Commander Tucker and Lieutenant Reed are on a mission in Shuttlepod One when their sensors and communications go down. They return to the spot where they left the Enterprise only to find nothing but debris from the Enterprise. They conclude that the Enterprise has been destroyed and start heading for the nearest starbase. They do not have enough energy to get there before the air in the shuttle runs out.
Commander Tucker insists on thinking positively about their chances of survival. Lieutenant Reed is much less optimistic about their odds of being found before they run out of oxygen. The two men soon start getting on one another's nerves. Lieutenant Reed has a dream that they are back on the the Enterprise. He comes very close to kissing T'Pol in the dream. The two men get very tipsy on a bottle of Kentucky bourbon. They turn down the heat to below freezing which they calculate will give them an additional 12 hours to breathe.
The Enterprise was not destroyed. They get back to the shuttle a couple hours before Tucker and Reed would have run out of air. The final scene is similar to Lieutenant Reed's dream with the exception that T'Pol shows no personal interest in Reed.
This episode is for the most part focused on Tucker and Reed. I believe this is the most screen time that Lieutenant Reed has received in any on the episodes I have watched this time around. There are a few scenes that take place on the Enterprise before the men are rescued but they are brief. There wasn't any suspense as to whether the men would get rescued on not. Obviously they would. The episode was about seeing what happened Reed and Tucker when the chips are down. This is not my favorite episode but I like it and consider it to be worthy of inclusion in a selective re-watch of this season.
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