When asked what more Park wanted to see for Hoshi on “Enterprise,” the actress was quick to answer, saying:
“What I would have liked to have seen was more personal interaction. A lot of what Hoshi did in her side stories was very introverted and personal and isolated. Except for the Mirror Universe episodes, her personal scenes were usually isolated from the rest of the crew. She did have the one where she went off, that kind of Beauty and the Beast episode, and she was away from everybody else.”
The Mirror Universe episode was called “In a Mirror Darkly” (April 22 and 29, 2005), and featured an evil version of Hoshi Sato who connived and manipulated other characters in order to become empress of the galaxy. The Beauty and the Beast episode was called “Exile” (October 15, 2003), wherein Hoshi was telepathically contacted by a handsome alien (Maury Sterling), only to find that he was beastly in person. Hoshi was left alone with the alien to aid a translation project, but she soon learned that he wanted to keep her on his planet indefinitely; he was very lonely. It’s a fine story, but it did indeed keep Hoshi isolated from her fellow crewmates.
Park continued:
“‘Vanishing Point’ was kind of in her own mind, and even then she couldn’t really interact with anybody else because she was becoming a non-entity. I did get some interaction with Phlox, which I loved because I loved acting with John Billingsley and I loved being around him. We actually had a lot of great personal scenes, and that’s my own personal taste.”
“Vanishing Point” (November 7, 2002) saw Hoshi mysteriously phasing out of existence after using the ship’s transporter. The entire episode was eventually revealed to be a dream.
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