Category: Sci-fi

We start off with Bashir on a date, regaling a story of some sort of test. Then there’s a call to action and he explains on the way to O’Brien that he…

OK, let’s begin again fresh and anew.  This column will not turn into a rant.  We’re going for one, people! I know Drake was really looking forward to Q-less.  At the time…

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…

Captive Pursuit starts with a bang. One of Quark’s call-girls is unhappy about her employment contract, and she is complaining about it to Commander Sisko.  Apparently, in the fine print that she…

I fondly remember this episode called Babel! [1] I remember my mom and I quoting bits of it to each other. I think I must have watched it more than once. O’Brien…

We’re continuing on in our watch party of Star Trek: Deep Space 9. This week’s episode is Babel. Babel is a very pleasant surprise. It is the best episode of the season…

Bashir strikes out with Jadzia in the cold opening. I’m rewatching bits of this on the computer to double check certain things as I write, and watching the intro upscaled fullscreen with…

I was pleasantly surprised by episode three of DS9.  I have not been a fan so far, but I’m told that the show really starts to “not suck” late in Season 2 and…

The blurb on Amazon Prime reads: “A reunion with a member of the Bajoran underground forces Kira to choose between her people and her duty as a Federation officer.” I’m not sure…

Episode two of DS9 (episode 1 was a double-episode pilot, and there are episode naming discrepancies in TV database sites) starts rough, continuing the trend from Episode 1. We get treated to…