The Communicator story
After an away mission, Lieutenant Reed discovers that his communicator was lost on a pre-warp planet; he and Captain Archer are then captured trying to retrieve it. Directed by: James A. Contner. Story by: Rick Berman & Brannon Braga.
12 total · 1 choice · 2 major · 9 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| the ethics of interfering in less advanced societies | choice | The crew needed to retrieve a communicator that Malcolm lost on a pre-warp world in order to not contaminate their culture. |
| human vs. captivity | major | Archer and Malcolm were detained by soldiers who accused them of being enemy spies. |
| selfless service | major | Archer and Malcolm were prepared to be executed rather than reveal they were aliens to the inhabitants of a pre-warp world and risk contaminating their culture. |
| alien living secretly among us | minor | Archer and Malcolm were discovered to be aliens by the inhabitants of a pre-warp civilization. |
| appearance altering technology | minor | Archer and Malcolm surgically altered to look like the pre-warp aliens. |
| beating one's self up | minor | Malcolm was disappointed in himself over having lost a communicator on a pre-warp world. |
| coping with being tortured | minor | Archer was beaten back and blue in the course of an interrogation. |
| facing one's own execution | minor | Archer and Malcolm were sentenced to the gallows. |
| genetically engineered soldier | minor | Archer and Malcolm pretended to be genetically engineered super soldiers while under interrogation. |
| invisibility ability | minor | Mayweather quipped that Tucker could use his invisible right hand to steal his neighbors popcorn at movie night. |