Retro Review: Take Me Out to the Holosuite

[TrekToday]

When a condescending Vulcan captain arrives at the station with a list of complaints, Sisko and crew decide to fight him on the baseball field. Plot Summary: Captain Solok and the all-Vulcan crew of the T’Kumbra dock at Deep Space Nine for repairs, complaining about human inefficiency and declaring Vulcan superiority even at their new […]

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[JirinPanthosa]

Worst episode ever.

 

[agent1138]

I thought it was fantastic, I think the writers wanted to explore all facets of the crew and having them all together in a team sport was brilliant. Nog and Odo especially.

 

[Cyke101]

It was the breather episode I needed in the middle of all that heavy (but entertaining) darkness. A lighthearted sports romp where the heroes don't know sports? Count me in.

Plus, it's got a ton of great jokes that I still quote to this day. DEATH TO THE OPPOSITION.

Now that I think about it, it also serves as a metaphor of sorts for the war. The opposing team is overwhelming, unstoppable, and pretty ruthless, but the home team scoring just one run is enough to keep hope alive, and that scoring isn't impossible.

 

[Bad Thoughts]

Worst episode ever.

Move Along Home, Melora, Meridian, The Muse, Let He Who Is Without Sin, Profit and Lace, and Prodigal Daughter breathe a sigh of relief.

 

[JirinPanthosa]

I like Move Along Home, but I agree with you on the rest and I would add Field of Fire and most of the alternate universe eps.

I found most of the humor in the episode really hacky and forced, and I found the behavior of the Vulcans not at all believable. It seems highly illogical to even try to prove your race is better than humans in the first place, and then even more illogical to use baseball as a means to try to prove that. Then they had characters act the whole episode like characters in a Disney sports movie and Sisko's behavior is like Marty McFly being called chicken.

Sisko should have turned around and said "We're on the frontline trying to save the entire galaxy from enslavement, and you, a member of a race that prides itself on superior logic and intellect, just spent a lot time learning to play human sports to prove you're better than us. I should write a paper on this. 'Vulcan Logic, Always Second To Vulcan Pride'." That would be much more than a 'Manufactured victory'.

 

[Maxillius]

I like Move Along Home, but I agree with you on the rest and I would add Field of Fire and most of the alternate universe eps.

I found most of the humor in the episode really hacky and forced, and I found the behavior of the Vulcans not at all believable. It seems highly illogical to even try to prove your race is better than humans in the first place, and then even more illogical to use baseball as a means to try to prove that. Then they had characters act the whole episode like characters in a Disney sports movie and Sisko's behavior is like Marty McFly being called chicken.

Sisko should have turned around and said "We're on the frontline trying to save the entire galaxy from enslavement, and you, a member of a race that prides itself on superior logic and intellect, just spent a lot time learning to play human sports to prove you're better than us. I should write a paper on this. 'Vulcan Logic, Always Second To Vulcan Pride'." That would be much more than a 'Manufactured victory'.

Indeed! I thought the Federation was beyond such things as racism and to think that *Vulcans* of all people would be capable of it (in the 24th century, as opposed to the 22nd)!

 

[Amaris]

I love it because it shows that there are imperfect Vulcans, as there should be. We're sentient beings, and even those of us who claim to hold naught but rational thought and logical process, can be shown to be quite fallible.

 

[Cyke101]

I think I'm going to ask the mods to change my name to Fancy Dan.

 

[Richard Baker]

I still cannot shake the image of the Ferengi baseball cap- made Quark look like a bobblehead.