Move Along Home

It's another episode with no moral, barely any plot, and just enough character stuff to make it interesting, The Wadi suck and I'm glad we never see them again.

Also, I mistook Chutes and Ladders for Candyland. Candyland isn't a game by some definitions because there's no actual randomization and it's all predetermined. I meant no offense to Chutes and Ladders, a different collection of crappy rules sold in a box to children.

I try to end these with a question, so: why would a just god allow this episode to exist?

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The November Update

So I guess that's it. Derek is done. It's always been something we've done as long as it was fun and it just wasn't fun for Derek anymore.

The status of Nine Deeps of Space is in limbo, but I'm still dedicated to continuing it.

Really, I think "Move Along Home" broke him.

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The November Update

There's not much to say Derek is leaving. He's going to record "All Good Things" with me, but it won't go up until the end of the series.

Until then we've got guests and solo session. Get me at https://twitter.com/VanVelding if you'd like to be a guest.

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Birthright, Part II

What happens when the only solution for peace is having sex with an enemy prisoner of war when she knows the only hope of survival is reciprocating your crappy, emotionally-stunted advances? The fact that I can point to two women this applies to in this situation is a little ewww.

I'm being a little unfair. Birthright is actually one of season six's many underrated gems. One thing I like about late-season TNG is that it swings for the fences. It misses more than it hits, but those hits are pretty good and the misses impress you with their candle ghosts. I mean, "confidence."

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Birthright, Pt 1

Derek is actually pretty right about the trend in TNG two-parters, which is kind of embarrassing and kind of makin' me proud. Granted, I only have so many, "pride in my son" moments left as Derek's 'Trek cred comes to rival my own.

Would Jaglom Shrek is the only Yridian we've met and he'd still be the worst if we met a Yridian corpse in a decaying orbit around a gas giant comprised primarily of farts. What I'm saying is that the Shrek children's book was written in 1990, so he wasn't even the best Shrek in popular media.

Is Data's story good or not? I say 'no' because it undermines Data's growth. It is well-structured and works with the themes of this episode though.

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The Passenger

I am 100% more compelled by the first five minutes of this episode than the sci-fi idea behind it. Bashir is a legitimately good doctor and has every right to take criticism as validation instead of a humbling gift. I just really like Bashir.

This is the first of a duo of episodes without O'Brien, and so we get Diet Caffeine-Free O'Brien, which is bizarre. I don't think it's a spoiler to say that we to the Starfleet security versus Odo thing but better later in the series. 

Maybe that feeds into the "we forgot how this universe works" thing I've brought up a few times. Like when characters beam into a hostile environment for the first time ever because we forgot that we can scan for that kind of thing in advance, and maybe bring gear if it's bad. Similarly, we kind of forget that Dax and Kira should have staff. But they just...don't.

Also, because we bring it up: does Star Trek have immortality now?

Nine Deeps of Space is a Star Trek: Deep Space Nine watchalong podcast. New episodes usually go up Sunday evenings at 10 PM CST. Episodes are hosted on Anchor, but are available on most podcast platforms.

This episode is a rough edit. I'll post a final edit later this week.

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Dax

I'd be angrier if this episode called itself "Jadzia," because that would have been misleading. We learn a lot about Curzon here, but very little about Jadzia.

Also, where's our feminist compass for this episode? Bashir is clearly creepy for not taking an explicit "no" as a "yes," but his refusal to hit someone (ostensibly) because they're a woman? How the story makes it good that he follows Jadzia? That Sisko wants to punch Curzon, but doesn't punch Jadzia, but only because she's a woman? Trill episodes, to their merit, put gender reckoning into a tailspin so I'm at a loss.

Nine Deeps of Space is a Star Trek: Deep Space Nine watchalong podcast. New episodes usually go up Sunday evenings at 10 PM CST. Episodes are hosted on Anchor, but are available on most podcast platforms.

This is a roughcut episode which will be updated this week.

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