Observer Effect Line-by-Line

[Kertrats47]

SATO: In my second month, I had a difference of opinion with the company commander. I broke his arm.

 

[sekundant]

TUCKER: Can I ask why?

 

[Kertrats47]

SATO: Poker.

 

[May 20]

TUCKER: You broke his arm playing cards?

 

[Kertrats47]

SATO: He tried to shut down a game I was running for some of the recruits and a couple of the training staff.

 

[May 20]

TUCKER: Hold on. You ran a floating poker game at STC?

 

[Kertrats47]

SATO: The way the regulations are worded, gambling was an honor violation only if it took place during duty hours, so I ran the game on weekends. One night my C.C. showed up, tried to sweep all the chips off the table, and I... well, I have a black belt in aikido. I think he was just upset that I hadn't invited him to play.

 

[May 20]

TUCKER: What happened?

 

[sekundant]

HOSHI: I got a bad conduct discharge.

 

[Hopeful Romantic]

TRIP: How the hell did you end up on Enterprise?

[And she seemed like such a fraidy-cat in Season 1. ]

 

[Athena28]

HOSHI: Starfleet needed language specialists more than they needed to make an example out of me. They let me back in on probation, and here I am.

 

[May 20]

[Sickbay]

PHLOX: The closest classification it matches is a virus. Highly contagious. Silicon-based.

 

[sekundant]

ARCHER: This is an M class planet. All life forms down there should be carbon-based.

 

[May 20]

PHLOX: I can only surmise the virus was brought here. Perhaps by a meteorite, which could explain why only one of our landing parties encountered it.

 

[Kertrats47]

ARCHER: Is there a treatment?

 

[May 20]

PHLOX: There's no record of anything like it in the Denobulan database.

 

[Kertrats47]

ARCHER: Then it's up to you.

 

[sekundant]

PHLOX: I'll do all I can, Captain, but at the rate the pathogen is reproducing, Commander Tucker and Ensign Sato have less than five hours to live.

 

[Kertrats47]

[Mess hall]

MAYWEATHER: The doctor identified the pathogen.

 

[May 20]

REED: That happens 37 percent of the time.