Oh dear, Quark’s uh… bad contract provisions. A Dabo girl [1] is complaining to Sisko about some provisions that allowed Quark to have sexual advances with her. Libertarians would have no problems with these provisions, but Sisko won’t allow these things on his station, which I think is reasonable of Sisko.
Yay, a green alligator man from the other side of the wormhole, who looks pretty cool, frankly.
So, the computer just tells anyone where the armory is, good security.
What constable would never use a phaser? I mean, sure, he’s invulnerable to a lot of physical attacks, but he’s not all powerful; wouldn’t he like to be able to intercept miscreants and invaders at a distance?
Alligator Man Tosk gets arrested for trying to break into the armory.
Ah, Tosk is hunted for sport. This definitely seems cruel and unusual to hunt a sentient creature. Sisko says he can’t judge what is right and wrong in their world but he won’t allow it on this station. This sounds reasonable to me. The hunter says that going through the wormhole will be considered out of bounds in future, and Sisko agrees to had over Tosk, which sounds fair to me.
Tosk does not wish for asylum when they explain what it is, which reinforces the premise that the decision to turn him over is correct.
I liked something about the bar scenes here. Where O’Brien figures out to change the rules, and earlier when he got under Quark’s skin with, “Hey barkeep!” and the things Tosk says are interesting, too.
O’Brien goes rogue, leaving his comm badge!
He inadvertently gives the hunters, and Tosk what they want, and things ends up more or less all as well. I quite like how it was the right thing to do for the aliens, both parties getting what they want even though O’Brien set him loose to spite the hunters, and Sisko let O’Brien do it.
O’Brien gets a dressing down, but had a good comeback about how Sisko let them go.
Final Grade B+
I don’t really remember this episode too well, but it’s pretty entertaining and the aliens looked pretty cool. The moral issues were very interesting despite some possible hypocrisy of the messaging. I think this is a very good baseline of what a Trek episode is and should be.
1. This is not the space boobs™ Dabo girl.