Episode Report Card Keckler: A | 82 USERS: C+ YOU GRADE IT Quantum Leap of Faith of the Heart
By Keckler | Season 1 | Episode 26 | Aired on 2002.05.22
In a hurry? Read the recaplet for a nutshell description! Finished? Click here to close.In the season finale, the crew screws up royally and kills a sizable matriarchal-society-based colony. But fear not, Quantum Leaps back in time to prove that he is pure as the driven snow. However, for some reason his leap back doesn't do anything to save the barbequed thirty-seven hundred people -- just his reputation. There's some tangoing with the Evil Suliban and before Quantum Leaps to the future, he pauses to deliver a speech to the bridge crew that brings down the house. Mainly as a result of the roof shingles being cleverly constructed out of anvils. As for the rest of the cast, Reed snivels, Trip shouts, Hoshi defends, T'Pol commands, Phlox hums, and Mayweather does facial exercises. Want more? The full recap starts right below!
Oh, how sad -- my last recap of the season! Wait, Mathra just brought me a champagne cocktail. Okay, not so sad.
Quantum, T'Pol, and Trip walk into Quantum's private dining room. Apparently, they are dropping their calling cards off at a colony which actually welcomes their presence. In fact, the colony hasn't had guests in six months, according to T'Pol. While Quantum pours out cups of hot water -- is that supposed to be coffee? Because it's clearly water, but I don't see any tea bags for tea -- Trip asks if the society is really run by women. "Until recently. But in the last decade the Perogaan males have made great strides towards equal rights," T'Pol informs him. "Still, it's probably best if we didn't get too flirtatious," Trip tells Quantum. "Probably," Quantum says ironically. Quantum waxes annoying about the Pirogies' history -- how they started off with only thirty miners, but now they number thirty-seven hundred, and other unnecessary information like that which is really tedious, especially when all you're trying to do is make an unknown, unseen colony more real so you can be sorta sad when they become flambé before the first commercial break. Trip wonders if there are going to be human colonies, called things like New Sausalito, out that far. Sheeyah -- if anything, the first Earth colony on another planet is going to be called New Minneapolis. Oh, what? You think the people who invented Stickie notes aren't going to be pioneering that kind of space living? Think again, my friend. Think again. Of course, Quantum has to remind us how brilliant his warp-engineer father was by pointing out that he would not be at all surprised by the idea of colonizing planets. "We're making history with --" Quantum starts to say. "With every light year," Trip finishes for him. Quantum smiles. "You know, I think I've heard you say that a half a dozen times," Trip says. "Well, it's still not going on the poster!" Mathra snaps. Maywazoo comms Quantum that they are coming into orbit and receiving the landing protocols from the Pirogies. Quantum comms back that they're on their way.
Sh'pod zips toward the planet with T'Pol, Quantum, Trip, and Reed aboard. Reed fiddles with buttons and tells Quantum, "This should take a bit longer than usual." Quantum foreshadows, "It wouldn't be very polite to ignite their atmosphere. When are you supposed to close the plasma ducts?" Reed gives him some technobabblic response, but gets it across that he's being more than safe with the Pirogies' atmosphere. T'Pol joins Quantum and Reed in the bow of the sh'pod and starts to say, "Although the matriarchal elements of the culture have diminished, it might be best if I were to ask --" Then there's an orange explosion, and the sh'pod is tossed about. A band of fire sweeps over the planet's surface, pan-searing everything in its path.