Episode Report Card Keckler: C | 76 USERS: C+ YOU GRADE IT Friendship 2 1/2
By Keckler | Season 1 | Episode 6 | Aired on 2001.10.24
In a hurry? Read the recaplet for a nutshell description! Finished? Click here to close.It's a whole new world, so don't you dare close your eyes. Because if you do, you might find yourself the subject of a hard rain. Which is gonna fall. Radiation rain. Can you believe that Trip is not the focus of this episode? I know! I just got back on my chair myself. Reed and Mayweather put in some punch card time but one spends most of it on his back (not that way) and the other dances outside shuttles and caves but most importantly, T'Pol didn't totally drive me up the wall, across the ceiling, and through the windows. At least not at the first watching. Want more? The full recap starts right below!
PING! Ah, my hogshead of coffee finished brewing. Excuse me while I hook up an I.V. to pipe this stuff straight into my veins; I'm gonna need it tonight.
Enterprise bridge. "This was their first view of it," Mayweather says as he looks at a laptop image of a planet. "If you don't look too close, you'd think it was Earth," Hoshi comments. The second planet to be Earth's doppelganger in three episodes. How unspeakably original. And German. Travis opens a few more JPEGs, one showing humans posing in front of a shuttlecraft, another of the humans shoving a spade into the dirt. "Breaking ground on the town hall," Mayweather supplies for us. "Is that Captain Mitchell?" Hoshi asks, pointing at the image. "No," Mayweather says, examining the picture, "I think that's Mitchell." Captain Quantum enters the bridge, smiles indulgently at his two overachievers, and asks, "Are we there yet?" Mayweather tells him they'll arrive in about three hours. Hoshi needlessly tells the Captain that Mayweather has been "digging through the archives," and Mayweather corroborates this by running off at the mouth about all the information he found: crew manifests, survey photos, weekly status reports, the word "Croatoan" chiseled on a tree. Mayweather tells us and the Captain that he's been obsessed with the lost colony of Terra Nova since he was a wee one and, in going over the data in their computers, was hoping that he'd find a clue to what happened. Because his mind is so superior that in seventy years, the finest intellects at Starfleet wouldn't have…damn, is this I.V. even working yet? I think someone needs to flick it or something. Captain Quantum tells Mayweather that he'd be the first to find something in all that data. "I always thought that lost colonies affected boomers more than anyone else," Mayweather says, stating his raison d'etre in this episode while shaking his head. "Something about people who choose to live off-world." Hoshi asks if Quantum thinks there are people still alive on Terra Nova. Quantum glances carelessly at Mayweather's JPEGs and says, "I'll let you know in about three hours and seventeen minutes," before swaggering off to the O.K. Corral.
Mathra performs an interpretive dance Peter Gabriel's-"Sledgehammer"-style to the theme song.
Commercial for the Roswell-Enterprise cross-over with Phloxy and Number One heading up the billing. That night, Djb's pain and mine will be inextricably twined. Forrreveeeer.
The Enterprise equivalent to the Algonquin Round Table, minus the cleverness.