Yeah, I thought the kissing scene was really well-done. Not for prurient reasons, really. I mean, they're sobbing the whole time, and that's not quite my bag.
Yeah, I thought the kissing scene was really well-done. Not for prurient reasons, really. I mean, they're sobbing the whole time, and that's not quite my bag.
They do say "exiled from the Trill homeworld", but that doesn't necessarily suggest the force of law. It might simply mean that the Trill elite (the joined, the guardians, and their supporters) consider you persona non grata, and as a result you don't really have any friends there anymore.
I think that would have been interesting, but not more interesting. The Trill society is interesting to think about, even if they don't give us a lot of material on the screen to work with.
O'Brien in this episode is exactly why I use O'Brien as my avatar and have a little picture of him on my desk at work. I think he was absolutely right to respond to Worf's shouty-man routine.
I think Bashir is too young to settle down by the time pretty much every female character is introduced, and by the time he's matured a decent amount he's spent too much time with these people for a really plausible relationship to bloom.
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You say "EXPLAINED WHY TOS KLINGONS DON'T HAVE RIDGES" but then you say "[f]ucking genius stuff", and I don't see how those go together.
What's fun is that Kahn does show up in the plot, later. She's named as the theorist behind the big plan the Federation tries to implement in "By Inferno's Light".
Consider it from the symbiont's perspective. It wants to survive. The host expects to die someday, but the symbiont has lived a long time and wants to live even longer. The symbiont knows (and thus the joined Trill knows) that if it reassociates, it will lose access to the elite company and facilities required to join…
Isn't "Les Cousins Dangereux" a good example of how these kinds of taboos are fairly malleable? That joke would have barely made sense even 100 years ago in our society, when marrying first cousins wasn't really that unusual. (By that point there was a growing idea that it might constitute bad racial hygiene, which is…
He must have been so disappointed later, when they mostly just talked about Curzon.
That's the assumption. The taboo is to govern the behavior of the symbionts, not the hosts.
@avclub-04d524031f29c89d78cae864bd6f0de7:disqus Can I just have both?
I was going to write a peevish comment, but then I got your joke. Which I really hope is a joke. Because it's pretty funny. Otherwise, assume I wrote a peevish comment.
I enjoy "Sword of Kahless" and I've never quite understood what's so awful about it.
The Galaxy class is a classic capital ship — big, powerful, hard to maneuver, extremely expensive. (Even if the Federation has effectively limitless resources, a huge ship like the Enterprise must take longer to build than a little one like the Defiant.)
I have warmed up to that episode, which really surprises me. I don't like Worf being such a supreme dickmonster but I do like Dax and Leeta running around in skimpy outfits, and it's just… not really that bad.
@avclub-bca3531762af8a993c4f60c48fd5e33b:disqus "Business As Usual" is great. Quark's girlish "look!" at getting the beads. Every time Hagath does the quiet-shouty thing. "let's get back to… THE BUSINESS!" [horrifying glower]
I don't see how this episode is about homophobia. It's just a star-crossed lovers deal.
I'm not sure this episode explicitly says that the taboo is against reestablishing a sexual relationship. I'd check the script, but I remember this episode as being one of the ones where the script has some fairly major discrepancies from the filmed show.