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[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Because allamaraine exists.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

And that Kira hut episode

[–] FauxPseudo 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I knew someone was going to say that.

[–] FlyingSquid 30 points 1 year ago
[–] FlyingSquid 9 points 1 year ago

You beat me to it.

[–] [email protected] 4 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.

[–] [email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] 19 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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

They do come up a bit in Lower Decks!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Blue gills have transported into the chat

[–] cybervseas 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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

[–] FauxPseudo 7 points 1 year ago

Well played

[–] ummthatguy 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] Mirshe 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] FauxPseudo 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He is also second most likely to punch Q in the face.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

O'Brien in the transporter room while Q has the bridge crew playing Robin Hood

"I wish I was a merry man..."

[–] [email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] FlyingSquid 8 points 1 year ago

and Bashir getting extremely embarrassed

To be fair, that's his default state.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

It's got my vote.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] spicysoup 3 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 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 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] Maven 4 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

What? Profit and Lace is funny. So goofy and silly, I can't not laugh.

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[–] [email protected] 5 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

[–] [email protected] 16 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.

[–] [email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] 3 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.

[–] [email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

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

[–] FlyingSquid 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I must have slept through this one. Can someone tell me which season/episode this is? I don't remember it at all

[–] FauxPseudo 5 points 1 year ago

If Wishes Were Horses, S1E16 It's the source of Sisko's desk baseball.

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