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I seem to recall this is the kind of ep that had people whining that 'it's not Star Trek'. Personally I think it's some of the best stuff they've done. Gritty, realistic and not the sugary 'evolved humanity' pap that crops up all too often in other incarnations of the show.
Best bit has to be Quarks speech to Nog about humans being wonderful people until you take away their creature comforts and put them under large amounts of stress.
One of the main reasons why I enjoyed DS9 so much.
I love this episode - one of those ones that happily shows that although it's all well and good us showing Sisko et al happily sitting on DS9 discussing the war and how lots of people have died, but it's another thing to actally be there (although how convenenient the one warrior in the crew did a runner on Defiant when the Jem'Hadar turned up :))
It's saying something when the only criticm I can level against it is why on earth Bashir bought a Vic Fontain holoprogram to AR-558? Not only is it going to distract the rest of the soldiers (who I doubt have had the comforts afforded to the DS9 crew), but won't it draw attention to their location? I would have thought Sisko at least would have done something about it (given his thoughts toward Vic and what he represents), but it is glossed over again...
| QUOTE (Hippy @ Nov 29 2005, 04:54 PM) |
| Gritty, realistic and not the sugary 'evolved humanity' pap that crops up all too often in other incarnations of the show. |
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That comment, to me, seems strange. Wasn't that what Star Trek was supposed to be about, and what made it popular in the first place - that humanity had set aside its problems and headed out into the stars? You're effectively saying that you don't want Trek to be Trek. Some - including me - would say that's a good thing, I just didn't expect a die-hard Trekkie to say it :lol:
I did find this episode a bit... boring, though. I'm not sure why. In principle I liked what it had to say, but the limited sets and the lack of scale made it feel a bit quaint, for want of a better word. Which is odd, because I'd much rather a series did this kind of thing than some of the cloying Odo/Kira, Worf/Dax, Vic Fontaine stories that have bogged this show down so badly for me. The music even worked well, which is an aspect of the newer Treks that has bugged me since Ron Jones (Trek's best composer by far) was kicked off TNG. The music on all of the shows since then has been extremely poor.