Episode Report Card Keckler: F | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Holier ThanThou
By Keckler | Season 1 | Episode 14 | Aired on 01.29.2002
Hoshi pays the captain a visit in his Ready Room, and she seems mightily nervous about something as she works herself into a conversation about the shipwreck. Please, oh, please don't tell me she's going to play the wimp again. Luckily, the writers have decided to take Linda Park to the next level, so instead of begging off of the mission, Hoshi is actually asking to be on the mission. "I realize that I haven't always been the first to volunteer for this type of mission, but I want you to know that I am prepared to go. It took awhile, but I think I finally got my space legs," Hoshi says. Quantum toys with her a bit, saying the away mission has no need for a translator, before giving in and admitting that T'Pol specifically asked that Hoshi be included on the team. So, you could say that T'Pol wants Hoshi playing for her team? Hoshi looks surprised and pleased. "You better get to the launch bay before they leave without you," Quantum joshes. Hoshi beats a hasty retreat.
Launch Bay. The three stooges suit up; Hoshi examines her helmet. When T'Pol notices this, Hoshi says she's just checking the back-up systems. "I wouldn't want the emergency oxygen to fail during a hull breach," she says. Reed assures her that if they encounter a hull breach, she'll be crushed like a walnut before she has time to think about breathing. Words of comfort. T'Pol questions Hoshi's willingness to come along, but Hoshi tells her that the EV suit no longer makes her claustrophobic. What? Has she been wearing it around her cabin in order to break it in since the last time she had it on for real? The shuttle pod launches, and they're off. T'Pol and Reed analyze the gravity pull and location of the Klingon ship, and Reed determines that the shuttle pod hull will stand up under the pressure. "For the moment, but at the rate that vessel is sinking, we'll have an hour at most," T'Pol says. Hoshi twits T'Pol for sounding "uncomfortable." "I'm merely stating facts," T'Pol says, and Reed assures them that they'll be "well out of there" before they're in any real danger, since he has no desire to destroy a "valuable shuttle pod." "Or three valuable officers," Hoshi says. What's that about last words and famous? The three actors shimmy and shake about in their chairs, and T'Pol says they've come across some liquid helium. The actors stop shaking, and T'Pol reports, "We're clear." The shuttle pod gets closer and closer until they are finally able to dock and board the adrift vessel.