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
Uh-Oh Hayes has everyone play target practice with some "feel the force, Luke" holographic balls. He calls Reed up first. My hopes that Reed's aim has improved are not met, and he embarrasses himself as he's easily beaten and subsequently showed up by Hayes. Reed smolders with impotent anger and unrequited hunger for a big, steaming plate of Corned Beef Slash.
At dinner, Reed shows a decided lack of appetite -- which proves he's in love, I guess -- as he pushes his food around his plate. Trip joins him and listens to him bitch about Hayes. To change the subject, Reed brings up Trip and his Uh-Ho. Trip says they're friends, and wonders if everyone on the ship is watching them. "You're pretty hard to miss," Reed smirks. "That's what T'Pol said," Trip responds with surprise. "Is it true she's giving Amanda neuro-pressure now? I heard it was damage control from your tender touch," Reed smirks. Again. Trip gets annoyed and brushes off the implications. Reed puts on a faux-interested expression and wonders why Trip was giving Not'pol Nudges in the first place. "What's it to you?" Trip demands. "Well, from what I'm told, it's a pretty intimate procedure. For just friends," Reed answers. Trip says he does it with T'Pol, and asks if Reed's implying that they're more than friends as well. Reed looks off over Trip's shoulder, forks up some mashed potatoes, and says, "That's the rumor." Trip tells him "for the last time" that there's nothing going on between any of them. "Right. You're all 'just friends,'" Reed parrots. Trip emphatically agrees. "Huh, I guess this Vulcan neuro-pressure isn't that intimate after all," Reed says, leading him down the garden path of slash. "Exactly," Trip says. "In that case," Reed says, grabbing at his side, "I've got a nasty little pain --" "Jest drop it," Trip orders him. Reed continues to smirk. He does that well.
Sickbay. Quantum interrogates Impetigo and withholds his pain medication until he gets answers. Impetigo says he was sent against his will and that he's from a trans-dimensional world. So, does that make him a tranny? And if Quantum chases his people, does that make Quantum a tranny chaser? Impetigo doesn't know why he was sent there. He says he was imprisoned for his transgressions and spent most of his adult life in a cell. "Do you think one of his transgressions was putting a leprosy hex on people, and it backfired?" the Mad Dr. Mathra asks. Impetigo says his guards offered him freedom if he offered his skin up to science, and that's all he remembers until he woke up in Sickbay. He insists that his people wouldn't have deserted him in the bullet pod, and demands to be taken back. Quantum tells him it's not possible to take him back. "If you don't, I'll die! Please!" Impetigo pleads, and puts his hand on Quantum's arm. Impetigo's hand starts to disappear and then reappear. "What's happening to me?! What's happening to me?!" Impetigo squalls.