Episode Report Card Keckler: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Seven of Whine
By Keckler | Season 2 | Episode 7 | Aired on 11.05.2002
Quantum and May-blitz come out of the cockpit. Quantum is in mid-sentence, telling T'Pol about the unknown power panel, when he catches on to the situation. Menos tells Quantum that he really doesn't want to hurt T'Pol, but he will if he must. Quantum thinks that's a pretty violent sentiment coming from a man who professes to be all make love, not phaser fire. That's the second time Quantum has pointed that out to Menos. This entire episode's a broken record. Menos's comeback is that he's driven by a will to survive; then he orders Quantum and May-blitz into a storage locker. "What about her?" Quantum wants to know, indicating T'Pol. Menos puts his gun to T'Pol's head and explains that she's his guarantee that they will walk "quickly and quietly into the locker," in a straight line, no pushing or butting. "Please," Menos finishes. Quantum and May-blitz lay down their weapons and go into the locker room together. Menos tells T'Pol to lock the door, and tells her there's a "very specific tone when it's locked properly." Before T'Pol can do this, the locker door swings out and throws her against a hull and to the ground. Quantum runs out, grabs the two phasers, and starts firing with both hands. Menos returns fire, and they play hide-and-go-shoot around the cargo hold. May-blitz even joins in by crawling around on his stomach. Quantum makes sure he didn't really hurt T'Pol before telling Menos, "We don't do 'quickly and quietly' very well, but we are good at arithmetic. Seems that there are three of us and only one of you."
Quantum and May-blitz fire a few more times before Menos gives up completely and begs them to stop. He puts his weapon down and raises his hands over his head. "I don't trust this guy, Travis. Find something to tie him up with," Quantum orders. May-blitz trots off. Menos carefully reaches down. "What are you doing?!" Quantum shouts. "Get up!" Menos pulls open a trap door in the floor and drops through it onto the supposedly acid-covered tarmac. T'Pol follows and raises her weapon, shouting at him to stop. Menos turns around and tells him she's not going to kill another innocent man. She doesn't have to kill, right? I mean, last we checked, those pistols had two settings, and Reed cautioned them not to confuse the one with the other -- ergo all this guilt-tripping is totally pointless. Quantum joins T'Pol, and Menos tells him it's none of his concern: "You know nothing about what happened on Risa!" Menos starts to back away, and then he has the audacity to turn his back on T'Pol. "Captain?!" T'Pol pleads. Oh, this is just too much -- T'Pol not knowing what the right thing is to do? STUN HIM! Quantum walks up next to her and asks, "Why did you want me here?" Okay, this is all nice dialogue and everything -- well, not really -- but the dude is GETTING AWAY! "Because I trust you," T'Pol answers for the audience, who is just tuning in for the last three minutes. "Then trust me -- you were sent to apprehend him, not judge him," Quantum tells her. T'Pol fires, FINALLY, and hits Menos in the middle of his back. If he were smart, he would have run, not walked, away while T'Pol and Quantum were caught up in their therapy session. Menos falls to the ground.
Back on his ship, Menos is trussed up by Quantum, who comments, "He's not going to get out of that too quickly." May-blitz announces that he knows why Menos didn't want them firing in his direction. Yeah, he didn't want his head blown off. May-blitz shows them a fridge stocked with Day-Glo-filled Evian bottles. "Fresh Samantha!" Mathra announces. T'Pol scans them and determines them to be bio-toxins. "If one of our weapons had struck this..." T'Pol doesn't finish her sentence, because the idea of being slimed is too horrible to voice. "I guess he was hauling more than injector casings after all," Quantum says, king of pointing out the ridiculously obvious. T'Pol stares intensely at Quantum: "I guess he was." May-blitz looks like he doesn't care who was hauling what as long as everyone remembers that he did three of the most significant things in this episode: 1. He initially cornered Menos in the bar; 2. He discovered the hidden power panel which was hiding Menos; 3. He ferreted out the preternaturally glowing Gatorade stash.