Episode Report Card Keckler: B | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Blue Swayed Crews
By Keckler | Season 3 | Episode 13 | Aired on 01.20.2004
Reed briefs Quantum on repairs to the weapons and bitches about how long they will take. Quantum tells him that Shran McCain offered to send his tactical officer over to help out. "We'll be giving them access to critical systems," Reed comments. Quantum gets all frustrated -- with the situation, I assume, though he appears to take it out on Reed -- and says that they need to follow the yellow brick kemosabe signal; for that, they need all their defense systems to be operational. Reed looks at the floor. "I don't like the idea of having the Andorians down here any more than you do, but we could use their help," Quantum sort of pleads. Look, although he's kind of being a prick here, it's to Quantum's credit that he doesn't just order Reed to comply without trying to reason with him first. Quantum's definitely done that in past episodes and it really honked me off, so I'm going to give him props here for actually respecting his security chief. Reed bites a raspberry-banana coated lip and then ayes him. Quantum claps him on the arm and leaves. At least he didn't Mother Grab him. Reed looks around and makes annoyed faces. Hee -- nice one for Keating.
Quantum walks through blowtorch sparks in the corridors and is joined by T'Pol, who reports that the Andorian shuttle docked. T'Pol wants a security detail assigned to each Andorian. "You been talking to Lieutenant Reed?" Quantum asks. T'Pol just stares at him, not really comprehending what he's on about. Email bcc'd to Quantum: Vulcans haven't liked or trusted the Andorians since before you were fertilized -- Reed's got nothing to do with it. Quantum repeats his spiel that the Andorians are there to help, but T'Pol still thinks cautionary measures are in order. "I'm not going to make them work with guns at their heads just because you don't like them," Quantum tells her. T'Pol tells him that she neither likes nor dislikes the Andorians; she just has a lot of experience with them. "I appreciate that, but whatever problems exist between Vulcan and Andoria don't involve us," says Quantum. T'Pol quickly mentions that relations between the two races weren't always so antagonistic: "In fact, despite their heightened emotions, our first contact with Andorians seemed most promising." Quantum asks what happened, and T'Pol tells him that they were duplicitous and only honored stuff that didn't get in the way of what they wanted. I wonder if their duplicitous nature is going to come into play later? Oh, wait, I already know it will because of the DAMN PREVIEWS! Quantum ends the conversation by saying that his experience has taught him that he can trust Shran McCain.