Episode Report Card Keckler: B | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Cap'n Don't Preach
By Keckler | Season 1 | Episode 5 | Aired on 10.16.2001
In the mess, Reed joins Trip as he stuffs his maw. "Didn't they feed you over there?" Reed asks. Trip tells him he should've come with. "I heard about the holographic recreation," Reed says. Trip tells him it wuzn't nuttin' like any visual display he's ever experienced: "You could smell the ocean, feel the salt air on your skin." Reed comments that if they had one of those on their ship, "I can only imagine what they'd be used for." Can you, Reed? Trip chuckles and says that he doesn't know how well they recreate people, but they do landscapes real well. Reed asks if Trip made any friends over there. "Ah'len, one of their engineers. She's the one who showed me the holographic chamber," Trip says. Reed asks if she's the one Trip thanked for taking care of him. "Yeah," Trip says, still not having learned not to talk with his mouth full. "Ah," Reed muses. "Interesting scales." Trip tells him they left a quantity of alpha hydroxy scrub over there, so that should clear it right up. "She did have a certain…sensuality to her," Trip tells him. "So," Reed says, changing the topic to something he's interested in, "did you get a look at their weapons?" Trip tells him he's not really sure they had any. Reed looks flabbergasted. Trip asks him if he's tried the scrambled eggs: "Taste just like the real thing today." Once and for all, will they let us know if they have a chef making real meals from real food or if they use a replicator? Why else would he make the comment about keeping it real that day? Trip winces and pulls up his shirtsleeve to examine his wrist. There's a pimple on it. Reed suggests he was allergic to something over there. "No, I cleared bio-scan," Trip tells him. Reed says he better let Phlox take a look at it. And then join La Leche.
In sickbay, Trip tells Phlox he didn't think he was allergic to anything. Maybe nothing on Earth, but I don't really think you can vouch for alien environments you've not previously experienced, Triptease. Phlox tells him he doesn't think it's an allergic reaction. "Tell me, did your visit to the Xyrillian ship involve any…romance?" Phlox asks. "What?" Trip asks. "Were you intimate with anyone?" Phlox tries again. Trip tells him, "Doc, I was over there to repair a warp reactor -- what are you talkin' about?" "Seems you did a little more than 'repair work,'" Phlox tells him, scanning him with his medical tricorder. "Meaning?" Trip asks. "This is a nipple," Phlox says, referring to the wrist pimple. "I beg your pardon?" Trip says. Still scanning, Phlox says, "Ah, ah! The blastocyst is located between the sixth and seventh intercostals." Because he didn't watch the previews or read all the articles leading up to the advent of this series, Trip still doesn't get it. "I'm not quite sure if congratulations are in order, Commander, but you're pregnant," Phlox tells him, scheduling him for a course of Lamaze.