SF Debris: Take Me Out to the Holosuite

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Opinionated DS9 Episode Guide heads to the height of the Dominion War and the bloodiest conflict in centuries... so we can watch them play baseball. Shockingly, this is not an animated episode.
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I give it a 7/10, a stupid fun episode.
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Two of my all-time favorite Worf lines are in this episode:

"Death to the opposition!"

and

"Find him and kill him!"

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Also, my favorite O'Brien line ever:

Bashir: "What flavor did you make it?"

O'Brien: "Scotch."
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Pretty much Trek's version of a slap stick comedy.
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I... really disagree with him on this one. It's not a high favorite, but overall I really do love it.
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RK_Striker_JK_5 wrote:I... really disagree with him on this one. It's not a high favorite, but overall I really do love it.
I agree. It doesn't try to be anything other than exactly what it appears to be (which I think Chuck aludes to), and i think that makes it pretty great. It's just a fun episode; and while some people may find a "fun" episode jarring in the middle of war-time, i think it's necessary both for the audience and the characters. Heck, Sisko even admits, DS9 is not the front line anymore so the show can take some time to focus on things that are not combat (like this episode and Badda-Bing-Badda-Bang).
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I liked this one too. Perhaps part of that is that I'm one of the guys he's talking about who doesn't know a whole lot about baseball and doesn't watch baseball movies, so what he thought of as cliche was pretty fresh to me.

But it's just a fun lighthearted episode. I don't see anything wrong with that, goofing off and having fun is what people do. It makes them more human. Or more alien, as the case may be. :)
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Sonic Glitch wrote:
RK_Striker_JK_5 wrote:I... really disagree with him on this one. It's not a high favorite, but overall I really do love it.
I agree. It doesn't try to be anything other than exactly what it appears to be (which I think Chuck aludes to), and i think that makes it pretty great. It's just a fun episode; and while some people may find a "fun" episode jarring in the middle of war-time, i think it's necessary both for the audience and the characters. Heck, Sisko even admits, DS9 is not the front line anymore so the show can take some time to focus on things that are not combat (like this episode and Badda-Bing-Badda-Bang).
A friend of mine who was in Iraq commented that he helped set up a baseball field over there. Look at all those pictures and stories of baseball games during the American Civil War, too.
Graham Kennedy wrote:I liked this one too. Perhaps part of that is that I'm one of the guys he's talking about who doesn't know a whole lot about baseball and doesn't watch baseball movies, so what he thought of as cliche was pretty fresh to me.

But it's just a fun lighthearted episode. I don't see anything wrong with that, goofing off and having fun is what people do. It makes them more human. Or more alien, as the case may be. :)
lol, same here. I'm an 'honorary' member of the Red Sox Nation and at least half the stuff in baseball makes little to no sense to me. ;)
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Graham Kennedy wrote:I liked this one too. Perhaps part of that is that I'm one of the guys he's talking about who doesn't know a whole lot about baseball and doesn't watch baseball movies, so what he thought of as cliche was pretty fresh to me.

But it's just a fun lighthearted episode. I don't see anything wrong with that, goofing off and having fun is what people do. It makes them more human. Or more alien, as the case may be. :)
Yeah, I don't watch many baseball films but in the episode I tend to spot a lot of cliches common to those "under-dog sports team" films ... and I love them for it. I love that the episode is so unashamedly cliche about things, right up until the end when the plucky underdog team doesn't win but instead goes for the "moral victory" in place of real victory :lol:
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I think part of what makes this ep fun is that the cliches felt like they were supposed to be there, and the show was unashamed of them. It was a way of the show distancing itself from the heavy, draining war eps or the erudite mystery eps.
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