From: odlin@reed.edu (Iain Odlin)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.current
Subject: DS9 -- "The Emissary"
Date: 7 Jan 93 02:38:05 GMT
Article-I.D.: reed.1993Jan7.023805.10622
Organization: The Stuffed Animal Trauma Team  (We're Trained Professionals)


  It has potential...  More after lots of space.

























  Very pretty.  Very interesting.  Very poorly edited and quite uneven.

  - Was it just me, or did they never once mention the Doctor's name?  (For
    those who don't know, it's apparently 'Julian Bashir.')
  - O'brien makes a great Engineer. (IMHO shall be implied throughout this
    article)
  - How many times in Star Trek have we heard "What is pleasure?  Demonstrate!"
    uttered by an 'omnipotent, yet curious' alien?  *sigh*
  - And, speaking of the aliens (who took up far too much of the episode):
    why, if they couldn't grasp 'linear time,' could they talk with Sisko?
    And why, if they experience time as a lump sum, do they need to go 'looking
    for other intelligences'?  Isn't that a linear attitude?  Wouldn't they
    (A) already know the outcome of the conversation and thus, not be confused,
    and (B) already know about other intelligences and thus, have no urgency
    about it?  I could go on, I suppose, but I hope I've at least slightly
    made my point.
  - Hooray! for Kira Nerys!  Excellent!  What a pity she cuts her hair for
    episode two... (Very much IMHO).  I look forward to seeing more of her
    character in the future.
  - Odo.  Why, if he's a shapeshifter, can he not look *more* like a human and
    save (A) all the time it takes to put his prosthetics on, and (B) the money
    therefrom.  I can see that he needs to be shown as an alien, and that it
    is something of a cliche to have a human and say "Look, an alien!" but I
    think in this case it could be made to work.  Otherwise, a potentially
    interesting character (even with the "expository lump" of dialog he was
    given to explain everything...  Those minutes wasted on the Wormhole aliens
    could have been put to *much* better use...  *sigh*).
  - Terry Farrel(l?) as Jadzia Dax, quite frankly, bored me.  I found myself 
    unable to believe near any line she uttered.  Perhaps it was the sing-song
    voice, I dunno.  I hope either she gets better or I get used to her.
  - As far as job security goes, the actors playing Odo and Jadzia are in
    very untenable positions.  Say one thing out-of-line and BINGO:  Replaced.
    Best of luck to the both of them.
  - Sisko is another character I hope gets better.  Avery Brooks is without
    question a good actor, but the characterization of Sisko is, thus far,
    fairly ragged (especially when compared to Kira Nerys [who should really
    be the one in charge... 1/2 :) ]).
  - A big surprise for me was that I liked Quark.  Another very interesting
    character.
  - As for Jake and the Doctor, we haven't seen enough of them yet to see what
    sort of people they're like.  I hope this oversight will be rectified in
    short order.
  - The SFX were at times excellent (the Wormhole, the new shuttles) and at
    times awful (the view out the windows of the Saratoga).  Pretty standard
    stuff.
  - Great door!  (The 'gear' that rolls out of the way)
  - No Keiko as yet!
    
  Oh well, enough for now.  Here's looking forward to a great series.
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