WEBVTT 00:05.200 --> 00:05.500 Dr. 00:05.500 --> 00:08.400 Phlox is on Earth as part of something called 00:08.400 --> 00:11.900 the Vulcan interspecies medical Exchange program, 00:11.900 --> 00:12.700 and I'm 00:12.700 --> 00:14.900 something of an anthropologist on my own home world 00:14.900 --> 00:15.700 as well as a doctor. 00:15.700 --> 00:18.300 So I relish the opportunity to work with 00:18.300 --> 00:19.500 earthlies 00:19.500 --> 00:23.600 an interesting and somewhat primitive culture and my worldview 00:23.600 --> 00:24.700 and 00:24.700 --> 00:29.000 the incidents that occur in this episode 00:29.000 --> 00:30.300 are such that I am 00:30.300 --> 00:32.800 enlisted to serve on what a supposed to be 00:32.800 --> 00:33.100 a 00:33.100 --> 00:34.100 relatively 00:34.100 --> 00:35.000 short. 00:35.000 --> 00:35.800 Flight 00:35.800 --> 00:37.600 to the Klingon home planet 00:37.600 --> 00:43.300 and back on the maiden voyage of the Enterprise. 00:43.300 --> 00:45.200 Again, because I think in my own home planet 00:45.200 --> 00:46.800 there probably isn't quite as 00:46.800 --> 00:47.600 rigid 00:47.600 --> 00:49.500 distinction drawn between disciplines. 00:49.500 --> 00:52.600 I'm as much of an anthropologists as I am 00:52.600 --> 00:53.400 a doctor 00:53.400 --> 00:54.900 and an ethnologist. 00:54.900 --> 00:57.500 So I have a great belief in 00:57.500 --> 01:00.900 what would be termed primitive medicine 01:00.900 --> 01:04.000 I use oils and unguents and extracts lotions and 01:04.000 --> 01:06.900 potions and the feces of animals and anything I 01:06.900 --> 01:08.800 can get my hands on as some kind of 01:08.800 --> 01:11.300 medicinal purpose in my worldview. 01:11.300 --> 01:11.800 So 01:11.800 --> 01:14.100 yes, it's an unorthodox 01:14.100 --> 01:15.300 an orthodox 01:15.300 --> 01:19.800 Medical Practice. 01:19.800 --> 01:21.700 What appeals to me about the show 01:21.700 --> 01:24.200 is the idea that this precedes all the other 01:24.200 --> 01:26.400 two Star Trek and consequently, it takes place in 01:26.400 --> 01:30.700 an ERA with no rules existed governing our relationship 01:30.700 --> 01:31.700 with other species. 01:31.700 --> 01:34.700 We don't know how we're supposed to establish first 01:34.700 --> 01:35.700 Contact. 01:35.700 --> 01:38.300 There's no prime directive. 01:38.300 --> 01:43.000 The technology is in many instances flawed or doesn't 01:43.000 --> 01:44.000 exist. 01:44.000 --> 01:45.300 And I think one of the things that I 01:45.300 --> 01:47.000 always thought as much as I like Star Trek 01:47.000 --> 01:49.100 was sort of missing from the late shows. 01:49.100 --> 01:49.600 What was 01:49.600 --> 01:50.200 It 01:50.200 --> 01:52.300 everybody had their jobs down 01:52.300 --> 01:55.000 everybody knew exactly where to lay their hands on 01:55.000 --> 01:57.200 the great piece of equipment at the right time. 01:57.200 --> 01:59.700 I hope this show gets back to some of 01:59.700 --> 02:01.200 the messiness 02:01.200 --> 02:03.100 of the original series and has some of the 02:03.100 --> 02:05.300 excitement that I think is really 02:05.300 --> 02:06.600 implicit in 02:06.600 --> 02:08.600 a show in which people are making up the 02:08.600 --> 02:10.600 rules making mistakes. 02:10.600 --> 02:13.300 I think so much of what is exciting about 02:13.300 --> 02:15.500 the 02:15.500 --> 02:16.900 like I use that word before 02:16.900 --> 02:18.700 what's exciting about the indomitable 02:18.700 --> 02:19.800 spirit 02:19.800 --> 02:22.200 that the show is supposed to represent 02:22.200 --> 02:24.100 is that when you screw up and you have 02:24.100 --> 02:26.100 to get up and dust yourself off and try 02:26.100 --> 02:27.000 again, 02:27.000 --> 02:28.700 that's what makes it exciting for us. 02:28.700 --> 02:30.700 That's where we're able to connect on a human 02:30.700 --> 02:31.200 level. 02:31.200 --> 02:32.600 I think this show wants to be be more 02:32.600 --> 02:34.300 in that territory than some of the other storage 02:34.300 --> 02:34.700 racks.