An Enterprise crewman who, delirious from hallucinogenic pollen during a storm on an uncharted planet, is beamed back to the ship and materialises with leaves and debris fused into his skin.
Crewman Ethan Novakovich appears in the Enterprise episode Strange New World, set in 2151. He joins the party that camps overnight on an inviting Earth-like planet.
When a windstorm drives the group into a cave, pollen carried on the wind begins to cause paranoia. Novakovich panics and runs out into the storm. Jonathan Archer decides to risk the transporter, then barely tested on people, to retrieve him.
He arrives alive but with twigs and grit embedded in his body, and Phlox has to operate. The doctor then finds that the pollen's toxin is slowly killing him and the others still on the surface, and prepares an antidote in time to save them all.