The respect they have for each other is wonderful to see. Picard is a lot like. Kirk, he is brave, respects and cares about his crew but there is no doubt who is in charge,. Picard tested Riker by having him do a manual docking and Riker didn't bat an eye, that was confidence on both men's part. You can tell Picard wants to cry when Riker leaves, they knew long goodbyes are so hard and still have to maintain that tough guy image and look the part of the leader.
I'll admit other episodes are better, but this two parter is my personal favorite episodes of DS9. Even better how it starts off with Worf and Garak butting heads and insulting each other, but by the end... "you did well." It just gets me every time.
Just judging from how Jake would be fighting against his "master" the evil spirit inhabiting him would kind of bug out as being impotent; they HATE to be powerless- and will avoid that kind of situation if they have any say at all about that!
Idk if I'm the only one who sees this but this part of Startrek isn't just about Data trying to be more human by provoking anger, it's also about Data processing a traumatic event trying to figure out why he was angry.
Putting aside the embarrassing way Tasha Yar was killed off, Armus was one of the most interesting one-shot villains in Star Trek history. He tries to pride himself as a being of pure evil, but as Picard points out, for all of his menace, Armus is just one guy stuck on some backwater planet with no way to leave.
Every time I watch data and he says stop stop stop and throws the Borg and looks lifeless. It makes me think of Customerservice calls that go to out of country when you seek a refund! I’m ☠️😂.
Praxis is clearly meant to be a stand-in for Chernobyl and the Klingon Empire a stand-in for the U.S.S.R. - the whole movie is very much an allegory about the thaw going on at the time in the relationship between the West and Communist sphere. Even the Di-Lithium mines of Rura Penthe seem like the Gulag of Siberia.
Aa, the perils of predictive ageing. Tuvok here looks too young ( which I initially thought was pretty convincing)-but he’s the age ( about) that Captain Tuvok was in ‘Picard’.
he's in all the briefings for senior officers and he's functioning as chief science officer. of all the bridge crew, only janeway has more scientific knowledge than he does. no reason not to promote him to chief science officer. unless the sticky-bamboo-floor is still a thing even in the 24th century
more like the bamboo floor. glass ceiling refers to someone who rises almost to the top but then cant move further up. but poor harry (and a lot of asians in real life) never make it past the lowest rank for their track despite having impressive accomplishments both before and after they join the team.
When this first came on decades ago I thought, this would make a great side series. ST KCW. Some characters we already know, some we are introduced to, heroes, villains, intrigue, battles, near victories, near defeats, Klingon customs, engineering, it still has possibilities.
I liked this episode and I don't get why it has low ratings on IMDb. Harry gets to try his hand at being a captain of a ship and it was an engaging episode.
