From: dave@admiral.uucp (Dave Litchman)
Subject: Re: Deep Review 9: "The Emissary" (SPOILERS)
Organization: The Admiral's Unix System & The Grid BBS
Distribution: world,local
Date: Sat, 09 Jan 1993 07:53:26 GMT

In article <79327@hydra.gatech.EDU> ccoprdj@prism.gatech.EDU (Jorge Diaz) writes:
>In article <1993Jan6.214546.25648@cci632.cci.com> tvf@cci632.cci.com (Tom Frauenhofer) writes:
>
>>Spoilers follow, so beware...

>
>>The morphing effect for Odo was good, just like in Terminator 2.  I liked the
>>scene where the guy throws the knife at Odo's head and it "splashed" through.

Yeah, just like in T2. Which was why I had a problem with it. Ever since T2,
morphing effects have been popping up EVERYWHERE!!! I'm TIRED of it, especially
the "first shape -> amorphous, chrome colored shape -> second shape" they
used in T2 and DSN. I wish they had done it the way the Chameloid did in 
ST VI, a smooth change from first to second form. I was REALLY disappointed
they made Odo chrome. There is NO known lifeform that is chrome-colored (ok,
so we're not dealing with a known lifeform here, but still...)

>
>About Odo, some people have questioned why he looks like he does (one person
>even asked why he doesn't look like Patrick Stewart!).  Maybe that's just
>his "natural" form?  Ie, the form that takes him the least amount of enery
>to maintain (maybe no energy)?  If Odo were knocked out, what shape would he
>take?  Would he melt?

I understand that Odo's true form resembles a bowl of jell-o. So, to interact
with humans, Odo must take on a compatible form. I assume he chose the one he
did simply from personal preference, or perhaps through an inability to mimic 
human form completely accurately.


>>THE GOOD
>
>>- Sisko used Baseball to explain how linear time works!  I wondered what the
>>  baseball player was doing in some of the intercuts when he's talking to
>>  the aliens.  I had heard he was a baseball fan, it's just nice to see it
>>  used here, constructively.
>
>Who are you talking about?  Who is a baseball fan?  And what would the baseball
>player be saying to the aliens?  You lost me here.

Sisko. He is a baseball fan. The baseball player wasn't saying anything to the
aliens, the aliens were using the form of the baseball player to talk to
Sisko.


>>THE BAD
>
>>- How come the Borg didn't go after the escape pods?
>
>How come the Borg destroyed the ships?  Isn't their purpose to assimilate
>the Feds?  Destroying the ships won't leave a whole lot for them to
>assimilate.

I think the Borg were just a little too busy to do any assimilating at that
point. Ok, the Borg may be bad-ass, but even they have to concentrate on
defending their ship when under attack by about 40 Federation starships...
>And of course, there was the
>conflict with the Borg.  I loved that scene where half a ship's saucer
>section was destroyed. :-)  Which of course begs the question what the
>hell was the saucer section doing there in the first place?

It was an Excelsior that had its saucer blasted. The Excelsior's saucer
section is designed only to seperate in times of extreme emergency (and
I mean like when the magnetic bottles containing the antimatter are about
to collapse, destrying the ship) and is not made to be able to reconnect
with the rest of the ship, at least not without the help of a spacedock.
Before the Galaxy class came along, the seperatable saucers on a starship
were more of a lifeboat than anything else...

>
>>3) DOES IT HAVE POTENTIAL?  Yes.  A lot more that I thought it would, to be
>>honest.  I'm not sure how many seasons they can pull out of the concept, but
>>we'll see.
>
>I think I'm ready to give up on TNG just to watch this.  This show has a
>lot of potential, IMO, and TNG is just too far gone.

Is it really an either-or situation? Most markets are showing TNG and DSN
in complementary timeslots. And I imagine that as the seasons go on, much
of DSN's sensibilties will bleed over into TNG, making for a "rougher"
Enterprise-D. (at least I hope this is the way it'll go. I'd hate to see it
happen the other way 'round!)


-- 
"Dammit Jim, I'm a free man, not a number!"
----------------------------------------------------------------------
"Ray, when somebody asks you if you're a god, you say YES!" -- Winston Zeddmore
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.current