Episode Report Card Keckler: A | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Crazy Like A Phlox
By Keckler | Season 2 | Episode 21 | Aired on 04.22.2003
I've been loathing you too longIt started so easy
I want to carry on...
I love Air Supply. Yes, STILL! I am not ashamed.
Situation Alcove. May-Yokozuna babbles about how far some caves go on a planet's surface. In a nutshell, there was an unstable government on this planet, and now a "militant faction" with gold-leaf- and jewel-encrusted oil bidets has taken over and ordered all "off-worlders" to off-world themselves. Some Denobulan scientists, who have been in the caves for six months gathering pebbles, need to be alerted to the unfolding Operation Rocky Freedom. However, as the Denobulan Science Academy lost contact with them, the B-Plot-Team must go in and drag them out. Since May-Yokuzuna has had some experience nearly killing himself on rock faces, Quantum thinks he's the ideal candy-date to put Trip and Reed through the paces. They go to get their Patagonias and Tevas. Phlox thanks Quantum for fielding the Denobulan request. Quantum furrows some perplexment and tells him he was happy to help.
Shuttlebay. May-Ozeki ticks off their wish list. I really don't pay much attention -- as I'm sure you didn't either, Gentle Reader -- until he says, "Waste disposal units." Trip picks a black pyrothene bag up and duhs, "What are these for?" "We take out everything we bring in," May-Ozeki tells him, fixing him in the eye with a masterful gaze. Trip makes an "ew, pewp" face, whereas Reed, oddly enough, looks unfazed. I guess once you treat your EV suit like an all-over body experience, nothing disgusts you. The pewp jokes have been few and far between lately, but in this case, I like the reality of it. We had certain rules we had to live and expel by when I backpacked through the Canadian Quetico and the Boundary Waters, aaaand I'm leaving it at that, because sometimes? Living by Nature just ain't all that pretty. Quantum walks in at this point to tell them that the Militant Faction's new and Crazy Governor has stipulated that they have to get the Geo-bulans out in three short days. Trip comments on summer's lease having too short a date, and Quantum tells him that if they don't reach the Geobulans in a day and a half, they must turn back. No argument from the rockers.
Sh'pod sh'ttles toward the planet, bypassing some outbound traffic. Bridge. T'Pol says that one of the outbound transports declared an emergency and are asking the Xantorans (Militant Faction) if they can return to the surface. Hoshi hooks them up on the call so they can hear the Xantorans refuse the emergency landing, even though the off-worlders' transport has gotten wounded because of some technobabble explosions. Quantum hangs up and orders an intercept course with the floundering vessel.