Episode Report Card Keckler: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT You Can Call Me Al
By Keckler | Season 1 | Episode 21 | Aired on 04.29.2002
"Hoshi?" Reed asks. Hoshi reports that she couldn't trace the signal because of scrambled carrier waves. Trip tells her to "keep at it." T'Pol asks him what he's suggesting they do, "Mount a rescue?" Trip says the "thought crossed [his] mind." T'Pol, the voice of reason, tells him it would be folly to aggravate the Tandorian Chickens any further. Trip wants to know if she thinks sitting on their hands would be less folly. "The hearing's in three days," T'Pol reminds him. "And what if they're found guilty -- sentenced to thirty years in prison?" Trip demands. T'Pol tells him that's "unlikely" and tells him that exploring alien cultures means giving a modicum of respect to their rules and regulations. Like the TNG episode where the Naked Nubile Colony wants to execute Wesley for walking on their grass. They definitely should've respected that law. "If Captain Archer were here, I'm sure he'd agree," T'Pol says. I'm not. Trip looks resentful. "If you'd like, I'll contact the Vulcan High Command. They might be willing to send an arbitrator," T'Pol suggest. "A Vulkin lawyer?!" Trip blusters, "He'd be better off gittin' the electric chair." "'Electric chair'?" T'Pol asks. "Never mind," Trip mutters. "Just because he looks and sounds like George W. Bush, doesn't mean he's obliged to talk about executions!" Mathra shouts from the kitchen, his mouth full of something. T'Pol tells the stand-in ensign to set a course for Tandar Prime. I think T'Pol knows full well what an electric chair is, she just wanted to make Trip explain it, thus rendering his comeback trite and pointless. Very much like his role. Nice one, T'Pol. You may make it on the cover of Scientific American yet.
Tandorian Chicken Cell Bloc. You know, by the light of day, the place looks very much like Nimbus Three in Star Travesty V: The Undiscovered Country. It's completely surrounded by a desert wasteland. Inside, Suliban progeny paint on a cinder-block wall. Quantum pulls an I Don't Really Get Modern Art Furrow before turning to Mayweather, who seems to be eyeing the kids' cup of water. Control yourself, Mayweather, it's used for cleaning their paintbrushes! Quantum spots some Suliban playing a sort of chess game and jerks his head at them, indicating he wants to angle his Captainly Stride in that direction. The two humans tower over the sitting Suliban. Two of them get wigged out by the vulture-like towering and take off, leaving one Suliban. "I hope isolation wasn't too rough," Quantum says. Ah, this is Danik. "It gets a very cold in there at night. Sometimes I wish I was genetically enhanced," Danik says, fixing Quantum in his gaze. I've been trying all night to place this actor's voice and I've come to the conclusion that it's Joey's "Hey, Timmy, I've got a surprise for you" hernia voice.