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I never particularly cared for Lwaxana; she reminds me of a banana cream pie in the face at a funeral. However, I think that the thing that really bothers me about this episode is the same thing that bothers me in all episodes involving technology failures: the "forgetfulness" of redundant systems. DS9 is equipped with several runabouts, each a standalone vessel complete with systems that are independent of the mother ship. The instant they realized the station's transporters are down, either Dax or O'Brien should have immediately went to a runabout and beam Odo and the Daughter of the Fifth House of Tacky out that way! This is probably the most enduring Trek Inconsistency: The transporters go down, or the vessel loses power, and that's it. The remaining hour is spent trying to get everything back up and running. Runabouts have warp drive; why can't they be used to re-power the host vessel, like using running jumper cables from a live battery in a car to a dead battery in another? Oh well. I suppose the real reason is because the 30 second solution makes for good television not. Maybe there could have been a line about how Starfleet and Cardassian technology are incompatible, or something. This at least make about as much sense as Star Trek usually does. |
