From: 00rdharringt@leo.bsuvc.bsu.edu (Rob Harrington)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.current
Subject: Re: Thoughts on Emissary *** SPOILERS ***
Date: 11 Jan 93 01:44:26 GMT
Organization: Ball State University

In article <1993Jan6.154331.12899@neb>, prp@neb (Paul Peterson) writes:
> ***WARNING***
> This post contains spoilers for Emissary, the 2-hour premiere of DS9.
> If you haven't seen it yet, be warned.
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> A few thoughts and observations about the episode:
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> 1)  There is no polite way to say this.  The music SUCKS!  I remember
> when Encounter at Farpoint was first shown, I walked around for 
> several days with the theme music running through my head, thinking
> good thoughts every time I recalled it.  Five minutes after watching
> Emissary, I couldn't hum 4 bars of the theme if you paid me a
> thousand dollars.  It's just plain forgettable.

Yep... I sat there thinking ok... where's the cool theme... 
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> 4)  Dr. Bashir needs to grow up.  How did this self-centered little
> boy even make it through Star Fleet Academy, let alone graduate
> top in his class?  On one hand he falls all over himself and looks
> like a total idiot trying to get a date with Dax, and on the other
> hand he acts like God's gift to the primitive savages bringing his
> superior knowledge to this remote uncivilized outpost.  I predict
> there will be a lot of "Bashir-bashers" on the net unless his
> character is radically changed.

Figure he's just out of Med school... I'd figure about 28... maybe
it doesn't take as long... dunno...

> 5)  Best line in the episode had to be when Sisko was trying to 
> talk Quark into staying on the station and rebuilding.  This is
> paraphrased from memory and may not be totally accurate.
>    Sisko:  We need you to become a community leader.
>    Quark:  Me? A community leader?
>    Odo:    Why not?  You have all the character references
>            of a politician.

I liked when Sisko first met Kira... 
Kira:  I suppose you want the office
Sisko: Well, I was going to say hello first then take the office but
	we can do it either way (or something like that... It's been 
	nearly a week since I saw it)

> 7)  A minor nit-pick.  On Sisko's first meeting with Kira, he said
> that he requested a "Bajoran national" as his first officer.  Doesn't
> the term "national" refer to country of origin, rather than planet?
> Would we refer to a "Martian national"?
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"Nation" doesn't necesarrily refer to what country their from.  Nation is a
group that shares the same culture.  Many times they are one country, hence
the term Nation-state, as in Germany, France, Poland... The US is not a 
nation-state...

> 8)  Regarding Sisko's interrogation by the creators of the worm
> hole, if these beings have no distinction between past, present
> and future, they already know what's going to happen.  Why do they
> have to question Sisko to find out what they already know?  I did
> love the way it was handled, however, with the aliens communicating
> through the people in his memories.
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I liked it too but I thought that it could have been done in a lot shorter
time... I kept thinking "You mean he's _still_ trying to talk to them?"

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