Episode Report Card Keckler: A | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Breaking the Furrow
By Keckler | Season 3 | Episode 24 | Aired on 05.25.2004
Dorothy and St. Spheridian screw with things. Trip freaks about their power failing by ten percent. May-Rainy-Day-Woman-#35 reports explosions on E Deck, but T'Pol can't get any news from Engineering. Trip shouts that he's losing the beam. Phlox announces that the Golden Girls are on the ship to play shuffleboard. May-Rainy-Day-Woman-#35 wonders how that's possible. Phlox figures that the area around Sphere 41 has been altered enough to sustain them, and that they got a group fare through Elder Travel.
Dolum's ship. Snakeling announces the approach of Degra's ship and reads off the manifest. Weird thing here -- Snakeling says that there are seven humans aboard Degra's ship. By our last count there was Quantum, Reed, Hoshi, and the three Uh-Ohs Reed selected for duty. That's six, right? So, who's the extra? Is Daniels a stowaway? Do his bio-signs even show up in scans? Is it important? Are the writers just really, really tired? Am I just really, really tired? "Have their weapons been upgraded?" Dolum asks. Snakeling answers in the negative. "Pa-thetic," Dolum sneers, and orders an intercept course. Dolum's an awesome baddie. Especially if he really did eat his grandson.
Degra's ship. Three-Toed announces that Dolum's ship is arming their torpedoes. Reed gains the bridge and tells Quantum Hoshi's doing okay; she and the Uh-Ohs are waiting at the transporter. "Remember, no heroics," Quantum tells the Good Xindi. "Just get us in and keep them off your ass." It's been quite a few seasons since we had the pleasure of Quantum saying "ass" like that. I mean, I know I call him that all the time, but there's something about Bakula's delivery that's quite singular. He's got a singular "ass." There's a beep-beep, and Three-Toed announces another ship approaching at high warp: "They're asking for you." Quantum turns around. "You're not using your head, Pinkskin," Shran says from the viewscreen. This is where I screamed, "YES!!" and starting pounding on the Evil Dr. Mathra's leg in excitement, because I was fortunate enough NOT to see his name in the opening credits and was therefore awesomely surprised. For his part, the Evil Dr. Mathra screamed, "SHRAN MCCAIN TO THE RESCUE JUST LIKE IF KERRY WAS SMART ENOUGH TO CHOOSE HIM AS A RUNNING MATE!" Shran McCain tells him his ship is no match for the Snake Eyes. "I'm busy, Shran, what are you doing here?" Quantum grouses gracelessly. Shran McCain says he anticipated that they would need some help.
Enterprise continues to fire at Sphere 41, and the Golden Girls continue to wreak havoc on Enterprise. Uh-Oh Kelly comms T'Pol that their weapons are ineffectual against the rampaging AARP members. Trip says, "Yew gotta stop this -- if I don't get full power back, this is going to take three, four minutes longer than I thought." Phlox reminds us it can't take that much longer, and orders Uh-Oh Kelly to modulate their weapons to a rotating frequency. Isn't that how they battled the Borg? T'Pol gets up and says, "Doctor," warningly. Shut up and let him talk, CRACK WHORE. Phlox confides that he had a lot of time to study Impetigo's physiology: "Let's hope my memory serves me well."