Episode Report Card Keckler: B | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT In Sonar, No One Can Hear You. Period.
By Keckler | Season 3 | Episode 22 | Aired on 05.11.2004
I'm smellin' where my gas will take meI've got litmus to believe
I can pollute anything
I've got stench of the soul
No one's going to bend or break wind
I can kill any star
I've got a case
I've got a case
A case of the farts.
Sickbay. Phlox finds no traces of Trellium-D in the CRACK WHORE's system. T'Pol is still having problems controlling her emotions, and meditation isn't getting the job done. Just as she says this, Trip walks in and is immediately concerned about her, "You okay?" he asks. "Just a mild headache," T'Pol says, and leaves. "Wull, I thought Vulcans didn't get headaches," Trip tries to argue. Trip, where did you get that idea? I can't believe I just went searching for all mentions of T'Pol having a headache in my recaps, but it's SUCH a pointlessly STUPID thing for Trip to say. So, just...shut UP, TRIP! T'Pol ignores him and says she has to get back to work. Trip asks Phlox if he's noticed anything strange about T'Pol, but Phlox brushes his concern off and treats his pulled muscle. There's pointless exposition here about getting to the Xindi of the Round Table, and each actor manages to work in that they have "faith" of the Quantum. When Phlox goes so far as to call Degra "reasonable," Trip manages to remind us how he REALLY feels about Degra killing his sister and seven million others in his hometown.
Degra, Quantum, and T'Pol examine the spheres in Stella Cartography. Quantum is sending a sh'pod crew into the sphere, and T'Pol wants all the information the Xindi have collected over the years about the spheres, so they can hack into a sphere and learn some more stuff about the Golden Girls Sphere Knitters. I'm not sure what important or damning information the Golden Girls would leave around in the spheres just waiting to be found, but...okay.
Armory. Reed handpicks a Red Stripe Uh-Oh to join him on the sphere sh'pod mission. Don't do it, buddy -- no one really knows who you are, and even though I'm not a palm-reader, I'd say that you have a REAL short lifeline. Reed confirms that all of Dead Stripe's EV hours also include EV combat. "Yessir!" Dead Stripe confirms. "Are we expecting a firefight?" "Don't know what to expect," Reed admits. Except that you're gonna die, of course. I hate that three-sixty spinning camerawork they're doing here -- they do it all the time on ER and Angel -- and it always makes me reach for my Dramamine.