Episode Report Card Keckler: A | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Crazy Like A Phlox
By Keckler | Season 2 | Episode 21 | Aired on 04.22.2003
On behalf of Phlox, Quantum fills Sick Bay with wounded. A particularly serious case is brought in on a pallet, and Phlox just stares down at him, not moving, until the medics prompt him. The Doc orders them to put the wounded in the imaging chamber, but stands quite a few feet back, dumbfounded, as they do it.
Jessica Simpson on The Twilight Zone? Yeah, that seems about right.
On the planet's surface, and in front of a lovely backsplash of Mt. "Painting" Rainier, the Treklunkers enter the caves with May-Sekiwake taking the lead and cautioning them to watch their steps. "The last cave I was in had handrails. And a gift shop. And a snack bar," Trip complains. And people taking pictures of you and making you buy them later. Yeah, well, this ain't exactly Busch Gardens, so try to quell the WT in yourself if you can possibly help it. They find themselves on the teeter-tottering edge of a very, very, very steep cliff. "Still willing to bet they came this way?" Reed asks, trying to be ironic. Which fails utterly when May-Sekiwake says, "Yes, sir," before whipping out all sorts of good rappelling shit and being all "I'm Batman!" which just totally faced his commanding officers. They bounce down.
Mathra: Cave set.
Keckler: Yeah, I let that one go this time.
Mathra: And that would be...why?
Keckler: Well, it looks different -- the light's blue.
Mathra: "THE LIGHT'S BLUE"? Oh, my god -- what's wrong with you?!
Sick Bay. The critical alien who freaked Phlox out could die if Phlox doesn't treat him. The critical alien comes to and -- without yet seeing Phlox -- asks Quantum what happened. Quantum explains. Critical Alien sees Phlox and freaks, ordering Quantum to keep Phlox away from him. Quantum is confused, and tries to explain that Critical Alien needs the Denobulan Doc's treatment. "I'd rather die than be treated by him," Critical Alien wigs. Phlox doesn't look surprised, just resigned.
I positively HATE that commercial for Vehix.com where the obviously very pregnant wife is telling her web-surfing husband what size car they need. He's all "Duh, why can't we get a Cooper Mini?" and she waves the sonogram under his nose. That's when he finally gets it and clicks on a mini-van or something. Why the hell did it take the sonogram to explain that adding a new person to the family would mean a need for more space? Did he just think his wife was retaining water? I just don't get how that is supposed to be "cute" or "clever" -- it's just stupid.