Episode Report Card Strega: F | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Strifeboat
By Strega | Season 1 | Episode 16 | Aired on 02.12.2002
Sometimes, as a recapper, you're presented with such a huge target that it's hard to decide what kind of weapon to use on it. This would be one example. I could take a whimsical approach, and suggest that it must have been a special "honors" class for engineers, which was taught by a run-down computer mentor that had undergone some creative reprogramming by some drunken hackers. Alternatively, there's the sarcastic attack, which would probably involve suggesting that Trip also learned such important facts as that swallowing soda and Pop Rocks will make your stomach explode. Or that Trip's honors economics class taught him various completely legal ways to make money fast by just adding his name to the bottom of a list. Or maybe Trip could tell Malcolm about how there are people who will drug you and steal your kidneys, which Trip can swear is true because it totally happened to his best friend's girlfriend's cousin. You can see which method I'm partial to, I guess. But wait, there's also the PSA, in which I simply inform you that the fact is that, as a body dehydrates, the skin recedes, so more of the hair and nails are exposed, and for future reference, any idea that combines "dead" and "growing" should automatically be considered suspect. Finally, there's the exasperated rant, in which I just scream to the heavens that surely Paramount makes enough dough from commemorative Star Trek underwear that they can pay for an intern for whatever rehabilitation they'll need after fact-checking the scripts. Okay, I think I'm out. Where were we?
Captain Quantum is preparing "lost dog" fliers when T'Pol wanders in. She's still fixated on the micro-singularities, and thinks she's found evidence for them in the records of what happened before the Tesnian ship crashed. Quantum scoffs. T'Pol says, "This is no myth." Maybe she's just looking for someone to dance with. She says that three singularities hit the ship, and shows him a Palm Pilot. Quantum examines the screen and marvels, "You're telling me these are tiny black holes?" T'Pol says they "dissipated" on impact with the hull. Okay, they're tiny black holes that dissolve. If there was someone watching this with me, this is when we'd stop, look at each other, shrug, and turn back to the TV without saying a word. But for once, I went against my habit of inflicting needless suffering on my friends, so I watched this by myself. Pure masochism for me. I wonder if watching Enterprise is the mental equivalent of secret cutting. T'Pol says that if they can prove she's right, this will be an important discovery. T'Pol being right would be quite a revelation, so I can see her point. Quantum notes that the shuttle pod doesn't have the same hull plating that the ship does, and worries that Trip and Malcolm just might be in trouble. He tells T'Pol to hail the shuttle and arrange for a new rendezvous outside of the asteroid field.