After the tip of “Enterprise,” Phlox’s story continues within the Enterprise novels and different “Star Trek” franchise media. The Pocket Books novel collection “Star Trek: Enterprise: Rise of the Federation” chronicles the Federation’s early days together with the NX-01 crew’s experiences throughout this era. The primary novel within the collection, “A Alternative of Futures,” follows Phlox as he serves on the USS Endeavour beneath T’Pol’s command alongside together with his former crewmates Hoshi Sato and Elizabeth Cutler. Whereas serving aboard the Endeavour, Phlox sees his daughter wed to an Antaran and will get concerned in a few high-profile dying investigations — one with the Klingon chancellor and one other involving Phlox’s prodigal son, Mettus (“Rise of the Federation: A Alternative of Empires”). After Mettus’ Antaranist bigotry lands him in jail, Phlox visits him and the 2 ultimately reconcile.
As depicted within the “Star Trek” comedian “Flesh and Stone,” Phlox ultimately takes up a job instructing at Starfleet Academy the place he teaches through the 2250s earlier than leaving his put up within the 2260s to journey. Phlox’s travels then have him engaged on the Epsilon Zeta VII outpost, the place he assists Dr. McCoy with a 2269 medical disaster whereas serving as colony doctor. Collectively, they thwart a plot involving a lethal virus from an expansionist Tholian splinter group.