A Look at The Ship (DS9)

Opinionated DS9 Episode Guide finds ourselves stuck inside a Jem'hadar ship while our heroes get down to the important business of dying and bitching at each other.

[CaptainJZH]

I have a suspicion that the Unnecessary Ops Scene was to fulfill contractual obligations for series regulars, i.e. they didn't want to have Quark/Bashir/Kira/Odo in the Gamma Quadrant with the rest of the cast, but they have to include them anyway because they're regulars, so they had to contrive some reason for us to cut back to DS9

[kradeiz]

I appreciate what they were going for with the “This could’ve been avoided if we’d trusted each other” idea but it falls short when one side has spent the whole show lying, manipulating, and killing the other.

[myriadmediamusings]

Another great DS9 outing that encapsulates the massive tensions between the UFP and Dominion, puts a good number of mains through the wringer.

[bthsr]

The idea of inertial dampeners failing is TERRIFYING. Frankly, it's a shock that the Jem'Hadar aren't splattered across their ship's walls.

[jamesabernethy]

Although I haven't heard this story anywhere, the timing makes sense. I believe the short bit of banter about mountains with O'Brien was due to Colm Meaney filming 'The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill and Came down a Mountain'

[Blueskybuffalo]

It’s amazing how often they blab military operations right in front of Quark. Starfleets enemies are going to know before Starfleet.

[fmsyntheses]

someone get me a clone of that Vorta lady for science

[SageofStars]

One thing you can give our good host, he's giving us the original versions of these, not trying to cover up his mistakes. Like saying somehow Sisko is doing his work around where Voyager is at the beginning of this episode.

Also, I do love the bit with the Vorta at the start of this episode. You've already killed some of his officers AND stranded him here until backup comes. Yes, she offers to let them go if they give her the ship, but it's also clearly the only reason she's not killing them right now. It's nice when it's obvious both sides know that, but neither side is going to admit it right away.

[michaelwilson-xwhz]

In the Delta Quadrant? Didn't know we got a DS9 Voyager crossover.

[simplegarak]

It does make you wonder though... had they let the Vorta have the Founder, would the crew have survived? Or would they have then been executed by the Jem'Hadar once there was nothing left to prevent them from shooting the wreckage.

[barryon]

If only they'd had a way to cauterize that wound. A handheld source of intense heat or something.

[ravenwilder]

This is a re-upload, but I can't remember seeing it before, so it's brand new for me!

[HilaryPea]

-Sisko would have been honored to be the one chosen to punch ores out of rocks. He wasn't just The Sisko, he was the Motha-fuckin' Sisco. A Samuel L Jackson of Star Trek! he could have done much worse than Q and still not hesitate or blink first.
-OMG, you almost had me in tears! It was the rhythm of the moment and in of the manner in which Sisko appeared on screen as O'Brien turned around. I seriously thought he was going to give Sisko his "eek, he's gonna die" eyes, too, rather than just switching places. It seemed a natural conclusion to that thought. "You're not dying unless I say you are." [turns to Sisko, gives a dramatic sharp inhale through his teeth and nods toward the gold shirt].

[bobo]

This episode makes you wonder if the two sides talked it out less lives would have been lost but it is easy to forget that both sides are wary for a reason.

Still a well written episode.

[dm]

11:30 And this is why I always enjoy your reviews of Trek - you are generally fair to most characters - yes, Jadza is acting bitchy and mean here but its situationally appropriate and you acknowledge it as such.

[HappyDudeHomer]

Unreviewed episodes of TNG and DS9: Exist.

SF Debris: Best I can do is restorations.

[ThePiachu]

Nice episode and a nice review.

Honestly I miss that part of the Klingon culture where the body after death is nothing. It was simple yet poignant. Too bad in every other instance we see that mostly ignored...

[chrisclark]

I assume the O'Brian geology thing was a reference to a movie Colm Meaney had starred in about mountain surveying in rural ireland.

[onepcwhiz]

That completely ignore that the jem hadaar shot their shuttle and killed their people.

[EebstertheGreat]

I'm not a big fan of the trope of soldiers "fighting" to stay alive while they bleed out. You can't fight blood loss with willpower. I relate to Worf's position.