I’m catching about the 6p-9p shows when I get home from work. Oh, I forgot they used to call Odo “Constable.” I forgot Kira cut her hair and Sisko once had hair and no beard. The by-play between Odo and Quark. Plus we saw Garak again! Sigh…
My kids are old enough to watch it now (they weren’t when it was on before) and they’re enjoying it, even though I have to tell them “Shush, I’ll explain during the commercial!” a lot.
I am falling in love with this show all over again. It is grittier. It’s not the clean, neat and tidy universe that TNG was. Things get messy, and sometimes you can’t clean up all the mess.
Used to call him Constable? It’s been five years since I saw the series (none of the stations back home carried it after its finale) so I could be forgetting something, but wasn’t he always called constable?
Yeah, seeing Garak again in the tail end of “Cardassians” the other day almost made me get weepy.
All this nostalgia finally kicked me in the pants and made me dump the boring “classic” I was trudging through and start in on the DS9 book Avatar. It’s the first one set AFTER the series ended. Anyone read it? I’m loving it so far, and I’m usually pretty harsh on Trek and other franchise books.
Kira’s in charge, Ezri, Bashir, and Quark are still around. Kassidy’s still pregnant and she and Jake are dealing with losing Sisko. Nog takes over for O’Brien, Ro Laren takes over for Odo, and there are some other new crew members, too. Really captures the feel of the end of the show.
Been laid up with a cold all week and spent most of it watching the DS9 marathon in between fever dreams involving Crusaders baking desserts and Jewel Kilcher. The main feeling I’ve come away with is a conviction that Kira whats-her-name is a total babe. Yowza!
I hate to comment on one of the books, especially since I haven’t read it (or any of them, for that matter). However, a couple things in this summary bug me:
Nog takes over for O’Brien? Not bloody likely. Nog doesn’t have the experience to lead Operations for an entire station. He’d only just made Lieutenant in the last two minutes of the last episode.
Ro Laren, head of station security? This had me laughing. She’s been in trouble with Starfleet numerous times, and she defected to the Maquis. Even if she were there as part of the Bejoran Militia and not Starfleet I still can’t buy it. Hell, why not just let Eddington out on parole and have him do it? He already knows the station.
(Yeah, I know. It’s Star Trek, and things in that world often don’t make sense. Still)
Nog is the OPs officer on the Defiant or something… I don’t believe he becomes Chief of Engineering but I could be wrong. And why would Laren be held accountable by the Bajorans for being part of the Maquis? They would welcome her back with open arms considering what she did to try to help them
Aw hell, he did die, didn’t he. I’d completely forgotten about that. My bad.
The Maquis did nothing to help Bejor. They were there to help themselves and the others in the DMZ. Those were Federation worlds, not Bejoran. The Bejoran government owes her nothing.
Ro is a fugitive and traitor as far as Starfleet and the Federation are concerned. They’d want her to stand trial for what she did. As she was a part of Starfleet, was accountable to them, and committed crimes against them and the Federation, I would think the Bejoran government would have to hand her over.
Also, consider the mistrust Starfleet had for Odo in that position, and then imagine putting in someone that had actually screwed Starfleet in the past. Bejor wants to be a part of the Federation, and a move like that would certainly strain relations.
