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
Danik's cell. Quantum and Danik plot, while Mayweather and Sajen look on. Sajen keeps on with the complaints about it not working, getting caught, being executed, etc. Danik expresses a few concerns as well, but Quantum assures them both that he knows what he's doing. He is, after all, a starship captain. Sajen asks where they're supposed to go even if they do get away. Danik warms to the idea, saying they can fly off to the Niburon colonies because he's got contacts there who might be able to help them. Sajen keeps complaining until Mayweather finally asks him if he'd rather spend the rest of his life in prison. Sajen doesn't answer him but suggests to Danik that the humans could be working for AlGrat and trying to trap them. Quantum says they're not working for the Tandori Chickens. The Onion Bhaji, however, is another matter. Sajen urges Danik to think of his daughter and the risk he's putting her in the way of. Danik thinks for a moment and says, "We're getting out of here, Sajen." Sajen says he's not going to be party to planning their "suicide," and storms away. "I hope the others were more enthusiastic," Quantum comments. Danik nods and refers them back to his map of the detention complex, pointing out a wall that's only forty meters away from the docking bay.
AlGrat's office. More questions. Quantum refuses to budge his vocal chords, but AlGrat tells him they detected energy readings coming from his cell the night before. Quantum suggests their sensors have issues. "I'm told they're working perfectly," AlGrat says and pushes that dratted button. The guards wrestle in Mayweather, who feels the need to apologize to Quantum for some reason. His face is all battered, bruised, and a bit bloody. AlGrat holds up the communicator and tells him they found it in Mayweather's possession. "But he wouldn't say how it got there," AlGrat says. Quantum lurches forward to grab it, but Klev zaps him with his electric nightstick. Quantum turns to face Klev, who holds him at bay with the electric nightstick. You know, now that I get a good look at it, it looks like a really long curling iron. Quantum refuses to tell them anything and AlGrat orders them off to Isolation. Did anyone else notice the Mondrian carpet AlGrat has on his office floor? Weird.
Enterprise Situation Room. Over a topological map of the area, Trip and T'Pol plot their attack. T'Pol comms Phlox and asks how close he is to being done. Phlox says he's just about finished but he's not happy with "the nose." Uh, that's cute and all, but Phlox said the same thing about Hoshi in "Civilization." That's two jokes they've recycled this episode! T'Pol tells him they're ready to roll. There's some beeping and Hoshi says, "It's Captain Archer." T'Pol tells the captain to go ahead. "You seem to be off-course, I thought you were headed for Tandar Prime," AlGrat's voice says to them. "What brings you here?" T'Pol asks where Quantum is. AlGrat advises against them "circumventing [their] legal system" and if they come any closer, their patrol ships will fire at them.