Star Trek: Enterprise (TV Series)

Doctor's Orders (2004)

John Billingsley: Dr. Phlox

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Quotes 

• Dr. Phlox : I'm a physician, not an engineer!

• [Phlox has to run the ship alone for several days and starts hearing noises] 

  Dr. Phlox : Perhaps we are letting our imaginations run away with us, hm-hm? I should never've let Mr. Tucker talk me into watching 'The Exorcist' last week.

• [Dr. Phlox takes a knobbly object out of a jar. Porthos is barking at it] 

  Dr. Phlox : D'you want one of these?

  [Porthos utters an affirmative woof] 

  Dr. Phlox : [scoffs]  I doubt you'd like it. It's a leech, you know. It will clean out your intestinal tract.

• Dr. Phlox : Being alone on Enterprise - just the two of us - has proven more stressful than I imagined. Two people aren't even enough for a Denobulan marriage, a... proper one, anyway.

• Dr. Phlox : [reading from the manual on the warp drive]  "Output must be confined to within 300 and 312 millicochranes to prevent fusion of the dilithium matrix."

  Sub-Commander T'Pol : That seems simple enough.

  Dr. Phlox : "... unless the spatial compression index is greater than 5.62 percent, or the ship is within two parsecs of a class-C gravimetric field distortion."

• Dr. Phlox : [to T'Pol]  Would you mind not creeping around the ship like a Draxxan cloud viper?

• Dr. Phlox : Bangs, squeaks, rattling chains... Is this a starship or a haunted house?

• Sub-Commander T'Pol : Commander Tucker was complaining that it will take him days to realign the warp coils.

  Dr. Phlox : [laughs]  Yes, he gave me quite a talking-to.

  Sub-Commander T'Pol : He also said, and I quote: "Phlox did one hell of a job!"

• [last lines] 

  Sub-Commander T'Pol : You must have enjoyed having the ship to yourself.

  Dr. Phlox : It wasn't nearly as empty as I anticipated.

• Dr. Phlox : I for one will never complain again when I can't get a good seat on movie night.

• Dr. Phlox : What if one of these delusions causes me to open an airlock or shut down life support?

  Sub-Commander T'Pol : You won't do that.

  Dr. Phlox : How do you know?

  Sub-Commander T'Pol : Because your duty is to look out for the welfare of this crew. Why do you think the Captain allowed you to sedate him, over Commander Tucker's objections? Because he trusts you. As do I.

• Dr. Phlox : I'd be better off talking to my Pyrithian bat.

• Dr. Phlox : You need some rest. Let me walk you to your quarters.

  Sub-Commander T'Pol : Doctor's orders?