Episode Report Card Keckler: B | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Yesterday's Enterprise
By Keckler | Season 1 | Episode 1 | Aired on 09.25.2001
Cpt. Quantum and Hoshi hustle to sick bay. The irate but still-strapped-down Klingon squirms and shouts. "What's wrong?" Cpt. Quantum asks Hoshi, who's fiddling with something in her hand. "The translator," she says nervously, "it's not locking onto his dialect -- the syntax won't align." Klaang shouts; Hoshi backs away. "Tell him we're taking him home," Cpt. Quantum instructs her. Hoshi says a few words in forceful Klingon, and Klaang answers back. "O-oh, he wants to know who we are," Hoshi tells Cpt. Quantum in a shaky voice. Cpt. Quantum gives her an encouraging look. Hoshi turns back to Klaang and says a few more words in Klingon, and also says "Enterprise." Klaang, through Hoshi, asks for his ship back. Cpt. Quantum tells her to tell him it's destroyed. Hoshi does so, and Klaang's eyes roll to the back of his head as he shouts. "I'm not sure," Hoshi says tremulously, "but I think he said something about eating the afterlife." Cpt. Quantum looks annoyed and says, "Try the translator again." Hoshi tries it, and tells him she'll have to feed what they have "through the phonetic processor." Dr. Phlox, quiet all this time, walks over to his patient and beams a little blue light at the top of his head. "He says his wife has grown ugly?" Hoshi says, and catches Cpt. Quantum's glare. "I'm SORRY, Captain!" she shouts, "I am doing the best I can!" You go, Hoshi. Dr. Phlox interjects and tells them that his "pre-frontal cortex is hyperstimulated -- I doubt he has any idea what he's saying." Klaang shouts again. "I think the doctor's right, Captain, unless 'stinky boots' has anything to do with all this?" Hoshi says. The ship shakes, and Hoshi lets out a yelp: "That's the warp reactor again, r-right?" Cpt. Quantum goes to a com panel and presses a button, demanding "Bridge, report." T'Pol responds, "We've dropped out of warp, sir. Main power is --" There's static, and the lights in sick bay go out, along with the power in the rest of the ship.
Through the darkness, Reed says ominously, "I think I just saw something off the starboard bow." "What?" T'Pol demands. "I don't know," Reed says. "It might have just been the sensors going down." A view above the ship shows all the lights extinguishing. Inside, we are treated to infrared vision as the Mottled Aliens making their way through the ship's innards. One, interestingly enough, is walking upright, while the other two are crawling along the ceiling and wall of the corridor. It's a deliciously creepy if nonsensical effect. Back in sick bay, Klaang continues to shout through the dark as Cpt. Quantum, Dr. Phlox, and some random officer switch on flashlights. Do you think they still call them "flashlights" in the 22nd century? Klaang shouts on. "Do you wanna tell him to shut up?" Cpt. Quantum tells Hoshi. "SHUT UP!" she screams at him. Poor confused Klaang pauses a moment, then continues on his tirade. "We may have to sedate him," Cpt. Quantum tells the doctor, and then says he's going to the bridge. Hoshi's flashlight flashes over a Mottled Alien, whose image seems to disappear into the bulkhead. "Captain," she gasps out. Oh, great -- now no one's going to believe her because she's already been acting jumpy. "What?" Cpt. Quantum asks, swinging away from the door. "There's someone here," Hoshi says between clenched teeth. Cpt. Quantum shines his flashlight over the bulkheads and looks up a ladder. There's a rustle, and everyone turns around. The tension builds even more with more untraceable sounds. Cpt. Quantum shines his beam on the ceiling and catches sight of a Mottled Alien scuttling above them. "Crewman!" the Captain shouts out. The crewman fires without success. "Suliban," Klaang says, straining at his braces. A figure drops from the ceiling behind the crewman, who whips around as another figure rushes at him, knocking the gun from his grip. There's a tussle until Cpt. Quantum picks up the dropped gun and fires at the Mottled Alien. The body lands next to Hoshi, who cries out. Klaang continues to struggle at his straps, and from his vantage point we see a Suliban dropping from the ceiling on top of him. Then there's silence. I don't mind telling you that I let out a bit of a shriek when the Suliban fell. It was really disturbing. "You all right?" Cpt. Quantum asks the crewman, helping him up, completely unaware what Klaang's silence means. The lights flash on and show the empty bed.
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