Episode Report Card Keckler: B+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Flight Of The Simulator
By Keckler | Season 3 | Episode 14 | Aired on 02.03.2004
In Stella Cartography, Hoshi gasps, "There's something in his hand!" T'Pol stalks over for a closer look, and tells Hoshi to magnify. We can see it's the bread knife Quantum used to slash Degra's bloodworm-abscessed wrist. T'Pol sub-dermally warns Quantum.
Simulator. Degra keeps insisting that Quantum justify his love by telling him the names of Degra-spawn.
Stella Cartography. Hoshi dashes to her workstation as T'Pol says, "We're coming in." On the monitor, Quantum holds up a hand to the screen and responds to both T'Pol and Degra by saying, "This...isn't...necessary." "Piral and Jayna!" Hoshi announces. In the simulator, Quantum snorts a bit before repeating the names. "Which one is older?" Degra demands. That's not information Hoshi has, so Quantum tries to bluff. It doesn't work. Degra attacks him, and just like when Meg Ryan has her fear-of-flying breakdown, the simulator doors open. May-did-you-ever-Nolan-Chen-my-hero, Trip, and a few Uh-Ohs board from three sides and find Quantum sitting on top of Degra, the knife to the Mr. Man's throat. They like it rough. Trip and some Uh-Ohs pick Degra up, who spits at Quantum, "You'll never find the weapon!" Quantum orders him to the brig. After they escort Degra away, Trip looks back at the dreadlocked Quantum, who breathes as hard as his hair is going to be to brush.
So what do you do when cuisine hands you a lemon? Make lemonade. Alcoholic lemonade. Trying to stave off my feelings of culinary inadequacy and the resulting pain from a larynx I pulled yelling at one of the stupidest shows on the Food Network, I took my leftover Meyer Lemons and Palestine-Jerusalem Limes and made two different martinis: A Meyer Lemontini and Palestine Limetini. They ended up being the most delicious part of the entire meal. And they kept me from throwing an entire steamed artichoke painted in truffle oil at Lisa Loeb.
Brig. Degra throws insults when Quantum pays him a conjugal visit. Degra says he had his suspicions about the whole ruse since the very beginning, but that it was the comm saying people were safe on Azati Prime that really got his nose a-twichin'. When Quantum tells Degra that they know his ship has been there very recently, Degra Dungeness crabs that there's a Bug House deuterium facility there, and that it would be the last place his people would go to hide. Quantum states that, in the simulator, Degra gave them the coordinates of a Red Giant. "I gave you what you thought you wanted," Degra says, pointing at Quantum through the glass. It's not polite to point. Quantum says he'll just have to wipe Degra's mind again, and start with a blank slate in the simulator. Degra doubts there's time for that. Quantum doesn't think Degra figured it out until after the malfunction, and bets the coordinates are real. Degra invites him to proceed there at max warp. Quantum considers his R.S.V.P.