Episode Report Card Keckler: B | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT In Sonar, No One Can Hear You. Period.
By Keckler | Season 3 | Episode 22 | Aired on 05.11.2004
Enterprise Sickbay. Degra looks at digital images of Impetigo and thinks they will do nicely. Phlox says he'll have "it" sent over immediately: "I've never heard of this procedure before." "It was developed by the Aquatics -- they have an innate distrust of the spoken word, they respond more strongly to visual stimuli," Degra explains. It sounds like a fancy way of saying they have ADD. ["Or that they like porn." -- Sars] Trip walks in and asks what Phlox wanted. Phlox wants him to make some modifications to the ship that carried Impetigo. "Lucky me," Trip snarks at Degra, who is supposed to help with the modifications. "Your captain thinks there's no one better to make with these modifications -- I agree," Degra says as they leave Sickbay. Trip tells him to stop trying to get on his good side. Degra says that he understands that they will always be enemies. "Yew got that righ'," Trip states. Degra grabs Trip's arm and spins him around. He tells him he can't change what happened to his sister or any of the seven million, but he's risking his life and the life of his family, and has even killed members of his own species to save Earth and Xindikind. "This way," Trip says, reacting with no emotion to this impassioned speech.
Sphere. T'Pol, Reed, and Uh-Oh Dead Stripe approach the memory core. May-Blustery-Day monitors stuff from inside the sh'pod. As usual. As Reed says, "It's practically gift-wrapped," something from above deploys and starts to descend. There's a red glowing light in the middle of it, so you know it can't be good. May-Blustery-Day detects movement. He can't tell them where it is, but he can tell them it's close. "I suggest we work fast," Reed brilliantly deduces.
Quantum's Ready Room. Degra comes into report that they've finished their work, and that Trip was "extremely cooperative." He knows it isn't easy for Trip to work with him. As Degra makes to leave, Quantum stops him to say that when he saw the future, he saw a situation where little human boys and little human girls will be able to join hands with the little Xindi boys and the little Xindi girls and walk together as sisters and brothers: "That's a future worth fighting for."
Back at the Xindi Round Table Chambers, Hoshi and Quantum walk together. "Passing notes," Quantum tells Hoshi, who is confused. "I got sent to the principal's office for passing a note in class. It was to Katie Bentley -- I was inviting her to a party a friend of mine was throwing." At that age, where going to the principal's office is an actual punishment, did we really "throw" parties? More than likely, his parents allowed him to have friends over and gave them pop. Hoshi asks what Katie Bentley said. "Funny thing, she had already turned me down, but after I got in trouble..." Quantum says. "Some women can't resist the bad boys," Hoshi smiles as they walk in. Hold on, I don't get the timeline of this note thing. According to Crabby Von Furrowface, the little strumpet had "already" turned him down before the episode of the note. So, either she turned him down by passing his note back with the box checked "No, I don't want to go to Al's party," and THEN Quantum got in trouble for passing notes -- which is sort of unfair, since she would have been the last to pass the note -- and then she subsequently changed her mind after he went to the principal's office; OR she had turned him down earlier in the day, and he was just being annoyingly persistent by asking her AGAIN by passing the illegal note. That would mean Quantum got hauled down to the principal's office before she could say no again, so she ended up saying yes? Man, it's getting chilly in here, I better zip up my straightjacket.