Episode Report Card Keckler: A | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Maximum Over(warp)drive
By Keckler | Season 2 | Episode 4 | Aired on 10.08.2002
In the ducts, Reed points out where the alarm trigger is. In tandem, T'Pol and Quantum whip out their tricorders. Reed crawls on while the other two stay behind. The alarm is triggered, and Reed disappears. He reappears on the bridge of Enterprise. In the duct, Quantum and T'Pol furiously pound away at their calculations and calibrations. Jointly, they fire at something in the duct. The alarm continues. In the ATM room, the computers retract from Trip and close up. "Sounds like, uh, you've got more important things to deal with," he says, running out of the ATM vestibule as the doors close. We get an anvilicious close-up of the cannisters of plasma that are labeled, "WARP PLASMA EXTREME CAUTION." T'Pol and Quantum fiddle some more in the duct, trying to open the portal that Reed's alarm trigger closed off. T'Pol fiddles with a panel and then fires at the closure. It opens. Quantum crawls ahead and reaches the end of the duct. They find themselves in an antechamber of horrors and wrench the octagonal door open. T'Pol and Quantum step into a large cargo hold that has masses of bodies suspended from the ceiling. Total rip-off of Coma, but still pretty effective.
Oooh, pizza. No, wait, chocolate. Yeah, chocolate -- but oh, pizza!
Quantum and T'Pol thread their way through the Light As A Feather, Stiff As A Board bodies while the computer orders them to leave or their ship will be "compromised." Heh -- I stopped recapping long enough to watch portions of The Forsyte Saga, and it puts me in mind of the fact that, in those days, "compromised" meant a very different thing. T'Pol takes a reading and tells Quantum, "I'm detecting one human bio-sign." Quantum asks if the many bodies suspended around them are alive. T'Pol pauses by a Klingon to report, "Their vital organs seem to be functioning, but they've suffered severe neurological damage." As they crawl among more bodies, we see what could be a Vulcan or Romulan, and George Hamilton. So that's his secret. Finally, T'Pol signals Quantum and shows him May-doppelganger suspended above them. Quantum climbs a ladder, which happens to be placed right next to May-dead-or-alive, and reaches his long-lost ensign. What the hell does a computerized station need with a ladder? Quantum yanks some tubes out of May-resurrected's sleeves, and they spurt blood everywhere. Doesn't he need some of that? Outside, the bot arms grab Enterprise. The better to "compromise" her, I would guess.