Episode Report Card Keckler: C- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Boredomland
By Keckler | Season 4 | Episode 4 | Aired on 10.28.2004
Dain'ta and Quantum skulk around the cages and see a female Red Stripe, who sees them right back. Quantum sticks out a hand, silently telling her not to acknowledge them. Dain'ta notes that at least four of the nine missing crewmen are still around, and explains that the thing on their necks induces seizures in the slaves. It also keeps them from wandering too far afield, so beaming the Enterprise crew out isn't an option. An Orion slave girl, dressed in about two inches of fabric, saunters out of her cell and plays up to her flesh-trading audience. As Quantum notes that the Orions sell their own people, Dain'ta explains only the females are considered commodities because of their extensive "appetites" and "innate skills." So, they're good in the kitchen? Quantum finishes scanning and nods for Dain'ta to follow him. They find T'Pol and start to update her on their situation when Shrek 2 bitches at them for talking to a sold slave. "The buyers are over there," he gestures. Dain'ta is all obsequiousness and apologies as he tells Shrek 2 that they took a wrong turn. Quantum and Dain'ta move along.
Ship of the Khannabees. They try to make me care about this plotline by showing Dawsonella bouncing back to the Head Khannabee and planting space seeds of distrust and discontent in his repugnant, forceps-dented head about Mullet. But guess what? I DON'T CARE ABOUT THESE REPULSIVE PEOPLE!
SPC. Pig is put up for sale and Quantum buys him. Does this mean he's going to name him Toby? I think there's some nonsense where Shrek threatens to sell Pig as food, but I wasn't really listening. Shrek's not thrilled with the price Pig fetched, and Trip's not thrilled with having to fork nine kilos of tritanium cobalt payment over. I'm not thrilled with this whole damn episode.
Sickbay. Phlox attempts to remove the neck thingy from Pig. Quantum explains that normally the neck thingy is removed when the slaves are sold, but they bribed a guard to deactivate it but leave it on. Trip's confused as to why they don't just buy back all their people, and Quantum tells him T'Pol's already been sold down the river. Trip is disgusted by the Orions, and Dain'ta saves me the trouble of telling him that the Orions are not unlike his own slave-trading ancestors, "judging by your accent." BWAH! Trip counters that the Khannabees had plenty of slaves. "They were more like subjects," Dain'ta laughs gently. "They were jest treated like slaves," Trip says. Dain'ta ignores him as Phlox gets the neck thingy off. Quantum hands the neck thingy over to Trip and tells him to work fast.