I was genuinely shocked by the grim, messy conclusion of this one. The early seasons never let Kira’s resistance days feel “heroic”, she did nasty things and came out a genuinely less-good person. She wasn’t WRONG, but it was never pretty or clean, and this episode gave us a nice example of how she didn’t just transform into Florence Nightingale after it was over. This was one of the first DS9 episodes I really *loved*
Rene's performance in this episode with the logs is the one I always think of for detective story monologues because its just delivered so well. What a great combination of pulpy mystery and sci-fi.
Odo: "I've had my eye on you for a long time, Rom. You're not as stupid as you look." Rom: "I am, too!" If I were Jeremy (or whoever it is) on TV Sins, I'd take a sin off for this, hands down. 🖖😆👍
It works on multiple levels too. Rom is so beaten down by being told he's stupid that part of him believes it, but he also knows that being seen as capable and knowing means he's more likely to be arrested and convicted of crimes.
I love this episode for so many reasons, but the biggest one has to be that the creators had the guts to have Kira be guilty. No other Trek series have gone there, and very few other shows, even gritty dramas, are willing to do it unless the hero is on a Walter White style descent into darkness. This was a great episode of a great show.
Excellent episode. There’s something about the way Dukat and Quark laugh at Odo, mocking him - cut to laughter in Quark’s bar, present day - that really explains why Odo is such a misanthrope. Or at least wary about people.
I recently got to hear Armin Shimerman's perspective on this episode with the Delta Flyers Podcast and I'll likely have a newfound respect for Quark and the cast whenever I watch this episode going forward.
As someone who doesn't go through DS9 very often, especially the later seasons due to the serial nature, "Necessary Evil" is probably the episode I've watched the most. You don't really need to have seen many other episodes to appreciate it. Great standalone episodes that build off of knowing the characters AND which add additional layers to them are always my favorites. This is a very comfortable episode to revisit from time to time.
This does leave me to wonder whether the show runners always knew what they had in Grodenchik, or if this was a kind of dry run that led to expanding the character more.
I think it was a little of both. At least some of the probably knew that Grodenchik had range, but they probably needed reminded of that to give him parts where he could stretch his acting legs.
Still wonder why Kira couldnt just tell everything to Odo the moment the old chemist shop became relevant again and he said he was still investigating the matter. "By the way Odo, im sorry i lied to you 3 years ago, but i was the one who killed the chemist, we knew he was a collaborator. I was afraid you'd compromise my cover."
The combined global digital storage today is around 100 zettabytes. That's 8×10²³ bits of data. If it were all storing uncompressed 8-bit plaintext, then that would be 10²³ characters, which would occupy around 5×10¹⁹ A4 pages (double-sided). If the paper is a typical thickness of 0.1 mm, that would amount to about 3×10¹⁴ m³ of paper, or about 400 trillion tons. So today, if we had to store them on paper, our records would not overrun all known civilization (though they would exceed the mass of all trees on earth a hundredfold). But I can easily believe that centuries into the future, they would. So no, it doesn't sound like an exaggeration at all.
I don't have time to look around for it, I've got a marathon next week I still need to finish. If it's about Korra, it's the first week of November, the schedule is updated.
I was curious about what the comment/response was, and I checked the comments for the Symbiosis review. I wasn't able to find your comment there. I don't know if that's on youtube or what, unless the comment was somewhere else. Weird, but I think it's RU-vid being funky and causing some comments to just vanish for unknown reasons.
@@hariman7727 okay but I’m having a very hard time grasping the reasonle argument the don’t care enough to remember the name are being driven to a slow extinction but this drug bependsy and your argument against helping them is if we save them from extinction they might hurt others that’s the exact same argument janway used to let the robots go extinct in prototype and you ripped her a new one over it ways leaving them to there fate wrong there but good here please explain.
@@hariman7727 Side note they have space travel how exactly does any of this fall under the prime directive should Star fleet be launching a massive releave campaign with hopes of eventually ushering them into the federation
