Exile (Star Trek: Enterprise)

Enterprise soon arrives at Tarquin's planet. He welcomes Archer and Hoshi and explains that he can telepathically read objects, and suggests that Enterprise bring him a Xindi object; they give him part of the weapon used to attack Earth .[b] He adds a condition: he will only help them if Sato agrees to remain with him while he works. They reluctantly agree, and Enterprise departs to investigate the second sphere. Tarquin and Sato discuss many subjects and initially the alien seems trustworthy. She also discovers that he had been watching her telepathically for some time and that she is not the first person to be brought here to provide companionship for him; the graves of four earlier companions lie outside his home.

Meanwhile, Enterprise approaches the sphere, but has to halt its approach due to damage from the spatial anomalies generated by it. The ship sends down a

Production

Both Linda Park and executive producer Rick Berman saw "Exile" as a play on the Beauty and the Beast story.^[1] Filming began on August 20, 2003, overlapping with the final day of shooting for the previous episode, "Impulse".^[2] Shooting ran through to August 29, the final working day before the Labor Day weekend. As Linda Park was the only member of the main cast to be required for scenes on the final day of shooting, the remaining cast began work on the following episode, "The Shipment".^[3] A number of sets were created for use in this episode, all of which were created to show Tarquin's home. Although this was only referred to in the script as an "alien sanctuary", the set designers created an aged gothic-inspired alien castle across five sets. Set decorator Jim Mees added to this design by filling the areas with further gothic artifacts and exotic flowers.^[2]

The subplot required several special effects to be added in post production to show how the sphere that the Enterprise investigates affects it. These were supervised by Dan Curry. In order to portray Tarquin in his native form, Maury Sterling wore a full head prosthetic. The majority of the time spent filming was while Tarquin was telepathically communicating with Hoshi, where Sterling appeared as a human.

Both the writer and director had close ties to Star Trek: Voyager. Roxann Dawson portrayed Chief Engineer B'Elanna Torres in that series, "Exile" being her sixth Enterprise directing credit. "Exile" writer and series co-producer Phyllis Strong had previously written episodes of Voyager.^[2]

Reception

"Exile" was first aired in the United States on the