Everybody!
Khanna Babees, we make our genes true blue!
Khanna Babees, we'll kill a race or two!
Mullet: When your face looks kinda skank and you pretend that you are gods…
Dawsonella: Just close your eyes and make believe and you can be fugly fro-ogs!
Mullet: I like to kill people!
Dawsonella: I like to prance!
Dain'ta: I love great chromosomes!
Animal: Animal dance!!
Khannabenigma: I've got my algorithms!
Khannabee1: I poison the air!
Khannabee Student: I underachieve.
Dead-Head Khannabee: And I have napped hair!
Bermanga: Me, I invent things!
UPN: Mee mee mee meee!
Keckler: Is everything all right in here?
All: Yes, Keckler.
Khanna Khanna Khanna Khanna/Babees Babees Babees Babees!
What? Oh, you were more of the Kidd Video type? Never mind then.
Happy Birthday, Evil Dr. Mathra! You get to be older than me for all of twelve hours and twelve days.
Eleven years earlier, Dain'ta talks to the young Khannabees about how extra-super-special with gold stars they are. He also tells them that everyone on the Pretty People Playground are afraid of them. "They fear your power, your intellect, your enormous foreheads," Dain'ta lists. Man, they even got ugly-assed kids to play these roles! I'm surprised their genetic engineering didn't supercede the monobrows a few of them are sporting. I mean, at the very least, being a superhuman should mean never having to pluck again. Dain'ta tells the Khannababees that he's just watching over them and that they belong to the future. One of the ugliest kids (Mullet) is slack-jawed until he asks if there are others like them. Dain'ta confirms that there are many others just waiting to be born and freed by their ugly siblings.
Back in the present, Dain'ta make plans to take control of Cold Station 12. Mullet, who somewhere acquired a British accent between childhood and mullethood, wants to destroy the life support system before taking control. Dain'ta doesn't think any lives need be taken. "No one is to be killed -- is that understood?" Dain'ta repeats. He looks at Mullet for his acquiescence. "Yes, understood, Father," Mullet fakes. Dain'ta leaves. Mullet glowers and looks ugly. Neither of which are very hard for him to do.
Bermanga sent seventy of us into exile in this barren sand heap with only the contents of this theme song to sustain us?
A sh'pod zooms toward a structure built into the base of some mountain that looks like it's straight out of Quantum Leap. You know, so much on this show is built into rocks: the Khannbabees Gymboruglee, the Aviary, all the cave sets, Quantum's forehead -- it's sort of like a motif. Quantum logs that, with no other leads, they are following the coordinates Dain'ta gave them last week. The Away Team looks around Gymboruglee for clues. They're going to find a chest full of those teak toys some parents are coddled into thinking will make their children gifted at age three. Actually, it does look like they find a game of SET, but that's probably a coincidence. Quantum determines that the playpen doubled as a classroom. "Imagine having Dain'ta as your teacher," Malcolm scoffs. Well, he's better than Charlie Brown's. Trip observes, "With that and their screwed-up genes, no wunner they turned out the way they did." Trip's got genius envy. Unbeknownst to them, some nappy-haired Khannabee reject watches from the shadows and pulls out a Klingony knife. Trip and Quantum note that the Khannabees took medical equipment with them. Quantum watches home videos of Dain'ta playing with the Khannababees. "I'll be damned," Quantum breathes. Wait, why? They already knew that was the Khannabee colony, and that Dain'ta was the one who brought them there and raised them. Quantum even JUST made the comment about Dain'ta being their teacher, so just what are they supposed to be damned about? I mean, no surprises, right? God, but this show makes stupid line decisions. You'd think I could let this go, but you'd be wrong. It's very distracting to have Bakula playing up a supposedly dramatic moment, yet we having no idea what in the moment is dramatic. Getting a better look at the Khannabee reject, we can see that, yes, he's just as ugly and has a forehead just as preternaturally large as the others. I'll bet he got ditched for being a B student. So much for no child left behind. The Away Team spot him and there's a chase in the caverns. Aw, we missed you, Cave Set -- don't be a stranger! "Leave me alone!" the reject pants. "We're not going to hurt you," Quantum says, leveling his phaser -- which, last time I checked, does actually hurt -- at him. There's a tussle, and Quantum bests the superteen. Yup, definitely a B student if Quantum can take him.
Klingon ship. Mullet finds Dain'ta getting teary-eyed over Head Khannabee's stuff. Dain'ta reminisces, "He was a good student -- he loved astronomy." Mullet is silent. "Where's your brother, Mullet?" Dain'ta asks. "Am I my brother's keeper?" Cain -- I mean, "Mullet" answers. Actually, he doesn't, but I have a feeling that's what the writers are trying to evoke, and the subtlety of it is refreshing. I'm serious. I know it sounds like I'm ladling the hot sarcasm sauce over the bitter pie, but I'm being totally serious. Really. Anyway, Mullet spins a cock and bull story about what happened to Mullet. He cries without actual tears and he apologizes without actual sorrow. Hey, Mullet? The Dolt called -- he wants his Constipated Gibbon face back. Mullet lies when he cries that Head Khannabee came at him with a knife and it was all an accident. He even bullshits that he tried so very hard to save Mullet. Dain'ta seems to buy it, and even blames himself for leaving them alone as children. I'm laughing at the superior intellect.
Sickbay. Phlox reports on the stable yet inferior state of Khannabee Student and confirms that he's not a gold star Khannabee. "He's an anomaly. His DNA is similar to the others but not identical. He doesn't have any of their enhanced abilities." Quantum furrows at Khannabee Student and apologizes for hitting him in the jaw. Khannabee Student gives his real name but says his brothers and sisters call him "Smike." When Quantum furrows at the unusual nickname, Khannabee Student tells him it's from Nicholas Nickleby. "His handicapped friend," Quantum furrows out loud. Wow -- first the Bible and now Dickens? And without any Norton-sized anvils as well. Impressive. Khannabee Student was left behind because being merely Cum Laude would have slowed his siblings down, and he accepts that. He also doesn't want to help Quantum find the other Khannabees. "You'll never stop them, Captain, no one will." Trip comms that the medical equipment taken from the Gymboruglee was a bunch of incubators. Don't worry, I'm sure it's just for a Science Fair project.
Dawsonella and Mullet lie in bed together, all tangled up in fug, while Mullet complains that Dain'ta "is different than [he] remember[s]." "The man who raised us would never risk our lives to protect humans," Mullet bitches. Correct me if I'm wrong, Repulsive, but aren't you human as well? I know you're genetically gifted and crap, but that doesn't change your species. You're an idiot. Also, why does their bed look so comfortable with pillows, soft mattresses, and fuzzy blanket? This is a Klingon ship and Klingons eschew all comforts. Picard and Riker bedded down on metal shelves during their stretches on Klingon ships. What -- these Khannabees thought to tote their down comforters and 1500-thread-count Egyptian cotton sheets with them when they escaped their playpen? I don't think so. I also don't buy that Klingons of the past are less hardcore about comforts than the Klingons of the future. Dawsonella argues that Dain'ta knows what he's doing and that they shouldn't doubt him. Mullet prefers to doubt him and says that Khannabees should be led by Khannabees. They argue some more, and have a minor struggle in bed that ends in sex. Ugly people sex is really heinous. Mullet has tiny man nipples that, truth be told, really don't measure up to Khan's. In fact, he's quite the nippliarly challenged individual. Maybe Dain'ta should fix that time around. There's a na-ha-hasty scene here where Mullet pulls Dawsonella's face really close to his and I had disturbing flashbacks from that scene in Aliens 3 when the mama alien shoves her big, dripping maw near Ripley's face. Yes, I think he's that ugly and his grin is really that freakish. By the way, I think it's really stupid that Dawsonella's Tick Underoos have the same fashionable tears in them. If they're so smart, why doesn't one of the Khannabees learn how to darn clothes?
Enterprise. Trip, Quantum, and T'Pol remind us that Cold Station 12 is where Dain'ta used to work; it's where Starfleet stores a bunch of highly infectious diseases; and it's also where the super-embryos were held after the Eugenics Wars. Dain'ta only took nineteen -- an odd number if you ask me, but maybe they were the prime candidates. Geddit? "Prime," because nineteen is…oh, forget it. You tend to find these things funny when you're married to a mathematician -- and there are over eighteen hundred left. Trip duhs that's why Dain'ta took the incubators.
Jolene? Yeah, it's your agent. Listen, I'm sorry, doll, but you've gotta wear the catsuit awhile longer. What's that? Yeah, I know it's demeaning, pathetic, and I know the velour nap has been ruined by all those masturbating studio executives, but you know it's all because of The Furlong Clause. Yep, you gotta pay your debt to society for dating him. Okay? Now keep your dinners up -- it will all be over soon. Who loves ya, baby?
Quantum explains that, after the wars, it was too controversial to destroy the embryos, so they were put into deep freeze. "I just got off with Admiral Forrest -- we've been authorized to use whatever force necessary to stop Dain'ta," Quantum says. Yeah, evil force.
Denobulan ship. A Denobulan female is tricked into getting tractor-beamed by the Khannabees. There's this one awesome shot where the Bird of Prey rears up from under the Denobulan ship and hovers like a giant King Cobra poised to strike. It was really cool.
Sickbay. Quantum warns Phlox that his friend Dr. Lucas is currently serving as senior medical officer on Cold Station 12. He thought Phlox would want to know. Phlox looks scared and, on the strength of his service on the medical facility, requests to be a member of the boarding party. Quantum agrees. Quantum invites Khannabee Student to dine at his table. "Do I have a choice?" Khannabee Student asks. "No," Quantum smiles, and leaves. Have you noticed how Quantum always has to order people to eat with him? Remember that whole thing with Reed? Kinda makes you wonder. "Be my friend -- that's an order!" Hee.
On the Denobulan ship, Dawsonella clears them through security to approach Cold Station 12. A circular aperture opens in the asteroid, and the Denobulan ship lowers itself in. That's so Star Wars. Dawsonella beats up four or five security personnel before Dain'ta and the rest of the Khannabees join her. Dain'ta punches some stuff on a security screen. Dawsonella hands over an oxygen mask to Dain'ta and reports, "We don't have enough masks." "You don't need masks," Dain'ta informs her. If the Khannabees are so smart, don't you think they'd know they don't need masks? I think these Khannabees are nothing more than just ugly faces.
In some room on Cold Station, a doctor talks to another doctor about the security protocols coming on. Gas starts to pour through the vents, and everyone coughs and falls down. Before collapsing to the ground, the doctor who looks like a walrus drags his hand across a console and initiates a "Code Black" alert.
Captain's Special Table of Enforced Socializing. Quantum and Khannabee Student eat steak and baked potatoes. Quantum commends Khannabee Student for surviving so long on his own, and tells him he should think about going to school when they get back to Earth. Maybe Quantum can write him a rec for Stanford. And then he can join the water polo team. And join Starfleet. And get an advanced degree in Furrowing. His forehead is just an empty slate on which anything can happen! I think it's time to put the beer away. Khannabee Student realizes that Quantum doesn't intend to put him in jail as Dain'ta brainwashed him to believe. Pulling an e-pad out of his ass, Quantum presents Khannabee Student with pictures of his biological parents. Oh wow, the picture Quantum shows Khannabee Student of his father is so, SO bad! I think they took a picture of this actor, tied an ascot (AN ASCOT!) around his neck, and scribbled a Van Dyke beard and black hair on it. In crayon. Quantum goes back to his food -- there are my salt and pepper shakers! -- and tells Khannabee Student that he's welcome to check out all the historic data they pulled on his parents. Khannabee Student snatches up the e-pad. That was a smart move on Quantum's part to get Khannabee deprogrammed. Ah, did you see that? It's a tiny snowflake in hell!
Mess. Quantum walks in for a cup of coffee and observes Phlox sitting in front of a minor feast. Phlox explains that he's approaching a new sleep cycle in a few weeks, so he wants to increase his body mass. Problem is, he's having problems choking it all down because he's so worried about his friend. Quantum assures him they're flying as fast as they can. For some reason, the writers feel the need to remind us that thirty million people died in the Eugenics Wars as Phlox mentions how Khannabee Student is reading up on the subject. "Human intellect and human instinct were out of synch," Phlox comments, and says he can understand why Earth banned genetic engineering after such a massacre. Quantum sits his ass down to talk about the degenerative brain disease his father died of when he was at the furrowing age of twelve. That's a hard time for a child -- all those changes in your body. One day you wake up to zits and furrows and you wonder, "Am I normal?" But then you realize that furrowing is completely normal, and everyone does it. You just have to be careful not to do it all the time. Maybe the problem is I'm not drunk enough. Phlox realizes that Quantum is thinking over what would have happened if genetic engineering had been permitted. "Maybe Dain'ta has a point," Quantum opines. Phlox says he has examined Dain'ta's work more closely, and is forced to admit that it's extremely inventive and brilliant. "It's a shame such a man has to remain incarcerated," Phlox says. "He broke the law," Quantum reminds him, "that's why he's in prison." Phlox nods, looking down. "And that's why I'm gonna make sure he goes back," Quantum finishes. Quantum wonders why Denobula didn't have a Eugenics War when went through their genetic renaissance. Phlox thinks they were lucky, but Quantum thinks it's more like their instinct and intellect caught up to one another. I think it's more like they're an alien species.
Cold Station 12. Some lesser docs get ushered into a holding cell in the main room as Dr. "I Am The Walrus" Lucas insists he doesn't have "the code." Dain'ta scoffs that when he was Senior Medical Director, he had access to the embryos. Dr. Lucas says they changed policy after what Dain'ta did. "He's lying," Mullet bellows. Dain'ta holds up a "back off" hand and asks Dr. Lucas if the lights in his office flicker. "Every two hours -- drives me crazy!" Dr. Lucas exclaims. "Faulty power relay -- you wouldn't believe how many times I asked them to fix it. Ten years later and they still haven't done a thing," Dain'ta says, shaking his head. He orders Mullet to put Dr. Lucas with the others. Mullet doth protest. "I believe him," Dain'ta says dismissively, because…somehow the office lights thing…was a cleverly hidden lie detector test? Yeah, clearly I haven't had enough to drink. Dain'ta turns to the Khannabee who is acting as codebreaker. "It's a hexadecimal password and I'm creating an algorithm to compute the possible combinations -- a few hundred thousand of them. It may take a few minutes," Khannabenigma brags as the Evil Dr. Mathra vomits undigested automorphic forms. "I can't believe I held you back in math," Dain'ta says proudly. Shut up, Dain'ta. How could any holding back happen anyway? I thought they were all with the having of the intellect that was of the superior kind. Cold Station 12 gets a signal that a ship is approaching.
Quantum gets a hail from Dain'ta threatening the lives of the doctors aboard Cold Station 12 unless Quantum turns his ship around. Quantum tries to buy time by talking to Dr. Lucas, but is forced to reverse course once Dain'ta begins to wonder what a Klingon disrupter would do to a human skull at close range. Hm, T'Pol's violet velour catsuit, which got all nasty and stained last week, now looks glossy and completely re-napped. Ah, they must have superior dry cleaners aboard the ship. Yeah, that's it. See? Now I'm drunk enough.
Khannabenigma says the decryption is going to take him much longer than he thought. Sounds like Dain'ta didn't hold him back far enough. You know, aside from the ass-kickings and the phaser-proof skin, we have yet to see exactly how these Khannabees are superior. They really seem to have more brawn than brains. Mullet hands over an e-pad that proves that Dr. Lucas lied about his access to the embryos. Apparently, he has it. Dain'ta growls, "Get him in here."
Trip makes arrangements to mask an Away Team's beam-over as something technobabblicious. Quantum confirms to Khannabee Student that he wants him on the mission. What's up with Khannabee Student wearing that same grey jumpsuit Mozzarella Trip wore? And if there's such a plethora of those, why isn't T'Pol wearing one? Oh, right, The Furlong Clause. Maybe if I repeat that enough I'll believe it.
Mullet smacks Dr. Lucas around for information. Just force him to masturbate while you take a crap on him and you've got the Geneva Accords: The U.S. Edition. Oh, did I just get all political there? Look how not sorry I am. It must be because I have no morals and don't go to church enough. Dain'ta gets Mullet to back off and demands the access information from Dr. Lucas. Dr. Lucas holds his ground. Mullet takes Dain'ta aside and suggests they torture one of Dr. Lucas' colleagues to get Dr. Lucas to talk. Mullet wants to put the chosen one in one of the plastic tubes and release deadly poxes all over his houses. Dain'ta looks upset and horrified and disgusted, but still manages to get talked into it.
The Away Team fires at a Khannabee, and it takes them like fifty phaser hits to take the fugmaster down. You'd think they would have had the sense to modify their weapons after they saw how ineffective they were on the Khannabees last week. Idiots. "And that's what it takes to stun them -- what do you gotta do to kill them?" Reed wonders. I don't know, Mr. Tactical Officer, maybe GET BETTER WEAPONS?
Mullet forces Sanjay Gupta into the plastic tube while Dain'ta tells Dr. Lucas that they are going to submit the doctor to "Symbalene blood burn," which will boil away Dr. Gupta's vascular lining. After which he will strut around in a codpiece and banish his daughter for wanting to marry her stepbrother. "You sunuvabitch!" Dr. Lucas bleeds. "Actually, Mother was a chemist," Dain'ta corrects him in a line that fails to crack me up since they played it over and over and OVER all. Week. Long. Dain'ta expresses his discontent with the current situation and reminds Dr. Lucas that he could stop all this. Dr. Lucas locks his lips and throws away the key on the code. Dain'ta announces, "This is on your conscience then, not mine!" Dawsonella looks slightly disgusted as Mullet pants to release the pathogen. Dr. Gupta starts to cough.
Phlox fiddles with stuff to cut off oxygen in the control room. "We're not talking about normal human beings here," Reed reminds us. "Even a Khannabee needs oxygen," Phlox says.
Everyone watches Dr. Gupta die by inches. He's got lacerations opening all over his body. Dr. Lucas looks down, but Mullet forces his head up again. He doesn't do anything to force his eyes open, though, so I'm not sure what's achieved there. Dain'ta reassures Dr. Lucas that he'll release the anti-pathogen if he'll only give up the code. Khannabenigma tells Mullet about a life support fluctuation. Mullet sends Dawsonella off to investigate. Dr. Gupta pleads to be allowed out. Dain'ta gets very agitated and screams at Dr. Lucas for the code. No dice. "I can't," Dr. Lucas sobs, "I have orders." Riiiight, just follow orders and no one will die, get beaten, or be in any way tortured. Dain'ta finally gives up and orders Mullet to release the anti-pathogen. Mullet stares at him a moment before answering, "No." Khannabenigma watches them with interest. God, is he ugly too! Dain'ta shoves Mullet aside and does it himself. It's too late; Dr. Gupta dies and slides down in the plastic tube. Much like Spock did. The Khannabees look on with complete detachment. We get a view of the control room through the tube and can see all the bloody smears. That was quite effectively graphic. Or would that be "graphically effective"? I guess it would depend on what I'm trying to say, which is really that I want another Buffalo Bill's Pumpkin Ale. That's right, I've switched allegiances now that I live in Pacific Time. If Post Road wants me to continuing pimping their product as I have done lo, these many years, they better find a way to ship the stuff to me. ["I wrote them a very polite email on your behalf, nicely asking them to consider shipping to Cali, but never heard back. Jerks." -- Sars]
Phlox fiddles with more stuff as the Away Team stand guard. Khannabee Student wanders away and looks down the corridors. He tells Quantum that he does have one enhanced ability: he has superior hearing. "They're coming," he says. Dawsonella fires from a corridor and says, "He's wrong, Captain, we're already here." Some enhancement. The Away Team is surrounded.
T'Pol, Trip, and Hoshi realize that the Away Team has been captured. "We have to make sure," Trip thinks. T'Pol agrees.
Dr. Gupta is still dead. The Away Team is escorted into the control room. Phlox is prevented from rushing to Dr. Lucas's side by a Khannabee. Dain'ta nods to allow Phlox access to his friend. Dain'ta and Quantum start to trade barbs until Dain'ta sees Khannabee Student being muscled in. His face softens, and he hugs him. "They told me you were dead -- that you were sick!" Dain'ta says, all amazed. "They lied to you," Quantum announces. Khannabee Student nods. "It was Head Khannabee's order," Mullet says. If that's a lie, I really don't care. Dain'ta doesn't get it. Mullet says he was banished because he wasn't strong enough. Dain'ta looks around in disgust and asks if they all went along with it. They did. "Why are you so surprised? Whenever a group of people start believing they are better than everyone else, the results are always the same," Quantum pontificates. "I don't need a history lesson from you," Dain'ta sneers. Damn right. They pick up Enterprise on their scanners. Dain'ta comms the ship saying that he has the Away Team in custody so they better not interfere. "T'Pol -- execute your orders!" Quantum shouts. The Khannabees make me jealous by shoving Quantum and his furrows to the ground.
On the ship, T'Pol ends the transmission and orders them to "bring up the data file." Now, will that include all the information about Spot and his nutritional supplements as well as the plays, art, and music he's currently studying? I'm just wondering.
Dain'ta tries to get Quantum to tell him what those mysterious orders are. Quantum proves more willing than Dr. Lucas to share: "To initiate the station's self-destruct sequence. In a few seconds, this place will be dust." Dain'ta can't believe he'd kill them all over a few embryos. "It wasn't my idea -- the orders came from Starfleet." What's with all the hiding behind the orders crap? "But," Quantum continues, "after seeing this [cut to Dead Dr. Gupta] I can't say I disagree." Mullet sneers that they are defending their right to exist. Quantum points out that their "existence" comes at a toe tag price. "It could get higher!" Mullet hisses. Higher than your forehead, Heinous the Anus?
Hoshi pulls up the self-destruct sequence. "T'Pol," Trip pleads. T'Pol looks at him and orders Hoshi to proceed. Hoshi pauses momentarily before following the orders: "Ten seconds to auto-destruct."
Apparently, the ten seconds elapsed during the commercial break, and the station's still there. "I think it's safe to say we're gonna need another plan," Trip says. T'Pol announces that they will destroy it their own damn selves. Trip reminds her, "It's buried inside an asteroid." Just like Kirk! T'Pol orders up some photonic torpedoes. May-bug takes the ship closer.
Dain'ta is exultant over the fact they they're still alive. Aliiiiive. ALIIIIIIIVE! Mullet suggests that since Phlox and Dr. Lucas are friends, they stick Phlox in the tube and get Lucas to talk. Dain'ta protests weakly, but Mullet ignores him as he searches for appropriate torture.
Enterprise is about to lock weapons on the torpedo when the Klingon Bird of Prey emerges and gives them trouble. Firefight.
Mullet accesses a virulent form of Cancelitis. "Stop, stop!" Dain'ta says, trying to stop him. Mullet shoves Dain'ta to the floor. Everyone gapes. Dr. Lucas finally breaks and pleads with Mullet to stop, whimpering that he'll give them the codes. Mullet almost doesn't stop. Dr. Lucas inputs the code. Khannabenigma announces that the embryo stasis chamber is opening. "Get him outta there," Dain'ta orders Mullet. Mullet glares but releases Phlox. Dain'ta nods at a few Khannabees to come with him. "You come with us," he orders Khannabee Student. Khannabee Student trades smoldering glances with Quantum and says he'd rather stay. "I understand," Dain'ta says, and hugs him. "I hope you have a long, happy life." Well, since you said it, he clearly won't. Dawsonella stays to glare at...someone.
Fighting in space. T'Pol orders the ship to target the station.
In a room of really bad bluescreen effects, Dain'ta gets all nostalgic over where the grown-up Khannabees were hatched. "So hard to choose nineteen out of so many," Dain'ta chokes. Khannabenigma looks all, "Da-ad, come o-on -- you're embarrassing me!"
More firefights.
Mullet burns a bunch of the deadliest diseases onto a DVD. Dawsonella mouth drops wide enough to match her forehead. "Can't hurt to have a little insurance," Mullet thinks. On her way to pick up the package of pathogens from the stasis unit, Dawsonella shoves the Away Team and the station's doctors into the containment cell. Quantum puts up a fight, and Khannabee Student helps. Mullet throws Quantum across the room and says, "I wasn't sure how I'd justify killing you. Now you've given me the perfect excuse." Oh, please. Like that's supposed to mean anything to us when you've already shown that you need no justification whatsoever to kill others? Get a new Evil Shtick, Mugly. Quantum hauls himself to his feet. "Whatever I can do to help," he pants. Mullet decides not to shoot Quantum, but aims to beat him to death instead. I can sympathize with that. He walks over to the groaning captain. The groaning captain kicks him in the head. He's certainly got a big enough target for it. "You're a competent fighter," Mullet comments. More competent fighting. "But that isn't good enough," Mullet grimaces as he seem to bleed black blood from his nose. Smack, punch, pow. Mullet throws Quantum into some removable wall that sparks and falls on him. "I wish I had time to continue our little match," Mullet says. Who does he think he is -- the Scarlet Pimpernel? Mullet punches some buttons and says that five minutes after they leave, the chamber will be flooded with a mess of really germy germs. "I wonder which one will kill you first," Mullet muses. "Stick around and find out," Quantum bleeds, bluff to the end. What a super intelligent way to ensure Quantum and Co.'s deaths. See, this is what happens when evil genius children aren't allowed to watch television -- they miss TBS's James Bond marathons and grow up stupid. Mullet smiles and says he likes him. He adds that he can't allow his brother to die in such a matter. "This will be much less painful," and he shoots Khannabee Student in his little underachieving heart. After the Khannabees leave, Quantum scurries to Khannabee Student's side, but it's too late -- he's already joined that regular-level reading group in the sky.
Enterprise. Trip notes that a shuttle containing Khannabees and a human is leaving the station and moving toward the Klingon ship. T'Pol orders them to fire at it. They miss, and the shuttle docks with the Klingon ship before it jumps to warp.
Cold Station 12. They have four minutes and can only stop the containment breach in the primary junction. Quantum Mapquests it and takes off. He runs to a tube and looks down. Loooooong way down. He looks up. Loooooong way up. He starts to climb.
week: Will Quantum finish climbing the tube before he dies of girl cooties? Who can tell?