Episode Report Card Keckler: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT The Importance of Being Earnest Borgnine
By Keckler | Season 2 | Episode 23 | Aired on 05.06.2003
Enterprise continues to lose hull plating.
Borg ship. Without comment, Quantum and Reed examine the Borg in their regeneration closets. Now all we need is for a Borg to walk calmly by them and not molest them and the cycle will be complete. Second time watching this, Reed looks really comical in this scene. As Quantum scans stuff, he's got his weapon out and is sometimes walking in a half-crouch. Two Borg advance on them from behind. Quantum and Reed easily take them out. Upon closer examination, Quantum discovers that one of them was one of the Arctic Circle scientists. "'Was'?" Reed wonders. Quantum shows him the scans he just took and points out that the bio-signs are no longer human. I guess this means Quantum finally got it into his thick head that this isn't a search-and-rescue effort anymore. A flock of Borg come at them, and Quantum and Reed back away quickly.
Enterprise. Hoshi announces that six bio-signs have come aboard. T'Pol orders a security alert and asks Trip how much longer he's going to take. Trip thinks he's nearly there.
Borg ship. Quantum and Reed fire at the flock of Borg, knocking two of them down. Shouldn't they have modified their shields after they took out the first two? This is just insanely easy for the humans. Quantum scans the downed bodies, and again determines that they were once human but have since shuffled off that coil for a techno one.
Enterprise. A security team uses their newly modified weapons on the six Borg and take down two of them. Again, what is with the Borg not modifying their shielding?! This is absolutely ridiculous. The security team tries to fire at the remaining four Borg, and FINALLY the Borg's shielding has adapted to ward off their weapons. The security team retreats. The Borg follow.
Borg ship. A Borg grabs Reed from behind and holds him up against a wall by his neck. Quantum aims his pistol at the offending Borg, but the Borg ignores him. Quantum sheathes his weapon and tries hitting him instead. The Borg still doesn't react, so Quantum pulls a tube from his head and wrestles him away from Reed. In the most hysterical shot of the night, Reed launches himself at the Borg's middle and tackles him and Quantum to the ground. What was so hysterical about that? The angle in which Reed attacks from. He flies through the air, almost perfectly horizontal to the floor, and I just can't think of any way someone could do that without the help of an off-camera springboard. I rewound it many times and even paused the tape when Reed was in mid-air. You have to give me my small amusements. Something that Quantum and Reed do -- which naturally is not explained -- sends the Borg into paroxysms of static electricity, and he shorts out. Quantum and Reed finally find the EPS manifold, fighting a few more Borg as they come out of their closets (again having not adapted to their phaser fire, regardless of the fact that now six of the collective have been taken down by the exact same phaser frequency), and put some doodads on the EPS manifold.
Enterprise. May-XX announces that they've lost hull-plating, and Hoshi adds that the Borg are cutting into the hull. T'Pol wants that section evacuated.