DS9+17: 110: Move Along Home
Wow, this episode was really annoying.
Don’t you hate it when some alien race does something totally douchey that makes you fear for your life and think all your friends are dead? But then they just get to walk away from it because it’s a new species and a misunderstanding and uh, you don’t have a big fucking knife to stab them with, or something?
- Awkward teenager (?) vs. father conversations about girls: evidently young
- That guy. From the last episode. The starfleet security guy IS STILL AROUND. Has there ever been a named “extra” crew member that appeared in more than 1 episode in Star Trek before? I really don’t know that they are/were going for here. Was/is he supposed to be an actual crew member? My current theory is that he’s been set up as the most delayed red-shirt ever: “What? This guy is totally a cast member. We’re not gonna ki— oh snap!”
- Oh, and this was another “first contact” type episode with another species from the gamma quadrant. Just as “douchey” and “different” as the last one (in Captive Pursuit). Aren’t they all dominated by the Dominion or something? I guess that’s much later. We’ll see what happens in the season finale (halfway there!), as I seem to recall it coming along fairly early.
- Kira had a weird wide-open-gaping-mouth->into-half-amused-knowing-smile for the closer. BUT THEN: A spaceship upstaged her. Which cannot smile. Man, those gaming-gamma-aliens are total douches. First they scare everyone half to death, then they steal the closing knowing smile with a big hunk of metal. Jackasses.
Was this the game episode? With the Ziggy Stardust people? I need to talk to someone about that, and by talk I mean beat over the head with a heavy object. Who is coming up with these aliens?! Lack of imagination much?