Dr. Phlox

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John Billingsley

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Dr. Phlox Quotes

	Season 4 / Episode 22: - These are the Voyages... Dr. Phlox: I would say good luck, but you've always had an ample supply.
	Season 4 / Episode 17: - Bound Ensign Hoshi Sato: It's probably just stress. Dr. Phlox: Plenty of that going around. Ensign Hoshi Sato: Or could it be our new passengers? Dr. Phlox: The Orion females? Why should they give you a headache? Ensign Hoshi Sato: I'm just not used to seeing guys trip over themselves like that. Dr. Phlox: Oh, just a litlle healthy sexual energy. Helps keep the blood pumping. Ensign Hoshi Sato: If you ask me, it's pumping a little too hard.
	Season 4 / Episode 16: - Divergence (2) Dr. Phlox: Admiral Krell, Doctor Phlox again. By now you may have noticed the small package which we sent to your bridge. What you may not know is that it contains a potent sample of the metagenic virus. Even as we speak it is dispersing throughout your ship, infecting you and your crew. Fleet Admiral Krell: You're lying! Dr. Phlox: Check your internal sensors. You will find that the atmosphere contains approximately twenty parts per million of the viral strain. Or if you don't trust your sensors, trust your senses. You will feel the initial symptoms in about thirty minutes. A tightness in the chest, irregular heartbeat, tingling in your cranial ridges. Fleet Admiral Krell: This is a cowardly attack! Dr. Phlox: Maybe so. But I'm prepared to give you the cure. Thanks to Captain Archer, I've managed to complete the antivirus. Of course, if you destroy this colony, well, treating you and your crew could prove difficult. I suggest you power down your weapons, Admiral, and let me cure your people.
	Season 4 / Episode 15: - Affliction (1) Dr. Phlox: This man's been infected. General K'Vagh: Very observant. Dr. Phlox: We're being exposed. Antaak: This patient is at stage one. The virus doesn't become contagious until stage three. Dr. Phlox: When I asked you to bring me a subject for dissection, I assumed he'd already be dead. General K'Vagh: He won't be alive much longer. Dr. Phlox: What do you think you're doing? Antaak: Euthanising him. Dr. Phlox: Out of the question. I thought you were committed to saving lives. Antaak: It is more honorable to give one's life to medical research than to die for no purpose! Dr. Phlox: That choice is not ours to make. General K'Vagh: Proceed.
	Season 3 / Episode 24: - Zero Hour Sub-Commander T'Pol: I've always found it distracting to think of death, especially when entering a dangerous situation. Dr. Phlox: Hope for the best, prepare for the worst. I don't know about Vulcans, but Denobulans take great pleasure in bequeathing their belongings to far-flung relatives. Sub-Commander T'Pol: We're not dead yet.
	Season 3 / Episode 24: - Zero Hour Dr. Phlox: It's time for you to work your magic, Mr. Tucker; within five minutes, everyone on this ship is going to start dying! Commander Charles 'Trip' Tucker III: No pressure.
	Season 3 / Episode 24: - Zero Hour Sub-Commander T'Pol: My skin hasn't fully healed yet. Dr. Phlox: Oh, you're doing fine. Vulcans are obviously more sensitive to the effects of mysterious realms. Sub-Commander T'Pol: I guess we're not so tough after all. Dr. Phlox: Excuse me?
	Season 3 / Episode 24: - Zero Hour Sub-Commander T'Pol: [referring to Porthos] Will he be all right? Dr. Phlox: Not for a while. Lost his best friend. But it's just a matter of time, he'll be fine again. Sub-Commander T'Pol: [to Porthos, but perhaps more to herself] Did you hear that? The Doctor says you'll be fine. It's just a matter of time.
	Season 3 / Episode 22: - The Council Commander Tucker: Is it my imagination, or are you losing weight? Dr. Phlox: Aha! I was hoping someone might notice. Commander Tucker: Yeah, I'm not the only one. Hoshi commented on it last week. Dr. Phlox: Well, I'm pleased to see that my efforts are yielding results. Commander Tucker: What's your secret? Dr. Phlox: A Denaxian tapeworm. It attaches itself to the lower intestinal tract and absorbs nutrients... Commander Tucker: Hold on, hold on! You have a worm inside you? Dr. Phlox: It's perfectly harmless. I hardly notice it at all. Commander Tucker: How are you gonna get it out? Dr. Phlox: I insert a standard V-probe into my... Commander Tucker: No, no, no, no, no! Never mind. Dr. Phlox: Well, it's a simple procedure. Commander Tucker: I'm sure it is, Doc. I just don't wanna lose my appetite.
	Season 3 / Episode 22: - The Council Commander Charles 'Trip' Tucker III: Ever since the attack on Earth, all I've thought about is gettin' back at whoever was responsible. Dr. Phlox: And now we are making peace with them. Commander Charles 'Trip' Tucker III: Yeah, I've gotten used to the anger. It's gonna be like... I don't know, losing an old friend. Dr. Phlox: You have other friends.
	Season 3 / Episode 20: - The Forgotten Dr. Phlox: The imaging chamber is still off-line. Commander Tucker reassigned the repair team that was working here. He said the armory was a higher priority. Huh - we'll see how low a priority I am the next time he burns his fingers on a plasma conduit.
	Season 3 / Episode 20: - The Forgotten Dr. Phlox: Well, Commander? Commander Charles 'Trip' Tucker III: I can give you two hours. Dr. Phlox: I believe the number was six. Commander Charles 'Trip' Tucker III: If I'm gone longer than three, there may not be a ship here when I get back. Dr. Phlox: Four. Not a minute less. Commander Charles 'Trip' Tucker III: Done. And remind me never to buy a car from you.
	Season 3 / Episode 20: - The Forgotten Dr. Phlox: On Earth, there is a cautionary tale about the dangers of releasing a magical creature. It's called a genie from a bottle. Once it's out, it's extremely difficult to put back in.
	Season 3 / Episode 19: - Damage (2) Captain Jonathan Archer: How long have you been a doctor? Dr. Phlox: Nearly forty years. Captain Jonathan Archer: And in all that time, did you ever do anything you thought was unethical? Dr. Phlox: Twice. Why? Captain Jonathan Archer: I'm about to step over a line, a line I thought I would never cross. And given the nature of our mission, it probably won't be the last. Dr. Phlox: Probably not. May I ask what you're planning to do? Captain Jonathan Archer: There could be more casualties. Dr. Phlox: I'll be ready.
	Season 3 / Episode 17: - Hatchery Dr. Phlox: The egg probably considered you a threat. Captain Jonathan Archer: Humans seem to have that effect on the Xindi.
	Season 3 / Episode 16: - Doctor's Orders 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.
	Season 3 / Episode 16: - Doctor's Orders Dr. Phlox: D'you want one of these? Dr. Phlox: [scoffs] I doubt you'd like it. It's a leech, you know. It will clean out your intestinal tract.
	Season 3 / Episode 16: - Doctor's Orders Dr. Phlox: I'd be better off talking to my Pyrithian bat.
	Season 3 / Episode 16: - Doctor's Orders Dr. Phlox: [to T'Pol] Would you mind not creeping around the ship like a Draxxan cloud viper?
	Season 3 / Episode 16: - Doctor's Orders Dr. Phlox: Bangs, squeaks, rattling chains... Is this a starship or a haunted house?
	Season 3 / Episode 16: - Doctor's Orders 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.
	Season 3 / Episode 16: - Doctor's Orders Dr. Phlox: [reading the manual about the warp drive] "Output must be confined to within 300 and 312 milicochranes 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."
	Season 3 / Episode 16: - Doctor's Orders Dr. Phlox: I'm a physician, not an engineer!
	Season 3 / Episode 16: - Doctor's Orders 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!"
	Season 3 / Episode 16: - Doctor's Orders Sub-Commander T'Pol: You must have enjoyed having the ship to yourself. Dr. Phlox: It wasn't nearly as empty as I anticipated.
	Season 3 / Episode 16: - Doctor's Orders Dr. Phlox: I for one will never complain again when I can't get a good seat on movie night.
	Season 3 / Episode 15: - Harbinger Captain Jonathan Archer: [referring to the alien] I wanna talk to him again. Dr. Phlox: I don't even know if I can revive him. Captain Jonathan Archer: Find a way. Dr. Phlox: Captain, this man is dying a painful death. To keep him conscious is unethical. Captain Jonathan Archer: Until I get the answers I need, we're gonna have to bend a few ethics.
	Season 3 / Episode 12: - Chosen Realm Dr. Phlox: There'll be an extra helping of snow beetles for you tonight, young lady.
	Season 3 / Episode 10: - Similitude Capt. Jonathan Archer: There's a... part of you - something inside you - that Trip needs. Dr. Phlox is going to have to perform an operation. Sim Trip at 8: Will it hurt? Dr. Phlox: Not at all. You won't feel a thing. Sim Trip at 8: Doctors always say that.
	Season 3 / Episode 10: - Similitude Sim: I'm sorry I doubted you, Doc. Dr. Phlox: No need to apologize. Sim: Yes, there is. You see, I don't just remember Trip's childhood. I remember mine. You made a damned good father. Dr. Phlox: You were a damned good son.

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