Episode Report Card Keckler: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Seven of Whine
By Keckler | Season 2 | Episode 7 | Aired on 11.05.2002
A wide-angle shot shows ships taking off from the platform while the bar and other buildings burn. The E-Crew enters Menos's ship, but T'Pol's scans show that there is no one on board. Quantum wants to be sure, so they start investigating the ship, weapons drawn. "We'll all need to go through Decon now," Quantum comments as they examine the spent hull casings. That's the second mention of Decon taking place after this mission. Either they're trying to set up a scene next week where all three of them get nekkid together, or they actually listened when we complained that there were too many missions away from the ship that didn't seem to require Decon when they reboarded. T'Pol repeats that Menos is not there. "Was that the only way in?" Quantum asks. "Get back to the cockpit, Travis. Get life-support fired up if you can -- it's pretty cold." May-blitz saunters over to the cockpit and starts messing around. T'Pol and Quantum hypothesize on Menos's whereabouts. "So, he could've left with any one of those other ships," Quantum thinks. "Any one of them," T'Pol agrees. Quantum observes that T'Pol doesn't exactly seem bothered by it. "When we return to Enterprise, I'll inform the Vulcan ship that Menos escaped. If the High Command wishes, they can question as many of the vessels that left here as they can find," T'Pol announces. Quantum thinks she's giving up awfully easily. "He's obviously gone," T'Pol points out. Quantum doesn't believe that's necessarily the case, and watches T'Pol's lack of interest in the whole matter. "He got to you, didn't he? You're beginning to doubt yourself," Quantum demands. Quantum plays psychiatrist some more as he and T'Pol go back and forth over whether she killed an innocent man or if she was provoked into doing it. Then comes the point when T'Pol insists she can't be feeling guilt now because she was rehabbed at P'Jem, but Quantum yells that she's currently on the verge of an emotional collapse.
Just then, May-blitz calls out and tells Quantum there's "something funny" in the cockpit and he thinks the captain should take a look at it. That's not "something funny," May-blitz -- that's you. Quantum and T'Pol stare at each other for a few seconds before Quantum jogs back to the cockpit. May-blitz shows him a secret panel on the dashboard. "There's a helluva lot of energy flowing through those circuits," Quantum observes. "Any idea what they are?" Why don't you cut the blue wire and find out, MacGyver? May-blitz reminds him that their scanners show the ship to be completely powered down. "Well, obviously something's powered up," Quantum points out, and reaches over to turn the power off. There's a responding grind from the ship. In the cargo hold, T'Pol looks around as a holographic wall behind her disappears, revealing where Menos had been hiding. "I'm a very patient man, T'Pol," Menos says, his weapon aimed at her. T'Pol whips around, weapon out. "I was simply waiting for you to leave, but your captain's curiosity has put an end to that -- would you please lower your weapon?" Menos requests. T'Pol complies.