Shatner drew on his Shakespearean roots for this scene....
Alas, Dead Tribble, I knew him well.
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Another case of character rape in movies.
They just made him more like Roddenberry.
Not sure if it's a controversial choice, but it's "THE RECKONING"... it's one of the only episodes in the franchise that actually gets worse with each viewing for me.
One of the fundamental aspects of Sisko, and DS9 itself, was Ben as a great dad. This episode completely disregards everything about him as a father in those 6 years (at that point) and tarnished him badly. It damaged not just the lead character but one of the core pillars of the series itself.
I simply cannot give that episode any kind of pass when it did that to him.
The theme of DS9 was moral ambiguity, and a darker tone to events.... particularly with Garaks sinister and shady nature, which ends up saving the Federation, despite his conflicted motives.
Dukat, after all, stressed how Bajor only triumphed due to his restraint, but how he was both vilified by Sisko while being punished by Cardassia, and this conflict drove him to seek Siskos approval, but still Sisko judged him to the end.
And of course there was the finale of Section 31 supposedly engaging in genocide against the Founders, despite that biological warfare was their specialty in the Gamma Quadrant, while they were also the aggressors in the war with the Federation... and the Dominion only needed to surrender and negotiate for a cure.
So because the writers lacked the skill to resolve conflict peacefully as in TOS, they made a whole series war out of it.
There'd been a global nuclear war just 10 years earlier and he'd become an alcoholic to help deal with the depression and other stress of the Postatomic Horror. The idea he'd be just like Glenn Corbett only a decade after the worst war in human history had sent him to a refugee encampment in central Montana is just, well, ludicrous.
Short of being an artificial-feeling character with the stamina and outlook of a Legacy superhero Zefram Cochrane was going to be a shell of the way we saw him in TOS. And we can't forget that Berman and Braga wanted to use Cochrane as a commentary on Gene Roddenberry and his own mythos.
Short of being an artificial-feeling character with the stamina and outlook of a Legacy superhero Zefram Cochrane was going to be a shell of the way we saw him in TOS. And we can't forget that Berman and Braga wanted to use Cochrane as a commentary on Gene Roddenberry and his own mythos.
It's actually a good look at how people can get their heroes wrong. History only shows part of the picture.
"Planets were named after him. Great universities. Cities."
George Washington also owned slaves, so yeah.
George Washington also owned slaves, so yeah.
I guess "or" would have worked better.
But any episode with those individually or in combination.
Those words. I do not think they mean what you think they mean.
Unless the episode is "All Those Who Wander". Then it's very much both.
Ferengicest
The Voyage of the Space Beagle?*
* No, not Porthos. A.E. van Vogt
Captain Merrick commanding.
Touché.
Or "The Devil In the Dark". Or "The Man Trap"
Earth once had a few. It may still have a few, taking orcas and dolphins into account. I have no doubt about their sapience. They're just not interested in what we're interested in, though orca's are getting into boating in a new kind of way.
the hell are you talking about?
"Aww, look kids. Daddy's got a case of the Zephrams."
Kelly - "Eeww, urp"..(vomit)
Bud - "Mom, does that mean we're gonna look like Dad?"
Kelly - "Eeww, urp"..(vomit)
Bud - "Mom, does that mean we're gonna look like Dad?"
"Did you miss me?"
"With every ECON satellite so far."
"With every ECON satellite so far."
