Episode Report Card Keckler: F | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Tempus fudges-it
By Keckler | Season 1 | Episode 11 | Aired on 11.27.2001
Mess Hall. The Great Flume, uh, flumes. The Heaven's Gaters are enthralled, but Presuming Prah looks around for Phlox, sad that he missed it. Oh, the anvilicious irony of Daniels dying while the Cycle of Renewal, er, cycles.
Engineering. Trip can't figure out Daniels's sensor systems. "These might represent Suliban bio-signs, but I wouldn't bet on it," Trip tells Quantum. Elsewhere on the ship, Silik pulls off a panel and squeedges into the interior of the ship. In Engineering, Trip detects The Monster in the Machine and alerts Quantum, "B-Deck, Service Junction 59. Somebody's trying to bypass the lock-out codes for Launch Bay Two." Quantum heads out and tells Trip to get Reed and a security team to that location. Trip stops him: "I've got something that might give you a leg-up."
B-Deck, Service Junction 59. Reed and two crewmen fiddle with things. Quantum jogs up, and Reed reports, "It looks like he slipped through here. We could remove these conduits, but it would take some time." Quantum looks down at the techno-brass knuckles Trip gave him and activates it. "Sir?" Reed asks. Quantum sticks his hand out and watches it pass right through the mass of metal tubes and conduits. He and Reed look at each other, and Quantum holds out his hand. Always ready, Reed hands over a pistol from his stash. Quantum passes through to the other side. As much as I adore Reed, Worf would have never allowed Picard to go head-to-head with the Suliban alone. Reed and the security team stand ready.
Quantum sneaks up on Silik, who tells him he should be careful not to start another anti-matter cascade. Quantum orders him to put "the device" on the ground, but Silik tells him it would really be in Quantum's best interests if he took it away with him. Quantum snaps, "You keep saying you're here to help us, but I can't stop wondering what kind of genetic enhancements you'll get for bringing back that little prize. Eyes in the back of your head? A pair of wings?" Now that's a picture -- a Suliban flapping around with feathers saying, "Silly little man, Red Bull gives you wings!" Silik tells him not to be so cynical as the ship rocks. They're both thrown to the ground, and there's the usual tussle, in the middle of which Silik drops his gadget. He looks around for it, and as Quantum pulls out his pistol, Silik slips up through a top hatch. Mathra told me that he and a bunch of mathematicians in Banff assembled in someone's hotel room to watch this episode. The general consensus was that Quantum should have reached into Silik's chest with his techno brass knuckles, pulled out his heart, and shown it to him so he could see how black it was. Provided that a Suliban's heart is in his chest, of course. Quantum may have had to rummage around a bit before he located it.
Bridge. Mayflower reports a shuttle-pod-sized Suliban ship approaching. T'Pol glares into space.