station's method of augmenting its own processing power. Mayweather is rescued as the station begins attacking Enterprise in retaliation for their trespassing in the main computer room. Archer then detonates the warp-plasma payment to blow up the station and escape. As the Enterprise warps away, the wreckage of the station has begun repairing itself. Production The idea for the episode came together while developing the previous episode "Minefield". Brannon Braga and John Shiban thought it was important to acknowledge that the ship had been badly damaged and did not want the ship to be all back to normal before the next episode. They also wanted to do it so that both episodes could be watched as standalone shows, in what they called "continuity without being serialised." The episode itself was written by Michael Sussman and Phyllis Strong. The episode was directed by Roxann Dawson, her third time directing an episode of Enterprise. Dawson also provided the voice for the space repair station's main computer, but was not credited for this role. An actress was hired to play the computer voice but Rick Berman thought it had been done by Dawson and asked her to do it again for the final cut of the episode. Dawson was concerned that her voice might be too easily recognizable and a distraction but Berman convinced her to do it. Dawson thought the concept of the episode was great, and "was very pleased with the way it came out". Dawson said the station interior design had a clean sterile look, reminiscent of 2001: A Space Odyssey. Filming took longer than usual, over a week and half, as production resources and actors were needed to film additional scenes for the previous four episodes. Visual effects producer Dan Curry was filming exterior exterior ship shots for "Minefield" with Dominic Keating. Other directors were filming pick-up shots for "Carbon Creek," "Shockwave, Part II" and "A Night in Sickbay." The same type of station appears again in the novel Rise of the Federation: Uncertain Logic and it is revealed they belong to a race known as "The Ware". Reception "Dead Stop" was first broadcast October 9, 2002, on UPN. It had a Nielsen ratings share of 3.5/6. It had a total average audience of 5.4 million viewers. In 2005, The Digital Fix praised this episode answering the question of how a spacecraft could be repaired in space, and also