UNCUT - The Visitor (DS9 S4E3) | Star Trek Journey 378

This one hits different today, because today my father suddenly died. I don't think I'm ready to rewatch it yet. But I now understand more how you felt watching it Josh. And everyone in the takes and comments who went through it.

Alex, irritating as you can be, I have seen enough to be sure if you had a child you would love the child

Now compare this to any TNG episode with Wesley Crusher. Shut the FUCK UP, Wesley!

I absolutely loved this episode, especially the music. Honestly, music has the power to make or break an entire franchise, they got it right. Speaking of music, on a live a while back, I said a friend of mine at the time wanted the First Contact theme at her wedding, that was 25 years ago. She got married last year and I have absolutely no idea if she used it but I'd like to think so ^_^

An especially hard episode for those of us who've lost a parent (or both). But a beautifully told story none the less. One that only DS9 could tell.

I think that this episode is in Top 5 of all Star trek for me.

Melanie got all that great stuff, and then she’s just erased when the timeline resets - and she wasn’t even wearing red.

I lost my mom a few months ago. I haven't been able to cry about it until experiencing this rewatch with you guys. Thank you for your honest tears and hel3oping me experience this gut punch of an episode again. Alone, but also not alone.

Top 5 DS9 episode

In previous years, this was an emotional episode. Rewatching now, after my own dad passed (really suddenly, Nov 2024) it really, really stings. What was said really is true; for you, the world has changed in an inconceivable manner. For everyone else, it just rolls on.

Great takes. The last one, "you only lose your father once" hits. 5/16 was my late father's birthday and somehow that direct link did not hit me while watching. Lost in the replay of the story.

Re-Inner Light rant. It was not 30 years of life. It was a dream about their society pumped into his memory in a few hours. Like the commercial breaks dreams jump to different parts of the story without linear progression. If you had a dream about parts of your whole high school experience that does not make you 4 years older when you wake up.

Ah yes, time for my annual cry

I’m absolutely bawling throughout this entire episode

I waited until today to watch this episode, as I had heard it involved Jake and Ben and was a tear-jerker. Glad I waited - today would've been my dad's 88th birthday. Thanks, guys. And thank you, Dad.

Jeebus ... my dad passed away 2 weeks ago, and this just totally wrecked me. Oof .... I think this is one of the episodes I missed back in the day, so this was a good introduction to it. Thanks for sharing your experience. :-)

Definitely one of my top 5 in all of Star Trek.

I'm glad Alex mentioned it towards the end. What really amazes me is that Jake made the decision to kill himself to save his father, as surely as if he had put a gun to his head and pulled the trigger. (Which would've been a better choice. He would have to be pretty comfortable with his math if he came up with idea that him poisoning himself the night before ensures his death when Ben shows up. Shooting himself when Ben appears guarantees he dies when Ben is there and not living it up to chance.) But anyway, Jake loved his dad so much, he sacrificed his long-term happiness and his very life for the possibility of bringing his dad back. Think about it. If someone said they could bring back your father's life at the cost of 60 lonely years, plus your own, would you do it?

As great as Tony Todd is as an actor, I have a problem with him being in this episode. Everybody else gets old age make up except for Cirroc Lofton who is replaced with an actor who doesn't even resemble him. If the producers didn't think Lofton could carry this episode they probably shouldn't have done it, it feels very disrespectful to temporarily replace him like that while Bashir and Dax get fake wrinkles and fake grey hair and hobble around doing a pretty bad old person impression. I wonder how Lofton felt when they decided to do one of the most Jake centric episodes ever and he didn't get to play it.

This is DS9’s “City on the Edge of Forever.”

This episode and the inner light have a similar message: make the most out of life and its moments. Picard says it directly to his daughter, and Benjamin to his son several times.

I absolutely believe that we see loved ones when we die. There are hundreds if not thousands of near death experiences where people talk about loved ones greeting them on the other side. Plenty of interviews on YouTube of people who have died and come back who report this.

This is what I get for breaking kayfabe and leaving an earnest comment.

It's even harder on a rewatch. Give it a year, think it won't get you, it'll get you even worse.

Had to start this at 1 am. 😭😭😭 Sorry for your lost Josh. My Dad (88) just have to go to the hospital today bc he fainted. Hopefully he recover. Just one of these days…

This episode is a powerful episode in this show

I can't even watch this one after losing my dad a couple of years ago. It's one of my favourite episodes of tv ever. I'll watch this reaction one day. I'll be amazed if their isn't a tear or two.

The Visitor: the young aspiring writer Jake is telling his story to? Or his Dad, visiting him every so often through his life?

I had no remembrance of this episode probably because in the mid and late 90's I had a job that once in a while sent me overseas for weeks at a time so never got to watch all episodes of TNG, DS9 and Voyager. It's been fantastic going through all of these shows with the Target Audience and your great reviews. Some of the episodes like this one were like new to me in that I had either never saw them or forgot them. This one hit hard in that it was totally unexpected and full of tears. I have lost both my parents and have a young daughter now.

Did notice until this viewing that Jakes wife was Bajorian. Its a good touch, showing that he was still pining for that life he lost.

Dude, have kids! They're hilarious! I lost my Dad at 17, and have 3 sons.

This is a prime example of how Wil Wheaton was mostly failed by the characterisation and scripts he was given. He was never allowed to be relatable and vulnerable. Wesley was written as either genius (even super genius), or stoic while carrying a personal burden.

I won the bet with myself, that this one would break you both. For me the best start to a Star Trek season so far from what you've seen, another S.

I don’t think Jake saving his dad undercuts the message. That’s what a tragedy is. Additionally, it’s a story about self sacrifice. It works.

As a dad, this episode really hits me, especially the scene where older Jake wakes up and his dad is just looking at him. I can't imagine seeing my son old, past the time I would ever see him, and just watching him sleep, wondering about all the times I've missed with him... I cry just thinking about that scene.

Inner Light Slander will not be tolerated! ^^ ;)

PEAK!

I’m sorry to hear about the loss of your Dad, Josh. I didn’t know. My deepest condolences to you and your family. God bless. 🙏

so late comment, but I thought it was interesting that in this timeline, after the Klingons take over DS9, the Dominion seems to leave the Alpha quadrant alone. A point for Josh's "blow up the wormhole" argument

Jesus…still makes me cry like a little baby.

Find me another tv series where you can have an episode like The Way of the Warrior and then follow it up with The Visitor. Find me that show. This is why Star Trek will always be something special that few other shows can touch.

I think the thing about the message is that He SHOULD have lived his own life but he didn't. And when he realizes he "wasted" his life. That's when he does what he does to give himself a second chance to live as well as save his father.

This was considered to be DS9’s Inner light but I think it’s better

BOBW’s had family DS9 has the visitor, what a powerful episode and not what one would expect after WOTW. Tony Todd gives a powerful performance. Watch this on Father’s Day and don’t get misty eyed. I knew the boys would be a wreck

I spent $5 to cry with the boys. Money well spent.

For the detractors who see Jake as wasting his life and not moving on, you're treating it as if his father was killed. He wasn't! Jake knew his father wasn't dead, he was trapped. He did start to move on with his life until he realized that. At that point, his life's purpose became rescuing his father, no matter how long it took. Damn honorable decision if you ask me.

Regarding Inner Light, I always interpreted it that he remembers it like you would remember a dream. He "woke up" on the bridge, and as his life starts to take center stage in his consciousness again, he remembers those events, but they are easy to think of as a dream.

Tony Todd's and Cirroc Lofton's performances here are fantastic. One of the best episodes of not just Star Trek, but of television in general.

This episode is the peak of DS9 IMO, the absolute heart of the series.

Reconciling The Inner Light isn't that hard. If the Kataan technology could place those memories in Picard in 20 minutes time, it could also put Picard mostly "back to normal" when he awakened. If I find anything questionable about the episode, it's more that Kataan's overall level of technology seems inadequate to create a probe capable of interfacing with who-knows-what kind of alien brain it will eventually encounter, but I assume they specialized in studying the humanoid brain and interfacing with it, and maybe any previous encounters the probe had were with incompatible aliens. Maybe Kataan's scientists even knew about the proliferation of humanoid life in the galaxy that we learned about later in "The Chase".

I AM a teacher… An English teacher…. and I HAVE shown this episode in class.

I think a lot of people get caught up on whether the message of this episode is to let go of the past and move on, or waste your life desperately trying to undo some past trauma instead of learning to live with it. I don't really think it's either. As I said in my take, it's actually Ben's perspective that hits me a lot harder even though I don't have kids. I don't think it ended up being like a dream or that he didn't remember. Ben had to watch his son throw his whole life away in a matter of minutes from his perspective. Of course he's going to tell him to move on, what father wouldn't. He doesn't know there's a way for them to have a "second chance". The thing is Jake is almost a man at this point. He's 17 at this point in the timeline, not 18, though we can forgive being off by a year when you're that old. In fact there are a few continuity issues in this one. If Jake is 17 at the start, and the wormhole inversion happens every 50 years, Jake should have been 67 during the second one. When Ben meets Korena, the wiki says it's 2389, so Jake was supposed to be 34 at the time. The next time he sees Ben he says it's been 14 years. Even if the inversion isn't a full 50 years between occurrences and was rounded up, it would still have been around 30 years, not 14. Anyway, that's my nitpicking out of the way. As I was saying, Jake is basically grown up at this point. He's got a career in mind, is thinking about going back to Earth to study, and he's a hustler, dom-jot player who's burning through girlfriends like they grow on trees. Jokes aside, every kid leaves the nest eventually. Ben is probably thinking he's done his part as a father. Not to say he wants to kick Jake out the door and forget about him, but he probably assumes once Jake leaves they'll naturally grow apart somewhat as Jake starts to live life on his own, and moreover that Jake is mature enough now that is something happened to Ben, Jake would be alright. And then he has to watch his son's whole life evaporate in the blink of an eye, all because he lost his father. Personally I think Ben vividly remembered that experience for the rest of his life. I don't think he would tell Jake. The future will now be different, so why lay that kind of trauma on him over something that's not going to happen? It's enough for Ben to know that his son still needs him to be there for him. So I think the real takeaway from the episode is that parents generally and fathers specifically should never underestimate their importance in their children's lives. I think Ben had started to feel Jake didn't need him as much anymore(and that's been touched on in eps like Explorers), and it took seeing a highlights reel of Jake throwing his life away to realize how wrong he was. That's why when he tells Jake "I am now" at the end, it hits harder than any other scene for me. My favourite ep is yet to come, but this is always somewhere in the top 5. It can't be anything other than an S tier.

First time I watched it since I had my first son 8 years ago. I started crying at 20 minutes and barely stopped until the end. Top 5 episode of all Trek.

Josh you bring up your issue with The Inner Light, but I really have to question your reasoning. I do agree that we should see some subtile differences in Jean Luc, especially in the episodes closest to that episode. But that isn't the fault of Inner Light the episode. Thats the fault of the writers (or producers) choosing not to harvest that legitimate material. And since you say you judge the episode, that complaint really doesn't apply to the episode itself. It's like in the Enemy when Beverly and Picard aren't able to convince Worf to donate blood. When it comes up again in The Defector, do you credit The Enemy for that choice, or do you credit the writing of the Defector?

I don’t think Sisko is in the Q continuum, I think he is in a chamber of wherever it is the prophets live

Perfect episode

As good as this show is, unlike TNG I've always had trouble remembering individual episodes from my first watch years ago. The Visitor is a distinct exception. I never forgot this experience and like you said Josh, this show transcends Star Trek --it remains a piece of media you can share independently with a complete non-fan and it retains all of its power.

My only quibble for this show is so very mild. And that’s casting someone whose body doesn’t match how I think the younger actors body would look as a mature adult. Tv just never really gets well. It’s go for the performer not matching a body type.

The Kira Jake scene is one of my top twenty scenes of all of Trek (possible top 5 it changes), Absolutely love it. It’s where I broke in the episode.

I'm a patient, and thrifty guy. I'm normally totally fine with waiting for the scheduled unlocks. But theres a few episodes where 1) i love so much and 2) i know are going to make a great reaction on this channel. This is definitely one, so didnt take me long to crack open the wallet

When people sit and debate what the best episode of DS9 is; this is the first (chronologically) of probably 3 episodes that are normally the top contenders.

I finally got my DS9 Companion back from a friend I loaned it to six years ago. 😅 Want to note this section, because it’s such an incredible script. Interesting to see who contributed what: “Taylor’s story was inspired by the father/son relationship that the series has portrayed so well since its beginning. He initially thought his story would focus on Sisko. But as he began to write up his ideas, the focus shifted to Jake, ‘because he’s the guy who’s left behind,’ he says. “Although Taylor received sole writing credit, he freely praises Echevarria’s behind-the-scenes contributions to the script. ‘He made it twice as good,’ says Taylor. ‘He made lines of mine into better lines and deepened the relationship between Jake and the young woman interviewer.’ “It was Ira Behr, however, who came up with the frame for the story. ‘We were all a little concerned about trying to tell a story that took place over 60 years in sequence,’ says Echevarria. ‘So Ira said, what if we start cold, in the future, with Jake older, and we all responded to that because we could see how that would really free you up in the narrative sense.’ It was also Behr’s idea to have Jake tell his story to someone who’d come to see him.”

This episode is a reaction a lot of fans have been dying to see and I’m glad you guys didn’t Stall. After watching an episode can you guys guess or predict it’s a fan favorite?

I had not realized this episode was Michael Taylor's first ever TV writing credit, this is a hell of an episode to springboard a career with.

Tony Todd gets his well-deserved kudos for his magnificent performance, but I want to highlight Avery Brooks, because Sisko’s reactions are actually what move me the most in this episode Just imagine this episode from Ben’s perspective. He keeps waking up every few minutes to find his son in more and more pain, knowing he’s the cause and yet also knowing he has only a minute or two to try to somehow find the words to help Jake be OK when he’s inevitably ripped away again. You can feel the powerlessness and desperation in Brooks’ performance.

Tony Todd looks absolutely nothing like how Cirroc Lofton actually turned out, and I couldn't give less of a fuck about that, he was brilliant.

Like Melanie said she read Anslem twice in one night, I watched this reaction twice today.

All this reminds me, my dad died the same week I discovered your channel on YouTube, while you were still in season 1 of TOS. Thanks for giving me something positive to think about during a difficult time.

The Visitor. God I love this episode. I remember when it originally aired and falling in love with it. I knew it replayed at 4am the following morning, and I grabbed a VHS tape to record it. Still have it. S tears.

thumbnail is the realist shit ever

This. This is why we’re all here. And thanks for reading my take. It’s really nice to have you guys to share some of my stories with. There are lots more - and I’ll try to keep them short!

There wasn't a chance I was missing this reaction. Episodes like this is why I got the membership.

Now after this, watch Final Destination Bloodline and listen to Tony Todd's fourth-wall-breaking ad-libbed farewell speech to his fans. (He knew he had like days left). And yeah, the episode is an S. There's absolutely no doubt about that.

Tony Todd was mediocre at best. Which made him a great match for Cirroc Lofton. That said, excellent idea and episode brought down by C level acting.

What can i say, amazing episode. Gets me every time. S+. And what is even better to say, we havent even reached my favorite episode yet. Heres to the future. :-)

I lost my mom in nov and my dad 6 years ago. It’s so hard. I’m so sorry for your loss💙

I'm so sorry Josh for your loss. We are here for you.

In the post for "The Adversary" I said that Peak DS9 is about to begin. Well, Peak DS9 has since begun! The rest of this series is... incredible. This doesn't mean every episode is as perfect as these openers, but the batting average going forward is impressive.

I don't know what the YT release schedule is like, but you guys need to try and make it work that this comes out on Father's Day. If possible.

Second favorite episode of the series for me. And I did force a non-Trek friend to watch this episode, like you guys described. He loved it.

Love ya melon fucks~

Regarding the mixed lesson: Life is almost never reducible to an absolute. Sisko was not being realistic about how Jake was dealing with this. And I think he new that. But giving Jake a nudge to actually live his life is validated. Jake does return to writing and passes that writing on. But he doesn't waste the decades he spent learning subspace physics. The cost of that choice is still real for him. He lost his marriage and decades of his writing career, but it would be foolish of him to then throw away what that bought him. Sometimes good does come out of bad decision and it would be needlessly rigid to dispose of that good automatically because you weren't living according to the right lessons. I lived in depression for a long long time and I shrank my life to the minimum viable state. When I got better, I had more energy and I had space in my life to use it. Would I rather have been married with kids and a successful career? I won't pretend otherwise. But I am not wasting the opportunity to write a new future on an open slate. I don't have the responsibilities that would have come with the life I originally wanted. That's not the same as saying "I'm so grateful for my depression" EDIT: Also, my take is that he might have had his realization about how to solve the problem specifically because he stepped away from it. Sometimes you hit on a solution to a problem because you're no longer buried in the attempt to solve it. Living your life maps new paths, opens lanes of thinking and that can get you unstuck.

Since The Inner Light is my favorite Trek episode of all time, I suppose I would be a bit biased. But hey it's an opinion. However thinking objectively about it, I believe that Picard does get affected greatly by his experiences on Kataan. But him being Picard it doesn't show that often. At that point he had a lot of trauma in his life. Him being assimilated means all of the memories and traumas of countless other drones are somewhere inside him, affecting him. He of course manages to deal with them, talking to Troy for one thing. He has been captured and tortured by the Obsidian order (we're not told they are the order in that episode, but I think it is safe to assume they were). He is dealing with that as well. Despite all that he is the captain of a Federation flagship. There is no doubt in my mind he has a way to deal with his experience on Kataan. Even though he tells Cmd Darren he can now share his story and music with someone, she is not the only one who he told those experiences to. He is also addressing the issue with Deanna in a counselor-patient confidentiality. On the other hand I completely understand Josh's perspective on it and it is a valid opinion.

Thank you fellas, this reaction is everything I hoped it would be. Been waiting for a long time for it.

Not just one of the best start trek episodes but just best tv episodes period. Though it lost the Hugo award to a B5 episode but thats okay, B5 is just a better show than this all around. /runs and hides

HEAVY HEAVY episode. The appropriate thing to do is not post something silly but to be serious. So We at the Sex Scoreboard will be normal and completely inappropriate. DS9 sex scoreboard Jake !!??! yes, puts a notch on the bed post The sex score board Jadzia 5 Quark 5 Bashir 3 Sisko 3 Kira 2 Worf 2 Jake 2 +1 new Chief 1 Odo 1 GUEST: Korena +1 new DETAILS: Interesting call here. The Scoreboard feels Jake gets a score. It is the character Jake. So, Jake as an adult "Puttin’ the Hot dog in the bun”. Now we also really wanted old man jake to score again with Melanie by “Takin the skin boat to tuna town”. But he didn’t have a little May – December boinkin’

It's funny that you mention being suspicious of Melanie. This story was partially inspired by accounts of JD Salinger being interviewed by a student and he became very suspicious of such people over time.

Ds9 Inner light

Showrunners:Ok, here’s how it’s going to go. We have all the Worf fans here for the second episode. They’ll want a “Worf is learning the quirks of the station” hook, laughing, badassery…but that’s not what we’re going to do. Instead, we make em cry! DS9 attaaaaack!!!

When I was first getting into Star Trek, I remember seeing lists of the best episodes of all the shows from TOS to Enterprise, and The Visitor was always listed as DS9's best episode. It's not hard to see why.

Just finished the takes and putting this here as well as YouTube, not sure which would get seen more likely. I would put the counter point to the first defector, yes he does get the reward, but even Jake says "for you and the boy I was, he needs you" he is admitting he wasn't ready, didn't handle it well, and destroyed his own life in this process and its too late for that revelation to be fixed in any other way.

I love this episode! The actress in this is Andrew Robinson's daughter.

Unexpected Saturday joy!! Upon second viewing, I recognize how many of Lofton's facial expressions and mannerisms Todd put into his performance. This is prime material.

What a delight this day turned out, rewatching one of the best TV episodes every made with the boys! RIP Tony Todd. Also, about Inner Light and Picard, I do think he was altered by his experience, yet his second life wasn't that of abject torture. He was an explorer, an inventor, had a family, lived and grew old, but in so many ways was enabled to live just as the Picard we knew and loved prior to the probe's flash. So there wasn't that much to affect him when he came back, besides having those memories and emotions to call on later. But it's all positive weight for him, I think. And whatever negative or charged changes were made, were internalized. Picard always possessed near-superhuman stoicism. They picked the perfect character to have a second life infused into. (Didn't expect to play defense for The Inner Light on The Visitor episode lol but indeed enjoy the engagement)

I remember vividly the first time I watched this. I was off sick from school and after the first few minutes I was thinking oh great a filler episode but by the end I was absolutely speechless and the memory has stuck with me ever since. Incredible episode. Funnily enough the only other episode I have specific memories of watching for the first time (up to this point) is Skin of Evil from TNG but I think that's because I was very young and found Armus terrifying at the time. That might even be the first episode I ever watched.😂

This one gets extra traumatic once you have kids. I have a very close relationship with my two boys and my eldest, age 10, is going through the whole realisation of life and death. He recently said to me that he hopes we all pass away at the same time, so he doesn't have to go through losing me. That hit me like a bus, I had to explain to him that it's nature and no-one should ever go through losing their kids. Watching Ben worrying about Jake through this hits me really hard, especially when Jake gets older and Ben realises his life has been completely wasted in trying to reverse the accident.

Also, there's no better time to say it again than after these two episodes: I love Star Trek.

I rarely give out S's, I'm typically a C and B man, but this one's an easy S all day long

René Echevarria did a rewrite on this script and didn't submit his name for credit. Michael Taylor was still working a normal day job in New York. He heard two men at work talking about the amazing episode of DS9 they had seen the night before. He walked up to them and said, "I wrote that episode". Now that I have cried, I will continue my day.

"What's the first regular Worf episode look like" Made me laugh. It's an understandable expectation and probably the newly imported TNG holdovers were expecting that. The big selling point was "Worf is here" then we get this. Feels like a parallel to Family after Best of Both Worlds. I don't think any other series could have told this story. Wesley and Dr Crusher could have filled the roles in an altered version but this show has placed a greater emphasis on the relationship between Jake and his Dad. The other thing that collapses about Wesley and Beverly is that solving this kind of problem is much more in Wesley's wheelhouse than Jake's. He wouldn't be throwing away what he could have been even if he had just as much difficulty solving the problem.

I don't know about the episode 'teaching us the lesson' that Jake should obssess over the past / his dad, I think it's just a very believable way for Jake to react to his circumstances.

Tony Todd had been having a tough time when he got this script for this. He hadn't been able to find work for months when he got the script for this and the woman who raised him, basically his mom, had just died. When he read this script it he felt she was reaching out and giving him a gift.

We've had the Bonding... and now we have had the Tethering

When you met Armin Shimerman, you said he mentioned something to you about Season 4. I'm trying to remember what it was......🤔🤔🤔

Im not crying... I uh... just got some dirt in my eye for like 30 minutes here... yeah thats it.

I think Cirroc could have played middle-aged Jake, but I think old man Jake would have been a step too far. What might have been interesting is if they went that way and then cast an actual old man for older Jake, but Tony Todd was a great middle ground. While the old age make up isn't great, he had the physicality perfect...

Thank you, guys. I have been looking forward to the one-two punch of Way of the Warrior and this for a while. It's 2:21 AM where I live, but I couldn't go to bed until watching (although I might have to watch your full review tomorrow). Thanks again.

My all-time favorite episode of Star Trek, but I can’t watch it very often.

Well, that's certainly a screenshot reaction.

The Way of the Warrior was DS9 showing its teeth. The Visitor is DS9 showing its heart. It's the perfect episode for you guys and I'm so glad you got to be gut-punched by it.

Target audience doesn't react to ds9 anymore they just look at you like whale brandon fraiser ;p

I get Alex’s point being glad Jake isn’t carrying this experience, my only issue is Jake needed to learn the lesson and didn’t

Tears, tears, tears. Up there with the best of the franchise. The perfect blend of science fiction and emotion. Pure, unadulterated Star Trek.

Ladies and gentlemen, we got him!

I don't think y'all ready for this one. Y'all have officially been warned. I just got here and haven't actually watched the full video but this episode is NOT for the faint hearted. Remember y'all were warned.

Wow, I haven't even watched this, but I can see how this got to Josh.

S-tears spoilers in the thumbnail!

I have watched this several times and only just realized no Odo and only one scene of O’Brien and Quark

Well, if that thumbnail doesn't say it all...

Greatest episode of Star Trek of all time. No matter how many times I watch it I'm reduced to tears. - which today started to flow by the 20 minute mark.

I know everyone loves “Way of the Warrior,” and it is a great episode. But I was more excited for this episode. As good as TV gets for me.

"Alex, it's didn't make me cry. It was almost a perfect hand." - Way of The Warrior... ... TA: Alex, Is this your card?

The Way of the Warrior/The Visitor>The Best of Both Worlds/Family!!!!

I rank this episode higher than the inner light. Way more emotional.

Don’t cry! You get to watch Star Trek for a living!

Cirroc said they tested him in older makeup. It didn't look right, so they brought in Tony Todd for the role. RIP Tony Todd.

This is one of Cirroc Lofton's favorite episodes. I have been in zooms with him and other fans on the 7th Rule youtube channel roundtables.

Rachel Robinson is Andrew Robinson's Daughter.

The Way of the warrior was the crowd pleaser and I also love that episode but this is the reason why I watch this show

Oh you thought this was now the Worf show? Nah, son! This is still a Sisko show.

DsBonding

Who's cutting onions.

DS9s "Bonding"..? Is this the start of an absolute run of bangers, or a run of busts..? Let's find out together 🖖

One of the best DS9 episodes top 5 easy it's my number #3

Thanks for getting this out before your vacation. Appreciate the dedication.

I really just have to give up on the patron comments I mean I’m still gonna make them, but I’m gonna make sure that I’m not giving anything away so it’s been really hard to find moments to speak, but I still wanna say love the work. Keep going guys.

if ever there was an episode that was right up y'alls alley