"The Doomsday Machine" Line-by-Line

[Leandar]

How about a trip back to Deep Space Nine? I'd like to do "Improbable Cause" and "The Die is Cast."

 

[LeadHead]

I think what we should do here is have leandar go and have brian select immediately that way, as soon as the next one is done, we can move on quickly.

 

[Leandar]

Yeah that'd work. Let Brian pick also and then we'll know where we're headed straight after these two.

 

[CoveTom]

That's a good idea. brian, would you care to go ahead and select what our nezt next episode will be?

 

[Brian]

No worries. The randomizer has been more than generous with me in the past.

I'll just take a pass this time, and choosing can go on as usual when the next one is up.

I would also suggest we 'officialize' the 48 hour rule in order to keep things moving in the future.

 

[Vanyel]

So the two episodes Leander chose are going to bed in one thread, correct?

It, to me, brings a bigger question, what about DS9 episodes that are also closely related? Like: Tacking Into The Wind, The Dogs of War, and What You Leave Behind. They are are episodes 170, 172 and 173. Each one is closely related with the Kira/Damar/Garak Cardassian resistance subplot and the final battles of the war. Would they be one big thread, or broken down into 2 or 3 threads? Would The Council, Countdown and Zero Hour from the end of Enterprise's third season get one thread? Or The Border Land, Cold Station 12 and The Augments from season four??

 

[Captain Robert April]

Well, "The Menagerie" wound up being one long thread, so there's that precedent...

 

[LeadHead]

I think that issue has been raised and resolved before, if it has a "To Be Continued" it can be done as one, (2 parters, the Li Nalas arc of DS9, the mini arcs of ENT season 4) A longer arc would be done as separates, (Xindi Arc, Dominion Occupation of DS9)

Now that leandar has selected the next eps, Improbable Cause and the Die is Cast, may we proceed?

 

[Alienesse]

Glad you chose DS9, leandar!

 

[CoveTom]

The die is indeed cast.