Episode Report Card Keckler: C- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Flight of the Khannabees
By Keckler | Season 4 | Episode 5 | Aired on 11.04.2004
Mess. Quantum walks in for a cup of coffee and observes Phlox sitting in front of a minor feast. Phlox explains that he's approaching a new sleep cycle in a few weeks, so he wants to increase his body mass. Problem is, he's having problems choking it all down because he's so worried about his friend. Quantum assures him they're flying as fast as they can. For some reason, the writers feel the need to remind us that thirty million people died in the Eugenics Wars as Phlox mentions how Khannabee Student is reading up on the subject. "Human intellect and human instinct were out of synch," Phlox comments, and says he can understand why Earth banned genetic engineering after such a massacre. Quantum sits his ass down to talk about the degenerative brain disease his father died of when he was at the furrowing age of twelve. That's a hard time for a child -- all those changes in your body. One day you wake up to zits and furrows and you wonder, "Am I normal?" But then you realize that furrowing is completely normal, and everyone does it. You just have to be careful not to do it all the time. Maybe the problem is I'm not drunk enough. Phlox realizes that Quantum is thinking over what would have happened if genetic engineering had been permitted. "Maybe Dain'ta has a point," Quantum opines. Phlox says he has examined Dain'ta's work more closely, and is forced to admit that it's extremely inventive and brilliant. "It's a shame such a man has to remain incarcerated," Phlox says. "He broke the law," Quantum reminds him, "that's why he's in prison." Phlox nods, looking down. "And that's why I'm gonna make sure he goes back," Quantum finishes. Quantum wonders why Denobula didn't have a Eugenics War when went through their genetic renaissance. Phlox thinks they were lucky, but Quantum thinks it's more like their instinct and intellect caught up to one another. I think it's more like they're an alien species.
Cold Station 12. Some lesser docs get ushered into a holding cell in the main room as Dr. "I Am The Walrus" Lucas insists he doesn't have "the code." Dain'ta scoffs that when he was Senior Medical Director, he had access to the embryos. Dr. Lucas says they changed policy after what Dain'ta did. "He's lying," Mullet bellows. Dain'ta holds up a "back off" hand and asks Dr. Lucas if the lights in his office flicker. "Every two hours -- drives me crazy!" Dr. Lucas exclaims. "Faulty power relay -- you wouldn't believe how many times I asked them to fix it. Ten years later and they still haven't done a thing," Dain'ta says, shaking his head. He orders Mullet to put Dr. Lucas with the others. Mullet doth protest. "I believe him," Dain'ta says dismissively, because…somehow the office lights thing…was a cleverly hidden lie detector test? Yeah, clearly I haven't had enough to drink. Dain'ta turns to the Khannabee who is acting as codebreaker. "It's a hexadecimal password and I'm creating an algorithm to compute the possible combinations -- a few hundred thousand of them. It may take a few minutes," Khannabenigma brags as the Evil Dr. Mathra vomits undigested automorphic forms. "I can't believe I held you back in math," Dain'ta says proudly. Shut up, Dain'ta. How could any holding back happen anyway? I thought they were all with the having of the intellect that was of the superior kind. Cold Station 12 gets a signal that a ship is approaching.