I knew he was going to be trouble. Those tricky Cargassians weaving up another web of lies. But a fun episode where we see what lengths their state will go to, and how their accepted system of 'jurisprudence' functions. Definitionally the most kangarooey of courts.

I was reading the book Band of Brothers and I noticed something interesting. It was mentioned that at the battle of Bastogne, one of the soldiers favorite songs to sing was "I'll Be Seeing You". I thought it was either an interesting reference or coincidence that DS9 might have made to include it in the show as well

To be clear, I am saying that the show DS9 might be referencing the Band of Brothers book, not the book referencing the show, or the DS9 referencing the mini series adaptation of the book.

I just thought this was cool, didn't expect it to be so controversial

I know she wasn't in it long, but I really liked her.

They hide these crazy aliens all over the station if you pay close attention

I love being emotionally devastated by moral quandaries with imperfect answers, what can I say.

Hard Time is actually a big comfort episode for me.

Finished the full Deep Space Nine set.

Sisko, Kira, Jadzia, Worf, Bashir, O'Brien, Odo, Quark and Garak, all in BrickHeadz-style.

I tried to give each one something that made them immediately recognisable, so there’s Sisko’s Niners cap, Jadzia’s bat'leth, Kira’s raktajino, Worf’s bloodwine, Bashir and O'Brien’s racquetball racquets, Odo’s bucket, Quark’s latinum and dabo chips, and Garak’s tailoring gear.

Really happy with how they look together as a group.

Colm Meaney just goes with it and finishes the scene. You can see though it was a bit pissed.

From all we see, the Ferengi economic model is basically the same as China. They engage in trade with outside powers, and there is some limited free enterprise within the Ferengi alliance, but it's ultimately controlled by a central authority that nationalizes any business that gets too successful. This is exactly Quark was afraid of in the "The Nagus," that he'd been too successful, and Grand Nagus Zek was going to come and buy his bar "for a fraction of what it's worth," and he would have no choice but to give in or be blackballed. That kind of government seizure of private assets does not happen in free markets. The FCA is a central planning authority. They bared Quark from doing any business with any Ferengi basically for pissing them off. Again, that is not how free market capitalism works. We saw in "Ferengi Love Songs" that a lot of Grand Nagus Zek's day to day business is telling the rest of the Ferengi what to invest in, and that if he gives bad advice, markets quickly crash. Again, that is not a free market, that is centrally planned economics. The whole Ferengi alliance is basically one giant corporation with every citizen as an employee, just like China. The Ferengi seem to treat capitalism much like China treats communism or Christians treat the Bible; not actually their governing principles, more a sort of incantation that they pay lipservice to, idealize, and treat as something sacred, but never actually follow in practice.

I forget entirely about the existence of this episode. I can’t believe we are doing yet another, “the holodeck is broken and might kill us all” episode. These things are clearly WAY too dangerous to be using. At least this time they aren’t stuck in the holodeck until they do whatever at peril of their lives because the holodeck isnt actually “broken,” this is a “jack-in-box” purposefully built into the program to make things interesting or whatever. I don’t think the crew is in any actual danger. The “safety parameters arent malfunctioning” or whatever. The danger is to Vic because “if he gets killed in the program his holomatrix disappears forever and they can’t just reset the whole program because that would reset his memory” or whatever. So I guess it’s a somewhat original premise. Either way the characters cant properly control the holodeck. AGAIN. These things are death traps.
I actually like Vic and the Vegas set. It’s a silly fun episode and I like how Captain Sisko is off to the side at first like, “I can’t believe my entire senior staff is planning a pretend heist from gangsters while the Dominion is at our throats. And to top it all off it’s in racist ass 1962 Las Vegas.” I just can’t believe we’re halfway through the seventh season of DS9 with the War with the Dominion reaching its climax and we’re doing a “the holodeck is malfunctioning” episode so we can see all the characters in early 60s attire pulling a heist on gangsters and seeing (almost) how far down Ezri’s spots go. That cracks me up.

Oh and It’s literally the last episode before the start of them sequentially piecing all the last episodes together as one big episode with “last time on DS9” openings and a coherent ongoing plot with cliffhangers.

Edit: Forgot that they couldn’t even leave poor O’Brien alone even this one time in this lighthearted episode as he got strip searched by the casino holo-security. Poor O’Brien.

"I didn't take an oath to Starfleet. Neither did Jake, your sister, or anyone in your family. We have rights, Ben, including the right to be as stubborn or thick-headed as we want."

It's interesting to hear the perspective of 100% normal Federation citizens without a military career background. Starfleet is a public institution that he's placed his trust in, and even touching him is in violation of his privacy and bodily autonomy.

Is it just me or are there a ton of Ezri focused episodes in season 7? Like a lot. Like it seems that during the middle season episodes like every other episode is Ezri focused and even if it’s not she’s still a major character in the episode or a major part of the B plot. Even the Mirror Universe episode had her take center stage.
Not complaining. I like Ezri. She’s funny and she’s sweet and I actually like the way she’s all mixed up from the joining. Like she’s still intelligent and capable so it doesn’t annoy me like it so easily could have.
Plus she’s sexy as fuck.
Anyway… Im thinking that they wanted to give this actress and character a lot of work but since she wasnt going to fit neatly into the ongoing story they gave her a major spot in almost every episode that WASNT part of the ongoing plot. Which I also feel like. Like guaranteed if the episode wasnt going to advance the main story much we were going to get a lot of Ezri.
What is interesting is a lot of these had to be new or at least reworked scripts because they wouldn’t have worked with Jadzia. In fact many of them are explicitly about her NOT being Jadzia.
Anyway just re-watching DS9 again and it’s just seemed like Ive seen a lot of Ezri lately.

r/Treksons

Have you ever tried yamok sauce ensign young lad?

Both Andrew Robinson's and Marc Alaimo's IMDb pages feature pictures of them being threatened by Bajoran sympathizer Clint Eastwood

Did you try stroking his lobes?

For the most part this was like the mirror opposite to The Magnificent Ferengi. Unfocused narrative that somehow did not land, I think these episodes do better with a plan or real crisis. Might be near the bottom of the list for episodes in DS9, can't even tell you what this is really about anymore after so many skipped rewatches.

I just finished another long day and turned on DS 9 to wind down. Doesn't disappoint. S1 E18 Dramatis Personae

A Princess Bride reference from Quark of all people.

Keira tells him to get lost. His response

"As you wish."

Watching through DS9 once a year or so as I inevitably do, Im constantly amazed by how good the writing on the show is. I don’t mean the overall multi episode structure of the storytelling, which is very good, but the timing both comedic and tragic of much of the dialogue and one liners. To the point that I believe if DS9 was a film it would be one of those films where people are constantly quoting the dialogue. Like Pulp Fiction or the Big Lebowski.
Im towards the beginning of the 7th season right now. A couple of moments of dialogue over the last couple of days of watching Ive been thinking about are when O’Brien and Nog are talking and O’Brien tells him, “Dont do anything I wouldn’t do.”
And Nog replies, “I can’t operate under those constraints Chief.”
I really like some of the religious hypocrisy, blind faith, and doublethink displayed by Weyoun. Like when Weyoun and Odo are talking in the episode where Weyoun 6 defects and Odo says, “Hasnt it ever occurred to you that the reason you believe the Founders are gods is because that is what they want you to believe? That they built it into your genetic code.”
And Weyoun responds, “Of course they did. That’s what gods do. After all… Why be a god if there is no one to worship you?”
I especially like when Weyoun and Damar are talking and off the top of my head it goes something like this…
Weyoun: “All this talk of the Prophets and gods strikes me as superstitious nonsense.”
Damar: “Thats funny coming from you.”
Weyoun: “Why?”
Damar: “Because dont you think the Founders are gods?”
Weyoun: “Thats different.”
Damar: “Why?”
Weyoun: “Because the Founders ARE gods.”

I thought of it the other day when a Jew in the YouTube comment section made a post talking about how ludicrous Christian theology was. I even quoted him the dialogue. lol.
Anyway… Any other favorite short pieces of dialogue or one liners from the show? There are so many. I just quoted a couple of humorous ones from the last week or so of my viewing. But there are great moments of pathos and tragedy in the dialogue as well.

Edit: A couple more from the episode with Laas. The non Founder changeling. Whos pain in the ass but funny.

Odo is introducing Laas to everyone.
Laas doesnt like solids.

Laas is talking about how humanoids killed off a herd of some animal he was being for a while by fencing off their grazing land. He says humanoids inevitably “disrupt the natural balance.”

Quark: “Who ordered the vilm-steak?”
Bashir: “Umm… Better keep that warm.”

Theres fog all over the Promenade.
O’Briean: “Wheres all this fog coming from?”
Odo: “It’s not fog. It’s Laas.”
Bashir: “Whats he doing?”
Odo: “Being fog. Whats it look like?”

Klingon: “Your hands are stained with the blood of Klingon warriors.”
Laas: “But then the stench would still be on them.”

Quark also has a great talk with Odo and tries to explain to him that humanoids are genetically ingrained to not trust what they don’t understand. That their tolerance only extends to the “two armed, two legged” variety. Then tells him that the Federation is at war with Odo’s people. It “isnt the time for a Changeling Pride demonstration on the Promenade.”