Episode Report Card Keckler: B | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Raiders of the Lost Vault
By Keckler | Season 1 | Episode 19 | Aired on 03.26.2002
T'Pol watches them on a viewscreen as they discover the other medical cupboards to be bare. Muk announces that he found something. "Gold?" Felix asks. "No, but it looks like quality merchandise," Muk says, pulling out a long, scary-looking surgical implement. "Oh, splendid craftsmanship," Muk croons, playing with the needle. "Add it to the pot," Felix orders. "Do I look like a Menk to you?" Muk asks. "This beauty's going in my personal collection." Interestingly casual follow-up to the reference to Ferengi by the Valakians in "Dear Doctor." As I commented in that recap, I'm surprised the Ferengi didn't sell the Valakians their warp technology. Assuming, of course, that the Ferengi have warp capability, but I don't think they'd be this deep in space with only impulse power. Pursuant to that, if the Ferengi don't have warp technology to sell, I'm surprised they didn't try to hornswoggle the Valakians by selling them something that didn't work. "We agreed to split our profits," Felix says to Muk. "You said this ship would make us rich. We'll be lucky if we break even," Muk growls. "We had a deal," Felix says. "I'm amending it," Muk says, showing his pointed teeth. "Anything I find, I keep." Felix tells him he'll deduct it from Muk's share of the gold, and turns away in irritation. Gee. Wonder if all this infighting and greediness will be the Ferengi meeting of their Waterloo in their attempted Enterprise takeover. Muk goes back to admiring his surgical thing. He even licks the tip of it. Ew! Can't you just imagine where that thing has been?
Somewhere in the ship's innards, Trip sticks one of those lo-jack things on a door. I think -- I'm not completely sure, but I think that could be a vault set up for the Ferengi.
Bridge Situation Room. Felix walks in with his bag and watches Muk and Grish sacking the electronic equipment. "What's wrong, Ulis?" Muk asks sarcastically. "Can't find your pot of gold?" Felix (Ulis, but I'm staying with Felix) picks something up and asks what it is. "Hey, hey, hey!" Muk shouts, "don't touch!" "If you're not going to help us, you should return to the ship," Felix says bitterly. Muk ignores him and continues with his looting. "And what are you doing?" Felix asks Grish, who is bending over the tabletop viewer. "Wondering why I'm the only guest star no one has ever heard of," Mathra cracks. "Looking for the vault," Grish says in a dumb-blonde voice. "They're not going to put it on a map, you idiot!" Felix shouts. Grish says he knows that, but he's located the captain's personal quarters. T'Pol's now listening to them from outside the door. Felix doesn't get why the captain's quarters are important. "That's where you keep your latinum," Grish reminds him. Felix asks, "What's the quickest route?" Grish explains, while T'Pol calibrates something on her e-pad in the corridor.