Progress

"Are some main characters a little more main characters than others?" Is a big question, and one I cannot answer in season one.

We will have to see together, friends.

I usually ask a question here to prompt engagement, but this isn't really a questiony episode. It's what Game of Thrones thinks its being when it's showing us boobs and gore; a survey of hard realities seen through the eyes of our main characters.

'nuff said.

Nine Deeps of Space is a Trekalong podcast that lets you watch Deep  Space Nine along with us on Netflix. It updates every Sunday night at 10  PM CST. NDoS alternates with its partner series, The Beige and The Bold, which is about Star Trek: The Next Generation.

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Enterprise One: The Dhohurl Opportunity

While we're waiting for the Deep Space Nine series, Nine Deeps of Space, to catch up, I'm sharing a series of reviews for Enterprise One. Enterprise One is a Star Trek series I worked on with Dr. Izixs. We hash out the stories, then I give reviews of them.

It's another Prime Directive episode, but if you promise not to tell anyone, it's also about privilege and systemic problems. It's an Uhura-heavy episode--finally--and it's also B'Elanna Torres-heavy episode. I mean, Picard is in there too, and it undercuts Star Trek's tendency to put him in a pedestal. And it does that without making Picard look like an idiot.

I mean, you could take Picard off of a pedestal while making him look like a decrepit idiot, but I don't see why you could do that when you could understand flaws in his character that make him a reasonable person who is just wrong sometimes.

Who would be so stupid though?

Regular episodes of The Beige and The Bold will return with "Descent,  Pt II" in seven weeks' time, when Nine Deeps of Space has finished its second season.

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The Storyteller

It's about the limitations of Bajoran territorial law. Bajor has clans I guess. Also villages threatened by monsters. I usually quote twenty thousand years as the age of Bajoran culture. That's actually the age of the lost city of B'hala. Bajoran culture is cited as being five hundred thousand years old.

I appreciate an episode about the diversity and nuance of Bajoran culture. But 500,000 years seems like a lot to convey when Bajorans...I'll talk about it in season three.

But did The Sirah really plan for things to shake out this way or did he sincerely believe some higher force (The Prophets) wanted O'Brien to stick around? Was it the will of The Prophets that O'Brien failed and that the village would be destroyed? Did Miles miss his true calling in life as a guy who cheerleads a Bajoran village once per year?

Nine Deeps of Space is a Trekalong podcast that lets you watch Deep Space Nine along with us on Netflix. It updates every Sunday night at 10 PM CST. NDoS alternates with its partner series, The Beige and The Bold, which is about Star Trek: The Next Generation.

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Enterprise One: The Tale of The Enterprise and L'morte de Legend

While we're waiting for the Deep Space Nine series, Nine Deeps of Space, to catch up, I'm sharing a series of reviews for Enterprise One. Enterprise  One is a Star Trek series I worked on with Dr. Izixs. We hash out the stories, then I give reviews of them.

Woof. I guess if you're going to make a Star Trek fanfiction series, you've got to make a bad episode, and TToTEaLdL is one of those. When I'm making TBnTB, I can usually see what an episode was trying to do, but I'm at a loss here. I mean, I know this episode was trying to do an Arthurian Myth episode, but the goal of anything else in this 45 minutes of Star Trek mashed into King Arthur's Court like two action figures rammed together is a mystery to me. 

Regarding the execution of Spirk: Not gay enough.

Regular episodes of The Beige and The Bold will return with "Descent, Pt II" in eight weeks' time, when Nine Deeps of Space has finished its second season.

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Battle Lines

I've been vocal that I don't care about "universe will change forever" type of events because TNG episodes like "The Chase" and "Unnatural Selection" tell us none of it will matter. Canon in general doesn't matter to me unless I know creators care about canon. It's all the difference between "Rick and Morty" and "The Good Place."

So I don't even like "Battle Lines" for it's implications for the setting. At this point, we don't know if DS9 is any different from TNG. What matters is the human story. Not the story about Mike from Breaking Bad in a well-worn story about retribution. Not the story about a leader of a religion based on prophecy being pretty good at prophecy. But about Kira learning how to forgive herself for learning how to survive and fight.

For veteran viewers; is Kit right? Are some DS9 main characters more "main" than others?

Nine Deeps of Space is a Trekalong podcast that lets you watch Deep Space Nine along with us on Netflix. It updates every other Sunday night at 10 PM CST. NDoS alternates with its partner series, The Beige and The Bold, which is about Star Trek: The Next Generation.

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Enterprise One: Lingering Compassion and the Art of Death

While we're waiting for the Deep Space Nine series, Nine Deeps of Space, to catch up, I'm sharing a series of reviews for Enterprise One. Enterprise  One is a Star Trek series I worked on with Dr. Izixs. We hash out the stories, then I give reviews of them.

It's about institutional incompetence and a culture based on doing one thing, and that thing isn't making peoples' lives better. It's obvious and not too deep and there's furrows in the story that separate things. It FEELS like an episode I guess, and that's a bit disappointing for a Kira-heavy episode that also features the trio of Geordi, Data, and Wesley. 

Regular episodes of The Beige and The Bold will return with "Descent, Pt II" in eight weeks' time, when Nine Deeps of Space has finished its second season.

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