Episode Report Card Keckler: A | 1 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT A Slave's Narrative
By Keckler | Season 2 | Episode 22 | Aired on 04.29.2003
Quantum's Quarters. Quantum packs up for a three-day Getting Trip's Authority Figure Out Of The Way So He Can Butt Heads With A Vulcan Whose Judgment He Doesn't Entirely Respect When He Decides to Interfere with Another Culture tour into the hypergiant with Capt. Vissian. Quantum juices over all the stuff he's going to scan. T'Pol thinks three days is a bit of a journey to take in such a small craft with someone he doesn't really know. Quantum's not worried in the least, and drops the Casa-blah-ca anvil: "This could be the beginning of a beautiful relationship." Shut up, Quantum. You're not worthy to quote Bogart, especially if you can't even get the damn words right. Misquoting a movie from two hundred years ago reminds Quantum that the Vissians would like to borrow some DVDs. "I put together a few suggestions," Quantum says, handing over an e-pad. T'Pol says she'll see to it. "You're in charge," Quantum says, hefting a bag and happy-trailing out. "Of the ship or the movies?" T'Pol wonders. That was a really weird line.
Engineering. T'Pol passes the movie downloading buck to Trip who asks if she met their engineer. T'Pol met him. "He and his wife are trying to have a baby," Trip comments. "How interesting," T'Pol says, sounding exactly like me when I read over synopses for upcoming Enterprise episodes. Trip says, "There was someone else with them -- they called her a cogenitor, do you know what that is?" T'Pol knows, and wonders why he calls It a her. "Well, she looks more like a her than a him," Trip blunders, and then expresses his issues with It being treated like a pet but a pet without a name. "It's not our place to judge the customs of other cultures," T'Pol points out mildly. Man, I'll bet she really regrets being put in charge, because you just know she can see exactly what is coming. Trip goes on some more about this being more than an issue of respecting a Japanese household. T'Pol suffers to explain that tri-gendered reproduction is not out of the norm. "That's not what I'm talkin' about -- this is a question of human rights," Trip says. Like the idiot he is. "They're not human," T'Pol says, probably agog that she has to point out such an obvious fact about their new friends. Then again, since it's Trip, she's probably used to pointing out the freakishly "duh." T'Pol feels the need to mention that the captain is really excited about their newfound friendship with a species that doesn't feel inclined to shoot them as soon as Quantum opens his gazelle mouth, so Trip better not do anything to screw it up.