Captain's Mess. Hygiene Alien's beeper alerts him that all is not well. He dashes off, refusing T'Pol's offer to show him the way or to take him tonight to the river and wash his allusions away. In the alien cargo hold, Trip fights to open the pod as Pod White pounds and screams. She's got one BIG mouth -- sheer circumference-wise, not noise-level-wise. Hygiene Alien demands to know what he's doing, and Trip yells that she's suffocating. She'd have a lot more oxygen if she'd stop yelling. Finally, Trip gets the pod open, and we can see that Pod White is interested in a little bondage with her Prince Charming. That is, her wrists are bound in shackles. Trip helps her sit up and tries to explain what went wrong with her pod, but she swears at him in alienish. Hygiene Alien sneaks behind Trip and knocks him over the cosh with something heavy. You know, I can't believe how far this show has worked its way into my shell -- irritating every layer of my sensitive skin in the hopes of producing a pearl. I'm telling you, all it's going to produce is a boil. This week, I was watching The Four Musketeers and when Athos called out "Porthos!" all I could think of was The Dog. It's even ruining my classics!