Ooof. Long post. In the last 24 hours I have watched New Picard and Old DS9. I am living my best Star Trek life!
The Sound of Her Voice:
The Bad -- I don't buy Quark hanging out with Jake and also just giving up at all. I kept waiting for his double double cross.
The Good -- I totally buy Quark and Odo.
The Ugly -- This felt like a MASH episode. And not in a good way.
OBut overall not bad. It had many MANY saving graces.
I knew there would be a twist with the survivor. I was afraid it would be a trap.
"...because someday we're going to wake up and we're going to find that someone is missing from this circle, and on that day we're going to mourn, and we shouldn't have to mourn alone." Camera settles on Jadzia. DS9 being Joss Whedon even before Joss was.
Tears of the Prophets:
Well. Might as well "live" stream this one. Coffee. Big screen TV. Time to watch. When I open Amazon I can see the thumbnail for a couple of episodes later and Ezri is smiling back at me. Gulp.
OK, here we go...
The is a STUFF IS HAPPENING episode. Did people know when it aired that Farrell was leaving? I know we knew when Denise Crosby was leaving. I didn't even know anything about Jennifer Lien / Jeri Ryan.
I'm getting emotional at the opening credits. Oh boy...
"It WAS a private matter."
It's a full house on the guest star list. Garak, Martog, Weyoon, Vic, Damar. No Kasidy? (Frak, I just googled for the spelling and I got back Yates-Sisko. It's tough staying unspoiled 25 years after the fact.)
Excelsior class! It's like the Anakin Skywalker of Star Trek ships! (We get way more of it than the TMP Enterprise class that we actually wanted and it's also way better on television than it was in the movies.)
Hey look! David Birney! And TNG uniforms! This episode must have been spendy! (This is how cool the Romulans should always be. This is Balance of Terror cool!)
Seriously Vic even sings like Alan Arkin.
Vic is a rogue AI and must be destroyed. Of course we all love him. That's the insidious part!
Worf and Jadzia can't go on missions but Jake can go on the Defiant? Face it, Ben would fold like a wet foldy thing if Jake was in trouble. Bill Adama had more backbone about his kids.
Do the Prophets ever take faces that aren't already paid for in the episode?
Dukat has a Space Lighter. Cool.
Dukat starts opening the whatever that is: "I find myself uncomfortable with this Jewish ritual. Are you sure it's necessary?"
"I've been helping you to avoid me"
"It's an ungodly hour to go to war."
Oh damn, Jadzia is staying behind.
Ahhhh the Big Ass CG Fleet. This is probably as good as it gets. Too many ships and they're all RIGHT ON TOP OF EACH OTHER. Eventually we get to Picard. It's SPACE, people! (But congratulations to Mr. Stipes all the same.)
"You're a good friend." "And I always have been and I always will be." Awwww, poor Julian.
As if millions of voices cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.
Kira has a sidearm? Does she always or is this Chekhov's (no, the other one) gun?
That's a lovely Galaxy class! Three cheers for the fat one!
Doctor Bashir?
Better get down here. Better hurry.
When Kira walked into the office, the first thing I looked for was the baseball.
After watching:
Well. Not ENTIRELY what I was expecting. It was big. Very big. But not THE BIGGEST THING YOU'VE EVER SEEN. OTOH, the wormhole is closed. Which is big. It was oddly understated AND epic.
Garak was wasted in this episode. But nice that they made sure that Andrew got paid.
On the one hand it's nice to see people congregating and having a religious community just because it's so "human". And because it's Star Trek it's somewhat hand waved as saying "It's OK because the wormhole aliens are actually real." Except I can't help but think that if this was TNG there would be a whole episode of Picard denouncing the WHA as something the Bajorans need to outgrow.
This episode shows off some of the remarkable aspects of DS9. In any other show (especially a Star Trek show) the moment Jadzia and Worf are talking about a family that would have been a death sentence. Except on DS9 it has actually happened. It's part of the tragedy not part of the trope. If Farrell had been able to stay I have no doubt this is where it would have gone.
Same with Sisko: You can be the Emissary or Starfleet, not both. OK. But in DS9 you didn't really know which way he'll jump. I could have seen him taking the Defiant and it all going horribly wrong or him staying on DS9 and it all going horribly wrong.
Jadzia's death had the Iron Man problem. Who gets to say goodbye? (Peter? Steve? Rhodey? Pepper?) And they split the difference between Worf in the moment and Sisko after the fact very well. Fine performances from both.
Arrrrgh, WHY? I'm not a Berman hater. He gave us 15+ years of Star Trek. But, jeez, man.
They gave Farrell a lot to do so she didn't need a death scene. I was a little grudging that they gave her last words to say to Worf just because of how it played out. But... sniffle.
It's annoying that this was motivated by contracts and not by story.
Oh, last thing: It's a Jay Chattaway score that I didn't immediately peg for a JC score. Nice job, Jay!
On to season SEVEN!
The Sound of Her Voice:
The Bad -- I don't buy Quark hanging out with Jake and also just giving up at all. I kept waiting for his double double cross.
The Good -- I totally buy Quark and Odo.
The Ugly -- This felt like a MASH episode. And not in a good way.
OBut overall not bad. It had many MANY saving graces.
I knew there would be a twist with the survivor. I was afraid it would be a trap.
"...because someday we're going to wake up and we're going to find that someone is missing from this circle, and on that day we're going to mourn, and we shouldn't have to mourn alone." Camera settles on Jadzia. DS9 being Joss Whedon even before Joss was.
Tears of the Prophets:
Well. Might as well "live" stream this one. Coffee. Big screen TV. Time to watch. When I open Amazon I can see the thumbnail for a couple of episodes later and Ezri is smiling back at me. Gulp.
OK, here we go...
The is a STUFF IS HAPPENING episode. Did people know when it aired that Farrell was leaving? I know we knew when Denise Crosby was leaving. I didn't even know anything about Jennifer Lien / Jeri Ryan.
I'm getting emotional at the opening credits. Oh boy...
"It WAS a private matter."
It's a full house on the guest star list. Garak, Martog, Weyoon, Vic, Damar. No Kasidy? (Frak, I just googled for the spelling and I got back Yates-Sisko. It's tough staying unspoiled 25 years after the fact.)
Excelsior class! It's like the Anakin Skywalker of Star Trek ships! (We get way more of it than the TMP Enterprise class that we actually wanted and it's also way better on television than it was in the movies.)
Hey look! David Birney! And TNG uniforms! This episode must have been spendy! (This is how cool the Romulans should always be. This is Balance of Terror cool!)
Seriously Vic even sings like Alan Arkin.
Vic is a rogue AI and must be destroyed. Of course we all love him. That's the insidious part!
Worf and Jadzia can't go on missions but Jake can go on the Defiant? Face it, Ben would fold like a wet foldy thing if Jake was in trouble. Bill Adama had more backbone about his kids.
Do the Prophets ever take faces that aren't already paid for in the episode?
Dukat has a Space Lighter. Cool.
Dukat starts opening the whatever that is: "I find myself uncomfortable with this Jewish ritual. Are you sure it's necessary?"
"I've been helping you to avoid me"
"It's an ungodly hour to go to war."
Oh damn, Jadzia is staying behind.
Ahhhh the Big Ass CG Fleet. This is probably as good as it gets. Too many ships and they're all RIGHT ON TOP OF EACH OTHER. Eventually we get to Picard. It's SPACE, people! (But congratulations to Mr. Stipes all the same.)
"You're a good friend." "And I always have been and I always will be." Awwww, poor Julian.
As if millions of voices cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.
Kira has a sidearm? Does she always or is this Chekhov's (no, the other one) gun?
That's a lovely Galaxy class! Three cheers for the fat one!
Doctor Bashir?
Better get down here. Better hurry.
When Kira walked into the office, the first thing I looked for was the baseball.
After watching:
Well. Not ENTIRELY what I was expecting. It was big. Very big. But not THE BIGGEST THING YOU'VE EVER SEEN. OTOH, the wormhole is closed. Which is big. It was oddly understated AND epic.
Garak was wasted in this episode. But nice that they made sure that Andrew got paid.
On the one hand it's nice to see people congregating and having a religious community just because it's so "human". And because it's Star Trek it's somewhat hand waved as saying "It's OK because the wormhole aliens are actually real." Except I can't help but think that if this was TNG there would be a whole episode of Picard denouncing the WHA as something the Bajorans need to outgrow.
This episode shows off some of the remarkable aspects of DS9. In any other show (especially a Star Trek show) the moment Jadzia and Worf are talking about a family that would have been a death sentence. Except on DS9 it has actually happened. It's part of the tragedy not part of the trope. If Farrell had been able to stay I have no doubt this is where it would have gone.
Same with Sisko: You can be the Emissary or Starfleet, not both. OK. But in DS9 you didn't really know which way he'll jump. I could have seen him taking the Defiant and it all going horribly wrong or him staying on DS9 and it all going horribly wrong.
Jadzia's death had the Iron Man problem. Who gets to say goodbye? (Peter? Steve? Rhodey? Pepper?) And they split the difference between Worf in the moment and Sisko after the fact very well. Fine performances from both.
Arrrrgh, WHY? I'm not a Berman hater. He gave us 15+ years of Star Trek. But, jeez, man.
They gave Farrell a lot to do so she didn't need a death scene. I was a little grudging that they gave her last words to say to Worf just because of how it played out. But... sniffle.
It's annoying that this was motivated by contracts and not by story.
Oh, last thing: It's a Jay Chattaway score that I didn't immediately peg for a JC score. Nice job, Jay!
On to season SEVEN!
