John Potts April 6, 2017 Share April 6, 2017 Quote While attempting to resolve a trade dispute, the Defiant engages two Jem'Hadar cruisers in the atmosphere of a gas giant in order to protect a freighter While I love all the submarine warfare tropes in this episode, you have to wonder just how hard it would have been to sort the whole matter out over subspace. And there are so many science fails in the episode - we see the forcefield fail under 9000 atmospheres of pressure, yet not enter through an open doorway. Which would of course completely flatten Jadzia & Bashir. And that's assuming they could survive breathing the fluorine, which can't exist in that atmosphere. As for the Quark/Hanok Bromance, the first thing he complains about to Sisko is an 5% surcharge for anti-Changeling scans - now while Quark is presumably just pocketing this, but shouldn't this be something the Federation IS doing? Did like Kira's tale of the farmer's 3 sons and then just giving up and praying - which seems to be the thing that brings Sisko back from unconsciousness. Link to comment
readster April 7, 2017 Share April 7, 2017 The thing I enjoyed the most about the episode was Kira talking to Sisko because it was so touching and showed how far their relationship had come in the last 4 years. However, yes, science goes out the window big time and also how the Jem'Hadar first cruiser was that stupid to think that the Defiant wouldn't know they were next to them was their own fault. Sure they did some major damage to the Defiant, but they walked right into that attack. For a race willing to commit suicide runs to destroy enemy ships they walked into Sisko and Kira's traps too easily. Link to comment
The Crazed Spruce April 7, 2017 Share April 7, 2017 21 hours ago, John Potts said: As for the Quark/Hanok Bromance, the first thing he complains about to Sisko is an 5% surcharge for anti-Changeling scans - now while Quark is presumably just pocketing this, but shouldn't this be something the Federation IS doing? Yeah, but they probably weren't charging for it. Link to comment
John Potts April 7, 2017 Author Share April 7, 2017 1 hour ago, The Crazed Spruce said: Yeah, but they probably weren't charging for it True, but any inspection regime will delay shipments and so add to costs (presumably even in the made up economics of Trekdom). Link to comment
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