Episode Report Card Keckler: B | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Yesterday's Enterprise
By Keckler | Season 1 | Episode 1 | Aired on 09.25.2001
Cpt. Quantum limps around his cabin in his Tick Underoos and makes an entry in the Enterprise "Starlog." Interesting that he doesn't call it his "Captain's Log." Also interesting that he still voice-records through the computer, which does not to have a voice of its own to answer back, just beeps. Wonder how Majel Barrett feels about that. Every few sentences, Cpt. Quantum dreamily tells the computer to "pause" so he can muse over T'Pol's recent actions and wonder aloud if it's because he saved her life on Rigel Ten. He turns to Porthos and says, "Have you ever known a Vulcan to return a favor?" Porthos just stares at him, his eyes begging the Captain to put some clothes on so the other space dogs won't make fun of him. Cpt. Quantum misreads the pup's look and says, "Naw, neither have I," and continues with his log. He tells his log that he's unsure whether he trusts T'Pol enough to ask her about the temporal cold war Sarin mentioned. The ship comes out of warp and Cpt. Quantum calls up to the bridge to see what's going on, and T'Pol tells him that if he's feeling better he should report to the bridge.
On the viewscreen, we see that the ship is in orbit around a yellowish-orangish planet. "It's a gas giant," T'Pol tells Cpt. Quantum as he enters. "Is it called 'Marlon Brando'?" Mathra giggles from the couch. He's all wound up -- I think it's time for me to put him to bed. T'Pol identifies the planet as "a class seven" and tells the captain that the Suliban vessel they were tracking dropped out of warp and went through the planet's outer radiation belt. "We've lost them," Cpt. Quantum states. "Yeees," T'Pol breathes. Cpt. Quantum orders the ship be moved in closer and asks Reed if he's picking up anything. Reed answers in the negative; the radiation erased the warp trail. "I'm only picking up fragments," he says. "You finished helping us?" Cpt. Quantum demands of T'Pol, who's just standing there. She begins to make some "modifications," which turn up as excellent viewscreen graphics of the Suliban's warp trail fragments, and asks Reed to "run a spectral analysis" of the fragments. Reed comes back with, "There's too much distortion -- the decay rates don't even match." T'Pol looks intrigued (but doesn't say "fascinating") and orders Reed, "Calculate the trajectory of each fragment." For some reason, Reed asks Cpt. Quantum for verification on that order. "You heard her," Cpt. Quantum says and requests of another crewmember, "Recalibrate the sensor array, narrow band, short- to mid-range." T'Pol follows up with more techno-babble orders. Reed complies. Suddenly, the warp fragments on the viewscreen converge into multiple trails. "Your instincts were right, those fragments weren't from one Suliban ship," Cpt. Quantum says stiltedly. Apparently the leg wound is making it difficult for him to deliver his lines. T'Pol nods and says that the fragments were from fourteen, "all within the last six hours -- I believe we have found what we're looking for." Cpt. Quantum asks Reed how the targeting sensors are. "Aligned and ready, sir," Reed reports. Cpt. Quantum pauses dramatically and tells him, "Bring the weapons online and polarize the hull plating. Lay in a sixty-degree vector -- we're going in!"
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