Episode Report Card Keckler: B | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Enterprise IV: The Trip for T'Pol
By Keckler | Season 4 | Episode 7 | Aired on 11.18.2004
Quantum walks into a storage bay where draped coffins lie row on row. He walks over to a particularly evil-looking one and caresses it. I'm half expecting one of them to pop open. Or at least for one of the bodies to sit up while still under its sheet. Soval comes in and tries to be nice, but Quantum is mean to him. Jackass. Soval comments that Forrest saved his life when he could have saved his own. Quantum paces, "He...always...put...the...mission...first!" Yeah, the evil mission. And we're back to talking like that again, are we? Jackass. Soval doesn't think the Syrrannites are responsible for the attack. "But we have DNA evidence!" Quantum insists, blindly following what he's fed and not having a creative bone in his body. "Recheck everything, Captain. Question everything. And don't let them keep you on Enterprise, the answers you need are on Vulcan, and however far you have to take this investigation, you have my full support." Even though Soval is totally smoking from T'Pol's CRACK PIPE, I think I sort of love him for that speech.
Speaking of CRACK WHORES, T'Pol fiddles with her candles in her room before she has a visitor. It's her [pause] Husband. Frank Lloyd Vulcan comes to touch fingers briefly -- much like we saw Sarek and Amanda do in "Journey to Babel" -- with his CRACK WHORE bride and tell her news of her mother. At one point he slightly caresses her neck with his two fingers, which makes both me and T'Pol cringe. Apparently, T'Ma hasn't been seen for weeks because she's been forced into hiding to avoid arrest. I think she hasn't been seen because she got so depressed after Trip left that she went on a drunken binge and is probably sleeping it off at Haz'ldon. Anyway, Frank Lloyd Vulcan also hands over a trinket from her mother. It's the IDIC on a pendant set with a red gemstone, which, sooner or later, is going to fall into a fire and end up melting some Nazi's hand. And -- can I get this out of the way now? -- "They're digging in the wrong place!" Whew, I feel much better. I don't know where I was going to shoehorn it and I just needed to get it in somewhere. Anyway, Frank Lloyd Vulcan reveals that T'Ma is a Syrrannite. Okay, so now that T'Ma's career is effectively totally ruined, can't T'Pol divorce Frank Lloyd Vulcan? They should at least be able to get an annulment since nothing beyond finger-touching has taken place, don't you think?
Hey, UPN? Yeah, I really despise these STUPID pre-verts you're forcing on us at commercial breaks. They ruin parts of the show, you fuckwads.