DS9+17: 117: The Forsaken
This was a pretty well done episode in general.
- We meet another Gamma quadrant lifeform – this one a digital “puppy” that now lives in the computer system. I wonder if they’ll ever come back to that? I hope so. Lots of possibilities there.
- Diana Troy’s mom pops up, and hits on Odo and they bond and stuff over hair. The bonding part came entirely too quickly after all of her vapid droning, but the sentiment was nice. And they get stuck in an elevator for hours and Odo has to turn back into goo that a) occupies much less surface area/volume than his human form so b) should probably be pretty damn dense but is c) easily caught by Ms. Troy in her skirt and looks like it weighs basically nothing. To quote some commercial from the 80s: WHERE’S THE MASS?
- You make us sit through those people annoying the hell out of Julian for that long and then you SKIP the part where he does something right? WTF. Seriously.
- I did not notice Morn in the opening bar scene – was he there?
- Oh, and some random Bajoran officer on deck (“Anara”) gets like 10 lines throughout the course of the episode. What the hell? I suspect she’s going to be like that Starfleet security guy that turned up in two episodes (109 and 110) and then vanished. Except she probably won’t even make it to two episodes.
- Everyone got a decent amount of face time this episode – I was kind of surprised how well they worked that.
- Anytime there is a computer sequence or any computer jargon it’s hard not to sharpen a couch cushion and gouge my eye out because they are usually just talking in circles or pulling archaic looking plug things out of one slot and putting them into another.
- Chief O’Brien got the closing smile. It wasn’t so much knowing as it was really amused with itself.
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