Episode Report Card Keckler: C- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Unfrozen Caveman Captain
By Keckler | Season 3 | Episode 3 | Aired on 09.23.2003
Quantum logs that they gave Phlox's serum to the captain of the containment vessel, which they will be able to use to prevent future outbreaks. Quantum comments that it will be a few more days before he and the Half Hill People feel fully human again.
Sickbay. Phlox hyposprays Reed and tells him it will help his headaches. "Have you got anything for the stomach?" Reed groans, holding his. "Chef's food isn't sitting too well." Not even the crème brulée? Phlox suggests he avoid the Mess Hall until his digestive tract is back on track. "What do you suggest I eat?" Reed whines. Phlox shrugs, "You're welcome to some of the moth larvae I feed to my Pyrithian bat." Quantum enters, and Reed gets up to leave. They both ask after each other's health, and Quantum tells Reed to follow T'Pol and Hoshi's leads in taking the day off. Reed thanks him. Quantum claps him on the shoulder as he staggers out. Phlox holds up a vial and tells him it's the last of the mutagenic virus: "I assume you want me to destroy it?" Why are these viruses always electric blue? Quantum looks like he's got the Atari symbol on his forehead. He also doesn't want the virus destroyed because, as he holds the virus in his hand and soliloquizes, "This was created as a final effort to preserve a civilization, a people. That species we became will cease to exist the moment this virus is gone." Phlox tries to interject. Quantum finishes, "We came out here to stop the Xindi from destroying humanity -- I'll be damned if I'm going to have a hand in destroying another race in the process." Quantum hands back the vial: "Put it on ice, Doc. In stasis, whatever. Understood?" Phlox nods and sticks the vial in a lockbox, which emits a blue light from its drawer as it receives the vial.
Next week: An alien prostitute seduces the entire ship, even the women. But she's not green, so stop chanting "Orion Slave Girl" or I'm gonna have to pop you one.