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It’s the final countdown y’all. Worf gets lost. Sisko gets some land and also engaged. Plus there’s a war on.
They’ve dabbled with serialization, how does DS9 kick off the longest arc any Star Trek had attempted? What approach did the writers take to assembling the story?
What mandates and rules did they have to adhere to?
It’s all led up to… this?
Continue reading “Penumbra”In times of war the law falls silent. WE DO NOT.
Julian is contacted by Section 31 to run some spy shenanigans at a conference. We end up discussing more than just this episode, and trying to decipher if DS9 overall is portraying a hard moral philosophy or not.
Continue reading “Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges”We got holodeck shenanigans. Sisko has good reason to not want to go to not visit the 60s. We revisit the career of beloved actor Mike Starr.
Waitaminute. Do people not like Vic? Finally: An episode not based on an old movie, right?
Continue reading “Bada Bing Bada Bang”Odo meets one of his people, and their intimate relationship causes some tension with Kira.
Sex vibes for days.
For all that creators have acknowledged in the DS9 doc and elsewhere that the show could have done better with LGBTQ issues, is this episode an example of exploring those questions? Or more about marginalized identites in general? We may not be the best equipped to talk about it, but we’re gonna try.
Continue reading “Chimera”A killer is on the loose, but does it take a killer to catch a – oh this is something we’ve seen before.
What is the bad part of this episode? Is there any part of it that isn’t just a take on Silence of the Lambs?
Continue reading “Field of Fire”The Nagus is Missing in the Alternate Universe and Quark and Rom need a cloaking device for the Regent.
It’s the final Mirror Universe episode of Deep Space Nine, and we couldn’t be more upset.
Two of our favorite things. The Mirror Universe PLUS Ferengi shenanigans!
Get ready to talk about evil bisexual tropes.
O’Brien is missing from Deep Space Nine, and also from most of this episode. To find him Ezri must go home to face her family and the … the toxic effects of capitalism?
The sequel that definitely nobody asked for.
Not even the writers apparently. What happened here? Who is owed an apology?
Nog has some very understandable issues to deal with. Maybe we do too?
Is this the best holodeck episode ever? Is that damning with faint praise? What makes a holodeck episode anyway?
Vic Fontaine. Oh Vic. OH MY, how some people hate you.
Hey remember how cults were all the rage in the 90s?
Kira Nerys does. Should she be more ready to disengage from Dukat’s tiresome shenanigans at this point?
What cult is this? Koresh or Applewhite?
Say what you will about this, it has a hard target.
War is hell. Sisko and crew get put in the middle of it.
What does the end of History and the 90s have to do with this episode? WELL WE’RE GONNA TALK ABOUT IT.