Episode Report Card Keckler: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT A Sexperiment in Criticism
By Keckler | Season 3 | Episode 15 | Aired on 02.10.2004
My California Culinary Adventures continue with a trip to Rainbow Grocery on Folsom. Berkeley Bowl they are not when it comes to produce, but they had a TON of bulk stuff. Bulk teas, bulk grains, rice, spices, herbs, and bulk supplements like ginkgo and St. John's Wort. In another aisle you can get a bulk amount of gelatin capsules and fill them yourself. Mudaba bought Royal Jelly to eat, and all I could think was, "Man, I hope she doesn't turn into a bee."
Anyway, Mudaba was pressing me to buy Drunken Spanish Goat Cheese, and I was likewise pressing her to buy Humboldt Fog (the most critically acclaimed cheese in North America, won lots of awards, made just north of SF, blah-blah-blah cheese-cakes). So, we're looking over the goat, cow, and sheep products and what do you think I saw? I'm going to blow your mind here: I saw a picture of TOS Khan pasted next to a cheese description. I shit you not. The cheese is Campo Montalban -- are you seeing this now? -- and the write-up says, "This man would rather eat this cheese than be an Intergalactic Overlord or live on a fantasy island," and then it goes on to describe the cheese. Loved it. LOVED IT! What I loved the most is the fact that they didn't even use the 1982 picture, they used the genuine 1967 cheese. AH! Cheese! KHAN! I just got the deeper connection! Man, you just gotta love a store for that.
Trip and T'Pol work on analyzing the space bullet in the cargo bay. T'Pol brings up his Neural Node Nudging with Not'pol and the fact that Phlox asked her to speak with him. Trip doesn't understand why the Nudging would be the cause of headaches, and T'Pol tells him he's a novice and should stop touching people. "I performed it on you plenty of times," Trip says. "Under my supervision," T'Pol reminds him. Plus, she's got Vulcan physiology, stupid. Trip gets a mischievous smile on his face and invites T'Pol to supervise him and the Uh-Ho. T'Pol doesn't bite and just tells him to knock off the Nudging. And the noodging, sheesh! Trip comments that A-MAN-da won't be too happy about ending the sessions. "I'm sure she won't," T'Pol says. Trip asks her what she means. T'Pol explains that she has noticed them noticing each other. "Last week you were eating together in the Mess Hall, and in the training session yesterday, she touched your behind," Grandma T'Pol says primly. Trip chuckles over the use of "behind" (because he's twelve) and notes that T'Pol's been keeping a close eye on them. "You're hard to miss," T'Pol retorts. Trip starts to explain how much they have in common and that Not'pol comes from Florida. T'Pol tells him he doesn't have to justify his behavior, just use discretion. "It's not appropriate for a senior officer to fraternize with a subordinate," T'Pol finishes. Yeah, if she can't be with Quantum, then Trip can't be with the Uh-Ho. "She's not Starfleet, there's nothing inappropriate about it," Trip counters. Somehow, I will find the strength to beg to differ. Something beeps in order to save T'Pol from answering. She examines data and says they need to get the information to Quantum immediately. How convenient.