I swear, a lot more use to take place during these episodes. The story telling is so slowly paced, each episode it feels like absolutely nothing happens. In one episode of Stat Trek the whole of man kind can be threatened but the issue gets resolved before the credits roll. Hard to believe that each episode of Lost is pretty close to the same length of an episode of Star Trek, yet it feels like less than half the length.
Anyway, an interesting spin at the end of the episode. Maybe the same thing also has to do with Jack's conversation with Hurley and his concern of whether or not Hurley was going to say anything.