Episode Report Card Keckler: C- | 1097 USERS: B YOU GRADE IT It's So Hard to Say Goodbye to YesterTrek
By Keckler | Season 4 | Episode 22 | Aired on 2005.05.13
In Trip's room, T'Pol packs. She looks at a picture of Trip scuba diving (the hobby we ONLY learned about in this episode) and puts it down. She picks up a folded uniform and puts it to her face, inhaling deeply. Aw. Quantum walks in to ruin the moment. He asks if she needs any help packing. She doesn't. T'Pol asks if Trip's parents are still coming to the ceremony. "I told them I didn't think Trip would have wanted it any other way," Quantum says. Of course you did. Trip is dead, and the most important thing is NOT to grieve, oh no, the most important thing is for his parents to come and hear you speechi-furrow-fy. Shut up.
Do you want to know what pisses me off the most about this episode? We never got a chance to grieve for Trip. Spock had all of that with the peeling face, the "hu-uman" speech, AND Scottie blowing out "Amazing Grace." Tasha got stuff. Even Mozzarella Trip got his props. But in this finale? We just segue right into this scene and then to the speech scene of seat squabbling. We can't really cry because we're hopeful about a change in Quantum's Furrowsphere and don't want to miss any potentially nice dialogue. Then, we sit through this scene, not getting any sort of sympathetic payback, and the moment passes. No grieving for Commander Tucker. Fuckers.