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
Quantum demands to know if Daniels ever gives a straight answer, and Daniels tells him it depends on the question. Quantum asks him why he's been brought there: "I thought you were supposed to protect the timeline, not screw with it!" "It's already been 'screwed with,' Captain," Daniels snits at him. "That explosion at the Perogaan colony -- it wasn't supposed to happen." Quantum tells him he knows that and that it was an accident. "That's not what I mean," Daniels says. "History never recorded the disaster. Someone violated the Temporal Accord. Someone who doesn't want your mission to succeed." Quantum realizes this means he -- I mean, Enterprise -- didn't directly have a hand in that disaster. "Do you remember the temporal cold war I spoke of?" Daniels asks. "It's kinda hard to forget," Quantum tells him. "Then listen to me carefully, we don't have much time," Daniels tells him. Sure you do -- if you run out, just go back a few hours and you're golden.
Back on Enterprise, Quantum has returned from his little time jaunt and is attempting to convince the crew that he now knows what caused the flame-broiling of the planet. Reed joins the "senior staff" -- that's what Quantum called T'Pol, Trip, Hoshi, Maywonderbra, and Reed when he commed them -- in the situation room and hands over a disk telling Quantum that "it was just where [they] detected the EM signature." Reed continues that he doesn't get how Quantum knew it was there, or how Quantum knew the disk would be made visible by a phase discriminator. Instead of answering Reed, Quantum claps him on the shoulder and hands the disk over to T'Pol, saying, "If I'm not mistaken, you'll find this thing was designed to generate a plasma stream." Quantum next turns to Trip and tells him to get a team together to make two "quantum beacons," and a whole lot of technobabble ensues which makes Quantum sound really smart even though that bemused expression never leaves his face. He's not fooling anyone. Quantum tells Hoshi to keep the comm system "on the fritz" for the next few days, and instructs Reed to have the armory on "full alert." Quantum finally turns to Maywonderbra and tells him to turn the ship around; they're going back to the Pirogie colony. The senior staff just stands there, confused. "What are you all waiting for?" Quantum barks. "Oh, I don't know, 'Dismissed!,' maybe? That's what real captains say, you Muncher," Mathra drawls. And because Trip is such bosom buddies with Quantum, he approaches the captain after the rest of the staff has cleared out and says, "Sir?" "It wasn't us, Trip. We didn't do it," Quantum tells him, Bart Simpson Of The Universe that he is. Trip breathes very audibly and sets to work, scoring a clap on the back from Quantum.