Episode Report Card Keckler: C- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Ding Dong, Daniels is Dead!
By Keckler | Season 4 | Episode 1 | Aired on 10.07.2004
Enterprise Engineering. Trip is fixing stuff on the sh'pod and looks around to see Silik pointing a gun at him. He's barely surprised, and accuses Silik of all sorts of time-foolery. Silik denies all and sneers that Trip would never be able to grasp the situation. A bit goaded, Trip beats Silik up after the Suliban man tries to force him into the sh'pod. He gets Silik in a headlock, but Silik genetically oozes out of his grasp and shoots him. The Bridge crew notes the situation and T'Pol CRACK WHORES her eyes when she learns of the Suliban bio-sign on a stolen sh'pod leaving the ship. Enterprise fires, and the sh'pod seems to plummet to Earth.
As Alicia listens, Quantum and Krakko discuss the possibility of an inhuman Nazi. Finally, Krakko says "all right" to something and then hands over a paper packet to Alicia, explaining that it's hamburger and the Germans have cut the meat rations again. Because those of us who read or watch Nero Wolfe know that the mob can truly answer the question "Where's the beef?" in wartime, I buy that whole contraband ground-round crap. Krakko tells them to watch themselves, and leaves. Alicia explains their hardships at the hands of the Nazis. I tell you, it's The Pianist all over again. Just get off the Paramount backlot, throw in an inappropriate kiss, and this episode's got Oscar written all over it. Some Nazis hassle Quantum and Alicia (who hurriedly tossed the meat packet in a bin before the hausfraus saw it) and throw around all sorts of offensive comments. They even call Alicia a "bitch," which might actually be a first for this show. That is, if you ignore Trip's "sunuva bitch"s that pop out nearly every episode. And I do. Quantum and Alicia hurry away with the Nazis taunting after them about running around an African jungle together. After that comment Alicia says to Quantum, "Like I said, the neighborhood's gone downhill." Because, you know, she's got moxie.
Enterprise. T'Pol assumes Silik was the one Daniels said they had to stop. Reed locates some trace remnant energy patterns from the sh'pod crash site. Trip's confused as to why Silik pulled him out of the launchbay before he depressurized it instead of just leaving him to die. "Another item on our list of things to ponder," Reed snarks, eager to get underway and to stop all this thinking stuff.
Alicia and Quantum skulk with Krakko and Oxmyx down some steps off the street. Oxmyx reminds everyone that curfew starts in an hour, and gunshots ring out to remind us how the Nazis are SO evil they don't even abide by their own rules before they start killing people. Krakko and Oxmyx jaw a bit about how they used to rule the streets and can't get used to all this hiding they now have to do. This, of course, prompts Alicia to expose them as the mobsters they really are. We're forty minutes into this episode and they're actually taking the time to make sure we know exactly what Vic, Sal, and Carmine do? Man, every time I watch this show I lose I.Q. points.