Episode Report Card Keckler: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Hoshi Crack Code and I Sorta Care
By Keckler | Season 3 | Episode 23 | Aired on 05.18.2004
Council Rock. Quantum blusters at Mr. Man and Three-Toed about the weapon, Earth, mass extinction, and the rising price of movie tickets. I'm serious -- nine-fifty is crazy talk! ["You only pay nine-fifty?" -- Sars loves New York and all, but damn] The two Xindi explain, AGAIN, that Dolum only has two launch codes between him and his creepy-crawly friends. Mr. Man says the Aquamen are determined not to take sides in the whole matter. If you ask me, the Aquamen sound like big, wet wimps. Quantum realizes (most belatedly, the dolt) that Dolum snatched Hoshi for her superior tongue-thrashing, and says that she'll never cooperate. "She may not have a choice," Mr. Man says.
Stella Cartography. Trip and T'Pol technobabble together as they try to figure out what info they gleaned from the spheres. "Wouldn't mind havin' Hoshi here ri'now," Trip says. T'Pol looks annoyed and says they will have to make do without her. "Mm'yeah, I jes' hope she's okay," Trip continues. T'Pol continues to look annoyed, and tells him they are there to analyze data and not speculate about Hoshi. You know, the way she played this scene made me think Blalock was going for jealousy that Trip was harping on Hoshi, not that she was having emotional reactions due to her CRACK WHOREAGE. Trip wonders if T'Pol's okay, and T'Pol explains that she's "fond" of Hoshi, but they can't let her abduction become a distraction. Quantum enters and blusters for awhile. The upshot is that they think a few of the spheres are integral, and they're going to go after Sphere 41. If they can damage one of these integral spheres, it could screw up the entire grid. Or it could not. They don't have enough information. And I had to sit through that scene just to find that out.
Snake ship. Nothing new seems to have happened over here. In fact, they're still somehow at the tail end of forcing Hoshi into the chair. "Cooperate and this won't be necessary," Dolum advises. A snakeling moves towards Hoshi's head with a gun thing. He didn't give her much of chance to cooperate. "Wait!" Dolum says, wanting the audience to know what's going to happen to her. "After the injection, the parasites invade your neocortex. Once they begin reconfiguring your synaptic pathways, you'll be much more compliant." Ah. But will she be IBM-compliant? That's the important question. "Before your primate brain is too badly damaged to understand, I want to thank you for helping us destroy your world," Dolum says, getting all up in her grill. Why do baddies always have to do that ironic "thank you" thing? Don't they know how tired and therefore not scary it is? Hoshi spits at Dolum, but I can't say I saw much fly out of her mouth. Maybe Park should've had more dairy that morning. Snakeling forces her head back and injects the gun into her temple. Hoshi screams, just like in the previews but with sound.