The show was already getting good, but this is THE turning point to where it becomes Freaking Awesome. Many, many threads converge in this and the next episode, and it becomes a full-on serial drama at this point.
Well, one stark contrast between Federation Space Jail and Dominion Space Jail is that the Dominion seems to have a Fight Club in it instead of the yoga and arts and crafts. GREAT reveal for General Martok (well, the real Martok, anyway), my favorite Klingon of all time. He, unlike Worf, knows how to party.
OK, so yeah, Worf and Garak uncover an imminent Dominion invasion and for their trouble get sent to Space Fight Club Jail with Martok. For his trouble, Garak gets a little father-son time with Enabran Tain, who it turns out is still a giant prick, even when death looms over him.
Part one concludes with a whole whopping horde of Dominion insect-looking ships pouring out of the wormhole. What was that Sisko was saying about Locusts? I do appreciate Sisko's balls at being willing to destroy the wormhole to keep the dominion out. I guess as we've seen, the Fed is just fine with him pulling major slash and burn moves.
Part two opens with the exposition that the Dominion is taking on Cardassia as a vassal state, and a little speech from our ol' buddy Dukat about how it was never quite right, him and the good guys being all cuddly. Major kudos to Kira for wasting nary a second giving the order to fire. Too bad he got away.
So Dukat gets to make some very Hitleresque speeches (but I guess he's more like Mussolini in this situation... Yeah. You know what, that's perfect. Dukat is Space Mussolini.), and Garak gets to do his "Charles Bronson in The Great Escape" bit.
We're then thrown a bit of a bone by the Klingons showing up and offering to team up with the Fed, which made every Trekkie in the world shout "huzzah" because everybody loves Klingons. I'm greatful for this development as it gives Martok an excuse to hang out on the station all the time, and as I've previously outlined, Martok is the best. This is a science fact.
Soooo, we get some more Garak-as-Bronson fun, and then we're treated to a great deal of Worf Fight Club action. The indomitable Worf faces off against the Jem'Hadar boss, in what I now realize is an EXACT RETELLING OF THE FIGHT BETWEEN THE THING AND THE CHAMPION (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Champion_of_the_Universe). So Worf the Determinator won't back down and then our heroes bust out just in time.
So here we are. The worm has turned and full scale war is inevitable. Anybody else want popcorn?
The low hanging fruit:
- Gul Dukat has a short memory. Very quick to be a prick to people who have backed him up when he thinks he can get a better offer. He is a GREAT study of a Narcicistic personality disorder. Ned and I have had some conversations on this phenomenon of late. Yeah, when Dukat feels like he's got a bit of momentum, he's a poisonous snake.
- Worf LOVES to be a total cock to Dax! How does she not dump him?!? No, because she has an old hippie living inside her, who is apparently something of a kleptomaniac. Hey, my operas!
- Garak and Worf in the shuttle. Garak is backing screwing with Worf by saying he wants to join Starfleet on his sponsorship to keep up some kind of diversity quota. Genius. Also Garak's complaint about Earl Grey tea. Subversion of TNG genius!
- Why do the Jem'Hadar not tuck I'm their neck-heroin tubes? You'd think that'd be a liability in combat. And at dinner. And all of the other times.
- I cannot be the only person who has noticed that the Breen are all wearing Princess Leia's bounty hunter disguise from Return of the Jedi. Can I?
- Quote of the episode:
"The Jem'Hadar don't eat, don't drink and they don't have sex... and if that wasn't bad enough, the Founders don't eat, don't drink and they don't have sex either, which, between you and me, makes my financial future less than promising."
"It might not be so bad. For all we know the Vorta could be gluttonous, alcoholic sex maniacs."
- Quark and Tora Ziyal
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