Episode Report Card Keckler: A | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Quantum Leap of Faith of the Heart
By Keckler | Season 1 | Episode 26 | Aired on 05.21.2002
Engineering. Quantum checks on Trip's progress, and Trip says, "I feel like a chef who's just made a meal with ingredients he's never tasted." Quantum asks if he followed the instructions, and Trip confirms that he did. T'Pol comms Quantum that they're approaching the colony, and Quantum tells her to instruct Maywonderbra to locate a "binary system two-point-five light years away and set a course." T'Pol comms out, and Quantum tells Trip to mount the beacons on the grappler arms.
Enterprise cruises toward two lights -- one brighter than the other -- with a lit swirly thing around them. Quantum instructs Maywonderbra to "head for the smaller star, then the inner moon of the second planet." Archer confirms with Reed that he's plotted all the target points, and tells him to stand by. Enterprise approaches a planet. Quantum tells Trip and T'Pol that he'll meet them in the launch bay, and tells Maywonderbra to lower the beacons. The beacons are lowered. Quantum plays with some mini-viewer on the armrest of his chair and tells Hoshi to bring up specified coordinates with full magnification. A rocky mountain appears on the viewscreen, and Quantum gives the order for Maywonderbra to activate the beacons. Suddenly, the rocky crag appears to have some sort of greenish wavering ship hovering over it. Hoshi looks interested, and Maywonderbra contracts the muscles in his forehead -- a baby furrow, if you will. "Right where they're supposed to be," Quantum mutters. "Aren't we in range of their sensors, sir?" Hoshi asks. "They can see us. But they have no idea we can see through their cloak. Just keep on the same course, Travis," Quantum says. Still, wouldn't the cloaked ship be wondering what Enterprise was doing fifteen trillion miles away from the colony at this specific location? Wouldn't they start to fear that they had been discovered, and that maybe their cloak is failing? Quantum comms Reed, who tells him, "The closer the better, sir." There's a buzz at Hoshi's console, and she reports, "They're charging weapons, sir!" "Now, Mr. Reed!" Quantum orders. Reed fires a bunch of phase cannons at all four corners of the now-decloaked ship. A weapons officer reports to Reed that the mysterious ship's cloaking generator is down, and in response, Reed confirms that all four weapons banks are likewise smushed. Weapons Officer tags back that the port and starboard engines are disabled. "Okay, here's the tricky part," Reed says, as a torpedo speeds out of Enterprise and curves under the de-cloaked ship to explode on its hull.