I've been watching through ds9 for the first time and the show has always been good, even the first season I thought started fairly strong. And season 6 (as I've said in another post) has started really strong, with an actual deviation from the show's status quo that lasts longer than one episode....
I agree. Dukat is one of my all time favorite villains and one reason is because he is always, as I sometimes say, teetering on the edge of humanity. He can make you root for him and believe in his redemption, or that he has a lot of good in him but was just led astray by circumstance or ambition or bad judgment. But this episode is when you are forced to face that he is in reality deeply evil. Alaimo does a great job acting the descent into madness, which also reveals Dukat’s true character. And Brooks does a great job of both checking and playing off him. Definitely one of my favorite episodes/scenes.
I’m making my way through DS9 for the first time (almost finished with season two). For reference, I’ve seen TOG, TNG, all the new movies, Discovery, Lower Decks, and SNW. DS9 season one was a little slow to pick up, but my husband and I are loving season two. As always, Star Trek addresses a lot of hard hitting issues in...
Yeah I definitely see what you mean. I think treatment of women’s issues in lots of the old trek was really hit or miss. Though I actually think some of the later episodes of DS9 that deal more directly with challenges to the gender hierarchy on Ferenginar are pretty well done. In the earlier episodes, Ferengi discrimination against women is treated as something to be “tolerated” by the federation, but in some later episodes it is actively contested by Ferengi themselves.
DS9 S6E11 - Waltz
I've been watching through ds9 for the first time and the show has always been good, even the first season I thought started fairly strong. And season 6 (as I've said in another post) has started really strong, with an actual deviation from the show's status quo that lasts longer than one episode....
Audiobook of A Stitch In Time coming this summer (www.startrek.com)
Narrated by the plain and simple tailor himself.
As much as I appreciate all that (vintage) Star Trek was trying to do, handling of a lot of women's issues were problematic or nonexistent.
I’m making my way through DS9 for the first time (almost finished with season two). For reference, I’ve seen TOG, TNG, all the new movies, Discovery, Lower Decks, and SNW. DS9 season one was a little slow to pick up, but my husband and I are loving season two. As always, Star Trek addresses a lot of hard hitting issues in...