His Way

Finally after all these years i have gotten round to DS9 and boy it's rather good up there with the best of Trek TOS for me. What makes it so good I care about the characters as I did in TOS This is a Superb Fun Episode, the people giving it grief "Lighten up Folks" take the ride, roll the dice I have been to Vegas a few times since the 80s but this is the Vegas I would have loved to visit the Rat Pack man that is Living The actors in DS9 are just so good. I was never that fussed about Wolf but now I actually care about him This is a episode most blokes can get with, the "Horrible Friend Zone" the actors are having fun with this episode roll the dice, kick your shoes off and Chill people.

I don't like musicals so I didn't care for this episode, and between the sing-a-longs it's mostly cringe-worthy dialogue.

Odo is the first man ever to get out of a woman's friend file without saving her life. Great news for basement nerds everywhere except there's a reason it's called science FICTION.

We have seen tons of holodeck episodes in TNG. Deep Space Nine luckily kept those episodes to a minimum. Because once you are in a holosuite, everything can happen which often makes the episodes quite pointless (the exception to this rule were the TNG Moriarty episodes).

In this episode Odo gets advice from a Swing singer that likes to sing Sinatra songs. Bashir programmed this hologram in a way, that he is aware of himself as a hologram and also seems to be quite eloquent and experienced with love and life matters.

Of course Odo needs practice in how to convince Kira of him and in the end the showdown happens and both have dinner together while Odo thinks, Kira is just another hologram and thus opens up to her and shows a more relaxed side of his.

I doubt that Kira would have reacted like she did in the episode though if she found out that Odo used her image to basically practice how to charm her in real life. She surely would have felt tricked. It is similar to someone stalking you to find out everything about you and then use this information to play a charade on you.

After thirty years or so I come back to this episode and I love it more than ever. Now that we've had a full-blown musical on SNW this seems modest. I will always love Star Trek when it doesn't take itself seriousply.

Being a boomer I also loved the reference to "groat clusters," a really obscure Firesign Theater Easter egg.

Vic was one of my favorite characters in the whole Trek universe. I watched tonight to celebrate him in my small way.

DS9 is my favorite Trek series. The arcs of both plot and characters make it totally satisfying.

And its use of spirituality makes it stand alone.

Thanks!

This is an interesting episode for those who love Odo, which I do. I like his character development and usually enjoy his episodes. That said if you're not an Odo fan or a fan of crooning music this might not be for you. The overall Dominion plot is not advanced, it's more of an interpersonal development episode. But hey there's some really fun Odo parts and I personally enjoyed the music.