The Muse, love it!

[Nakita Akita]

It's the episode where the older alien psi energy woman takes an interest in Kake's writing.
Also but to a much lesser degree Lwaxana has Odo marry her so she can keep her baby. Yawn, cute but yawn.

I know, I know this is a hated episode by so many, but to me, I find it so alluring.
(Except I need to replace Jake and Onaya needs to be 1. Male, 2. Someone good looking)
Who doesn't want to be a young artist and have an older, knowledgeable, experienced person take a huge interest in you?
She asks him to her room later that evening and gets him to write like he has never been able to before.
She's probably the catalyst that helped him on his way. OK the sucking the life out him was not too cool, but the rest was.
I so wanted to major in Art but my mother wouldn't let my father pay for me to go to college as an Art major.

But I always, in the back of my mind, wanted to be discovered by someone.
But who doesn't?
Does anyone else at all feel this way on this episode?
I find the Lwaxana/ Odo story detracted from Jake's story though. I think maybe if they had paired it with something marginally dark it might have been better.

 

[Sakonna]

I actually have recently come to love... the Odo/Lwaxana story in the "The Muse."

I like the first two or three scenes of the Jake/Onaya story, then I think it loses it, it becomes so repetitive, with scene after scene of her sucking the brain juice out of his head.

I think that actress is great and the concept could have been something, I just wish they'd worked out a more dynamic plot for most of it.

 

[Armus]

The Muse was kind of romantic, in a weird, twisted way, and Cirroc Lofton and Meg Foster had a nice chemistry together.

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[Nakita Akita]

The Muse was kind of romantic, in a weird, twisted way, and Cirroc Lofton and Meg Foster had a nice chemistry together.

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She's creepy and seems a little off.
But it's like Jake is trying to act mature and knowledgeable around her but when he goes to her quarters he is insecure.
Then later, she says something about his father coming back soon...
So it emphasizes his age.

So yea, creepy, weird, twisted, getting brain juice sucked out, bloody noses, pass out getting a glass of orange juice, almost die, but sexy.

My being discovered mental scenarios didn't have any of those events.

Anyway if Psi-woman showed up at deep space 7 and met up with Chief Petty Officer Moore's son, George, well let's just say George was a great poet, that died to young.

 

[Armus]

So yea, creepy, weird, twisted, getting brain juice sucked out, bloody noses, pass out getting a glass of orange juice, almost die, but sexy.

Exactly.

I think one of Onaya's alleged victims was John Keats, who died at 25.

I enjoyed Ron Moore's take on this episode. According to Moore, "the notion of this exotic, beautiful, older woman who comes to you and gets excited by watching you write is like the most ridiculous idea! Only a writer would come up with that. Think of it. You're sitting there writing and she's just entranced. We watched that scene in dailies and we thought, are we insane? What are we doing? How did we get here?"

 

[kkt]

Yes, it was a good episode, kinda reminded me of some of TOS episodes. Not one of the very best but far from the worst.

 

[Nakita Akita]

Exactly.

I think one of Onaya's alleged victims was John Keats, who died at 25.

I enjoyed Ron Moore's take on this episode. According to Moore, "the notion of this exotic, beautiful, older woman who comes to you and gets excited by watching you write is like the most ridiculous idea! Only a writer would come up with that. Think of it. You're sitting there writing and she's just entranced. We watched that scene in dailies and we thought, are we insane? What are we doing? How did we get here?"

Okay but I'm a painter and there was these two women who thought it would be so cool to watch me paint something.
And
They're both straight, I'm straight so.....
People are weird.
I did not let them watch me paint.
Seemed a bit whacked at the time, sorta insane

But I still like the episode.
I think if it had been one of the two or three good looking guys at work............

 

[Bry_Sinclair]

Meg Foster was great casting. She gave the character such an ethereal yet creepy feel to someone that could've been so ridiculous. Though her motives are selfish, a girls gotta eat, she does give Jake more confidence in himself and his abilities as a writer.

I would love to get a pen like Jake used in this episode!

 

[Farscape One]

My wife and I just rewatched this a couple hours ago.

I always felt the ANSLEM callback was more than what we saw. I think that book is exactly what we saw in "THE VISITOR". In that way, that episode is not exactly a reset button, as it survives into the timeline in this way.

 

[Harpsichord]

I actually have recently come to love... the Odo/Lwaxana story in the "The Muse."

The best part of the episode imo. The idea of Jake's plot is solid but I just can't take Cirroc Lofton seriously. Even as an adult he just gave off too much of a 'child actor' vibe for me.

 

[Nakita Akita]

Meg Foster was great casting. She gave the character such an ethereal yet creepy feel to someone that could've been so ridiculous. Though her motives are selfish, a girls gotta eat, she does give Jake more confidence in himself and his abilities as a writer.

I would love to get a pen like Jake used in this episode!

Isn't it a fountain pen?
I had, I think, a couple of different ones when I was a teenager.

 

[Armus]

I just realized that The Muse was the last Star Trek to feature Majel Barrett as Lwaxanna Troi. It also featured the actor who played a Klingon in The Day of The Dove. It was the end of an era.

 

[kkt]

I just realized that The Muse was the last Star Trek to feature Majel Barrett as Lwaxanna Troi. It also featured the actor who played a Klingon in The Day of The Dove. It was the end of an era.

Yes, they brought back Michael Ansara as Kang from TOS.
Also John Colicos reprised his role as Kor from TOS 'Errand of Mercy' in DS9's 'Blood Oath', 'Sword of Kahless', and 'Once More Unto the Breach'.
And William Campbell reprised is role as Koloth from TOS 'The Trouble with Tribbles' in DS9 'Blood Oath'.
Also DS0 brought Charlie Brill to reprise his role as Arne Darvin from 'The Trouble with Tribbles' in DS9's homage 'Trials and Tribble-ations'.

 

[Lynx]

I like this episode because it's spooky, at least when it comes to Onaya and Jake. Sort of vampire story, I mean real vampire story as it used to be in those Dracula movies with Christopher Lee, not that recent years rubbish with "romantic vampires".

Onaya was really creepy, just like a creepy villain should be.

The Odo-Lwaxana story didn't bother me, it was sort of OK. Nice to see how they fooled the husband who Lwaxana wanted to get rid of.