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[–] teft@startrek.website 43 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Because allamaraine exists.

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

You beat me to it.

[–] FauxPseudo@lemmy.world 9 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

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

[–] cybervseas@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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

[–] FauxPseudo@lemmy.world 7 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 (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@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 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..."

[–] 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.

[–] 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.

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

It's got my vote.

[–] GreenMario@lemm.ee 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

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

[–] 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.

[–] shasta@lemm.ee 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@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

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

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

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

[–] teft@startrek.website 22 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago (1 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.

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

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.

[–] 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.

[–] Doxin@yiffit.net 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I feel like Sisko is a much worse offender tbh. Whoever played Jake just did too good a job of immitating Sisko.

[–] setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Sure Ben Sisko lied, cheated, bribed men to cover up the crimes of other men. He’s even an accessory to murder. But Jake is so whiny, so I think I can live with it… And if I had to watch Deep Space 9 all over again… I would skip Jake heavy episodes. So I will learn to use the skip button, because I can live with not rewatching every episode.

[–] avater@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

why is Rumpelstielchen looking like Sir Anthony Hopkins?

[–] andrybak@startrek.website 2 points 1 year ago

Rumpelstielchen looks like Andy Serkis to me.

[–] FauxPseudo@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I think you are confused. Rumpelstiltskin is way older than SAH. SAH looks like Rumpelstiltskin.