In the DS9 season 4 two-parter Paradise Lost, Sisko wears the TNG-style uniform while on Earth. In the second episode, there's a scene where changeling O'Brien sits next to him on a bench, wearing the DS9-style uniform, and the difference is striking.
I never loved DS9 and Voyager's mostly black uniforms, but side by side with the TNG uniform, they look especially bad.
Ended up getting a Paramount subscription for a few months and started subjecting myself to Discovery season 5 (yeah I'm sometimes a glutton for punishment). Yeah it is a slog and I still can't comprehend how Burnham is a captain. A couple of positive notes after 5 episodes:
- I learned more about the crew in the 20 word interviews with the new commander than I had in the previous 4 seasons.
- Villains are semi-interesting, might have made good recurring characters in an episodic format but don't really seem to be enough to carry a whole season.
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Watched Star Trek 6: The Undiscovered Country last night with the boy, and it's every bit as good as I remember. Christopher Plummer just slaying it with Shakespeare in every scene.
I sort of wondered if he was one of those great actors who did it as a lark or for money, but then came across this article. Made me happy.
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Fellow Canadians Shatner and Plummer had known each other for years prior to working together on Star Trek VI, with both men having starred in productions at the Montréal Repertory Theatre.
Shatner was Plummer’s understudy in a 1956 production of Henry V at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival. Plummer could not go on one evening due to illness, which led to Shatner’s big break. “He didn’t do what I did at all,” Plummer recalled in a separate interview. “Where I stood up to make a speech, he sat down. He did the opposite of everything I did. And I knew that son of a bitch was going to be a star.”
Hot take: I think the Motion Picture uniforms aren't bad.
Or at least the two-piece blue-grey ones on the left, above. The one-piece jumpsuits on the right were the heinous ones, especially in the 1970s beige and brown shades. If everyone had been wearing the blue-grey two-pieces these uniforms wouldn't be remembered as being so bad.
This season is notable for a few things: it kicks the Dominion arc into high gear, it introduces the Defiant, and Sisko, near the end of the season, grows his goatee.
In addition to the ongoing cast of background characters, we get a few new, important ones in Kasidy Yates, who is a romantic interest for Sisko; Michael Eddington, who takes over security for Starfleet on DS9, to Odo's chagrin; and the Female Founder.
Speaking of Odo, the big story this season is he meets his people, who turn out to be the Founders, in charge of the Dominion. The Founders trying to pull Odo back to them is an ongoing story arc as well, exploring his desire to rejoin his people, as well as his growing romantic feelings for Kira, and his ongoing pride in his job.
Elsewhere, Quark joins a Klingon House in The House of Quark, Dax finds out that she has a hidden past host who was a murderer in Equillibrium, Kira finds herself surgically altered as a Cardassian in a plot to lure out opposition to the government in Second Skin, Sisko, Bashir, and Dax travel back in time in the Past Tense two-parter, Odo admits in feelings for Kira to the Female changeling in Heart of Stone, the Romulans plot to destroy the wormhole in Visionary, and Dax explores her past hosts in Facets.
We see a lot more of what Garak is capable of, most notably in the excellent two-parter Improbable Cause and The Die Is Cast, one of Star Trek's best outings period, in which the Obsidian Order and the Tal Shiar go after the Founders, only to be be virtually wiped out, and Garak tortures Odo to get information.
Other fantastic episodes include Civil Defense, which sees an old Cardassian response to a rebellion activated, Prophet Motive, in which the Propets change Zek to be giving, which awesomely ends with Rom admitting he embezzled from the Benevolent Fund; Explorers, in which Sisko builds an old solar space-sailing craft and sets of with Jake; and a great season finale in The Adversary, which sees the crew on the Defiant wondering who among them is the changeling, and ending with Odo doing something no changeling has ever done; harming (in this case killing) one of their own.
Not only do we get DS9 regular guest stars like Dukat, Nog, Garak, Bareil, Winn, Zek and Rom, we also get to meet Leeta for the first time, as well as the return of Lwaxana Troi in a not-bad Troi episode, plus who we think is William Riker turning out to be Thomas, to steal the Defiant and join the Maquis.
Very few weak episodes, with the lowlights being the someone-is-aging episode (in this case, Bashir), and a cliched love story that we know isn't going anywhere (Dax and a guy on a planet that phases to a different plane of existence)
Star Trek continues its use of awesome guest stars; in addition to the above returnees and new background characters, we get William Lucking, Lawrence Pressman, Dick Miller, Tina Lifford, Bill Smitrovich, Lark Voorhies, Erick Avari, Tracy Scoggins, and Andrea Martin.
And most importantly, we see Jeffry Combs for the first times(s); first as horny alien who wants a holosuite program of Kira, and then as one of his more well-known roles, as Brunt, the Ferengi with the very small ears.
A great season, one that is showing that DS9 is very different from TNG in both tone and in story-telling - something they would continue to build upon for the rest of the series' run.
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Hot take: I think the Motion Picture uniforms aren't bad.
Or at least the two-piece blue-grey ones on the left, above. The one-piece jumpsuits on the right were the heinous ones, especially in the 1970s beige and brown shades. If everyone had been wearing the blue-grey two-pieces these uniforms wouldn't be remembered as being so bad.
Except by the crew, I remember in Shatners autobiography that were incredibly uncomfortable.
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