Episode Report Card Sara M: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Degra Dearest
By Sara M | Season 3 | Episode 20 | Aired on 04.27.2004
In the airlock, Phlox grabs Martin and takes off for Sickbay. Degra says he hopes Martin will be all right. Trip questions the logic of Degra caring about one human when he had no problem killing seven million of them. Archer yells at Trip to shut up, and he and Degra leave, Degra taking a minute to pause and reflect about what Trip's words have taught him.
Degra and Archer compare notes about the spheres, until Archer decides that two seconds of work is plenty and tries to chat. He apologizes for Trip; Degra says that he really never expected to meet anyone who suffered because of him. He thought the attack was necessary at the time. Archer says he knows, and they've had this conversation before. Degra tells Archer he has an "impressive facility for deception." Archer wonders if maybe screwing around with Degra's memory wasn't the best way to earn his trust. Then they get back to work on sphere-tracking. Degra says the Xindi know very little about the inside of the spheres, to which Archer provides him with some exclusive pictures, taken from one of the damaged spheres he found. Degra marvels over the scans, saying that they are "remarkably detailed" for a military vessel. Archer's all, "That's because this ship used to be a scientific vessel until your people attacked us." Degra says it could be one again. And maybe the showers will work, too!
Trip tries to write that letter. His first attempt is bland and devoid of personality. He tries again, and this one's a little better, but then Martin (who has apparently fully recovered from his health problems of one scene ago) comes over the intercom with a ship-wide alert, and Trip has to go. He never told the computer to stop recording. The Taylors are going to get one long, confusing message, kind of like when you call someone, and they don't answer the phone fast enough, so their machine picks up, but then they pick up a different phone so you talk to them and your whole conversation gets recorded by the answering machine as a message. Kind of like that. Sort of.
Archer and Degra run onto the bridge. Archer asks what's going on. T'Pol says they've detected another ship; it's the Reptilians. Degra says he has no idea how they followed him. We see a close-up shot of the Reptilian ship, and is it seriously shaped like a snake? I mean, seriously? What are they, Cobra Command?
On the Other Guy's ship, a silly Reptilian is demanding to see Degra. Other Guy tries to cover for him, then starts yelling at Cobra Commander for developing a bio-weapon when they were specifically told not to. Cobra Commander demands that Degra talk to him. Other Guy whines to Degra on the Enterprise that the Reptilians are going to kill them all if they don't do as he says. Martin tells Archer that they have no chance against the Reptilians. So Archer asks Degra to help out. He says that both of their ships, and Degra's familiarity with the Reptilian ship, should help them disable it. Degra does not want to attack his own Xindi people.