Engineering. A few Suliban patrol around the warp core and get knocked out by their own phasers. Fired by T'Pol and Trip, of course. T'Pol nerve-pinches the remaining Suliban and shouts, "Ready!" to Trip. Trip scrambles down to the core and fiddles with it.

Apple Core Helix. Silik desperately plays with the bathroom scale near the Temporal Shower pad. You know what would be helpful? Some of those rubber flower stick-ums to prevent slippage. I had a nasty fall in the tub once and tore all the muscles in my lower back. Those flower stick-ums could have prevented that, and the Temporal Shower Man should look into it.

Enterprise bridge. An alarm goes off, and several Suliban scurry around. One comms Engineering to ask, "Engineering? How did this happen?" There's no response.

Temporal Shower Room. Silik still hasn't figured out how to get the scale to read his weight in stone rather than pounds when he answers a call. "What is it?" he demands irritably. "The anti-matter stream has been compromised," comes the report. Silik tells him to shut down the warp reactor, but the Suliban tells him that Engineering isn't responding, so he's sent soldiers. Silik tells him to keep him informed, and goes back to his bathroom scale.

Engineering. A control panel flashes "Core Breach In Progress" in red as Suliban scurry around. Stuff explodes from the reactor. The Suliban leave.

Temporal Shower Room. Silik starts to get the beginning of some action on the shower pad. Ew, not like that. He's beeped from the Enterprise. "These humans are greater fools than I thought. They'd rather commit mass suicide than submit to us," the Suliban tells him. Silik asks if he corrected the problem. "It's too late, the reactor's going to breach," comes the answer. Silik tells him they can't endanger the Apple Core Helix, and instructs him to evacuate his men and have the ship towed out of the nebula. "There's very little time, will you alert the tractor team?" the Suliban asks. Silik's nostrils flare: "You do it. I'm busy!" Silik crouches next to the shower pad as yellow beams of light waver around.