Episode Report Card Keckler: F | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Moroners
By Keckler | Season 2 | Episode 6 | Aired on 10.29.2002
Enterprise. Phlox gives Nurse Halfaway supplies and talks to her about something that looks like a hybridized starfish-leech. He presses her to take the thing with her to heal arterial injuries among her people. Nurse Hathaway thanks him, but says all they need is the vascular adhesive. Phlox suggests she take an auto-suture instead, but Halfaway seems scared of it. Phlox insists, and Halfaway relents. Phlox lists the medical supplies she's packing away: "Cardio-stimulator, neural shock kit -- I'd no idea processing deuterium was such a dangerous business." "It can be," Halfaway noncommits. If I were Deanna, I'd say, "I sense they're hiding something." Mathra mutters he'd have "sensed" something too if the Anvil of Subterfuge weren't blocking his sensory perceptors. Phlox picks up a Tyvek package of something and says he only knew that particular compound to be used in the treatment of plasma burns. You know, the kind you can get from bullies with plasma weapons. Halfaway snips that deuterium can burn as severely as plasma when it's lit. "I hope you won't need it," Phlox twitters. Halfaway stares at him. "Is there something wrong?" Phlox asks. Didn't you get that from her stare of There Is Something Wrong But I'm Not Supposed To Tell You What It Is Won't You Please Help Us Anyway? Halfaway tells him there's nothing wrong, picks up her supplies, and says she should get back to Dune before Sting gets irritated.
Quantum tells T'Pol he thinks there's something wrong with the Dust Mite Colony because of the state of disrepair their Bowl seems to be in. I think there's something wrong because the Leader of the Dust Mites has a Cardassian neck and I don't feel inclined to trust him. He reminds me of Remmick in "Conspiracy." "We seek [neck-throb with flattened craw-daddies] PEACEFUL COEXISTENCE!" What a great dropped storyline that was. "Deuterium is a highly valuable commodity, you'd think they'd be better off," Quantum tells her. The camera is up on a crane, so I can't tell for sure, but I'm fairly certain he's furrowing. T'Pol reminds him that they're there to trade, not make fun of their Un-Yipped shantytown, but Quantum wonders why equipment, vital to their trade, needs fixing.
Enterprise. May-plot reports a vessel approaching the planet. He reads twelve Klingon bio-signs. Hoshi looks concerned, but Reed just looks bored. He's not interested in anything that doesn't show signs of being Federation Express delivering his new Stila fall lip palette from Gloss.com.