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Nice, sweet episode.
Ahaha Armin, what a fella. *gestures at screen* This. This really. Outside of the serious war parts - This is the feel of DS9 for me. Somehow warm and kinda fun. A nitpick I had when I was younger. How does a Doctor of interstellar medicine in Starfleet of the Federation think Julian Bashir is a legit Andorian name. Adoption? Maybe? Anyway, in an example of how clever the old non canon book writers were. Bashir saves the Andorians and he gets made an honorary Andorian and newborn Andorians really do start being named Julian. So much trivia that others prob covered, so I'll stop here.
This defiantly is a soft reset episode. With the 2-parter changing the big picture of the Alpha quadrant this very cleverly and quietly changes up several characters and their relationships. The 2 best changes were introducing the GOATee and ending Bashir's chase of Dax.
Third great introduction (technically not until next episode) the blind date Jake is setting Ben up on.
I had a feeling they would like this one. If they didn't I would have to stop trusting any of my instincts.
It's a good natured episode and obviously it had to be lower budget after the two-parter. The only issue I have is including the Cardassians at the end. Many cultures on our own planet are resistant (often to an extreme level) to any revision of their past and their place in things. The Cardassians just shrugging and acknowledging what the Bajorans accomplished is a bit much. That puts their mutual status in an entirely new light. [SPOILER FOR 58 YEAR OLD MOVIE] Sort of Charlton Heston in Planet of the Apes telling Dr. Zeus that man was here before apes and man was better than apes (after finding the speaking human doll in the archeological dig).
From Dukat's exacerbated sighs, I always assumed he was implying that it was silly of the Central Command to even hide the archeologically site to begin with; he was just under orders. From Central Command's perspective, I can see why they would want to curry favor with the Federation in any way possible (they just had the Obsidian Order secretly start a war with the Dominion without doing any damage.)
A nothing episode. I like fleshed out characters, but this is just overly wholesome, sentimental, hallmark card pap in place of story. It's ok when you don't feel like watching a repeat of Mike Brady have a heart to heart with Greg or Peter for the 12th time perhaps, but a better use of these two was when they got trapped in the station and set off the alarm system.
Avery had a goatee and shaved head in his previous series. They wanted him to have hair and be clean shaven to differentiate him from Picard and Riker. He’s obviously correcting that mistake. While Janeway came up thru the science division and Kirk and Picard thru the command division and Sisko is a starship engineer. After he lost his wife at Wolf 359 he was stationed at Utopia Planeta actually working on the Defiant design team.
I thought Picard had a science background based on his love of archeology. It's just that you're more likely to be overshadowed by Data than you are Harry Kim.
C+ Maybe a B‐
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