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A decent episode. The gun was a good idea, although it looked a bit wrong, rather like one of those over-customised weapons rather than something you would want to carry onto a battlefield. However, you wouldn't need to, you could just stand on a holodeck and shoot at dummy targets, the transporter would do everything for you. I'm not sure about the resolution, the idea of a murdering Vulcan who 'hates emotion' goes against most of what we know about a people 'born to peace'. Maybe they were trying to show that war gets to everyone, but I think it was part of a trend towards making Vulcans hostile which started with "Take Me Out to the Holosuite". Joran also made for an interesting character, and a bit more believable than when we last saw him. Of course, he had been bottled up for a very long time, so you can understand the most extreme characteristics coming to the surface. Finally, the image of Nicole de Boer with that rifle will stay with me for some time. Such a juxtaposition. |
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I loved this whole episode. It's like a murder mystery. I know that Trek has done murder mysteries before, but this was a very refreshing murder mystery. We've seen Odo do murder mysteries. We've seen Kira do it. But Ezri? That's completely new. And the fact that she's using her memories of Joran to figure out who the murderer is was great. Unique. Oh, yes, and the murderer is using a projectile weapon, which are rarely used in places other than holosuites. But the thing I liked most about this episode is that it was very... unpredictable. When it started, I thought that the murderer would turn out to be some stereotypical Nausicaan-like fellow who had a bit too much to drink in Quark's. But no. They gave us a Vulcan who was so emotionally distraught, he went around killing people who had pictures of smiling people in their quarters. And who used a projectile weapon. And Ezri solved it! This episode was great for me! |
