Episode Report Card Keckler: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Imzadi Prime
By Keckler | Season 3 | Episode 18 | Aired on 03.02.2004
T'Pol stalks down a hallway with Trip yapping at her heels. He demands to know what they do if she fails: "Are we supposed to just keep sending people in until there's no one left? And who's going to wash my face and Nudge my Nodes, huh, T'Pol?" T'Pol tells him, "That's hardly a viable option, we only have one more sh'pod." Trip keeps arguing as they enter a sh'bay. He thinks she wants to save the captain. Jealous? Arguing. T'Pol orders him back to the bridge. "I'm not going to sit still and watch you fly off and die," Trip snaps. "I gave you an order," T'Pol screeches, and starts to descend a ladder. "T'Pol --" Trip says, grabbing her arm. "LET GO OF ME!" T'Pol shrieks, and yanks her arm out of his grasp. "I SAID LET GO!" Trip wonders what the hell is wrong with her. As does the entire viewing public, but put it down to just another hysterical Star Trek female. It seems to be par for the course. Reed comms T'Pol and tells her the Xindi have found them.
Four Xindi ships approach.
Bridge. There are no responses to Enterprise's hails, and the Xindi charge weapons.Xindi prison. Temporarily freed, Quantum rubs his wrists like Chandler in that one episode of Friends. While Degra looks on, Quantum proposes to Mr. Man that they trust each other. Mr. Man's not so sure it's a good idea, especially after they captured Quantum in a Xindi ship loaded with explosives. But he was just holding them for a friend. AGAIN we REHASH that if the Xindi destroy Earth, they are sealing their own fate. Look, I've heard of excessive repetition in shows when it comes to establishing and reestablishing certain constants in the series, but the way they keep repeating themselves in this SINGLE EPISODE?! Dear LORD -- it's like the writers think we're all ADD'd five-year-olds in a room filled with shiny things. STOP! They argue over whether the button is proof of anything. Quantum wants to go before the Round Table.
Enterprise is attacked. Massively. The starboard nacelle is taken out. They're dead in the water. Comms on the ship are down. Stuff on the Bridge collapses. May-brie barely makes it to safety before the atrium thingy comes crashing down.
Xinditraz. Snake Eyes comes in and orders Degra and Mr. Man away at gunpoint. Snake Eyes then tells Quantum that his ship is under attack. "You agreed to hold off!" Degra shouts in protest. Snake Eyes brushes him away, saying he was tired of waiting. Degra orders him to call it off; Snake Eyes won't. Mr. Man says he's going to call the Round Table: "By the time you do, the Earth ship will be dust," Snake Eyes announces. Quantum just looks very, very depressed. And very, very alone.