Far Beyond the Stars

[LeonardsLady]

The husband and I just watched this ep again a week ago. One of our favorites. I always get chills when we see flashes of Mulkahey/Weyoun and Ryan/Dukat beating up on Benny/Sisko. I think this is because we never see Weyoun get physically violent during the course of DS9 even though we know he is a very malevolent personality. To see him in action has a profound effect.

Anyway, I am going to have to be so careful to not smile like a nut or start talking like Joseph Sisko/The Preacher because I will be uttering a phrase from this ep when I lector at mass in a couple of weeks.

The dialogue from the ep is: "I have fought the good fight. I have finished the course. I have kept the faith."

The text I will be reading says: "I have competed well; I have finished the race; I have kept the faith."

I know I will get chills when I say it. I always enjoyed the religious/spiritual motif in DS9, so this will be really cool.



LL

 

[scottydog]

You're right, this is a great episode. I'm still trying to figure out whether Ben Sisko or Benny Russell was the dream, and which was the reality.

DS9 has a lot of dialogue that is food for spiritual thought. In an earlier episode, Sisko states that it is easy to be a saint in paradise. Which is so true. During good times, anyone can be kind and loving. We are most tested to do the right thing during hard times.

 

[RobertScorpio]

The husband and I just watched this ep again a week ago. One of our favorites. I always get chills when we see flashes of Mulkahey/Weyoun and Ryan/Dukat beating up on Benny/Sisko. I think this is because we never see Weyoun get physically violent during the course of DS9 even though we know he is a very malevolent personality. To see him in action has a profound effect.

Anyway, I am going to have to be so careful to not smile like a nut or start talking like Joseph Sisko/The Preacher because I will be uttering a phrase from this ep when I lector at mass in a couple of weeks.

The dialogue from the ep is: "I have fought the good fight. I have finished the course. I have kept the faith."

The text I will be reading says: "I have competed well; I have finished the race; I have kept the faith."

I know I will get chills when I say it. I always enjoyed the religious/spiritual motif in DS9, so this will be really cool.



LL

Many are put off by Brook's acting in this episode. I think he pulls it off quite nicely. Racism isn't a new theme in a Trek story, but it has never hit this close to 'real' racism that happened, and sexism for that matter, in pre-60s America.

Bravo Zulu!!

Rob
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