in watch enterprise for the first time and a we all no doubt do with all show and i go into it with an open mind and enjoy about half of the past star trek effort and dislike the other half . enterprise have fall short and but this episode a night in sickbay make me seriously question why i bother tivoing the show from monday night on sci fi . mask some idea that it be one of those a day in the life episode and in which we learn about what make certain character operate a humanoid and the writer seem to forget that this be suppose to be a starship vessel and not the ricardoes and the mertzes . a planet and especially one whose people have be offend previously by the enterprise crew ( for eat in public ) and be no place for a dog . a an animal lover myself and i would have never take one of my pet into an environment that have prove in the past to be tense . but what make this episode even more ridiculous be the endless problem with all of these st show and constantly depict thing that be sacred and insult to other culture and a tho they be offer some insight into american religious zealot . the alien be now offend when the dog urinate on a sacred tree and yet the alien be quite capable of take the dog urinating a an insult . strange how the dog urinate wasn not regard a some form of worship . i wonder how that one got by the show writer . from there and we be subject to a captain who be misguide by his duty . in watch the episode and i find it very easy to forget that bakula be suppose to be the ship captain . he choose to sleep in sickbay and from there we be give more inanity of behavior ( sigh ) that we aren not suppose to understand and that cause u to furrow brow . the doctor non chalantly clip long and hairy toenail and feed them to hungry caged animal . ewwwwww . then a white bat creature escape . oh and how be anyone suppose to sleep with all of this go on . toenail clipping and for cry out loud . i be wait for something that feed on vomit to be present . then we be inexplicably give some idea that the captain be in love with tpol and and that perhaps he be mask those feeling with his concern over the dog . endless amount of rubbish . your dog be ill and so go have sex . you will feel well . and of course and the captain have to apologize and we human have to regard his apology a completely ridiculous and because we be so ( everyone smile very sarcastically ) narrow mind . saw depiction such a this endlessly drone out on tng . oddly enough and the only thing miss from this awful episode be that trip person offer his smirk and downhome boyisms and tho bakula seem to be cover all of that with the silly dog . oh and the dog survive and so now go play fetch .