Episode Report Card Keckler: A | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Maximum Over(warp)drive
By Keckler | Season 2 | Episode 4 | Aired on 10.08.2002
Launch Bay One. Phlox scans a prone May-they-eat-your-eyes-they-eat-your-nose. He has lacerations on his face. Phlox pulls his medical tricorder back and reads it as Quantum comes around a corner. Spying May-they-eat-the-jelly-between-your-toes, Quantum runs to Phlox's side, exclaiming, "What happened?" "He's dead, Captain," Phlox tells him. Quantum furrows The Furrow Of Why Can't I Remember What This Crewman's Name Is as we go to commercial.
Dammit! I'm missing The Forsyte Saga remake with Ioan Gruffudd.
In an overhead short, and through the grating of a catwalk, we see May-your-liver-turns-a-sickly-green being taken out on a gurney. Phlox is telling Quantum that the burns on his skin are consistent with "an isolytic shock," but he can't be certain until he watches and guest-appears on Six Feet Under. He tells Quantum that he'll keep him apprised. Quantum is silent, but he adds a new facet to his furrow -- it's accompanied by a jaw clench. Scott, didn't I tell you to leave the facial acting to Jolene? She can carry it off, whereas you cannot. Quantum walks over to where Trip, T'Pol, and Reed are investigating things. Guess they're not grounded anymore. Trip tells Quantum that it looks as though May-and-pus-pours-out-like-whipping-cream was playing around with the EPS power grid when the relay overloaded. "Why the hell would he come down here during his off hours and start tampering with the power system?" Quantum blusters. Trip doesn't get it: "Travis would have checked with me before doing any maintenance." "Did you notify the crew that this section was off-limits?" Quantum accuses T'Pol. T'Pol says she did. "Well, apparently somebody didn't get the message!" Quantum roars. Not "somebody" -- it's that guy whose body they just took out. Weren't you paying attention? Quantum asks what time May-bought-the-farm went off duty, and T'Pol tells him eighteen hundred hours. "Malcolm and I saw him at the station about a half an hour later," Trip volunteers helpfully. "He was having dinner with Hoshi." Quantum whirls around from his incessant pacing. "Talk to her!" he orders dramatically. "See if he said anything about this and go over the comm logs -- I wanna know if he talked to anyone else." Reed suggests they check his quarters. First one there gets his stapler and scissors. "Post a security detail outside every section that's under repair," Quantum says, still not looking at them. "Aye, sir," Reed responds. Quantum leaves. You know, he was supposed to be acting all torn up inside, but I just didn't buy it. Maybe the reason I'm having a harder time than usual taking Bakula seriously as Captain of the almighty Enterprise is that I recently caught a rerun of Designing Women. He played a recurring role as Mary Jo's dick of an ex-husband. And with the pouffy eighties hair, the Huey Lewis-thin necktie, and the fact that he was a philandering gynecologist -- I'm sorry, I just can't stop giggling. The three look around at each other, obviously affected by the loss of what's-his-name, and get back to work.