Move Along Home at THIRTY

[Finn]

What a coincidence! Just watched “Move Along Home” the other day, without even knowing about its anniversary. Now I feel old.

I totally have a soft spot for this episode, which is one of my go-to goofy, casual fun Trek episodes whenever I feel like putting something on I've seen a million times.

I love how harmless it is, even though it always rubs me the wrong way that in the end everyone seems to be more angry with Quark than with the Wadi. His attempt to cheat them doesn't give them the right to make Sisko and the others live through actual pain, like when Jadzia hurts her legs. That it's so easily played off as inconsequential in the end is weird.

Having just recently watched “The Princess Bride” for the first time ever, I noticed some similarities between Falow and Mandy Patinkin's Inigo Montoya in terms of look and mannerisms, although the latter is obviously much more over-the-top.

For some reason my favorite moment has always been this exchange …

BASHIR: Seriously, we've gone from the second shap to the third shap to the fourth shap already.
KIRA: What is a shap?
BASHIR: I have no idea …

Bashir most likely figured out what it meant thanks to his genetically-engineered intellect, but he had to fake it not to raise suspicions.

Discuss!

 

[fireproof78]

The hate this episode gets is laughable.

Why? Some episodes are not for everyone. This is an episode that utilizes an odd framing device that could be interesting, but tortures Quark in the process, and plays it off for laughs.

That's not enjoyable for me.

 

[Commander Troi]

I find I only barely remember this episode. I think it was kinda fun?

I gotta do a DS9 rewatch.


PS - why in the 9 billion names were you up so early?!?!

 

[Oddish]

Of course, you do have to ask that one question... why did the Wadi trap a winsome little girl inside their game and make her play hopscotch for eternity?

 

[Farscape One]

She was just a computer construct, like the Falow in the game and the other prople in that poison room.

 

[Oddish]

She was just a computer construct, like the Falow in the game and the other prople in that poison room.

AHHHHH!! They trapped a room full of party guests, too! Have they no shame?!

 

[Captain pl1ngpl0ng]

i always loved this episode

 

[Jellico]

This is among my least least liked, if that makes any sense. I still do sit through it on rewatches. It’s part of the canon.
Shap! SHAP OUT!

 

[Tango]

PS - why in the 9 billion names were you up so early?!?!

Arthur C. Clarke reference, nice!

 

[CRM-114]

I don't like this episode, and I feel no need to revisit it but I also don't hate it with the vitriol it seems to inspire in others. That said, I think it's biggest problem is that it didn't fit the more down-to-Earth tone DS9 is already establishing for itself. "Move Along Home" feels like it could've been a TOS or early TNG episode without much rewriting.