Episode Report Card Keckler: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Blazing Furrows
By Keckler | Season 3 | Episode 9 | Aired on 11.11.2003
There's a lot of arguing back and forth with Ass Hat which gets no one anywhere, except that it shows us that Sheriff John Brown is still alive. One of the posse opens a second-floor shutter and cocks his gun, so Reed decides to take him out. Thus beginneth the Furrowfight at the O.K. Corral. Nice hearing, by the way; guess he Q-Tips regularly. The gunfight begins in earnest. Reed jumps for cover behind a water trough, and Quantum helps T'Pol drag the sheriff into the safety of the sh'pod. The Uh-Ohs get into it. And we see their guns take specific aim and nail some guy in another window. Note to Ass Posse: Stay away from windows. Do you suppose they're just stunning everyone? The female Uh-Oh fires at some guy who is also using a trough for shelter, and upon being shot, the guy just sort of lays his head down like he's going to sleep. It was kind of weird. With all the splashes, I'm just waiting for someone to nail a water trough in the side so all the water runs out. That always happens. Quantum runs forward, shoots a guy, and then uses his phaser to cut through the balcony above him. A posse member falls slo-mo to the ground. Cool. Quantum shoots him into submission. Ass Hat nails Quantum right in the right shoulder and it's an ugly, raw wound. Quantum flings himself out of the way, but Ass Hat charges after him. Quantum ducks into the stables. Ass Hat follows with that ridiculous psychopathic grin on his face. Quantum leaps on Ass Hat from above, and they go for a roll in the hay. Literally. Ass Hat kicks Quantum right in the wound. Ouch! Bakula does a really good job of fighting using only one side of his body. I hate it when people get wounded but somehow become endowed with the super-strength to continue to fight as though they were totally fine. Quantum delivers a few good punches with his left arm. Again, impressed, unless Quantum's a lefty like the Evil Dr. Mathra. Ass Hat punches Quantum in the wound.
More fighting outside. Reed inches forward until he hears T'Pol cry out in surprise. Turning around, he sees that a member of the Ass Posse has T'Pol in a chokehold with a gun to her temple. "Stay back or I'll kill her," Ass Posse Member says. Reed looks at them and then shoots T'Pol. That's right. He SHOOTS T'POL! T'Pol slides to the ground, and Ass Posse Member looks really, really shocked. Reed shrugs his face as if to say, "Meh," and then shoots the Ass Posse Member. Classic. That was unexpectedly funny and, well, unexpected. Reed checks T'Pol and then tells the Uh-Ohs to secure the area and find the captain. I'd sleep with one eye open for the next few weeks if I were him.
The captain is still rolling in the hay with Ass Hat, and they are getting dangerously close to a horse. Okay, now they're under the horse. Just who do they think they are -- Catherine the Great? Come on, stop screwing around! Quantum crosses one leg over and then slams it into Ass Hat's face. Ass Hat grabs a baling hook and starts thrashing. But, because he's an asshat, he gets it stuck in a pole, which gives Quantum the chance to beat the crap out of him and hold him up with his own gun.