Episode Report Card Keckler: D+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Fist Fight
By Keckler | Season 2 | Episode 24 | Aired on 05.13.2003
Ruby gives A.G. and Quantum some beers and says, "Congratulations, Captain." She wants him. A.G. proposes a toast. The three (Ruby has a beer as well) clink glasses. Ah, do you see what I see? A.G. is now drinking beer. Clearly, his rompings with Quantum have made him forego his derelict ways of bourbon in multiple highballs. The goody-two-shoes-ness has rubbed off on him as much as the risky business has rubbed off on Quantum. A whole lot of rubbing going on. And rubbin', son, is racin'. A.G. -- just so we know he hasn't completely given up his old ways -- says that Quantum is one lucky S.O.B. Of course, it would have been more baddie-ass of him to say the actual words instead of the spell-out. Quantum tells him luck had nothing to do with it. "It couldn't have been talent," A.G. says. No, it really couldn't. Ruby smiles and decides to take her body and her beer elsewhere. "I'm just waiting for Forrest to realize what a horrible mistake he made," A.G. says, in an exact parrot of Quantum earlier in the episode. Ah, his journey to the Furrow Side is now complete! They chuckle. A.G. says he'd much rather wait for the NX-02: "Let you make all the mistakes so I'll have an easier time of it." And Quantum's doing exactly that, believe you me. Quantum toasts to the first skipper of the NX-02. Yeah, the first dead skipper. A.G. says he is off for more survival training the next morning, so he has to take off. Anyone else think how that survival training wasn't really big on the "survival," given what we know of this guy? On his way out the door, he says, "Hey, I'll see you out there." Through dead eyes.
Sh'pod of Present Day. Quantum seems to have stopped talking (finally!), and T'Pol tells him they gotta head back to meet up with the ship. The ship that could have saved A.G.'s life! If Quantum hadn't been so selfish with grabbing the commission, A.G. wouldn't have been on Mt. McKinley for Forrest to murder, and the magnificent bastard would still be with us today -- S.O.B.! Trip greets the sh'podder and asks how everything went. "Your charges were effective," T'Pol tells him. "Wuzzit a gud show?" Trip asks. "You should've been there," Quantum tells him absently. "I'll remember to ask you next time," Trip jokes. Yes, Quantum does seem to have a history of leaving Trip behind, doesn't he? T'Pol says, "I believe there's a human custom that says that when you discover something of merit, you earn the right to name it." So, does that mean I can call them "Keckler's Furrows"? Oh, no, she said "something of "merit." "What would you suggest? The T'Pol-Archer Nebula?" Quantum wonders. "I was thinking the Robinson Nebula would be more appropriate," T'Pol says. Why? Who is Robinson? Was he in this story? I'm confused. Or at least I wish I were. T'Pol walks away, and Quantum smiles.