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https://sfdebris.com/videos/startrek/d409.php There's always a bit of awkwardness to these season 1 DS9 episodes; they're not quite TNG retreads like Voyager or Enterprise leaned into, but there is a clear grafting of Next Gen style stories in a DS9 that ultimately doesn't really play to either show...

Warner's entire career is worth gushing about (he's still the Ra's al Ghul to me) but there's something deeply special to me about him acting against Shatner and Stewart in two opposite roles and pulling off both effortlessly. His film stuff is worth checking out first and I have to champion checkin...

https://sfdebris.com/videos/startrek/t166.php Not a bad outing by any stretch, but one that definitely one where both stories feel a bit undercooked thanks to the split focus, and events don't really feel like they have much weight. The crew confronting their questionable Captain is done better her...

I mentioned this on the YouTube video itself, but damn, it's great to have an Enterprise episode that actually plays to Bakula's strengths. Give him something quiet and restrained like the scene with Phlox, and he can do more with it than any of the high-minded speeches and angry rants they had him ...

https://sfdebris.com/videos/startrek/e169.php While I don't think it's intended, in an odd way this feels like a commentary on the original incarnation of Archer right before "Damage" and Manny Coto's efforts in season 4 finally improved his characterization. In Hatchery, he's a self-righteous, bad...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YtYWGRi4K4&t=921s This might be rooted in my generally low expectations for Voyager, but I'll give it credit in that while the Prime Directive element is underexplored, the final result at minimum doesn't make the crew look like uncaring a**holes, which at least giv...

In some ways. Homeward really does make for an even worse attempt to justify the Prime Directive than Dear Doctor. The latter was based on an idiotic understanding of evolution, but at least Phlox and Archer's (wrongheaded) conclusion was that saving the Valakians would be hurting the Menk. In this ...

As I noted on the video itself, what gets me about this episode is that given the strong focus is on Nikolai going rogue, you didn't even need this kind of awful story point to do it. Imagine if Boraal II is not doomed to planetary destruction, but in light of recent treaties, is going to the Cardas...

To see them reduced to the kind of stubborn self-righteousness was not only a regression to the dubious season 1/2 characterization that Picard had largely grown out of, it also was a disappointing sign that the PD dogmatism was going to be embraced even further, which Voyager and Enterprise bore o...

https://sfdebris.com/videos/startrek/t265.php In some ways, this episode is more infuriating to me than Dear Doctor. The latter was awful, and the self congratulations the story has at its reprehensible conclusion is absurd. But it was season 1 Enterprise, and Archer himself was so badly written in...