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[–] teft@startrek.website 46 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Because allamaraine exists.

[–] Kaldo@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago

And that Kira hut episode

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

You beat me to it.

[–] FauxPseudo@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I knew someone was going to say that.

[–] Underwaterbob@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

Haha! Some DS9 writer read The Player of Games and decided they wanted to make that, and bunged it up horribly.

[–] PlasmaDistortion@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Honestly the worst thing is they never brought this group back. They could have at least tried to redeem the story.

[–] Zorque@kbin.social 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Star Trek canon is littered with abandoned species that could have had interesting follow-up stories. These were far from the most interesting.

They do come up a bit in Lower Decks!

Blue gills have transported into the chat

[–] cybervseas@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Move along home with that "Rumpelstiltskin" nonsense, you.

[–] FauxPseudo@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Well played

[–] ummthatguy@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I love how it's O'brien who's really afraid.

[–] Mirshe@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

TBH, O'brien's been on the Enterprise long enough to know that when weird, seemingly powerful creatures start talking to you, you should be very, very careful. Even if they present themselves as storybook characters.

[–] loz@aussie.zone 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Because you get to see Odo herding animals and Bashir getting extremely embarrassed.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

and Bashir getting extremely embarrassed

To be fair, that's his default state.

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

How is this not the worst episode of DS9?

Two Jadzias. And one of them is horny AF.

Clearly, the best episode.

[–] Underwaterbob@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

Never mind the ~500 year age gap between Dax and Bashir.

[–] GreenMario@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I watched this for the first time yesterday. Going through DS9 starting from Season 1.

I don't hate it, but it can be skipped as it has nothing to do with anything after. Actually the more I think about it the less I like it. I do like how the aliens are basically explorers just like Starfleet just different. That's a spoiler but honestly who cares lol

[–] lugal@sopuli.xyz 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

To give some context: DS9 is from the 90s, where series were basically stand alone episodes with occasional two parters.

That said, DS9 is one of the first series that break that. Not in the first season maybe and I'm not going to spoil you but there are archs that are returned to in several episodes, things that change for good and stories that expend the 90s two parter by alot.

This isn't much compared to modern standards and you don't have to like it, but it's not as bad as the first season suggests and it's progressive for its time. Maybe that helps you to appreciate the series but maybe it doesn't, take it or leave it.

[–] GreenMario@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

I've seen a bunch of DS9 when it was fresh on TV especially when Worf joined in but there are a lot of missing episodes I haven't seen yet. So the overall arching plot is known to me.

It's these weird one off bottle episodes that are new to me.

[–] user1234@lemmynsfw.com 4 points 1 year ago

I think the serialized format it eventually took on is what has kept it from wider syndication. Most of the time shows are in syndication, the network picks and chooses the most popular episodes, whereas with DS9, it would be very hard to skip through a lot of the episodes without making it hard to follow. Essentially, it is far more suited for streaming services.

[–] VindictiveJudge@startrek.website 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There is one small thing linking this episode to the rest - Sisko's baseball. The alien posing as Buck Bokai gives Sisko the ball that spends the rest of the series on his desk. I also actually quite like all of the interactions between Sisko and Bokai.

[–] GreenMario@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

So that IS his baseball? I wasn't 100% but I did wonder for a second. Neat.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

A lot of Season 1 is skippable if you feel like it. I'm sure there's a website out there with essential Season 1 episodes, but they didn't really know what they were doing with the show yet.

[–] rockandsock@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

It's got my vote.

[–] Bonehead@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Because Keone Young is a fucking treasure.

Besides, the bottle episode "The Sound Of Her Voice" takes this award.

[–] Repelle@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Really? I very much like “the sound of her voice”. For me “Profit and Lace” is by far the worst. No competition.

[–] VindictiveJudge@startrek.website 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Seriously, Profit and Lace managed to be misogynistic, misandristic, and transphobic all at the same time.

[–] Maven@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Idk if I would really call it any of those. Characters in it are those but the episode itself was constantly showcasing that these things are bad. One thing I especially liked was the parts where they had to learn how women move since practicing being a specific gender is a real thing trans people do and deal with.

Throughout the episode multiple characters are being shown being misogynistic, transphobic and so on... But then being that is now shown as good it's being actively shown as part of the problem with the ferengi that they are trying to solve.

[–] Bonehead@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I just find that the A story detracts from the Dominion Wars storyline that everything had been building up to, and the B story is just uninteresting with Jake following Quark's antics to distract Odo with Kira. At least 'Profit And Lace" had some comedy in it to make up for things.

[–] Repelle@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

The B story is meh, but the A story to me really adds to the dominion storyline by giving us a chance to see how the war has affected the crew through their interactions with someone who hasn’t experienced it. Plus add in a fun little sci-fi twist to it and it’s really a good plot line for me.

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[–] Xariphon@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

... Anyone else first remember this actor as Samson from Carnivale?

[–] spicysoup@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

glad this was the first comment I saw, RIP to an amazing show

[–] setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Which episode has the most Jake screentime? That’s the worst one.

[–] teft@startrek.website 24 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Incorrect. The episode with Jake having the most screen time is The Visitor and that episode is a gem.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Since that's a cheat, there's also Progress, where Nog and Jake end up with the self-sealing stem bolts and the yamak sauce. I think it's pretty amusing anyway.

[–] FauxPseudo@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] rustydomino@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

To be fair, there was a LOT of yamok sauce.

[–] Xariphon@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

That episode was hilarious though.

[–] Blackout@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

When I saw the Candyman in the opening I thought it was going a different direction

[–] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Probably an unpopular opinion but I did not like that one. The drama felt super cheap since I knew that Sisko had plot armour and therefore the resolution to the episode would need to be some time travel nonsense where none of it mattered.

[–] Zorque@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago

The destination is rarely the point of most high-concept sci-fi. Rather, the journey is what is important.

[–] setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Wait a minute, that’s not Cirroc Lofton, it’s Tony Todd.

It’s a fake.

Ugh. It would be a gem to me if it weren't directly after the Klingons and Worf entering the story. It's like a mixtape that starts off with two Metallica songs amd goes straight into Joni Mitchell.

[–] TotallyNotSpez@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Quite bold of you to slander one of the most critically acclaimed future authors like that.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

On the other hand, quite bold of Star Trek to imagine a future where people read things instead of watched cat videos.

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