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Still watching DS9
Feb. 6th, 2013 08:51 amAnd it seems there are tons of episodes I missed before. This might not have been a bad thing, but I persevere. I need something to do when cooking dinner aside from sitting on the girls about their homework.
I'm up to the first episode where Sisko, Dax, and Bashir get sent back to dystopian America and stuck in a sanctuary district, also known as "forty minutes of Bashir getting a history lesson". And apparently this is a two parter! Ye gods.
This episode raises many, many questions with me, such as "did Bashir just sleep through this class back in high school?" and "if they're so concerned about interfering with history, shouldn't they be more discreet about reading the textbook aloud in front of others?" and "shouldn't they be slightly more concerned about the loss of their communicators? Dax had the good sense to call it a brooch" and "wasn't history totally different in Kirk's time? If it was, doesn't that imply that TOS really is in an alternate universe from the rest of them? And yet, despite that, the two timelines seem to have nearly merged by Kirk's time, because the second universe has the same Kirk doing at least some of the same things. It seems like the risks of messing with history have been overhyped if it's possible to bypass an enormous war and still end up in the same place" and, last but most definitely not least, "say, what IS the preachiest Trek episode ever? Because I'm only partway through this one, and even considering that I know little about TOS (which is great, because we've just established that that's a totally different continuity anyway), this one has GOT to be a contender for that title."
I'm going to keep watching. I hope to make Swedish meatballs for dinner, and I can use the distraction from the fact that I have no idea what I'm doing.
I'm up to the first episode where Sisko, Dax, and Bashir get sent back to dystopian America and stuck in a sanctuary district, also known as "forty minutes of Bashir getting a history lesson". And apparently this is a two parter! Ye gods.
This episode raises many, many questions with me, such as "did Bashir just sleep through this class back in high school?" and "if they're so concerned about interfering with history, shouldn't they be more discreet about reading the textbook aloud in front of others?" and "shouldn't they be slightly more concerned about the loss of their communicators? Dax had the good sense to call it a brooch" and "wasn't history totally different in Kirk's time? If it was, doesn't that imply that TOS really is in an alternate universe from the rest of them? And yet, despite that, the two timelines seem to have nearly merged by Kirk's time, because the second universe has the same Kirk doing at least some of the same things. It seems like the risks of messing with history have been overhyped if it's possible to bypass an enormous war and still end up in the same place" and, last but most definitely not least, "say, what IS the preachiest Trek episode ever? Because I'm only partway through this one, and even considering that I know little about TOS (which is great, because we've just established that that's a totally different continuity anyway), this one has GOT to be a contender for that title."
I'm going to keep watching. I hope to make Swedish meatballs for dinner, and I can use the distraction from the fact that I have no idea what I'm doing.
