In The Pale MoonlightGarek is a brilliant character. Twisting, turning and you are never sure what side he's on or what he's going to do next. An absolute scumbag, but could charm his way out of anything.
I figured the data rod would be enough but was stunned when it turned out Garek's plan was to murder the Romulan in order to bring them into the war. He's such a devious banana split. Fabulous performances from Andrew Robinson and Avery Brooks. A wonderful episode. Every single time there's an episode of this quality it makes me sad that the first few seasons of DS9 were so bad. I'm glad I managed to stick it out.
His WayIs this the first time there has been "modern" music in Trek? They always seem to play classical music, I assume to save money on copyrighted music, interesting they do have 20th century music in the future.
This was far from dreadful, but didn't really hold my interest. I'm far more into the war, politics and exploring in Trek, than I am in with the love stories.
The ReckoningWith the way he treats ancient artefacts, it's a good job that Sisko isn't an archaeologist.
At the end I just couldn't stop thinking of
Ghostbusters. I kept imagining some "are you the Gatekeeper?" dialogue For something about 25 years old, the effects are pretty damn good in this show.
Hmmm, I'm not too interested in the Bajoran religion and prophecies. So it's an ok episode but is never going to be close to my top episodes.
ValiantStar Trek: Kidz Edition
Not a top class episode, but nice to catch up on the Red Squad. Their
Captain was a dick, but it was nice to see
Nog getting a promotion, even if it was temporary! Profit and LaceErghh was that sexual harassment at the start supposed to be funny? It felt really weird, like we were supposed to be amused by Quark. And the ending didn't help, he clearly hasn't changed a bit.
Meh. For a comedy episode, it wasn't very amusing other than laughing at the way Quark looked.
Time's OrphanO'Brien really is a gooseberry fool father. "I'll never leave you again Molly" he says before snogging his wife and not noticing that the kid goes into a cave.
I do love how American TV allows Irish/British swearing though..."bollocks!"
I wrote the above just after the opening credits and almost added "although he's great compared to Worf". And then saw Worf's attempt at babysitting
What sort of strawberry floating plan is that?
"yeah, I'll send my feral daughter back in time 300 years so she can live completely by herself and we'll never see her again. There's no other way!" I don't care that older Molly sent the younger one back, what sort of parent would ever send their strawberry floating child back in time like that??!!! strawberry float me
It was an offensively bad solution, it actually made me angry. Just mind meltingly bad writing.
And after all that happened, Worf felt the need to apologise?
A very gooseberry fool episode. The O'Brien family is crap and you can tell the writers knew it because they keep sending them away. O'Brien's a great character, they should have just kept him as a grumpy engineer who occasionally has fun with Bashir playing WW2/60s spies in the holosuit.
Still, I never thought I'd end up fancying Molly.
The Sound of Her Voice20ish minutes in. Prediction: they are not talking to a real person. The voice is some sort of AI, either fully AI or an AI based on the memories of the woman who probably died a few years before. She's WAY too perceptive to be human and it's suspicious she doesn't sleep.
Ahh, bollocks, I was sort of close. I didn't think of
time travelling voices due to the energy field Pretty good episode.
Tears of the ProphetsA few episodes before this one,
I looked ahead at the Netflix episodes to see how many were left in the season. And the description in S7E1 gave away the death. I think I'd have been quite shocked if I hadn't already known she was a goner. A good end to the season. Decent action and it's set up a lot of plot for the final season.