Pages Tagged “DS9”
Reviews
- Paradise The ST:DS9 episode “Paradise” tries to make a point about self-reliance without technology, but misses the mark by not actually showing any benefits.
- Star Trek: Section 31 ★★☆☆☆ As a Star Trek pilot it’s merely OK. As a stand-alone movie, it’s a mess. It could have been retooled as a good heist film, but wasn’t.
Blog Posts
- We Have Met The Ferengi, And They Are US
We finished re-watching Deep Space Nine a few days ago. Quark’s rants in the second-to-last episode about rolling back the reforms regarding gender and worker protections, complaining that Ferengi society has been infected by a disease, and declaring that if he becomes Nagus he’ll bring back what made Ferenginar great again sound eerily familiar. There’s […]
- The Ferengi are the ones in suits
Tonight, our Star Trek: Deep Space Nine rewatch (on DVD) is up to “Bar Association”, the episode in which Rom leads all of Quark’s employees on a strike to demand better working conditions. I swear I didn’t time this intentionally, but it seems appropriate! Ferengi workers donât want to stop the exploitation. We want to […]
- Cynicism in DS9 vs. B5
In the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode, Accession, an ancient Bajoran ship comes out of the wormhole with a single passenger who claims HE is the Emissary of the Prophets.
- Casablanca…IN SPACE!
Babylon 5 has been described as Casablanca in space, so it was weird to catch an episode of Deep Space Nine that really *was* Casablanca in space.