Episode Report Card Keckler: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Starfleet and Coffee, Maple Syrup and Damn
By Keckler | Season 2 | Episode 26 | Aired on 05.20.2003
Enterprise is docked in The Giant Hairclip Garage. Quantum enters Sick Bay and sees Phlox standing with a Vulcan. Phlox introduces him as "Dr. Fer'at," who needs to check him over for pyritic radiation exposure, since he was playing around the alien debris. "Why didn't Starfleet catch it?" Quantum snits. "Some of our equipment is still more advanced than yours," Fer'at Sade points out. Duh, Quantum. The Vulcan doctor invites Quantum to have a seat. Which Quantum does with difficulty. "Kinda hard to sit with a stick up your ass," byobkenobi observes as Ro coos her agreement. Fer'at Sade asks, "Have you experienced any dizziness or nausea?" Only when I watch this show -- does that count? Quantum says he feels fine. "Any numbness in your extremities?" Fer'at Sade prods. I always snigger over that one. Because I'm twelve. "I was told you think a piece of the wreckage came from the future," Fer'at Sade mentions casually. "I know -- Vulcans don't believe in time travel," Quantum says. "Some of us do," Fer'at Sade says, and then asks if the time traveler Quantum danced with naked under the full moon was humanoid. Phlox looks over at them, and Quantum asks how he knew about that. "I was briefed before coming here," Fer'at Sade says smoothly, and keeps scanning. Quantum says he seemed humanoid, but he couldn't see him very well. "Have you encountered people from the future before?" Fer'at Sade asks. What is this? Is he now going to ask if Quantum hears voices and thinks people are plotting against him? Quantum asks what any of this has to do with the radiation. Fer'at Sade just admits to curiosity. "It must be very difficult to have so many people question your story," Fer'at Sade comments. I think it was at this point that byobkenobi, Mr. byobkenobi, and I all joked about whether or not they have shrinks on Vulcan and how hard their jobs must be if everyone is suppressing emotions. On the other hand, byobkenobi pointed out how easy it could be: "You're having an emotion? Suppress it. That'll be forty bucks."
Fer'at Sade keeps after Quantum about how all this makes him feel and then says, "I can sense some anger when you talk about this." Okay, Deanna. "It's kind of strange a Vulcan would be so interested in my feelings," Quantum snaps. "Just curious," Fer'at Sade assures him, and then continues to pry at Quantum. Phlox storms over from his console and says angrily, "I'm afraid this examination is over." Quantum looks back at his doctor in surprise. "I'm nearly finished," Fer'at Sade says. "You are finished," Phlox orders him. "I just checked the Vulcan database. There's only one Dr. Fer'at listed and he's not a pathologist -- he's a psychiatric analyst!" Quantum starts to say something about Soval wanting proof that he's crazy, but Phlox ignores his captain and says to Fer'at Sade, "You come to my Sick Bay under false pretenses? Where are your medical ethics?!" I love Phurious Phlox! Fer'at Sade says he was just following orders, and Quantum tells him he'd like him the hell off his ship: "If you don't mind, Phlox, I'd like you to escort our 'guest' to the airlock." "Gladly," Phlox bites out, as Fer'at Sade wonders to himself if Phlox will even wait for a ship to dock before he does his escorting. Phlox and I just celebrated our two-week anniversary. We had pound cake.