Everytime I watch Explorers
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2 things come to mind when I watch this episode:
1.) Sisko's new beard
2.) "It's hammock time!" "Yo!"
1.) Sisko's new beard
2.) "It's hammock time!" "Yo!"
Wow, nice timing. I just watched this episode tonight. It's a very easy to watch stand alone and the "hammock time" line is a classic. Not to mention Bashir and O'Brien bonding for the first time.
O'Brien: People either love you or hate you. When I first met you I hated you. And now...
Bashir: And now...
O'Brien: And now... I don't.
O'Brien: People either love you or hate you. When I first met you I hated you. And now...
Bashir: And now...
O'Brien: And now... I don't.
^They're brilliant together. "Extreme Measures" was a mediocre episode brought to must see standard simply for the "But you like me more" scene.
I love "Explorers" too. Not only was it a nice self-contained story (I love the arcs in DS9, but it's also nice to have really precise, quality sci-fi short stories sprinkled within), well-acted, and with relatable and believable father/son interaction, but the design of the episode was also just beautiful. The ship looked like a sort of golden wasp.
I love "Explorers" too. Not only was it a nice self-contained story (I love the arcs in DS9, but it's also nice to have really precise, quality sci-fi short stories sprinkled within), well-acted, and with relatable and believable father/son interaction, but the design of the episode was also just beautiful. The ship looked like a sort of golden wasp.
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It always reminded me of the ancient Chinese galleons.
It always reminded me of the ancient Chinese galleons.
1.) That beard is just wrong.
2.) The "Hammock time" exchange will always stick in my head.
Always loved the episode, though.
It looks odd with hair. Suits him very much with the baldness
I'll go on record as one who never disliked Wesley, at least not to the extent that so much of fandom has expressed, and indeed liked him a great deal in his later TNG appearances. That said, I don't think I need to preface it with "IMHO" when I say Jake is far and away the best, most believable child character in the entire Trek universe and Cirroc Lofton the best child actor. His chemistry with Brooks is nothing short of wonderful and "Explorers" is a fine episode to highlight the duo's work together.
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True!
Though I think a lot of the chemistry was because Brooks was sorta like a surrogate father to Lofton IRL.
True!
Though I think a lot of the chemistry was because Brooks was sorta like a surrogate father to Lofton IRL.
Also, I though his son was Lofton's BFF?
I know my best friend's dad is sorta like a second dad to me.
I know my best friend's dad is sorta like a second dad to me.
When I watch this episode, I always wonder how the ancient Bajorans got their nifty light-sail ships into space without rockets.
They turned the gravity off for an hour.
I think there's a big red button.
I think there's a big red button.
Why without rockets? Why not with them?
Bajorans at that point had been building cities for at least a couple of hundred millennia. It would make sense for them to have things like rocketry down pat. The real mystery is why those ancient Bajorans didn't have transwarp yet...
Perhaps their psychological structure has something to do with it. We hear there's a mountain down there on their home planet that hasn't been explored yet, after all those millennia. Never mind that their closest moons are naturally habitable yet still went unvisited until the Cardassians came. Perhaps Bajorans are vehemently opposed to all exploration?
Or perhaps the Bajoran culture is cyclic, having been through dozens of spaceflight phases already (one of which involved Bajoraforming those moons), but having forgotten all about those earlier times whenever the cycle comes to a disastrous close. Their religion might have something to do with that collective forgetting, what with being based on the worshipping of beings that fail to comprehend the linearity of time...
Timo Saloniemi
They are a great pair indeed. I thank the writers for using Miles a lot better in DS9 than in TNG, Colm Meaney is a great actor. 
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I think their relationship worked so well is because they each reveled in his own Irish/Englishness.
They could have gone the old (boring) Star Trek way of: "Oh look, it's an Irishman and an Englishman living happily ever after together frolicking in the daisies."
But they didn't.
I think their relationship worked so well is because they each reveled in his own Irish/Englishness.
They could have gone the old (boring) Star Trek way of: "Oh look, it's an Irishman and an Englishman living happily ever after together frolicking in the daisies."
But they didn't.
Agreed. The beard and shaven head added about 35 sexy points -- totally turned the table.
