Episode Report Card Keckler: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT A Sexperiment in Criticism
By Keckler | Season 3 | Episode 15 | Aired on 02.10.2004
Quantum continues building his log cabin in the sky by adding that May-Heavy-Weather did good with his adjustments, and they're on the road again to the Red Giant.
There's a "To Disturb Would Be Illogical" sign on T'Pol's door as she Nudges Trip. She's fairly demurely clad in a satiny grey robe and isn't even showing any cleavage. I just realized something -- Blalock has the largest wardrobe of anyone on this show! Two colors of satiny pajamas, this robe, her rainbow array of catsuits, her Away Mission belted overcoat, and that lavender shirt and grey pants she was wearing to Nudge Not'pol. As T'Pol does something to Trip's jaw line, he comments that she's not saying much. Does she ever really say much? When T'Pol still says nothing, Trip says, "Don't tell me you're not still upset about me and Amanda." "I'm not upset," T'Pol says, her voice quivering slightly. Trip doesn't believe her. T'Pol tells him he's mistaken. Trip doesn't get why a "few neuro-pressure sessions" between him and an Uh-Ho should be such "a big deal." T'Pol just sighs at him. "Unless you're a little jealous," Trip supposes. T'Pol tells him she doesn't experience jealousy, but Trip challenges this and tells her that her voice is tensing up: "It's a dead giveaway." "I didn't know you were an expert in vocal inflections," T'Pol says. "I don't need to be an expert to read you," Trip counters, and then orders her to admit that she's a little jealous. T'Pol states that Trip is implying she's attracted to him. Trip agrees that it goes with the territory. "I think you're mistaken about who's attracted to whom," T'Pol says, grammatically-correctly. Trip can't believe his ears, so T'Pol tells him that Sim told her he was attracted to her: "He said he had feelings for me." Trip gets all irritated: "He told you that?!" "Standing right here in this room," T'Pol says, looking toward a corner. Trip glares at the corner and demands to know what "the hell" Sim was doing in her room. "Your voice is tensing up," T'Pol tells him. "Oh, now you're the vocal expert?" Trip retorts. "I don't need to be an expert to read you," T'Pol parrots him. And it was here that I laughed thusly: "Ha, ha, ha!" The timing between Blalock and Trinneer was pretty damn good in this scene. Trip looks almost repulsed as he wonders if he's jealous of himself. "You're jealous?" T'Pol asks. "No!" Trip says, rolling his eyes. "Absolutely not." T'Pol looks away and breathes deeply. "Okay, maybe. A little," Trip admits. T'Pol looks him in the eye again. "Which would mean you're attracted to me," she says. Trip narrows his eyes. "It goes with the assumption," T'Pol re-parrots. "What just happened here?" Trip asks, his eyes still narrowed. "Did we -- are we --" T'Pol stops his mouth with a kiss. She then pulls away and disrobes. THAT'S why she wore a robe tonight -- easy access. Trip stares her up and down, and they make out some more.
Sickbay. Erysipelas asks what species Phlox and the others are. He seems to have a reaction when Phlox says that the humans are from Earth, but maybe that's just the leprosy. Erysipelas asks if he's going to die, and Phlox says he's doing everything he can. Erysipelas says he's very thankful. As Phlox goes to play with some readings, Impetigo jumps up and pulls his arm through Phlox's neck. HE DECAPITATED HIM! Except that his head's still on. Weird. Although, for an instant, there's this blue flash of light that really makes it look like Phlox's head may have been disengaged for a moment. Erysipelas looks with some surprise at his hand and starts running through walls. Because there's no good reason he should go through the corridors like any other escaped leprosy patient.