Episode Report Card Keckler: B | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Mucus of Borg
By Keckler | Season 1 | Episode 22 | Aired on 04.30.2002
Enterprise drops out of warp near a planet and releases a shuttlepod. On the surface, Hoshi, Phlox, T'Pol, and Reed carry a packing case under a canopy of an enormous Globlin. T'Pol looks at her tri-corder and says, "Here." They open the case and watch as the much-shrunken Enterprise Globlin slithers out to join its family, who pulls it up into the collective Globlin. "Look at all of them," Hoshi says. "Not them," T'Pol corrects her. "It. This is all one organism." Just like the killer flying fried eggs in TOS "Operation: Annihilate!", I do believe. Reed asks why the segment attacked their crewmen. "Hard to say," Phlox says. "When it got separated from itself, perhaps it needed a physical connection with any life-form it could find." Phlox opens up his sand-filled incubator and lets Slimy The Severed Segment flop out. The collective reaches out to integrate their missing pinky toe. The shuttlecraft takes off to show a view of the planet's surface, completely webbed over by Globlin. Really incredible CGI effects here.
Moral of this week's episode: When you're covered in snot, just think, "Beat Princeton. Beat Princeton," and you'll persevere. Next week, we have two hours of explosions, white-haired Vulcans, chases, escapes, revenge, and some Afghanistani-looking planet.