TOS was from 'way' before my time. But those series I grew up with are now older than TOS was back then. Weird realisation.
If Benjamin had been wearing a pink tutu during the hopscotch segment, I would have died of a massive paroxysm.
The elephant on the promenade: Is it as bad as people say? Or more to the point is it as uniquely bad as people say?
It's not DS9's worst. It's not even the worst of DS9's first season. It's a perfectly serviceable, goofy TOS episode.
I haven't really thought about it since the 90s. There's a TNG recut where Picard checks on DS9 and sees them doing the allamaraine dance and is disgusted. I thought I remember reading it cost as much as "Emissary" but it just says it was the biggest budgeted episode since "Emissary."I did use to call my sister Ally allamaraine. I have no fondness for it. Maybe one day I'll rewatch Season 1 properly and have a different opinion. So they're from the Gamma Quadrant? Did the Jem'Hadar exterminate the Wadi after this?
I have defended "MOVE ALONG HOME" more than any other episode in the franchise. And I will continue to do so. I really love it. ALLAMARAINE!!!
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 …
The hate this episode gets is laughable. There is sometimes a Trek pack mentality/bandwagon that insists your most hated episode from each series MUST be Spock's Brain/Shades of Gray/Move Along Home/Threshold etc. Move Along Home isn't the worst DS9 episode by a long shot. It's sort of amusing in its own way - I love the moment when Sisko embraces the silliness of it all and starts hopping & singing. Quark's begging on the floor is also amusing.
This is one of my favorite early DS9 episodes. Love that we get to meet Gamma Quadrant aliens. VOY taught us more about DQ peoples than DS9 did for the GQ. The Wadi makeup is simple but cool. I like the ship and it pains me that Eaglemoss floundered before they could make a model. The gang being trapped in a game is a fun idea and well executed.
It had brief but hilarious payoff in Lower Decks. When DS9 premiered I had no television reception and no cable. So I got to see it if I was at someone else's house and for whatever reason we had moved past Big Star Trek Watch Parties. (I think we were vaguely concentrating on graduating or something.) So this was an episode I saw air. With a bunch of people who were casual about Star Trek at best. None of those people would go on to become Niners, I'm sure. This was one of those early episodes that really made you wonder how, if, or why they would make Quark anything other than a villain. (He would do worse.) He's not just harmlessly shady. He's sometimes harmfully shady. The comparisons to TOS are interesting. I'm watching season 7 right now. They still do standalone episodes but rarely are they just an unconnected romp. Which is partly the nature of where the episode was. You can't do a "character" episode if you don't have the characters. SNW did The Elysian Kingdom and everybody got it right away, because the show was inviting TOS comparisons. Whereas we had just done five and half years of TNG when this aired.