The Pale Moon light great episode!

[Nakita Akita]

I watched this episode last night.
It was really good. It featured a lot of Garak which is always fun and a lot of Sisko which is fun too.
The thought of Garak saving the Alpha quadrant is the best. This is one of my favorite episodes.
The only stupid part is when Garak and Sisko are on the Turbo lift and Garak tells Sisko he needs the bio-mninic (whatever) gel.
Sisko (bad acting) (bad directing) (bad edit)
Has a weird grin on his face. Sort of like he was just laughing and then had to do a serious scene.
Yes, I even like the Romulan holding up the data rod and saying it's fake.
The episode is fun.
But after this episode it seems comes the Vic Fontain episodes.

 

[Armus]

Get rid of "It's a faaaaake!" and you have a good episode.

 

[Bad Thoughts]

Double the "it's a fake" for a classic episode!

 

[Kytee]

outstanding episode for certain. Garak is my favorite and this is one of his best moments to shine. Sisko had some great moments and I felt this was a wonderful episode to differentiate him from prior Captains. The fact that Star Fleet approves the 'plan' without knowing what the 'real plan' is was great subterfuge on Garaks part.
Would watch again for sure

 

[Bry_Sinclair]

Another highlight of just how spectacular this series was, and the kind of risks it would take with telling stories. Sisko being such a shade of grey made him a far more interesting and compelling lead than Kirk, Picard or Janeway.

 

[Nyotarules]

Another highlight of just how spectacular this series was, and the kind of risks it would take with telling stories. Sisko being such a shade of grey made him a far more interesting and compelling lead than Kirk, Picard or Janeway.

His mentor was Admiral Lorca

 

[XCV330]

His mentor was Admiral Lorca

The Sisko with a USS Discovery type ship would have ended the war in a couple of months, and then went looking for other wars to end.

 

[Bry_Sinclair]

His mentor was Admiral Lorca

Lorca wishes.

 

[Kor]

I enjoy this episode a lot. I've always appreciated tales of hard men making hard choices in hard times. Trek should do this kind of stuff more often.

Kor

 

[Nyotarules]

I enjoy this episode a lot. I've always appreciated tales of hard men making hard choices in hard times. Trek should do this kind of stuff more often.

Kor

Discovery had potential in this area..... then blew it

 

[XCV330]

[spoilers]Discovery had potential in this area..... then blew it

Spoiler

Lorca was faced with the option of simply living at ease in the Federation universe, taking early retirement and enjoying what luxuries the failed experiment of the Federation had to offer him.

He could have done that, and turned his back on the Imperium, but he knew it was badly led. he knew his own people suffered in agonizers and not those who should be suffering in agonizers. A lesser man would have given up, would have rationalized his good luck. Instead he took on the unthinkable task of getting assigned to the most advanced ship in starfleet, assembling a team similar to those once knew, and even in once case loved, and forged the difficult journey, over many steps, back to the universe that needed him.

 

[Nyotarules]

Spoiler

Lorca was faced with the option of simply living at ease in the Federation universe, taking early retirement and enjoying what luxuries the failed experiment of the Federation had to offer him.

He could have done that, and turned his back on the Imperium, but he knew it was badly led. he knew his own people suffered in agonizers and not those who should be suffering in agonizers. A lesser man would have given up, would have rationalized his good luck. Instead he took on the unthinkable task of getting assigned to the most advanced ship in starfleet, assembling a team similar to those once knew, and even in once case loved, and forged the difficult journey, over many steps, back to the universe that needed him.

I was refering to the Lorca version before the writers decided he came from the 'bad place'. IMO it would have been more interesting for the show if he was a regular old Prime Lorca with shades of grey rather then the stereotype righteous, Starfleet prePicard wannabe that some fans expected.

 

[XCV330]

I was refering to the Lorca version before the writers decided he came from the 'bad place'. IMO it would have been more interesting for the show if he was a regular old Prime Lorca with shades of grey rather then the stereotype righteous, Starfleet prePicard wannabe that some fans expected.

I was mostly joking. I would have liked to have seen the Lorca that it LOOKED like we were getting in Lethe. I still think Prime Lorca, if he's anything like the character in Drastic Measures would be that kind of character.

 

[Kor]

Discovery had potential in this area..... then blew it

I wholeheartedly agree.

Spoiler

Lorca was faced with the option of simply living at ease in the Federation universe, taking early retirement and enjoying what luxuries the failed experiment of the Federation had to offer him.

He could have done that, and turned his back on the Imperium, but he knew it was badly led. he knew his own people suffered in agonizers and not those who should be suffering in agonizers. A lesser man would have given up, would have rationalized his good luck. Instead he took on the unthinkable task of getting assigned to the most advanced ship in starfleet, assembling a team similar to those once knew, and even in once case loved, and forged the difficult journey, over many steps, back to the universe that needed him.

That's a, um, unique interpretation of events.

Kor

 

[Artoo Atari]

One of my very favorite episodes in all of Star Trek.

One thing though. Is it just me, or did Grathon Tolar remind anyone else of Floyd the Barber from the Andy Griffith show?
Okay, maybe just me.

 

[USS Firefly]

This was one of my favorite Trek episode, I just love Garak

 

[Longinus]

I enjoy this episode a lot. I've always appreciated tales of hard men making hard choices in hard times. Trek should do this kind of stuff more often.

No, no it shouldn't.

Unless the point was to show how such moral abdication blows on the characters' faces.

This was a well made episode, but it basically ruined Sisko for me, and I didn't like that the murderous conspiracy ultimately worked and there was no comeuppance.

 

[Jetboogieman]

One of the best episodes of Trek ever produced.

and "It's a faaaaaaaaaake" is just fine.

 

[Kor]

In my recent rewatch of S6, I actually skipped over this episode. It remains one of my favorites, but I've just watched it so many times that I felt that I didn't need to see it again so soon.

Kor

 

[at Quark's]

Come to think of it, It's almost a shame the founder disease wasn't a plot element yet. Then they could also have turned it around, by feeding the Dominion false clues that the Romulans had engineered that disease.. increasing the chance that at least one of the two plans would work ...