Chosen Realm

Episode aired Jan 14, 2004
TV-PG
43m

IMDb RATING

6.7/10

1.8K

YOUR RATING

Space Sci-Fi Action Adventure Drama Sci-Fi

Enterprise is taken over by religious zealots who want to use the ship in a war against heretics.Enterprise is taken over by religious zealots who want to use the ship in a war against heretics.Enterprise is taken over by religious zealots who want to use the ship in a war against heretics.

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IMDb RATING

6.7/10

1.8K

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Trivia
This episode was directed by Roxann Dawson, who played B'Elanna Torres in Star Trek: Voyager (1995).

Goofs
If the data about the Expanse and the spheres is so valuable, it ought to be backed up in different storage (i.e. RAID) against the accidental or intentional deletion or the data corruption. Not to mention the access restricted to the specific crew personnel. The computer didn't prompt whether the user wanted the database deleted or for the password to delete it.

Quotes
Captain Jonathan Archer: How many people do you intend to kill with my ship?
Pri'Nam D'Jamat: [chuckles] Your species is obsessed with numbers - a characteristic of your misguided belief that the secrets of the universe can be revealed through science. This may sound barbaric to you, but it doesn't matter how many heretics die. When the Makers return, only the faithful will survive. Non-believers will be swept away. Not only Triannons, but every race within the Chosen Realm.
Captain Jonathan Archer: Doctrines like that make it... real easy to wipe out everyone who doesn't agree with you.

Soundtracks
Where My Heart Will Take Me
Written by Diane Warren
Performed by Russell Watson
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User reviews22

Featured review

8/10

Religious Fanaticism

After receiving a distress call from a Triannon ship, the Enterprise welcomes on board a group of religious followers leaded by the zealot D'Jamat. They call the Delphic Expanse of Chosen Realm and that the spheres were created one thousand year ago by the Makers along nine days. When the security team relaxes, the fanatics take control of the Enterprise using biological explosives that transform each one of them in a bomb-man or woman. D'Jamat plans to use the Enterprise to destroy the population considered heretic in his planet, but he finds the fate of their intolerance when he returns to Triannon.

"Chosen Realm" is a tense episode with no originality that explores the religious fanaticism but has an excellent anti-war conclusion. My vote is eight.

Title (Brazil): "Reino Escolhido" ("Chosen Realm")