TribunalI do like a Trek courtroom episode.
There's plenty to nitpick here. The Cardasian court is way too similar to a US/UK court, even with the "guilty before the trial" twist. Even down to a judge banging a gavel.
The ending was rushed, with the resolution crammed into the last couple of minutes.
But overall I liked it. Trek should basically just be episodes with either battles or courtrooms. Or both.
Looking at Wikipedia for the episode, it says this was the first DS9 episode to air after TNG finished. While the TNG movies will be set after the DS9 episodes, I don't care and officially declare this to be the furthest into the future we've so far got to.
The Jem'HadarJust watched the opening scene. Oh dear, "it'll be like a vacation, we'll have a great time" is the Trek version of saying "when I get back home" in a war movie or "I'll be right back"/"let's split up" in a horror movie. The Sisko's are therefore strawberry floated.
Haha, Nog and Quark are going with them. They really are strawberry floated.
Ok, I'm just going to watch the episode and stop pausing to make notes.
Quark's speech about humans having a worse history than the Ferengi sounded great, but falls apart when we remember that Ferengi women are not allowed to leave the house or even wear clothes.
A really good episode! It's nice to have a "big bad" finally, rather than just constant Bajor v Cardasian tedium. The Dominion are intriguing, they seem to be ahead of the Federation in technology, I'm hoping they are not just a clone of TNG Borg for DS9.
Overall season 2 has been pretty gooseberry fool. I've despaired of it several times but pushed on as people have said DS9 gets good. And the tail end of season 2 was actually pretty decent. If they can carry on like this, we'll hopefully have a good show to watch!
The Search - Part 1Solid opening to the season. It's nice to see the writers didn't immediately drop the Dominion contact for the first couple of episodes.
I am not sure why the Federation needs a Romulan cloaking device, didn't they have their own in a TNG episode? I remember Picard saying it broke a treaty though, so maybe they discarded their cloak when they revealed to the Romulans that one had been invented.
It's nice to see that
Odo has found his people. But strawberry float me those 90s morphing effects look terrible The Search - Part 2 Another good one even if it was guilty of my least favourite type of plot
characters being in a simulation without knowing it. It means literally the whole series could end up being a Dallas style dream.
They also keeping doing fake outs on who the Founders are. I don't know if Odo's people are telling the truth, but I'm assuming they were as it wasn't contradicted by the end of the episode. I'm interested to how the shapeshifters managed to build an empire like that!