This article is about an episode of Star Trek: Enterprise. For military exercises to assess potential outcomes of an invasion of Iraq, see "Desert Crossing" 1999.
24th episode of the 1st season of Star Trek: Enterprise
"Desert Crossing"
Star Trek: Enterprise episode
Episode no.
Season 1 Episode 24
Directed by
David Straiton[1]
Story by
Rick Berman
Brannon Braga
André Bormanis[2]
Teleplay by
André Bormanis
Produced by
Dawn Valazquez
Production code
124
Original air date
May 8, 2002 (2002-05-08)
Guest appearances
Clancy Brown - Zobral
Charles Dennis - Chancellor Trelit
Brandon Karrer - Alien Man
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"Desert Crossing" is the twenty-fourth episode (production #124) of the television series Star Trek: Enterprise. Set in the 22nd century of the Star Trek universe, Captain Archer commands the NX-01 Enterprise on a mission to explore the galaxy.
Captain Archer and Commander Tucker are invited to a desert planet by a man named Zobral only to discover that he is a "terrorist" with ulterior motives.[3][4]
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"DesertCrossing" is the twenty-fourth episode (production #124) of the television series Star Trek: Enterprise. Set in the 22nd century of the Star Trek...
"DesertCrossing" 1999 was a series of war games known simply as DesertCrossing that were conducted in late April 1999 by the United States Central Command...
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television series including ER, the Star Trek: Enterprise episode "DesertCrossing" as Zobral, Lost as Kelvin Joe Inman, and former baseball player (and...
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had probed the Simpson Desert from the mid 1800s, including Charles Sturt and Peter Warburton, none had made a successful crossing on foot. Cecil Madigan...
episode first aired May 8, 2002, on UPN as a double-bill followed by "DesertCrossing". After ten months without a break, Sub-Commander T'Pol notes efficiency...
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from the desert so long as there were opposing forces within striking distance of its rear. The idea was to fight the battles close to the desert, with safe...
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refers to the Gobi Desert, although they have lived in Myanmar for centuries. Most scholars dismiss the notion of a Gobi desertcrossing, but rather translate...
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identified by Hoshi Sato in the 2002 Star Trek: Enterprise episode "DesertCrossing". Cochrane's statements in Star Trek: First Contact (1996); Paramount...
and the alien creature in "Nothing Human") Clancy Brown (Zobral in "DesertCrossing") Matt Frewer (Berlingoff Rasmussen in "A Matter of Time") James Saito...
for those crossing the desert headed for California and Oregon. In 1843, John Frémont and his party were the first white men to cross the desert, and his...
his abortive invasion of India, his marriage to Roxana, his crossing of the Gedrosian Desert, the death of Hephaistion and his own final illness and death...
organization. From April to July 1999, CENTCOM conducted Exercise DesertCrossing 1999, centered on the scenario of Saddam Hussein being ousted as Iraq's...
skin, it retains water naturally and therefore was very useful in desertcrossings until the invention of the canteen, though waterskins are still used...
General Anthony Zinni (ret.) organised a series of war games known as DesertCrossing to assess an invasion aimed at unseating Saddam Hussein. His plan,...