Work has been too much, I've taken ill, so what I leave behind for #startreksummerjune is the posts I missed. However, I feel like the crew of Deep Space Nine would accept this failure.
I've said it before, but DS9 is my favorite Trek. It is my fictional home more than any other fake location. It's beautiful and flawed and I'm very glad it exists. I'm glad I can go there and hang with these weirdos. I can always come home.
The end of DS9 was probably one of the best episodes of not only the series, but also the best of any of the Star Trek series. It had an end, but also a new beginning for characters like O'Brien (who somehow didn't get killed by the end of the series), Bashir & Ezri, Garak and Worf. Only part I didn't like was Odo rejoining the Founders.
#StarTrekSummerJune #WhatYouLeaveBehind @Megabooks
I love this quote.
#TheChangingFaceofEvil episode is okay, but only in parts, I don't think it's all that compelling overall. Kai Winn is such a horrible person, I'm glad I know she gets her comeuppance before this is over.
#StarTrekSummerJune @Megabooks
Garak is probably one of the most interesting characters on DS9. You never knew where you stood with him, his motivations were always his own, a mystery to others. He could be a hero one moment, then a back stabbing villain the next.
#StarTrekSummerJune #TheDieIsCast @Megabooks
DS9 7.25 &26 #AllYouLeaveBehind The best Star Trek finale so far. What a show! Concludes the series beautifully. Read the novelization! Both leave ample room for further stories. The documentary What We Left Behind explores one of the narrative possibilities. I won't spoil what they want to happen. It's shocking, but it works. #startreksummerjune
Thank you to @megabooks for this run. It was fun! Perhaps we can do TOS at a later date. 😘 😘 😘
DS9 7.20 #TheChangingFaceofEvil, or at least the changing face of Gul Dukat. Creeper's gonna creep, this time by banging the Kai. Number 4 of the final 9 episodes of the series, it's difficult to take on its own. Both the station and Starfleet Headquarters on Earth take dramatic damage; Golden Gate bridge is destroyed (How many times has it been destroyed on tv and film? Less than Paris or Venice, but still) #startreksummerjune
DS9 #3.21 #TheDieIsCast, part 2 of Improbable Cause. Titled for the transliteration of Julius Ceasar's “Alea jacta est“. A great episode, terrible to watch, where Garak tortures Odo in order to gratiate himself to Enabran Tain, whom we deduce is his father. He regrets it. Why this does not affect Odo's relationship with Garak in future episodes is an oversight. I avoid watching it, it's too hard. #startreksummerjune
Obviously I knew Charlie slept with Julian and caught HIV. What an #indiscretion! I couldn‘t imagine all that Fiona and many, many gay men went through in the early eighties. Terrible. And lots of kids today don‘t even bother with condoms and casual sex. Pisses me off. (I‘m a righteous ace, lol!) It‘s hard for me to believe that as a child of late 80s early 90s sex education. #StarTrekSummerJune
Oh Al Franken and your #Indiscrestion(s)! My friend from college is married to his daughter, so I feel bad for them (his family), but we can‘t hold republicans to one standard and dems to another. For a perspective on the funniest part of the episode, see @tournevis ‘s post!
#StarTrekSummerJune I‘m not really in a place where I can continue Star Trek Summer. I‘m sorry to the people whose posts I have enjoyed. 💙
Ha ha ha!! I love a bad pun 🤣🤣🤣🤣
This episode was pretty good overall, but I don't care for efforts to try to make Gul Dukat a sympathetic character in any way. I prefer him cold and reptilian, a monster who will stab friend or foe to get what he wants.
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