Episode Report Card Keckler: A | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Quantum Leap of Faith of the Heart
By Keckler | Season 1 | Episode 26 | Aired on 05.21.2002
Quantum tries to convince T'Pol that he was brought back ten months into his past. T'Pol's not buying it, since the Vulcan Science Directorate has concluded that time travel is "impossible." Quantum tells her, "Well, good for the Vulcan Science Directorate," and demands how else he could have known everything from the location of the cloaked ship to how to construct the quantum beacons to where the disks were located on the cloaked ship. T'Pol says, "All valid questions, but to conclude that the only answer is that you acquired this information from a dead crewman who transported you back through time is illogical." Quantum tells her to give him another alternative, but T'Pol can't. "Because there isn't one. I got a call from Trip, something about inspection pods -- it was the exact same call I got the day before they found Klang. Word for word!" Quantum blusters. T'Pol tells him that he could have been dreaming. I wish that I were dreaming this whole season, and that I'd wake up on September twenty-sixth and live through a better season with better actors and imaginative, original storylines. Quantum tells T'Pol that he never thought time travel was possible either, but he did do it and he needs T'Pol to believe him. "Why?" T'Pol asks. "Because it's hard enough trying to fathom all of this without having my Science Officer -- a colleague who I trust and rely on, the person who got me to stop feeling sorry for myself -- accusing me of being a hallucinating madman!" Quantum blithers. T'Pol observes that she doesn’t remember accusing Quantum of being anything. I think he's a cream-faced loon, but it's obvious they don't listen to my opinions. Quantum heaves his shoulders as Reed comms him that they are getting "strange readings," and maybe he should stop his subsexual sparring with the Vulcan and get his butt to the bridge.
Bridge. Reed tells Quantum that he's called Trip up to join them, as they are having problems balancing the warp field. Quantum looks at something on his armrest computer and reports that everything looks jake to him. "It's odd," Reed muses. "It'll be stable one moment and then for no reason, it will go slightly out of alignment." Trip comes on deck and asks what they're doing to his engines. T'Pol repeats the technobabble, to which Trip says that everything was fine ten minutes ago when he ran his last diagnostic. "Would that be a 'level one diagnostic'? Well, I suppose everything is 'level one' on this ship," Mathra muses. All this technodiscussion results in Quantum getting a funny feeling like when he climbs the ropes in gym, and he tells Reed to load the torpedoes and stand-by all weapons. He tells Maywonderbra to load the beacons and aim them aft. The viewscreen shows a passel of Suliban hex-pods following the ship. "Swing them down slowly," Quantum says, showing more hex-pods surrounding the ship. "Looks like we're in a swarm of cloaked bees," Trip dumb-asses. At Quantum's prompting, Reed charges the phase cannons. Hoshi reports that they're being hailed, and there's a delicious moment of tension as Quantum pauses, not wanting to know who's on the other end of the line, before he tells Hoshi to answer it.