Episode Report Card Keckler: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT A Sexperiment in Criticism
By Keckler | Season 3 | Episode 15 | Aired on 02.10.2004
As Quantum stares out his WOTWW at all the cheese, T'Pol tells him the bullet pod's hull contains the exact combo of alloys found on the surface of the spheres. Quantum asks if she remembers how Digimon believed the spheres were created by divine beings that were supposedly reshaping the Expanse into a Paradise for their faithful. T'Pol thinks the zealots' beliefs might have some foundation in fact, and says it looks like Psoriasis was shot into the cheese with body monitors to let people back home know how he was doing. Quantum makes a canary-mine analogy.
Sickbay. Phlox tells Quantum that Psoriasis is literally disintegrating. "Yeah, well, his disintegration isn't as cool as that guy in X-Men," the Mad Dr. Mathra crabs. Regardless of the fact that Psoriasis is dying a painful death, Quantum orders Phlox to wake him up: "Until I get the answer I need, we're going to have to bend a few ethics." Can you really bend "a few" ethics? "I know I 'bend a few' mathematics every day -- especially as I grade this midterm," the Mad Dr. Mathra sneers. Maybe any time the captain gets into ethically muddy waters we can say he's going to Bend It Like Quantum. No? Okay.
Not'pol presents herself at T'Pol's front door with a supremely snotty look on her face. After T'Pol invites her in, Not'pol glances disdainfully around T'Pol's quarters and says she appreciates T'Pol "doing this." T'Pol's body is covered with more clothes than she's ever worn in all of her sessions with Trip. Although I have to say, I really like her shirt and kind of want one of my very own. Not'pol breathes, T'Pol Nudges. "Dr. Phlox did caution you against any further neuro-pressure from Commander Tucker?" T'Pol asks. "I got the lecture," Not'pol responds, with more curtness than is absolutely necessary. Once again we learn how Trip and Not'pol grew up near each other. Their high schools were rivals, and they even went to the same movie theatre. "Did you eat the same carrots?" the Mad Dr. Mathra asks. Not'pol was lucky not to lose any relatives in the attack, but she rubs it in how often Trip has talked to her about his sister's death. "You're quite fond of him," T'Pol comments. "Mm, what's not to like?" Not'pol says. "He's a gentleman, he's great to be around." "He gives me lots of lettuce," the Mad Dr. Mathra adds. Just as Not'pol finishes saying that Trip has very nice arms, she gasps. T'Pol apologizes for Nudging her so hard. Did you know that anvils don't tenderize no matter how long you marinate them?