Episode Report Card Keckler: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Imzadi Prime
By Keckler | Season 3 | Episode 18 | Aired on 03.02.2004
We have this cheese at Cowgirl Creamery called "Stinking Bishop" that oozes, runs, and can basically walk out of the store on its own. Five scalding hand-washings does nothing to edge out the aroma. This song stinks more. A Xindi ship that sort of looks like a bug with its cool purple deflector shield frolics around the Earthy planet. I guess the ship is Degra's, but this front view looks totally different from the close-up Quantum ordered in the teaser. Oh, wait, there's a tiny ship attached to it. Maybe that's Degra's. A Three-Toed-Sloth Xindi greets Degra pleasantly as he, another Mr. Man Xindi, and a crabby Snake Eyes walk onto the Bridge. "When can we get underway?" Snake Eyes demands. Degra tells him to keep his snake pants on. "Patience is for the dead," Snake Eyes snarls like an old spinster aunt who sits in a chair picking apart all her friends and family as easily as she drops stitches in her scratchy grey woolen hunk of something that will never be finished. Both the other Mr. Man and Three Toes compliment Degra on all he's accomplished. Again, Snake Eyes has to be a stick in the mud and say that he's reserving his gratitude when he sees the humans annihilated.
Situation Room. For lots of technobabble reasons, the qrew comes to the qonclusion that they can't bring Enterprise through the security grid without being detected. Quantum decides that Trip and May-brie will take a few hours to learn about the stolen Bug Eyes sh'pod and take it through the security grid to find the Mega Maid.
In a sh'bay, the insecty shuttle waveringly goes up and down. Inside, May-brie and Trip have fun. When the sh'pod jerks suddenly, Trip flails his arms and grabs the back of a headrest as May-brie calmly notes, "I think I found reverse." "Great," Trip comments, "but unless we plan to fly in ass-first, we better figger out how to make it go forward." Isn't "ass-first" Quantum's preferred flight pattern? Sorry. They flip more switches.
On the Bridge, Hoshi is given something to do that takes her mind off the mind-numbing tedium she has been enjoying lately. Clicks and clacks come out of her con as they advise callers how to rebuild their carburetor and figure out what the "thump-thump-thump-pump!" under their hood means. T'Pol is motivated by the Bug House noises to tell Hoshi that Trip is really going to need time to install the translation matrix she's working on. "If Commander Tucker wants to speak Insectoid, I have to get this right first," Hoshi retorts. More clicks and clacks. "Believe it or not, that was 'Have a nice day,' or its equivalent," Hoshi translates. T'Pol mugs.