Well a lot of T'Pol in this one, and one very key scene of  the Reedygoodness!  T'Pol is very Reed-like in this episode, at least until the twit Tolaris messes with her.  Polly all but laughs at  Admiral Jonny Archer's book.  Archer and T'Pol don't have much time to discuss, for Reed comms them! Sure he was probably in charge on the bridge at the moment, but he says Hoshi says, so why didn't she do it?  Reed is a jealous boy!  Besides, he's calling about Vulcans!

    Watch this one again, folks.  Reed checks out T'Pol when she comes out of the Ready Room! Everyone rolls their heads at the thought of personable Vulcans, but where Archer, Travis, and Hoshi chuckled, Malcolm just looks up at T'Pol, respectfully inquiring that she might have an answer.  The sublties DK puts into his perfomance is just so cool.
    The Vulcans ask for help, and Malcolm puts his hands on his hips.  Just a tad suspicious, isn't he? He looks to Archer as if to say 'You can't  be falling for that one again, sir!'  Reed then checks his station, presumably to see if what the Vulcans say is damaged is in fact damaged.  It must be, because Reed returns to his cool suave self.

    T'Pol, meanwhile is stuck entertaining these Vulcans.  Tolaris is clearly a cretin (or in Italian cretino!) He checks out Polly repeatedly and she is clearly uncomfortable.  And you know, she really didn't have Vulcan eyebrows back then!  T'Pol tells these 'Vulcans without logic' that it is impossible to balance emotion and logic.  But I thought with the proper discipline anything is possible?  Besides, Malcolm seems to have mastered the two, at least on the outside!  T'Pol admits she cannot be offended by the lack of  logical, so I guess she doesn't get offended at Reed looking at her all the time? 80)

    What exactly is Chicken Marsaila? Can someone please tell me?! Trip and Reed both passed on 'the ol' marsala' in Shuttlepod One. What the heck is it?!
    Archer, as clueless as I am about Marsala, all but orders T'Pol to spend time with these Vulcans.  'Just because they smile and eat chicken doesn't mean they have mastered their emotions.'  T'Pol tells it to Archer! However, he feels his instincts are dead on (roll eyes here please).  Archer is a little to forceful. I think T'Pol just might know more about him in this matter, but does he listen to his science officer?! No! And T'Pol, being as cool as she is, tries to appease Archer and doesn't debate with her Captain.  How Reed!

    Reedygoodness on the Pol again! T'Pol uses her Reed-casim when Tolaristwit asks what else she drinks. T'Pol does love her tea, both Mint and Camomille. I don't know about anyone else, but when I think tea I think Britain.  Cretin Tolaris says T'Pol is more attached to humans than she realizes, and one in particular, too.

    Malcolm, meanwhile is stuck on the Bridge looking at the cluster thing with Archer. 'Is it what you imagined sir?' Reed says that so wickedly! >80)  Again, Archer turns to T'Pol and orders her to work on the Vulcan ship.  Sure she doesn't mind working with them, ecspecially since you asked her on the bridge in front of the Vulcan Captain!  T'Pol makes do, admiting the stellar phenomenon is 'astehically pleasing'.  Hmmm....what else does she find so? Tolaris twists T'Pol's words around, and she admits that once in her life she questioned if there was more to life than logic and reason. Once? Liar! And she has lied before, I remind you.
 

    Ah yes, The Reedygoodness of the night!  My dad missed Shuttlepod One, but when he saw this scene, he instantly said that Reed has a crush on T'Pol.  I thought I was observant!  The first time around, I didn't even notice! Kov and Trip are talking about Vulcan sex. The moment the words are uttered, Reed appears out of nowhere and invites himself to sit down with them.  I rewound and rewound.  Reed isn't sitting at any of the other tables, and you don't  here the door slide open,  yet someone says 'Sex!' and Malcolm lurks into view behind Trip, holding a mug I might add. What's in it?  Mint or Camomille tea? 80)  Not to mention the Padd in his left hand, just like T'Pol!

    Malcolm introduces himself as 'Reed. Malcolm Reed.'  You gotta love that! Kov says they are talking about Vulcan mating rituals. Malcolm looks at Trip with this 'Oh Really I had no idea!'  Bullshit!  Kov says most Vulcans are inhibited and  find the subject uncomfortable to talk about.  At this, Reed tenses up and straightens in the seat. Does he normally find the talk uncomfortable? Me thinks so, but he just couldn't let Trip know and not him.  Kov tells them about the seven year itch, and Mal hangs his head and utters 'Frightening!'  The engineers leave, and Malcolm sits back down (having stood at their exit like such a gentleman!) He chuckles to himself, shakes his head, then works on his Padd. He's not letting that get him down! No sir!

    Tolaris, slimely bastard, has been itching in on T'Pol.  She takes his advice to not mediate.  T'Pol dreams of primal urges, jazz, and sex! I like her away jacket, have I ever said that before? Anyway, T'Pol tells Phlox she is agitated by the dreams.  What? Not her usual 'unsettled'? She tells Phlox to give her an exact does of medicine. How does she know what medicine works when she has wet dreams do to lack of meditation? 80) Oh there you go, she said unsettling.  I like that word. It's so....Reed!  T'Pol is against the risks, saying they are unwise, but Phlox tells her things take time.  Like asking out Malcolm may be risky and unwise and takes time.

    Tolaris does not care about confidentiallity and pries when T'Pol wants to keep her dreams private. All this about a memory of T'Pol's, all started on The Streets of San Francisco!  Was Malcolm there?  T'Pol says thejazz music was 'unusual and chaotic' . That sounds a little Reedy, too, doesn't it? He is a bit quirky.  If music invigorates T'Pol......>80)

    Archer finally gets a clue and asks Trip about Tolaris.  Trip describes the cretino as quiet and sullen.  It's always the quiet ones! Wait, Reed is the quiet one. Uh, moving on!  T'Pol gives Tolaris permission to do a Mind Meld, but he doesn't stop when she asks him too. That is what pisses me off.  He gets off on her pain, which really pisses me off, so you can imagine what Malcolm would have done.  Archer cons Tolaristwit into admitting what he did, and Archer resorts to pulling a phase pistol.  Malcolm could have done that!  Archer goes to visit T'Pol in her quarters, but does he apologize for making her hang with the green freak? No!  Tolaris twit zooms away with his pals, no punishment is mentioned.  Boo!  Malcolm would have court-marshalled his ass, er bum!