Episode Report Card Keckler: F | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Silik Stalkings
By Keckler | Season 4 | Episode 2 | Aired on 10.14.2004
Sickbay. Phlox examines the POTCWs and thinks they're going to be okay. Trip really wants to know what went down on the surface, but Quantum's not inclined to tell them much. Phlox "slyly" gets Quantum to look at a medpad, and Quantum asks what they saw down there. Phlox goes to the comm box and pushes a button. Gee, I wonder what's going on. Trip and May-Wetter thinks the Alienazis are building a time machine. Quantum draws out his sentences enough to get "Trip" to look at him. "Trip" does and then attacks him. What exactly was it about Quantum saying "energy field" that made "Trip" realize Quantum was onto him? Do we know? No. There's no explanation in this show, so I don't know why I keep expecting things to make sense. "But see, they love each other and when you love each other you get to a point when you can simply read each other's minds," the Evil Dr. Mathra explains. Honey, can you read my mind right now? May-Wetter gets off the table in concern. I think his real concern is over the CRAPPY CGI effects as "Trip" morphs out of Quantum's arms and flips his body inside out to kick Quantum in the face. It was like Quantum was fighting one of the Sims! "Trip" runs down a corridor as the just-arriving security detail fires at him. Quantum turns "Trip" over as "Trip" morphs into Silik. Riiight. Like they wouldn't have picked up on this little trick when they went to beam Trip and May-Wetter up from the redwoods, and noted that they were locking onto one human bio-sign and one Suliban bio-sign? They aren't even TRYING to make sense of ANYTHING anymore, because they are convinced we are all so ENTHRALLED by the Time Foolery that we won't notice anything else! I hate this goddamned show. May-Wetter runs out and guhs at the revoltin' development.
Bensonhurst. Alicia dresses Krakko's leg wound. Krakko wants to know about her disappearing into thin air with Quantum. Alicia considers telling him everything.
At this point Hunca Munca got so beside himself with whole damn show that he attempted to drink out of Cask 23's wineglass.
Silik paces in the Brig as Quantum demands to know where Trip is. I don't know why Quantum even bothers to stand outside the Brig anymore. We all know that, sooner or later, he's going to storm into the Brig, grab the prisoner by the neck, and threaten him or her with the airlock. He's such a drama queen. Sure enough, after Silik doesn't answer a few questions, Quantum storms in and hypothesizes that Shower Guy sent Silik on this mission to Earth in order to snag the Time Machine technology. Silik doesn't really respond yea or nay to this and instead taunts Quantum with the missing Trip. Quantum grabs Silik by the neck -- these boys like it rough -- and throws him against the wall. "You've changed, Captain," Silik says silkily. Quantum drops Silik's neck as though it didn't arouse him in the least and snaps, "And not at all for the better!"