Forbidden Crossing, Part II

"Forbidden Crossing, Part II" was the eighty-first episode of Star Trek: Phoenix-X. It was the second part in the three-part episode arc and the sixth episode of the fourth season.

Summary

A select group of Starfleet Corps of Engineers are brought onto the Phoenix-X to fix the ship's ultra-transwarp capability. Meanwhile, Q makes a surprise visit in anticipation of what Captain Cell is going to be doing next - only, Cell isn't aware of what he's going to be doing next. The drive is corrected before too long, and the crew are met with a mysterious figure from their past...

Memorable quotes

"Engineering reports that the drive is ready to begin testing... testing with our lives, that is."
"Is there any other kind?"

— Kugo and Seifer

Appendices

Background information

• This episode pays tribute to several non-canon stories and a fan-production on the subject of Andromeda, by making references to events for each:
  • Captain's Peril - on reference to the Totality
  • Star Trek II: Short Stories: "To Wherever" - on reference to V'Ger
  • TOS novelization of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan - on reference the USS Magellanic Clouds.
  • The Q Continuum series - on reference to Jean-Luc Picard trying to penetrate the galactic barrier ten years earlier.
  • Star Trek: Odyssey - on reference to the USS Odyssey
• Mayhem takes on a small version of the Iconian software transmission as part of his program.
• Beck returns as a side character. He was last seen in "Departments". He later returns in "Displacement Syndrome".
• Q takes Cell's powers away a second time. They were given to Cell for the second time in "Power Levels". Q also informs Cell of the existence of the X Continuum.
• When Seifer tells Mayhem that the Starfleet crash course programs were deleted by the "previous virus hologram", he is referring to Amp.

External link

• Episode 81 - "Forbidden Crossing, Part II" on the Phoenix-X website