Episode Report Card Keckler: F | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Tempus fudges-it
By Keckler | Season 1 | Episode 11 | Aired on 11.27.2001
Engineering. Daniels techno-babbles to T'Pol and Trip as he fiddles with various functions on the warp reactor. Trip can't get over Daniels's deception, and keeps asking questions like, "So I take it yer brother innit rilly an orbital engineer at Jupiter Station." Daniels says he doesn't even have a brother. "And yew didn't grow up in Illinois," Trip states. "Oh, I'm from a place called Illinois, sir, just not the one you're familiar with," Daniels responds. Trip comments that he's happy to hear Earth's still around in nine hundred years. "That depends on how you define Earth," Daniels says, before walking off. I hate it when people like Daniels have to be so smugly enigmatical about themselves. He might as well run around saying, "I've got a secret. Nanny nanny boo boo!" More techno-babble as Daniels prepares to route more power to his gadgets. Trip looks at one of Daniels's gadgets and asks him what it is. "It's very delicate. Please don't --" Daniels starts to say, but Trip has already picked it up and activated some graphic light projection. It's not the Temporal Observatory that Daniels showed Quantum, but it's along the same lines. "Please don't touch it," Daniels says, taking the thing away and shutting it off. Trip stands gaping like a torpid carp. Finally, he asks if Daniels can tell him how far the ship is going to go in the next twenty-four hours so he can win the pool he and the rest of Engineering has going. Daniels smugs, "I'm afraid we don't monitor events quite that closely." T'Pol returns from her techno-fixing to tell them one of the power relays is offline. Trip comments that it probably happened during the plasma storm. He points out that the power relay is located behind a bulkhead and will take some time to get to. "I'll take care of it," Daniels says, calmly. He slips on a set of techno-brass knuckles, which allow him to pass right through the bulkhead. T'Pol and Trip exchange looks above T'Pol's unnecessarily outthrust chest. Daniels returns from the middle of the bulkhead and tells him he repaired the power relay. You know, throughout this scene, I couldn't get over the fact that they're unquestioningly allowing Daniels full access to so much stuff on the ship. But Trip did his carp impression again, so all became clear.
Quantum's Cabin. Quantum enters and is greeted by a barking Porthos. Actually, it's not so much a bark of greeting as it is a bark of warning. It's obvious to everyone but Captain Chucklehead that Porthos is barking at something in the room. Quantum dolts around, apologizing to the pup for being two hours late with his breakfast. Annoyed with his master, Porthos starts to growl. FINALLY Quantum looks around his cabin and sees a crumpled Heaven's Gate robe on his desk. He goes to hit the comm button, but Silik suddenly steps out of his chameleon hiding. "If you're thinking of calling for help, I'd advise against it," Silik says, smoothly. "I'm not the one you should be worried about, Jon." Silik announces that he was the one who stopped the anti-matter cascade and asks who on the ship is looking for him. Quantum plays dumb. It's the one thing he could get an Emmy for. "Did they tell you that ridiculous story about their noble efforts to protect history?" Silik asks. "The great Temporal Accord? They're lying to you, Jon. None of it is true. Whoever contacted you is working for another faction. They didn't come here to protect history, they came to alter it." Silik also says that "they" are the ones who started the anti-matter cascade that would have destroyed the ship if he hadn't been sent to stop it. Quantum doesn't understand why Silik would want to save them when he wanted to kill Quantum on the Apple Core Helix. "I saved your ship because I was instructed to," Silik says. Quantum wants to know who Silik works for and why Enterprise is involved in the TCW. Silik gets all NSA on him and says he's "not privy to that kind of information," but that whoever is looking for him is a danger to Enterprise. "And if you want to continue on your mission, you'll help me find them," Silik finishes. T'Pol comms Quantum. Silik pulls out a pistol and gestures at Quantum to answer. T'Pol reports that Daniels is done with his modifications and eager to get started. Silik smiles and says, "You've been very helpful, Jon." He blasts Quantum in the chest and leaves. Wow, that felt good! Porthos barks and whimpers beside his moronic master's face. I wonder if Hunca Munca and Poppadum would get along with a beagle.