#DS91sttime: Season 3, Episode 19, “Through the Looking Glass”
June 5, 2013 in #DS91sttime, General Topics
What a wasted chance. Season 3, Ep 19: “Through the Looking Glass”
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#DS91sttime: Season 3, Episode 18, “Distant Voices”
May 28, 2013 in #DS91sttime, General Topics
The title of “Distant Voices” is oddly metaphoric for its central problem. This was an episode that always held me at arm’s length. It’s obsessed with its own premise, but unsure how to spin up its plot. My wife, a solid Trek devotee, gradually moved toward skipping it altogether. I stuck through it, but I can’t say I blamed her when she made good on her threats.
The problems start right off the bat, when Garak and Bashir’s actually-interesting conversation about aging is interrupted by Quark and some alien. Read the rest of this entry →
#DS91sttime: Season 3, Episode 17, “Visionary”
May 22, 2013 in #DS91sttime, General Topics
O’Brien, meet O’Brien. Season 3, Ep 17: “Visionary”
Goody. Another time travel episode.
Only, not really: here the jumps aren’t setting up a dystopian episode or establishing a comedy of errors, but instead a mystery. And with each time shift, the stakes progress for O’Brien. The first shows an almost bemusing future conversation; the last has me wondering why O’Brien didn’t come out of these events with a Federation medal, if not a
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#DS91sttime: Season 3, Episode 16, “Prophet Motive”
May 15, 2013 in #DS91sttime, General Topics
Reaction over new Rules of Acquistion in Season 3, Ep 16: “Prophet Motive”
When the show reduces the Ferengi to caricatures, however, it’s a mixed bag. And, sadly, “Prophet Motive” milks this method to the point that it becomes tiring, while also managing to betray the air of mystery surrounding the wormhole’s inhabitant race, the Prophets. If I could choose the worst way for this enigmatic species to appear on the show, it would be this one.
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#DS91sttime: Season 3, Episode 15, “Destiny”
May 10, 2013 in #DS91sttime, General Topics
The sophisticated targets of a priest’s ire in Season 3, Ep 15: “Destiny”
Here, he’s Vedek Yarka, warning Commander Sisko not to allow a group of female Cardassian scientists on board. A prophecy from the show’s enigmatic Bajoran religion is afoot, and the Vedek thinks letting these ladies participate in their joint Federation/Cardassian project–intended to create a way to pass messages through the wormhole–will destroy it.
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