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ST: DS9 Behind The Scenes (LaserDisc)Includes interviews from the cast and contains sneak peaks into the show's first season.All the videos, songs, images, and...
::: spoiler spoiler If Kai Winn had taken Kira's advice in "Till Death do Us Part" -- if she had stepped down as Kai, and given up her power -- do you think The Prophets would have forgiven her? Would have taken her to their heart? Or was she just too far gone by that point? :::
::: spoiler spoiler And also, given Kira was The Chosen of The Prophets to represent them during The Reckoning, is it possible that The Prophets did in fact speak to The Kai directly by sending Kira to her to tell her to step down, and that Winn failed to see it because she was blinded by the desire for power?
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While the entire episode is suitably entertaining, the high point is most definitely Rom's musings on the nature of the "alternate" universe.
Max Grodenchik plays "slightly confused" just perfectly and adds much needed comedy to the episode.
If episodes like "Hard Time" and "In the Pale Moonlight" and so on showcase Deep Space Nine at its best, then there is one moment in "In Purgatory's Shadow" that encapsulates the worst parts of the entire series.
::: spoiler spoiler We learn that Julian has been a prisoner of The Dominion for several months, and that has been replaced by a Founder back on DS9.
And suddenly -- back on DS9 -- we see Alexander Siddig looking EVIL (tm).
He's never looked evil before. But from that point on he looks EVIL (tm) in everything he does. As if we -- the audience -- need reminding that he is a BAD GUY (tm). As if we aren't smart enough to realise that he is a bad guy just because we've been told once. We have to be constantly reminded. :::
It is truly appalling writing and acting -- just really, really bad. Especially when compared to things like the "Molly" scene in Hard Time and the whole of "Moonlight"
These two episodes share a common thread, and I can't help wonder if "For The Uniform" was a beta test (for want of a better phrase) for "In The Pale Moonlight", or if "Moonlight" was planned all along.
::: spoiler spoiler But the point is "Moonlight" is praised for Sisko doing a lot of "un Starfleet like things" to achieve his ends, but when you look at it, he'd already crossed that line in "Uniform", although maybe not quite to the same degree. :::
I am not saying "Moonlight" isn't a very good episode -- it is one of the best and is justly considered so. But I tend to think that "Uniform" is generally underrated.
It is rare that I say this, but "Hard Time" is an episode that outstrips all but one of the episodes of Babylon 5.
As a series B5 is far superior in writing and content, but this single episode of DS9 just blows every other episode of B5 away (the finale excepted)
Miles is forced to live 20 years of prison in half an hour -- it is burned into his memory -- and he comes back to DS9 suffering from PTSD and is a changed man. He is angry, and he goes through a very tough adjustment.
::: spoiler spoiler It builds up, getting worse and worse, until a truly heartbreaking scene where he nearly hits his daughter just because she wants some attention.
You can see the pain -- the horror -- on his face when he realises what he has done, and he walks out because he knows he is a danger to Molly and to Keiko.
He then goes to a docking bay, and picks up a phaser, with the intention of blowing his head off. :::
Colm Meany excels himself -- it is the high point of his role (odd as it sounds) -- and given that it is a stand alone episode, outside of any plot or story line, it is just amazing.
I haven't seen any other episode of any other series -- British or American or anything else -- that has matched this. And given it is Star Trek? When you compare and contrast it to TNG and Voyager, it is beyond belief.
I cannot praise it enough. And this, and Pale Moonlight, are what make DS9 the best of the Star Trek shows, for me at least.
It isn't just me who thinks the whole way the show approaches Ferengi ears is weird, right?
They have women stroking them in public, which gives the Ferengi pleasure.
They have women and men grabbing them in public, which causes them pain.
At one point Ishka (Quark's mother) grabs both her sons' ears as some kind of discipline.
So are ears sexual organs? Or just pleasure organs? Or just very sensitive organs?
Or some kind of combination of all three?
I know this seems unlikely, but did they write this episode just to give Avery Brooks an excuse to kiss every woman on the show?
Because he does seem to kiss a lot of the women on the show in this episode :)
When did Dukat become evil?
During "The Maquis, Part 1 & Part 2" he seemed genuinely interested in making the treaty between The Federation and The Cardassians work.
And yet by Series 4, Series 5 he seemed genuinely determined wipe out The Federation, and to reconquer Bajor. And the less said about his time with The Pah-Wraiths the better.
So was he just faking it during "The Maquis"? Or did something cause him to flip a switch (so to speak)?