Vox Sola

"Vox Sola" (Latin for lone voice) is the twenty-second episode (production #122) of the television series Star Trek: Enterprise.

As the Kreetassan vessel departs, a clear, amoeba-like entity crosses to Enterprise, and systems begin to malfunction on a ship-wide basis.

Ensign Mayweather suggests tracking the Kreetassans down to ask about the entity, while Doctor Phlox examines the severed tendril.

Apparently the "misunderstanding" occurred when the Kreetassans were taken to the mess-hall to find many of the crew eating in public, which they regard as highly vulgar.

On the entity's planet, the organism and the severed tendril are both released and quickly re-absorbed into a larger alien body.

As the shuttle-pod returns to Enterprise, dawn breaks and the entire area is revealed to be covered with a single huge organism.

The episode was written by Enterprise creators Rick Berman and Brannon Braga, and also Fred Dekker.

Roxann Dawson praised the cast, especially "Scott and Conner, who spent days suspended in harnesses covered in slime without a single complaint."

Liz Castro was responsible for coordinating the visual effects and the CGI tendrils, with on-set help from Dan Curry.

The alien planet was filmed on a bluescreen, with the cast in their spacesuits and real dirt, but the rest was fully CGI.

[12] Michelle Erica Green of TrekNation said the episode was redeemed for her by the unnamed alien, calling it "one of the most interesting we've seen on Trek in years" and was pleased that Sato finally had a large part to play.

[18] The Digital Fix said this was a "great episode" in season one of Enterprise, saying it felt like a "classic" Star Trek story.

[19] Enterprise season one was released in high definition on Blu-ray disc on March 26, 2013,[20] with 1080p video and a DTS-HD Master Audio sound track.