Doctor Phlox...

"If you're going to try to embrace new worlds, you must try to embrace new ideas." – Phlox, 2151 ("Broken Bow") Doctor Phlox was the Denobulan chief medical officer of Enterprise NX-01 during its historic voyage... FUNNY... :D >>> Phlox was born sometime in the late 21st century on Denobula, in the Denobula Triaxa system. As a child, he was informed about the "evil Antarans" by his grandmother. Phlox promised himself he'd give his children an objective view of the Antarans. (ENT: "The Breach") In the writers' first draft script of "Dear Doctor", Phlox revealed that his training had been at a research hospital on Denobula. In the episode's final draft script, it was established that his first assignment after medical training was at a mining compound in the rainforests of Pree'nos. There, although his fellow Denobulans tried to make the facility as similar as possible to Denobula, Phlox became fascinated by other aspects of the locale. "I found myself drawn outside the walls," he recalled, in a scripted voiceover, "to the camps of the Pree' themselves [...] I couldn't help thinking, why come all that way just to ignore the new world around you?" Not long after Phlox became a physician circa 2115, there was an explosion in a cargo ship orbiting Denobula Triaxa. Phlox was part of the first medical team to arrive at the scene, where they discovered seventeen bodies on the bridge alone. That was the first time Phlox had seen that many dead people in one place before. (ENT: "Fight or Flight", "Damage") Phlox was once nearly overwhelmed with fifty patients in a refugee camp while serving on Matalas. (ENT: "Dear Doctor") Phlox also once served as a medic in the Denobulan Infantry. While in the infantry, he learned that battlefields are unpredictable places, even under a flag of truce. (ENT: "Cease Fire") During his first forty years of service as a doctor, he twice had to perform actions that he considered unethical. (ENT: "Damage") It remains unmentioned in which conflict Phlox served. Sometime prior to 2149, Doctor Phlox joined the Interspecies Medical Exchange. That year, he attended an IME conference on Tiburon, where he briefly met a member of the Mazarite delegation. Years later, he found out that it was actually Dr. Antaak, a Klingon expert in mutagenic research, who was impressed by his work on viral propagation. (ENT: "Affliction") By 2151, Phlox was working as a doctor at Starfleet Medical in San Francisco. (ENT: "Broken Bow") In voiceover dialogue that was in the final draft script of "Dear Doctor" though not in that installment's final version, Phlox reckoned that his experience on Pree'nos, when he came to the opinion that he wanted to embrace other cultures, was what led him to Earth and, later, to other destinations in space. In the writers' first draft script of "Dear Doctor", Phlox mentioned that he had never complained about the weather in San Francisco. It stands to reason that Katherine Pulaski's work Linear Models of Viral Propagation contains references to Phlox's research. During his six months stationed at Starfleet Medical, he developed a fondness for Chinese food, especially egg drop soup, and was a regular customer at Madame Chang's. (ENT: "Broken Bow", "Affliction") Phlox also spent time in Tibet and visited at least one of its monasteries like his future captain, Jonathan Archer. (ENT: "The Andorian Incident", "CPhlox continued to serve aboard Enterprise, when the ship traveled back to Earth to be decommissioned prior to the signing of the Federation Charter. On the way there, Enterprise was diverted for one last mission to rescue Talla, daughter of the Andorian Shran, a former member of the Andorian Imperial Guard who was once an ally of Archer. Although the mission was a success, the ship was later boarded by the alien kidnappers and Commander Tucker was critically injured while trying to save Captain Archer's life. Phlox did everything he could do to save Tucker, but he ultimately died. Shortly thereafter, Phlox attended the founding ceremony of what would become the United Federation of Planets, along with his wives. He was amazed at the number of alien dignitaries attending the ceremony and believed it was only a matter of time before the fledgling alliance expanded. (ENT: "These Are the Voyages...") Phlox's template became a part of an historic holodeck program depicting the final voyage of the NX-01 Enterprise, which was available for use aboard Federation starships in the 24th century. Commander William T. Riker accessed this program aboard the USS Enterprise-D in 2370 to help him with a moral dilemma. Riker interacted with the Phlox character to acquire information on the personality of Commander Tucker, whose defiance of orders and eventual sacrifice helped Riker solve his own dilemma. (ENT: "These Are the Voyages...") Phlox had three wives, each with three husbands, including Phlox, resulting in a total of 720 relationships, 42 of which had romantic possibilities. There were 31 children in his extended family, and he had five children of his own: three sons and two daughters. His poor singing of Denobulan lullabies made them cry. All his children left years before his assignment to Enterprise. His daughters were a surgeon and a biochemist. His oldest son was an artist, specifically a potter, and lived in the same town as his mother. He hadn't spoken to his two younger sons (one of whom was named Mettus) in several years, as they never saw eye-to-eye with Phlox. Mettus held archaic, anti-Antaran beliefs even though Phlox tried to instill in him the ideal to embrace other cultures. (ENT: "Storm Front", "A Night in Sickbay", "The Breach") There was once a misconception that Phlox would have an affair with Trip Tucker. The actor who played the latter character, Connor Trinneer, mistakenly assumed that was going to happen when he visited the writers' offices and noticed a story note on a board that read, "Phlox/Trip/Trisexual", unaware it was actually a reference to the narrative for the episode "Cogenitor". (Beyond the Final Frontier, p. 380)old Front") Over the course of his career, Phlox obtained a dozen scientific degrees, including six in Interspecies Veterinary Medicine, and others in dentistry, hematology, botanical pharmacology, and psychiatry. None of Phlox's qualifications were related to warp theory or quantum physics, though. (ENT: "A Night in Sickbay", "Doctor's Orders", "The Communicator") Geneticist Arik Soong once confessed that Phlox's reputation in the sciences rivaled that of his own. (ENT: "Borderland") Phlox even once observed a surgical procedure in which a Bynar surgeon removed a Bynar child's parietal lobe and replaced it with a synaptic processor. He later described the operation to Malcolm Reed as having been "very impressive". (ENT: "Regeneration") ~ From "Mempry Alpha Fandom".