". Uhura feels certain she does not have deuterium poisoning and mentions that she first heard the noise when she was on the bridge, before going into the nacelle. Chapel is certain that her symptoms are a classic sign of overwork and offers something to help her sleep. But for Uhura, sleep is the last thing on her mind. She walks up to the bar and asks for a Saurian brandy. In the seat next to her is Jim Kirk, who introduces himself. Uhura recognizes him as Sam's brother, and rebuffs what she believes is his attempt to hit on her. Kirk assures her he was not hitting on her, and that she looked like she needed a friend. She curtly replies she was not in the market for friends at that time, takes a sip of her drink, and walks out. In the corridor, she sees the lights flickering and hears the droning noise again, before turning to see bloodied, broken bodies lying all along the deck. She tries to assure herself it was not real, but the droning noise persists, and she turns to see an illusion of herself, a knife in her hand and murder in her eyes. Uhura fights off her illusory self and brings it down with one punch. As she does, the lights return to normal, the corridors are empty… and Kirk is lying at her feet with a cut on his nose. "I told you I am not hitting on you," he says, while Uhura can only stare in shock.
Act Two
Uhura apologizes profusely, unable to believe what she just did; Kirk can't believe it either, saying she seemed so "pleasant". She offers to take him to sickbay to have Dr. M'Benga fix his nose, but he doesn't think it a good idea; he could tell she had been seeing something that wasn't there, and thinks she has bigger problems than simply striking a superior officer. Sighing, she replies she has a dermal regenerator in her quarters, and all but drags him along. In her quarters, Uhura repairs the damage to Kirk's nose. He remarks that the "nightmare visions" were turning her into a sadist, but assures her he does not think it was all just in her head. He has had deuterium poisoning before, and has also gone days without sleep, but never punched out a fellow officer due to either. He considers himself an "exquisite" judge of character, and he believes what she has told him, offering to help figure out what was really going on. Uhura has triple-checked the sensor logs, and there was nothing but deuterium in the nebula; according to M'Benga, she is the only one experiencing these symptoms… at least on the Enterprise. Kirk sees a potential line of investigation, offering to check in with the chief medical officer on the Farragut, and asks if he can bring her Uhura's medical file. He jokingly tells her not to punch any more officers until he returns. On the refinery, Una and Pelia search for the saboteur. Una thinks it would have been easier if the lights or internal sensors were online, but Pelia counters that the station could have exploded if she had brought them up. They soon discover their saboteur is one of the Starfleet engineers, who appears to also be hallucinating, and urges them to keep "him" away. Una assures him no one was there, and no one would hurt him. The engineer keeps babbling that "it can't be real". Una puts her hand on his shoulder; when he asks if she was real, she gives him a reassuring nod, and asks for his name. He identifies himself as Lieutenant Saul Ramon. Una asks him why he sabotaged the station. Ramon is dumbfounded and keeps repeating that it wasn't real. Una calls the Enterprise, reporting a medical emergency. Sitting alone in her quarters, Uhura looks up as the red alert klaxon begins to sound and steps out of her quarters… and onto the bridge, where she asks what was happening. Pike says only that they were under attack by an enemy. The viewscreen begins to crack and then finally shatters, venting Pike, Spock, and other members of the crew into space. As Uhura stares dumbfounded, she can hear Pike's voice calling to her; she is sitting at her station, and the entire bridge crew are looking at her in concern. Pike asks if she was not supposed to be on medical leave. In the conference room, Pike tells Uhura that as her captain, he wants all of his officers healthy, both physically and mentally, and as her friend, he wants to help. Uhura notes the irony of a communications officer who can't communicate what was wrong with her. Just then, the door chimes, heralding Kirk returning from the Farragut. He congratulates Pike on his promotion, which Pike insists was only temporary, before saying he had come looking for Uhura, mentioning their earlier encounter. Kirk has heard about Ramon, who was now in the Enterprise sickbay. The Farragut's CMO had received a report about him the previous day; one of his friends had expressed concern about him, saying that he was seeing things that were not there… just like Uhura. In sickbay, Pike questions Ramon about what he saw, but M'Benga warns that he might not be able to understand. His scans show significant damage to the speech and language centers of his brain, and it was getting worse, his auditory nerves firing wildly. Ramon suddenly doubles over in pain, hearing the same droning sound as Uhura. Ramon looks over at Uhura before grabbing one of the diagnostic tools from the nearby tray and slashing M'Benga across the chest, barreling through the nearby security officer before fleeing into the corridor. M'Benga assures Pike he was fine. Pike calls for security to deck four as he and the security officer give chase. Uhura thinks it was another hallucination, but Kirk assures her it was real, and that they had to stop Ramon before he hurt anyone else and urges her to follow him.
"Sam."
"Jimmy. Welcome to the Enterprise."
"Hell of a ship! And they let you work here?"
"What can I say? Captain Pike asked for the more handsome Kirk brother."
- James T. Kirk, being welcomed aboard the Enterprise by his brother George Samuel Kirk
"Your move."
•Communications officer's log, USS Enterprise (NCC-1701)
•Personal log, Saul Ramon
Continuity
•Christopher Pike is temporarily promoted to fleet captain in this episode, and shortly thereafter meets James T. Kirk. This event was first mentioned in TOS: "The Menagerie, Part I". •The Kirk brothers reference their father, George Kirk and his record rise to first officer of the USS Kelvin, his posting shown in Star Trek. •In similar fashion to their alternate reality counterparts, Kirk meets Nyota Uhura for the first time while she's ordering an alcoholic beverage, with Kirk similarly striking up a conversation first. While the alternate reality counterpart of Kirk is clearly flirting with that version of Uhura, the Prime Timeline version of Kirk is more neutral to Uhura, with the character even clarifying that he isn't "hitting" on her. Also, like in the Star Trek film, this version of Kirk also ends up getting punched in the face shortly after his meeting with Uhura, as a result of their efforts to socialize with her. •Like in the 2009 Star Trek film, this version of Kirk meets Pike for the first time shortly after his first meeting with Uhura. •Kirk also meets Spock for the first time in this episode.
Title
•13 July 2023: Title publicly revealed by Wil Wheaton on TRR: "Charades"
Starring
•Anson Mount as Christopher Pike •Ethan Peck as Spock •Jess Bush as Christine Chapel •Christina Chong as La'an Noonien-Singh •Celia Rose Gooding as Nyota Uhura / Nyota Uhura (illusion) •Melissa Navia as Erica Ortegas •Babs Olusanmokun as Joseph M'Benga And •Rebecca Romijn as Una Chin-Riley
Special guest star
•Paul Wesley as James T. Kirk
Guest starring
•Bruce Horak as Hemmer (recording) / Hemmer (illusion) •Dan Jeannotte as George Samuel Kirk •Michael Reventar as Ramon And •Carol Kane as Pelia
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