[SPEAKER_00]: Hello everyone and welcome to the Delta Flyers journey through the wormhole with Quirk Dax and their good friends Tom and Harry.
[SPEAKER_00]: Join us as we make our way through episodes of Star Trek Deep Space Nine.
[SPEAKER_02]: Your hosts for today are my fellow trek actors.
[SPEAKER_02]: Terry Farrell aka Ter Fair.
[SPEAKER_02]: Robert Duncan McNeill, A.K.A.
[SPEAKER_02]: Romic, and myself, Garrett Wong, A.K.A.
[SPEAKER_02]: Gawha.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Oh, friend, friend.
[SPEAKER_04]: It's like baby talk.
[SPEAKER_04]: It's like it's on the baby talk.
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[SPEAKER_02]: When you try to walk and you look like a hundred and fifty years old and you're like You compare that your lower back.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's my lower back.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, do some yoga and 40 and below I had Back issues even when I was a kid because I have scoliosis and yes, if I did too much of my you know Like scrubbing the floor.
[SPEAKER_02]: I did not know that you had scoliosis as a kid so that's something you don't That's curvature of the spine correct is not that is but it's
[SPEAKER_00]: always there.
[SPEAKER_00]: It doesn't go away.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, you didn't have, you don't have surgery to correct that is what you're saying.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, it wasn't bad enough to have a brace, but I have injured myself and had a bulging disc.
[SPEAKER_00]: And it two times in my life, I could not walk.
[SPEAKER_00]: Scary.
[SPEAKER_00]: Wow.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's really scary.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I didn't have surgery, but the only time it really got better.
[SPEAKER_00]: I was on Becker and John Astin told me he was guest starring and he said, you need to go see my physical therapist.
[SPEAKER_00]: and so I did.
[SPEAKER_00]: And that's what made the difference.
[SPEAKER_02]: Wow.
[SPEAKER_00]: Not going to a chiropractor, massage, or just the heat ice, but going to a PT.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: And Robbie mentioned earlier, you just need, you need to work out.
[SPEAKER_02]: You need to, uh, strengthen your core basically, right?
[SPEAKER_00]: It takes your time.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, yes, your core 100%.
[SPEAKER_00]: But right now, because you're in acute pain and swelling, ice.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I see.
[SPEAKER_00]: And it's going to be hard.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's bad for you to sit too long, too.
[SPEAKER_00]: No.
[SPEAKER_00]: If you went to PT, even a couple times just to get the exercises.
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, thank you so much.
[SPEAKER_02]: Let's say a very, very, very happy birthday to Chris nap on March 24th.
[SPEAKER_02]: Happy birthday, Chris.
[SPEAKER_00]: Happy birthday, Chris.
[SPEAKER_05]: Happy birthday, Chris.
[SPEAKER_05]: Our airies friend fire sign.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm a
[SPEAKER_05]: I'm not as thrilled with today's Limerick.
[SPEAKER_05]: What?
[SPEAKER_05]: I've been like, you know, winning, winning, winning.
[SPEAKER_05]: Today, I, well, we'll see.
[SPEAKER_05]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_05]: You guys listen, you get to tell me, but I mean, this one was not as easy as they've been the last four or five times.
[SPEAKER_05]: God, okay.
[SPEAKER_05]: My Limerick.
[SPEAKER_05]: The dominion arrival means they're probably dead as fleets from the Gamma Quadrants, seemingly sped.
[SPEAKER_05]: with Cardassia aligned, alone on the station, they're confined, feels like the Dominion War is what lays ahead.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's good.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's right with that.
[SPEAKER_00]: When we self-criticize before we read it, then the other two are going, okay, I'm looking for it.
[SPEAKER_00]: What's wrong with it?
[SPEAKER_00]: I know.
[SPEAKER_00]: But it's just like a, I'm not in condition, right?
[SPEAKER_00]: We can't help it.
[SPEAKER_05]: I've been enjoying finding a character's experience and kind of expressing that.
[SPEAKER_05]: And this one, there's so many, so much happening that I was like, well, I can't, there's no character that I felt connected to that way.
[SPEAKER_05]: So it was more about what it felt like to be,
[SPEAKER_05]: have the war coming to the station.
[SPEAKER_05]: That's what I tried to do.
[SPEAKER_05]: Oh yeah, it was a lot.
[SPEAKER_05]: It was a lot this episode.
[SPEAKER_05]: The first part I felt like the garrick story, the father's son story to me just, I connected so well to that.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh yeah, well here we go.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's a little odd, a plant needs carbon dioxide, rain, sun, to survive.
[SPEAKER_00]: A humanoid, air, water, food, but most of all, a tribe.
[SPEAKER_00]: As we join our tribes in solidarity, we feel strong.
[SPEAKER_00]: Battling the Dominion is imperative we are all calculating with our brawn.
[SPEAKER_05]: Mmm, yes.
[SPEAKER_00]: Is that weird?
[SPEAKER_00]: You're gonna need some more.
[SPEAKER_05]: I'm like, oh my god, you're like some brawn and some mussels.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's like a done mungfish right now, Garrett.
[SPEAKER_02]: No, I'll tell you what it is.
[SPEAKER_02]: Because I was like, oh my god, the beginning of that.
[SPEAKER_02]: It sounded like you were the giving your presidential speech.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like you were the president of the United States.
[SPEAKER_02]: It was so like, oh my god.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'll vote for you, Terry Farrell.
[SPEAKER_02]: It was that time.
[SPEAKER_02]: I wasn't so shocked by it.
[SPEAKER_02]: I was like, I liked it a lot.
[SPEAKER_00]: You did.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: Very creative.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, it's like battling the Dominion collaboration and unity.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then I was like, why didn't I add?
[SPEAKER_00]: We needed that.
[SPEAKER_00]: I was just trying to condense it.
[SPEAKER_00]: But then there's a point where like, okay, this is what I've got.
[SPEAKER_02]: No, but I love how it began.
[SPEAKER_02]: The planet needs the planet needs the, you know, this, this, this, this to survive.
[SPEAKER_02]: And then humans need this, this, this, I'd like that.
[SPEAKER_00]: It was so different.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I had to change it to humanoid.
[SPEAKER_00]: Humanoid, yeah, human rights.
[SPEAKER_00]: Right.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's right.
[SPEAKER_00]: That cardassians.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: They're being a majority of us.
[SPEAKER_02]: But you're on the wall, humanoid, exactly.
[SPEAKER_02]: Exactly.
[SPEAKER_02]: OK, here's my high coup for by infernals light.
[SPEAKER_02]: And here we go.
[SPEAKER_02]: Garic has an escape plan.
[SPEAKER_02]: Fake Bashir foiled.
[SPEAKER_02]: Nice.
[SPEAKER_02]: I like that.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's a good high coup.
[SPEAKER_02]: You like it?
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: Glad I'm so happy that you guys like it.
[SPEAKER_02]: All right.
[SPEAKER_02]: Let's go through some of the details here.
[SPEAKER_02]: Written by Iris Steven Bear and our good friend Robert Hewitt Wolf.
[SPEAKER_02]: Directed by.
[SPEAKER_02]: Uncle Lesslanda.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh no.
[SPEAKER_02]: Hey, we love him.
[SPEAKER_02]: I love him.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, who doesn't love lesslanda.
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't dare you to I dare someone to stand up and raise a hand saying that they know someone that does not like Uncle Lesslanda.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay, guest stars.
[SPEAKER_02]: Andrew J. Robinson, his character, Mark Alimo, is called a cut.
[SPEAKER_02]: Melanie Smith, as Torah, Ziyah, J. J. Hutsla, as Mar-Talk, Ray, Buktenika, as Deos, James Huran, as Icut, Ike.
[SPEAKER_00]: Is he the lead, like the captain?
[SPEAKER_02]: Gemhadar.
[SPEAKER_00]: Thank you.
[SPEAKER_00]: Is he?
[SPEAKER_02]: He's the main dude.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't want to say what he does to ruin the whole thing.
[SPEAKER_02]: Right.
[SPEAKER_02]: Kerry Stauber as Romulan and Robert O'Reilly is galeron.
[SPEAKER_02]: We do have some co-stars.
[SPEAKER_02]: We have Barry Wiggins as a gemhadar officer.
[SPEAKER_02]: Don Fisher as a gemhadar guard and Judy Durand as computer voice.
[SPEAKER_02]: All right, so let's do a little bit of trivia.
[SPEAKER_02]: Garyc's role and actions in this episode are similar to Charles Bronson's in the 1963 John Sturgis film, The Great Escape.
[SPEAKER_02]: Both men were forced to work in a confined area and both suffered from claustrophobia.
[SPEAKER_02]: It is also worth noting that Andrew J. Robinson himself suffers from mild claustrophobia.
[SPEAKER_02]: And on the day, the crawl space scenes were shot,
[SPEAKER_02]: He says of these scenes, I didn't have to act.
[SPEAKER_02]: I was there.
[SPEAKER_02]: 100 percent.
[SPEAKER_05]: It's funny that he was suffering from the flu because I thought he sounded sick a little bit.
[SPEAKER_05]: Wow, you caught that.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: Can't you clock the nasalness?
[SPEAKER_05]: A little bit of like, yeah, and I thought I thought it reminded me back in those days how we would just work through.
[SPEAKER_05]: like one thing that's been good, especially since the pandemic that I've noticed is that if people are sick, we send them home.
[SPEAKER_05]: We don't want the whole show going down.
[SPEAKER_05]: So if anybody's feeling symptomatic of anything,
[SPEAKER_05]: where people are much more cautious and careful.
[SPEAKER_05]: But back in the 90s, we'd work through with a fever and, you know, Andy, obviously.
[SPEAKER_00]: Rob and your trailer and come back out, yeah.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, get to work.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yep, the show must go on, yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: And we were so proud of what we worked through too.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's almost like, yeah, I don't know, I went through last week.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, yeah, exactly.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_05]: It's not good.
[SPEAKER_05]: So I'm glad that that's changed a bit.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, self-care, and also pragmatically, you really don't want other people to get the whole crew will go down if you start bringing in everybody and so that's what happened we talked about this before, but I gave I had chickenpox and didn't know it.
[SPEAKER_05]: I had the beginning of my symptoms of chickenpox that I got from my daughter during four years.
[SPEAKER_05]: I gave it to like two or three crew members and it ruined their holiday.
[SPEAKER_05]: It was right before Christmas and it ruined her entire Christmas.
[SPEAKER_00]: You probably felt pretty creepy if you mentioned it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I felt dangerous to have that happen as an adult.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_00]: Wow.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, and I think people are more on top of it to in general and gatherings.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like I have more friends that will cancel the last minute because I'm not quite feeling.
[SPEAKER_00]: Don't want to get everybody sick.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I don't want you to get me sick
[SPEAKER_02]: Good, a little bit more trivia here, although both this episode and in purgatory shadow were extremely popular with viewers, the producers were a little disappointed with how the two parts turned out.
[SPEAKER_02]: As Iris Steven Barrack explains, I'm not sure if this worked as well as it could have.
[SPEAKER_02]: as a two-parter, it might have been better as a two-hour block, or even as a 90-minute show.
[SPEAKER_02]: We didn't really gain anything by splitting them up.
[SPEAKER_02]: The second hour moves like a house on fire.
[SPEAKER_02]: Events are happening at such an accelerated pace.
[SPEAKER_02]: If we'd had the hour or a 45-minute buildup immediately preceded it, I'd have liked it better.
[SPEAKER_05]: Hmm, what do you think it did feel like two different tonally two different shows and they didn't quite get together well Did less direct the first half?
[SPEAKER_00]: No, no That's part of real bone.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, yeah, I wouldn't they have the same director do both parts for camp prep and also Is that what it is like you you have to have some yeah?
[SPEAKER_05]: I have to prep once you get into a pattern with production of
[SPEAKER_05]: You know, one episode's prepping one hour and another shooting at the same time.
[SPEAKER_05]: Once you get in that pattern, it's not just the director schedule, but it's all the crew, all the departments, the art department, the proper department.
[SPEAKER_05]: They can't suddenly go to a different pattern of prepping.
[SPEAKER_05]: You can't prep a two hour.
[SPEAKER_00]: In less, it was written as a two hour to begin with, then less could have directed the entire thing, right?
[SPEAKER_00]: If you prepped it as like a pilot,
[SPEAKER_05]: Oh, right.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_00]: And you shot the whole thing.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_05]: So if you do it at the beginning or the end, yes, you could do it.
[SPEAKER_05]: Could do it that way.
[SPEAKER_00]: Or an hour and a half, I guess it would be right to 45 minute shows.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: But that only works at the beginning if it's the pilot, right?
[SPEAKER_02]: Because right now, this is the middle of the season.
[SPEAKER_02]: So what doesn't work in this, Gabrielle Beaumont would have had a direct and prep for the next episode being the very first director of the first step of the two points.
[UNKNOWN]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, but see, that's what I need help understanding because of in the middle of the season, you had a two hour, why wouldn't it be that Gabrielle or Elas would be prepping while we're shooting the uniform, prepping for the two-hour show or the hour and a half show.
[SPEAKER_05]: Oh, if this one at his one episode was longer.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yes, if they made this how I read spoke, you'd have to look at like how many days each department has needs and has for prep and make sure that it would fit that, but you could maybe do it, yeah.
[SPEAKER_05]: But if it messes everything up, if, you know, the the normal schedule is a week and a half prep, a week and a half shoot, basically everybody's in that cycle, you know, the the
[SPEAKER_05]: all of it.
[SPEAKER_05]: And so once you change that cycle in the middle of the season, it's hard to kind of go back.
[SPEAKER_05]: It's like a factory, you know, once you assembly lines starts rolling, once it's moving, you can't just stop it and then, like, stop it and just stop it.
[SPEAKER_00]: It would just be longer.
[SPEAKER_00]: It would just be like a 10 day shoot or a two week shoot.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then while we were shooting that, they could be prepping.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, but I understand now what you're saying, because everybody that's working on it, it's too long to Yeah, certainly you've got a different a different number of days pattern and suddenly, you know, budgets and
[SPEAKER_05]: Rentals, everything gets kind of thrown off.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_05]: Well, let's dive into this this episode.
[SPEAKER_05]: There is a recap.
[SPEAKER_05]: I won't go through the recap because we just did a podcast about it.
[SPEAKER_05]: If you need to recap, go listen to our previous podcast.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yes, we tell you all about that episode.
[SPEAKER_05]: Exactly.
[SPEAKER_05]: Basically we know that
[SPEAKER_05]: that the Dominion they seem to be headed our way and a warf and garrick are our prisoners on an asteroid basically.
[SPEAKER_05]: That's all you need to know.
[SPEAKER_05]: So we come back into part two.
[SPEAKER_05]: We're on the bridge very active camera in this scene.
[SPEAKER_05]: Like shots moving very different than Gabriel Beaumont's last episode that she directed where she was much more traditional and sort of elegant and a lot of
[SPEAKER_05]: You know, sitting and talking close up.
[SPEAKER_05]: Mary moves.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yes, this is very active.
[SPEAKER_05]: So, and less is great with the camera.
[SPEAKER_05]: He moves the camera all the time.
[SPEAKER_05]: So, Kira's in the captain's chair.
[SPEAKER_05]: This is the bridge of the defiant, by the way.
[SPEAKER_05]: Kira's in the captain's chair, Dax is piloting the defiant, and they release the docking clamps.
[SPEAKER_05]: They take the defiant out,
[SPEAKER_05]: And we learn that DuCott is going to be joining them in his bird of prey, ship.
[SPEAKER_05]: So DuCott's, at this point, on our side, they're waiting for orders from Cisco to fire on these dominion ships that just came through the wormhole at the end of the previous episode.
[SPEAKER_02]: Those aren't good odds, though, Robby, right?
[SPEAKER_02]: That's DuCott's bird of prey to runabouts and the defiant.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's four.
[SPEAKER_00]: There were hundreds of ships, right?
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: It was insane.
[SPEAKER_00]: I will say too.
[SPEAKER_00]: I just want to add.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: I loved the combination of Kira and Dax working together on the defiant.
[SPEAKER_05]: I did too.
[SPEAKER_00]: That should have been the spin-off.
[SPEAKER_05]: Oh, yeah.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_05]: I liked it.
[SPEAKER_05]: I was fun to say.
[SPEAKER_05]: You guys were good.
[SPEAKER_00]: Thank you.
[SPEAKER_05]: We'll get to the scene where you basically save everybody later on.
[SPEAKER_05]: But anyway, they're on the defiant.
[SPEAKER_05]: They're waiting for orders to fire.
[SPEAKER_05]: We cut the ops miles says they're not responding to hails.
[SPEAKER_05]: They're, you know, calling these Dominion ships, but nobody's responding.
[SPEAKER_05]: Suddenly, the gem had our change course, and they check where they're going, they're headed off to Cardassia.
[SPEAKER_05]: Miles says straight for Cardassia.
[SPEAKER_05]: So we cut back to the defined bridge.
[SPEAKER_05]: On screen, Ducaut said, he's made an alliance actually with the Dominion.
[SPEAKER_05]: He's not going to help them out.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_05]: And Cardassia's becoming
[SPEAKER_05]: part of the dominium, and Kira tries to fire them, but he's hit war peas out of there.
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, they think he's going to be a hero first, because he starts following all the gems of the ship.
[SPEAKER_02]: So everyone's like, he's going to attack them and everyone thinks that this is a suicide mission.
[SPEAKER_02]: And that's when he says like, no, I'm just joining them.
[SPEAKER_02]: Bye.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: Something to what?
[SPEAKER_02]: Did you expect that, Robbie?
[SPEAKER_05]: No, but I will say in this episode, do caught is getting back to old do caught and I'm kind of happy about it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_00]: We need our good bad guy.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_05]: It's better as kind of just a bad guy.
[SPEAKER_05]: Like we were getting to know him and we were getting to understand him, but I don't really
[SPEAKER_05]: think I care about that.
[SPEAKER_05]: I want him to be a bad guy.
[SPEAKER_02]: May I read this little excerpt for you?
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, please do because it's probably the thing that's in my head too.
[SPEAKER_02]: This episode ends the process of depicting the character of Goldacot in a more sympathetic light, a process which began in the episode the Machi part two.
[SPEAKER_02]: and was carried on in episodes such as civil defense to find the way of the warrior in discretion returned to grace, apocalypse rising.
[SPEAKER_02]: Ever since Machi Part II, DeCott's role as a clear cut villain, had been rendered more and more ambiguous.
[SPEAKER_02]: especially in the aforementioned three episodes from the fourth season, where as the character had initially been introduced as a typical bad guy, it seemed that the writers were on course to completely turn him around and eventually have him as a protagonist.
[SPEAKER_02]: However, according to both Iris Stephen Bear and Robert Hewitt Wolf, they had always intended to cut change of heart to be temporary.
[SPEAKER_02]: And they always knew, even when writing episodes like Defiant, that somewhere down the road, he would show everybody just how truly evil he really was.
[SPEAKER_02]: As Bear explains, they never had any intention of turning to cut into a good guy, quote,
[SPEAKER_02]: Eagle maniacal sadist.
[SPEAKER_02]: In other words, he is the Richard Nixon of Deep Space Nine.
[SPEAKER_02]: He will do whatever it takes to come out on top.
[SPEAKER_04]: Some people will thought Richard Nixon was a good guy.
[SPEAKER_04]: And to say, maybe some people think two cats are good.
[SPEAKER_02]: There you go, flip side of the coin.
[SPEAKER_02]: Flip side of that coin.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_00]: What do you even do?
[SPEAKER_00]: Bad guys can do nice things, but it's usually because it benefits them.
[SPEAKER_02]: Exactly, yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: Very helpful people perceive them.
[SPEAKER_00]: I thought you were going to say, do caught says to Cara at the very end, goodbye major.
[SPEAKER_00]: You and I are on the same side.
[SPEAKER_00]: You and I on the same side, it never seemed quite right.
[SPEAKER_00]: did it.
[SPEAKER_00]: It was like, yes, thank you, but do not even say it.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_05]: All right, well, we've got some opening credits after Ducati takes off, and then we come back to the barracks, which are in the gamma quadrant on an asteroid on this little bubble that they can escape from.
[SPEAKER_05]: In the barracks, we see that won't Romulan woman again, who we met last time, keeping watch at the barrack door.
[SPEAKER_05]: She's looking out this little window.
[SPEAKER_05]: That's her job, this whole episode, really.
[SPEAKER_05]: She's just stands by the door.
[SPEAKER_05]: She's the look at it.
[SPEAKER_02]: Wow.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's a very important job though, Ron.
[SPEAKER_02]: You always need to look at it.
[SPEAKER_02]: You need to look at it.
[SPEAKER_02]: But what I'm confused about is, where did that Romulan dude come from?
[SPEAKER_02]: Like in the beginning, you just see her with with with the boys.
[SPEAKER_02]: And all sudden later at the end, there's a Romulan guy.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, really?
[SPEAKER_02]: He's a bit of a tiny, tiny, tiny, tiny pay attention to any of the okay characters.
[SPEAKER_02]: I was so focused on our guys.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Well, if she doesn't get maybe it's hiding in your bad.
[SPEAKER_05]: It's a guy than it, then my joke won't make sense.
[SPEAKER_05]: But I was like, is the Romulan guy wearing a red shirt when he gets?
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes, he had a little red piece of underwear poking out.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, it's a little red.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm sure he had a red one.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, that means red is dead.
[SPEAKER_02]: So, okay.
[SPEAKER_05]: All right.
[SPEAKER_05]: Well, the Romulan woman is the look out at the door.
[SPEAKER_05]: Worf asks where the transmitter tain used is.
[SPEAKER_05]: And we learn it's in this hole in the wall.
[SPEAKER_05]: You've got to slide your way inside.
[SPEAKER_05]: It's very tight in there.
[SPEAKER_05]: Bashir grabs this metal piece and Jimmy's open a panel and says they have to crawl inside to go very deep.
[SPEAKER_05]: and Worf says he wants to reprogram it to use it as a transport who go back to the runabout.
[SPEAKER_05]: And I don't think in this whole time, they just left the runabout, like the Jim Pedar just left it.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's sitting and floating.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, apparently.
[SPEAKER_05]: He seems sloppy to me.
[SPEAKER_00]: Little.
[SPEAKER_05]: Right?
[SPEAKER_05]: It has, it seems a little sloppy.
[SPEAKER_05]: It does.
[SPEAKER_05]: All right.
[SPEAKER_05]: Well, I guess the run about just floating nearby with nobody on it.
[SPEAKER_00]: I guess there's no room for it on the asteroid though.
[SPEAKER_05]: There you go.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm guessing on the other side of the asteroid must be one of their ships.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know what?
[SPEAKER_00]: How the hell are they getting on and off?
[SPEAKER_02]: There's no garage, a shuttle valley parking was full.
[SPEAKER_00]: There's a cave on the other side of the ship.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's like a bat cave, like bat map cave.
[SPEAKER_00]: Exactly.
[SPEAKER_05]: The war wants to transport back there, get back home.
[SPEAKER_05]: But sure says, that sounds great, but there's none of us are engineers.
[SPEAKER_05]: I don't know how to reprogram this thing.
[SPEAKER_05]: Right.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So yeah, so it's a little odd that yeah, why doesn't there be a lady being isn't the one going in the wall.
[SPEAKER_02]: be sure such it is that other and I've made this joke before other than that one week learning annexed class that I took on this.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I do extend your extension course extension.
[SPEAKER_02]: You see a extension.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think that's what you said after I said that the first time.
[SPEAKER_02]: Thanks.
[SPEAKER_02]: Thank you.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, yeah, exactly.
[SPEAKER_05]: Garrick is voted the guy to go inside the claustrophobic space.
[SPEAKER_05]: A guard off camera says all prisoners assemble immediately.
[SPEAKER_05]: I repeat all prisoners assemble immediately.
[SPEAKER_05]: we go into the lobby area.
[SPEAKER_05]: Beautiful high shot.
[SPEAKER_05]: We didn't see that in Gabrielle's episode.
[SPEAKER_05]: I don't think.
[SPEAKER_05]: No, it was a big, high-wide shot.
[SPEAKER_05]: So we got to see that space.
[SPEAKER_05]: Deos, who's a Vorta that's in charge of this place, makes an announcement.
[SPEAKER_05]: He says he's pleased to announce the hostilities between our people as ended.
[SPEAKER_05]: So as of today, Cardassia's joined the dominion.
[SPEAKER_05]: So big, big news to all the Cardassians and Bashir and Garic look a little worried about their plan
[SPEAKER_05]: It has to be there to crawl in the hole.
[SPEAKER_00]: Good thing you took that inx class.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, they had learning inx class.
[SPEAKER_02]: But as Dio says, listen, all the Kardashians come forward.
[SPEAKER_02]: You're going to be put on this shuttle and send back home.
[SPEAKER_02]: And Gary starts walking to and then, Nope, not you.
[SPEAKER_02]: And Gary's like, well, last time I checked.
[SPEAKER_02]: I was Kardashian.
[SPEAKER_02]: And he says, yeah, but you're not a very well-liked Cardassian and the leader of the Cardassian government doesn't want you.
[SPEAKER_02]: And he's like, who's that?
[SPEAKER_02]: Gold to God to your old enemies.
[SPEAKER_02]: So that's what you get for flirting with this daughter.
[SPEAKER_02]: You should have said anything.
[SPEAKER_05]: Confused how Gold to God went from trader outside or, you know, um, to sudden head of the government.
[SPEAKER_05]: He's the head of the government.
[SPEAKER_05]: That seemed pretty easy.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, he just made a deal with the people in Cardassia angry with him too.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, I guess they got over it.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I mean, he was, he brokered the deal.
[SPEAKER_02]: He was not, obviously, he was on his cling-on-burt of prey when he negotiated this deal.
[SPEAKER_02]: So he just contacted the dominion.
[SPEAKER_02]: Contact to Cardassia and said, listen, I'm gonna make this happen and he did it.
[SPEAKER_05]: So, I really did it.
[SPEAKER_05]: It happened off camera now.
[SPEAKER_05]: Now he's the leader of Cardassia of the entire government.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, I would have liked to have seen that episode.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_05]: How that happened, right?
[SPEAKER_00]: That would be a great episode.
[SPEAKER_00]: It was a little... And to see how the Dominion strong armed the... Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: Cardassian government that wasn't allowing gold to caught in to have gold to caught in.
[SPEAKER_00]: Right.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: But I think it's an easy sell, though.
[SPEAKER_02]: If you think about it, the car, all of Cardassian knows that the entire obsidian order was wiped out by the Gemha Dars.
[SPEAKER_02]: They know their entire, you know, or the fleet was gone.
[SPEAKER_02]: So they, I'm sure Goldacopt was like, listen, guys, we can join the conquerors, or we can be completely wiped out.
[SPEAKER_02]: So yeah, what do you think?
[SPEAKER_02]: And they all said, sure, I think it's an easy sell for sure.
[SPEAKER_05]: Well, he's the leader.
[SPEAKER_05]: We cut to Cardassia and we see a jumbo tron.
[SPEAKER_05]: I always love a jumbo tron on a planet.
[SPEAKER_00]: There he is.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, look, didn't it look like a jumbo tron?
[SPEAKER_05]: Not even a great, it was like a small jumbo tron.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, I think we spent enough money on the, what we have been seeing that they probably, that's true.
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, they have to use that.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's reused footage, guys.
[SPEAKER_02]: So that's, so they even saved even more money.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, it's from the episode where O'Brien was on trial by the Archon, may muck bar, remember that?
[SPEAKER_02]: He was on trial for being crimes against the Kardashian people, and then they had that whole monitor thing on there.
[SPEAKER_02]: But instead of the Archon, the judge speaking on there, it was, they just put gold to cuts.
[SPEAKER_05]: It was the same after the actors.
[SPEAKER_05]: You got to save money in the end.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_05]: Well, he's on the John Botron talking and he says, you know, you might ask, should we fear the dominion?
[SPEAKER_05]: And I tell you, not in the least, we should embrace the opportunity that the dominion recognizes us for what we are.
[SPEAKER_05]: So I guess he's taken over.
[SPEAKER_05]: And now he's just trying to kind of let the people know this is going to be good for us.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, a dictator style is what it was it seems.
[SPEAKER_02]: Robert he would wolf based the depiction of an economically depressed Cardassia on the brink of cultural collapse on the Vymar Republic, the government of Germany between the two world wars from 1919 to 1933.
[SPEAKER_02]: The Dominions take over of the Kardashian Union was likewise inspired by Anschluss, where the Austrian National Socialist Party, after gaining control of that country's government, invited Nazi Germany to send in their military forces and effectively absorb the country.
[SPEAKER_02]: So there's some real life parallel from history.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes, I mean, to to what's going on in
[SPEAKER_05]: Oh, I love a musical reference.
[SPEAKER_05]: Thank you, Terry.
[SPEAKER_00]: Those weren't to say, the makeup on the Vorta, I think they didn't excellent job because how they modeled it, you could still see that he had stubble.
[SPEAKER_00]: So they had to have done that on the latex on the, yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: Because a lot of times, like on Wayne or other people, you'll see it like suddenly too smooth.
[SPEAKER_05]: Too smooth, yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: I just wanted to give a little shout out to the
[SPEAKER_05]: Always love a good shout out to the makeup department.
[SPEAKER_05]: We cut inside the ward room and do caught continues.
[SPEAKER_05]: They're watching his speeches well.
[SPEAKER_05]: He promises to regain all cardassian territory.
[SPEAKER_05]: Everything the cardassians ever had.
[SPEAKER_05]: and no clingons will be left alive or any monkey colonies.
[SPEAKER_05]: And he vows to destroy anyone that tries to stop them.
[SPEAKER_05]: Dax says she's gonna kill him the next time she sees them.
[SPEAKER_05]: I like that.
[SPEAKER_05]: She doesn't like that.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think he curses that, curses that.
[SPEAKER_05]: Really?
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, and I say somebody tell me this is a Oh, yeah, somebody tell me.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, yeah, I'd love to take credit for it, but it's not my line.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_05]: It's the I think of you guys as a team because you're piloting this.
[SPEAKER_05]: Oh, thank you.
[SPEAKER_05]: They're not happy with Do-Cott and Miles explains that whoever sabotage the emitter array that they were going to use to seal the wormhole.
[SPEAKER_05]: They made it do the opposite of what Starfleet had intended.
[SPEAKER_05]: It actually made the wormhole much more stable when they used this array.
[SPEAKER_05]: And Bashir, creepy Bashir, as I call him, creepy Bashir suggests it could be a changeling, and they wonder why would you suggest that, but they agree, yeah, it could be possible.
[SPEAKER_05]: So Cisco wants to screen everyone's blood.
[SPEAKER_05]: and we push in on a whole new Bashir.
[SPEAKER_02]: So the whole thing about Bashir bringing up like maybe maybe we need to go through blood screenings and then the taxes like why do you what makes you think it's a changeling?
[SPEAKER_02]: It just reminds me when your kids when you say he who smelt it dealt it, you know, whoever smelt it.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, they're talking about asking guests, right?
[SPEAKER_02]: Like that.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: No, we know what that means.
[SPEAKER_00]: Right.
[SPEAKER_00]: So that means.
[SPEAKER_02]: But there may be some Europeans that don't understand he who smelt adulthood or Asians that are listening to the very common.
[SPEAKER_00]: Right.
[SPEAKER_02]: Because our childish American was deniesing.
[SPEAKER_04]: Bigger it still uses.
[SPEAKER_04]: On a regular basis.
[SPEAKER_04]: He has smelted it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, Mary.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I'm sure it's mostly his fault.
[SPEAKER_05]: We cut to the barracks next to the gangs waiting.
[SPEAKER_05]: They say barracks taking a long time.
[SPEAKER_05]: He's been in there almost an hour We cut inside this crawl crawl space.
[SPEAKER_05]: It is very tight in there.
[SPEAKER_05]: I made a note No thank you.
[SPEAKER_05]: I don't want to go in there either.
[SPEAKER_05]: I'm claustrophobic.
[SPEAKER_00]: Are you?
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, yeah For that that which that's two intense.
[SPEAKER_02]: Do you have a claustrophobia?
[SPEAKER_02]: Do you have any?
[SPEAKER_00]: But just a little, it's those kind of spaces that make me feel, uh, like it's going to crush me.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: But airplanes don't do it to me.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like some people, the airplane is like claustrophobic.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_05]: Can you make a distinction between, I get claustrophobia both in spaces and with people.
[SPEAKER_05]: Like, I could be in a, you know, a concert outside, but if I'm crammed with people, no, that makes me claustrophobic.
[SPEAKER_00]: Me too, big crowds are scary.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, so for me it's both, but some people are just people and some people are just spaces.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm spaces all most are spaces.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I'm okay with crowds of people.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it's a combination.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_05]: Well, Garic is stuck inside this crawl space.
[SPEAKER_05]: He's working.
[SPEAKER_05]: There's some sparks.
[SPEAKER_05]: He complains about it.
[SPEAKER_05]: He says this would make a wonderful interrogation chamber.
[SPEAKER_05]: Tight quarters, no air, bad lighting, random electric shocks.
[SPEAKER_05]: It's perfect.
[SPEAKER_00]: Random electric shocks.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, it's a torture chamber for him and it's interesting that Andy Robinson had real claustrophobia I didn't know that yeah, and the flu at the time That's why that scene where I'm later when he goes through that little he starts he starts getting into it Right, we saying like yeah, okay You don't need another attack now don't it it was so believable
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, so I was feeling it too.
[SPEAKER_00]: I was like oh, where he was talking himself off the wall.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh my goodness, and then when they shot him right after that and he's laying in bed It's like he looked he looked gray.
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, I know what he was supposed but he looked good.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, yeah
[SPEAKER_05]: Actually, yeah, real for real in real life sick.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, well from the torture chamber We cut back outside into the barracks and a wrongment the Romulan Lookout warns them somebody is coming but she has to close the panel with garrison side.
[SPEAKER_05]: Oh God
[SPEAKER_05]: Ecaptica and his minions arrive and they tell Wurf that it's time.
[SPEAKER_05]: We kind of know from the previous episode that they make the Clingons fight.
[SPEAKER_05]: So Wurf is ready, he's looking forward to it, they take off, they leave.
[SPEAKER_05]: And then as they start to open the wall, the romans says, no, no, don't open it, they're too close.
[SPEAKER_05]: So, be sure, just kind of tells Garrick inside, it won't be too long, don't worry, won't be too long.
[SPEAKER_05]: He's freaking out in there.
[SPEAKER_05]: Inside the ring, we cut out to the lobby area where this fighting ring is, Worf's preparing to fight, and Marthock is kind of his coach in the corner in the second there.
[SPEAKER_02]: Is it this episode where Mar Talk says this is this is what they did to me while I was in this presentation.
[SPEAKER_02]: It was in the previous episode.
[SPEAKER_02]: The prior episode.
[SPEAKER_05]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, so we know that that he lost the eye from Icactica.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_05]: and a coxica, whatever his name is, he's a, I can't say it, he cut to go, he cut to go, he cut to go, he's he's a really, he's like the the prize fighter of the group, he's the most experienced and warfare really wants to fight him, he does not like this guy, Martaq says, you know, be patient and time you probably will,
[SPEAKER_05]: Um, oh, yeah, he does say it in this episode.
[SPEAKER_05]: And this way, he reminds him that this is Andy work.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: So he's very dangerous to ruthless, I would say.
[SPEAKER_00]: Because that's obviously not playing fair.
[SPEAKER_00]: He gouged his eye out.
[SPEAKER_00]: And that's pretty ruthless.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, in a wrestling boxing match.
[SPEAKER_02]: I know.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's like,
[SPEAKER_02]: Um, all right.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, they're fisted.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_05]: He does remind Worf to touch the post.
[SPEAKER_05]: If he hits the ground, he has to touch the post every time he hits the ground and gets back up or he forfeits the fight.
[SPEAKER_05]: So that explains why they're doing that.
[SPEAKER_05]: Did you find yourself doing that?
[SPEAKER_00]: Did you find yourself going touch the post?
[SPEAKER_00]: Touch the post?
[SPEAKER_00]: I felt like every day.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like don't don't don't forfeited.
[SPEAKER_05]: Although I think forfeit it like what's the punishment for forfeiting so you lose if you're prisoner anyway.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, you get to go back to your barracks.
[SPEAKER_05]: That's what's not touching the post.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, I would be touched.
[SPEAKER_05]: I would be hanging on to the post, hugging the post.
[SPEAKER_04]: Thank you.
[SPEAKER_04]: That would have been funny.
[SPEAKER_05]: You're the winner.
[SPEAKER_05]: A Cautica tells the gemheadard that this training is to battle clinging on.
[SPEAKER_05]: It's for practice and to learn because they're going to have to fight them when they end.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, when they end.
[SPEAKER_05]: And so Warf starts his first fight.
[SPEAKER_05]: Warf goes down first but then he wins the next round and the fight continues.
[SPEAKER_05]: We go back inside the barracks.
[SPEAKER_05]: I did like that instead of cutting right inside the barracks that less was outside with a guard first Yes, you could see that Romulan looking in the deep in the background and then the guard wanted to get a closer look in the fight step-to-way Then inside the Romulas says, you know, it's clear because a lot of times on Star Trek We just cut inside and they say something off camera like okay.
[SPEAKER_05]: It's clear out there.
[SPEAKER_05]: You never see it.
[SPEAKER_05]: It was a nice yeah detail
[SPEAKER_02]: I also want to give Kudos to the makeup department because of all the different Gemhadar makeups.
[SPEAKER_02]: Even though they're all similar, they were very different looking in this.
[SPEAKER_02]: All in like the guard at the door looked different from Ikattika.
[SPEAKER_02]: One guy that comes in later, he looks more like a rat face, you know, like it comes out more.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's like, wow, good job.
[SPEAKER_02]: So I was very impressed with that.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I wonder that must be too because Mike Westmore probably had to do molds of everybody's face, right?
[SPEAKER_00]: And then design the maintenance.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's not just one lot of work.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's super cool.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I'm glad you brought that up.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_05]: The Romulan says that it's clear and they open up the
[SPEAKER_05]: claustrophobic clearly and not comfortable in there.
[SPEAKER_05]: And Bashir says stop for the day.
[SPEAKER_05]: Try again tomorrow.
[SPEAKER_05]: But then garrick angrily sort of yells at him.
[SPEAKER_05]: Do you want to get out of here or not?
[SPEAKER_05]: So garrick really is wound up.
[SPEAKER_05]: And once just just get this over with.
[UNKNOWN]: Right.
[SPEAKER_05]: But sure, it says at least, take some breaks, you know, now and then every hour, so doctors or orders.
[SPEAKER_05]: So we can see that gherrks getting affected by this power, yeah.
[SPEAKER_05]: We come back to work fight.
[SPEAKER_05]: The fighting is good.
[SPEAKER_05]: It's actually really like Michael looks great at it.
[SPEAKER_05]: He's doing a lot of this stunt himself, a lot of the fighting, great coverage, fight coverage from less.
[SPEAKER_05]: I just thought the fighting stuff was really well done.
[SPEAKER_05]: Is that the best you've got?
[SPEAKER_02]: That was easy.
[SPEAKER_02]: I love the bravado that he has he has is that the best you have to and then a cocktica It's like well, he was our youngest and worst fighter of all.
[SPEAKER_02]: You know basically this this person That's what the skills and you want it It's gonna get harder for you.
[SPEAKER_01]: Good for you.
[SPEAKER_01]: Good good You beat the one the one gemadaar that doesn't even know how to make a fist so
[SPEAKER_05]: We go back to the promenade, this is on the upper level, and Ziaul is looking at the wormhole by the window.
[SPEAKER_05]: Kira joins her, says the view is much better on Pylon 2, and then Ziaul shares that she's very worried about Gerek, says her dad has told her that Gerek is dead.
[SPEAKER_05]: He's got to be dead if he's in the gamma quadrant, but Kira Kira says don't believe your father and see all asks if Kira thinks that he's a bad guy And I did like the Kira says here, you know judge people by what they do not what they say He may say some things Yeah, yeah, and I thought that was a great life lesson
[SPEAKER_02]: I do love Ziaul.
[SPEAKER_02]: I do love Kira's response to Ziaul's comment that my father says Garak's dad.
[SPEAKER_02]: He says right now, I wouldn't believe your father if he said rain was wet.
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[SPEAKER_05]: We got a captain's log here, a large contingent of cling on worships is arrived from Cardassian space, but it's intentions, at least for the moment, remain unclear.
[SPEAKER_05]: So the clingons have shown up, but we're not sure if they're going to help us or work with us, so we'll see an inside ops.
[SPEAKER_05]: We get a message from Gauron, he's hailing the station that he's got wounded.
[SPEAKER_05]: on his ships, his war against the Kardashians, has taken a turn for the worse.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, Cisco says, so the clans are here, but we don't know how much help they're going to be because they're home beat up.
[SPEAKER_00]: And we don't have our treaty back.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: We're still like separated.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I mean, with Gauron with the heavy losses, his whole plan is I'm just going to fix my ships, he'll my wounded here and then head back to the home planet, the Klingon home world and prepare for a last stand.
[SPEAKER_02]: He's literally thinking he's going to be general custer at this point.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's yeah, but to the death.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, he's a client.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yes, exactly.
[SPEAKER_05]: It's honor.
[SPEAKER_05]: It's all about honor as we hear over and over in a lot in this episode too.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: We also give Swarph a lot of kudos in his battles because he's been so honorable.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_02]: But it is just go who does suggest to go around.
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, there could be a different way, a better way, and they do agree that there should be an alliance between the Federation and the Klingons, as they had way back in the day, a long time ago, that treaty
[SPEAKER_02]: so they agree they said okay well let's join forces this is a better place to attack them anyway from where we're at this this area here meet that on galeron has a great line he said where the tides of fortune take us no man can know it
[SPEAKER_00]: and it was just such a beautiful sentiment right after they come back together again.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's, it's, it's made me think of, uh, frenemies, right?
[SPEAKER_00]: So, and it really, what does that mean?
[SPEAKER_00]: Like, are you competing with them?
[SPEAKER_00]: I think generally that kind of thing, or you don't know them that well, and it feels like, okay, we're frenemies.
[SPEAKER_00]: So, the truth is, we know we can
[SPEAKER_00]: Both of them are Cisco and Galeron, but life took us apart.
[SPEAKER_00]: But now we need to come back together again and reinforce the things that we do like about each other and we do feel or valuable.
[SPEAKER_05]: And this whole scene when they're having this conversation is in the infirmary because of those wounds that he had.
[SPEAKER_05]: They're both, that's where they are.
[SPEAKER_05]: And so creepy, Bashir is nearby.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, that's probably what makes him go to the dock to run about afterwards.
[SPEAKER_02]: He hears I think so, right?
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, okay.
[SPEAKER_02]: I love what you wrote there, Robbie.
[SPEAKER_02]: Probably it's nice evil profile.
[SPEAKER_02]: It was a good evil profile.
[SPEAKER_01]: You're right.
[SPEAKER_05]: But just seeing it written that way is very funny to me.
[SPEAKER_05]: Nice evil profile.
[SPEAKER_05]: I mean, there's something about, here's a director insight.
[SPEAKER_05]: When you're straight on, like, you know, on the zoom right now, you've got two eyes.
[SPEAKER_05]: It tends to feel like you're getting inside the characters' feelings if you put the camera there.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_05]: But if you put the camera on a profile like this, yes, it conveys subconsciously, I guess, or symbolically, a bit of like a confrontation to something that there's a, you know, so so even though it was kind of silly, the profile, you know, nice evil profile.
[SPEAKER_05]: In a way, he's confronting something.
[SPEAKER_05]: He's got it.
[SPEAKER_05]: He's, you know, there's, there's a, yes,
[SPEAKER_05]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, here in the runabout, this is when he's working in the, he's working on the, on the panel, pre-setting that runabout to because if you recall, if you remember later, they're like, they fire on this runabout and it doesn't do anything.
[SPEAKER_02]: So that, when Nana or Kira says, what, what, what just happened?
[SPEAKER_02]: How come that, that's doing that?
[SPEAKER_02]: And then they realize that some modifications have been made.
[SPEAKER_02]: So these are the modifications.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, that's right.
[SPEAKER_02]: Right.
[SPEAKER_02]: And doing prep work to putting the bomb as well in there.
[SPEAKER_02]: We're in the internment center right now and it is yet another match and it's warf He's fighting this gem adar and surprisingly enough he actually breaks the neck of the gem adar which I'm wondering
[SPEAKER_02]: Did that get a higher rating over in the UK?
[SPEAKER_02]: We've talked about that in the past where in past episodes of DS9, when someone's neck has been broken and you hear the cracking, it is then considered you have to be 17 or 18 years old or older to watch it in the UK.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, I seriously think.
[SPEAKER_00]: When you said higher rating, it made it seem like, oh, they like it even better.
[SPEAKER_04]: All right, they've got a 9.5.
[SPEAKER_05]: Did you like how Michael yelled?
[SPEAKER_02]: I'll be waiting at the end.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh my god.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's scream.
[SPEAKER_02]: He was pretty fast.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh the blood looks really good.
[SPEAKER_02]: He was good He was into it.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's almost like he been so restrained being raised by non-clean on parents being in the federation and Starfleet and admitted you through him in this thing where it was just pure combat.
[SPEAKER_02]: He just turned into his true self.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh my God
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, also he's being kind of contained on the ship, too.
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, on the station as well.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, compared to his next generation life.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes, we've learned that this is his fifth match that he's won because Martaq is incredulous.
[SPEAKER_02]: He's like five matches, five victories.
[SPEAKER_02]: You truly have the spirit of chaos with you.
[SPEAKER_02]: So Martaq is literally Warf's biggest fan during this entire melee.
[SPEAKER_02]: And so he's ready for another match.
[SPEAKER_00]: It is another, it's another father's son relationship that's happening.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, a little bit.
[SPEAKER_05]: Thank you for that.
[SPEAKER_05]: But thank you for bringing that up because you did not see that.
[SPEAKER_05]: One of my issues of this episode, it felt totally completely different than the first part.
[SPEAKER_05]: This one felt like a whole different.
[SPEAKER_05]: I wanted something to connect them other than just the plot.
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, that is the connection.
[SPEAKER_00]: I wish a bit of a lean director would have made a big difference.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, but, but Rob, but Rob, that is the connector.
[SPEAKER_02]: You just Terry, that would have been great.
[SPEAKER_05]: It's a great fit if you had had a father son kind of.
[SPEAKER_05]: story with war for the whole time.
[SPEAKER_05]: That would have been great.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, then Jake and Cisco too.
[SPEAKER_05]: You know echo the same thing.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, another thought.
[SPEAKER_00]: What if if it was a two part or what if you shot it every other one in terms of editing and how long it takes to do the post production if they would have shot less doing part one.
[SPEAKER_00]: a different show in between and then less doing part two.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, that's what we're trying for them to move that together.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, okay.
[SPEAKER_00]: I just feel better.
[SPEAKER_01]: You should be a show runner.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's a lot of pretty zig-zag.
[SPEAKER_01]: You should be in the Mary Howard.
[SPEAKER_00]: I can't be a show runner because I can't write like that.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's what you say.
[SPEAKER_02]: You say I haven't tried it.
[SPEAKER_02]: So who knows.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_02]: All right.
[SPEAKER_02]: They're back in the barracks now and Warf is beat up.
[SPEAKER_02]: But she already says, okay.
[SPEAKER_02]: You've got broken ribs three, maybe four.
[SPEAKER_02]: Warf says they're going to heal.
[SPEAKER_02]: Bashir says not if you keep fighting like this, but Martak says look at the honorable thing to do, you know, to fight.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, Martak is on war inside.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, he's telling Bashir like he's got to fight.
[SPEAKER_00]: Hey, then I will die, but I will not yield.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, he's not going to yield.
[SPEAKER_00]: They can't yield.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's not in them.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, you know, Mar talk his coaches like bandage the ribs get him back in the ring.
[SPEAKER_00]: So, okay, you're gonna fight but gasoline above his eye.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, but here's my pick.
[SPEAKER_02]: Here's my pick.
[SPEAKER_02]: They're in prison.
[SPEAKER_02]: What are you gonna bandage his ribs with?
[SPEAKER_02]: What are you gonna?
[SPEAKER_02]: I guess you got a tear fabric off a tear up the bench baby.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, the teacher.
[SPEAKER_02]: The bed sheets.
[SPEAKER_02]: T-shirts.
[SPEAKER_02]: The Romano who's about to get phaser.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, take his clothes.
[SPEAKER_02]: Wait, I have a question in the future.
[SPEAKER_02]: in the future.
[SPEAKER_05]: Do you have bed sheets on the space station?
[SPEAKER_05]: Like, you'd think in the future they would come up with something better than bed sheets.
[SPEAKER_05]: Do they know they're pretty?
[SPEAKER_05]: Well, it would be better than Benchie's Robbie.
[SPEAKER_04]: I don't know, but they've got to figure that out.
[SPEAKER_04]: Seriously.
[SPEAKER_04]: Something more than Benchie's.
[SPEAKER_05]: Watch them.
[SPEAKER_00]: You got to draw up, but you're not throwing them away.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's true.
[SPEAKER_00]: They know that you brought this up.
[SPEAKER_00]: Do you remember when they come looking, when they can't, I know it's a head, but I'm so afraid I'm going to forget.
[SPEAKER_00]: When they come in looking for garric and they can't find him.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's not outside.
[SPEAKER_00]: The Gemhajar look between under the mattress and it's like, like, here is it?
[SPEAKER_01]: Like he's saying to the bottom of the address.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, exactly.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm right here.
[SPEAKER_01]: You don't see me in the future.
[SPEAKER_05]: You can do that.
[SPEAKER_02]: You can slide yourself out.
[SPEAKER_00]: Apparently.
[SPEAKER_00]: Micro me.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: Odo teaches everyone how to be liquid.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like how to swap.
[SPEAKER_02]: There you go.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_02]: All right.
[SPEAKER_05]: So we're going to go fight some more.
[SPEAKER_05]: We cut inside the crawl space.
[SPEAKER_05]: There's a Garyx still using.
[SPEAKER_05]: You know, this some kind of fiber optic light.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, I guess he tore that off of some of the girls.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, okay.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, how about his father put it there?
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: His father put it there.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's just there.
[SPEAKER_05]: When Tane was working in there.
[SPEAKER_05]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's like a from a power relay or something.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's just some, yeah.
[SPEAKER_05]: Well, this is basically a long monologue of Garek freaking the heck out and freaking me home himself.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, trying to call himself down.
[SPEAKER_05]: The tightest shots I've ever seen in Star Trek.
[SPEAKER_05]: They were like, oh, no, no, no.
[SPEAKER_04]: Up his nose.
[SPEAKER_05]: Up his nose.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, super tight.
[SPEAKER_05]: You for duper tight.
[SPEAKER_05]: He is kind of giving himself a pep talk.
[SPEAKER_05]: People are depending on you.
[SPEAKER_05]: He says to himself, he does bring up Z-all.
[SPEAKER_05]: Z-all is depending on you.
[SPEAKER_05]: You promise you'd come back.
[SPEAKER_05]: I have an issue with the whole z-all garrick relationship, but I don't understand it, it seems, achy to me.
[SPEAKER_05]: But he does say here that young ladies had quite enough disappointments in her life.
[SPEAKER_05]: And it makes me feel like maybe his motivation isn't selfish, but maybe he really does connect with her in some way.
[SPEAKER_05]: Maybe not romantically.
[SPEAKER_05]: I don't think he does.
[SPEAKER_05]: I hope he does.
[SPEAKER_05]: I think it's like a daughter.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, I'm a friend.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, it helped that little speed.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm a mentor.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yes, someone she can rely on and, you know, not her dad, not so are you less thick than that helps me a little bit.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_00]: I saw that he was seeing it that way and for her maybe it's that little princess in every girl that wants her dad and it gets sort of.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: Mushie, when you're little, it's like, I remember, you know, just when they're little, it's like, no.
[SPEAKER_00]: She's my mommy.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to marry her.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to marry Daddy.
[SPEAKER_00]: Right.
[SPEAKER_00]: Thing that happens when you're little.
[SPEAKER_00]: Only she's going through it now because she didn't have the same.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: healthy father right no definitely not having all that him and so maybe for her it's getting mixed up with feeling romantic but definitely not the writers can clarify because to me the story going down this road if they don't clarify it it's just purely romantic from garrick and from her seems inappropriate no but it also doesn't track with the story line that he was attracted to Bashir
[SPEAKER_05]: No.
[SPEAKER_05]: I mean, it could if he's fluid, it could.
[SPEAKER_05]: But, I guess that's true.
[SPEAKER_05]: He finishes that the tightest close-ups I've ever seen in subtract and we go back inside the barracks, but sure's doing his best.
[SPEAKER_05]: Worf says he feels great.
[SPEAKER_05]: He's a big fat liar.
[SPEAKER_05]: I'm sorry.
[SPEAKER_05]: He can't feel great.
[SPEAKER_05]: And then there's banging.
[SPEAKER_05]: They hear banging inside where Garyx working and they quickly open up the panel, thump thump thump thump.
[SPEAKER_05]: Garyx is a mess we cut inside, but she has crawled in there.
[SPEAKER_05]: Garyx is just, you know, a ball of nerves and he's having a
[SPEAKER_05]: a meltdown, basically.
[SPEAKER_05]: What do you think the thumping came from, Robbie?
[SPEAKER_02]: Because it didn't, I thought it was his head, but he didn't do his head.
[SPEAKER_05]: It was, I think the, he says the light went out.
[SPEAKER_05]: So I wonder if he was trying to like bang on the walls, like where am I?
[SPEAKER_05]: Okay, right?
[SPEAKER_05]: Disoriented, he came out, a tannic attack.
[SPEAKER_00]: Get me out, yeah, get me out, get me out, get me out.
[SPEAKER_05]: We cut back to the barracks.
[SPEAKER_05]: The sure's putting garrick in the bed.
[SPEAKER_05]: He's, and Bashir realizes now.
[SPEAKER_05]: He's got really bad claustrophobia.
[SPEAKER_05]: That's what's going on.
[SPEAKER_05]: You know, garrick has to make this work or they're going to be stuck here forever and we're not we're not going anywhere.
[SPEAKER_05]: So it doesn't look like this is going to this escape plan is going to work out.
[SPEAKER_02]: I do have a question for you.
[SPEAKER_02]: Robby and also, Tefer, did you like that shot with garrick lying in the foreground sort of like just shell shocked and then I did for the yeah the and the far right that the game illustrated a lot right.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think it was really important for us to feel desperate and, oh my gosh, what's going to happen next if this falls apart.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, blessed a great job, I think.
[SPEAKER_05]: And because Andy Robinson was so sick, it really helps solve this stuff.
[SPEAKER_05]: The scene that he was miserable.
[SPEAKER_00]: He looked miserable in the
[SPEAKER_05]: But it didn't hurt.
[SPEAKER_05]: No, it did not hurt.
[SPEAKER_05]: Well, we go to ops next cool shot outside in space of the station with all the cling on ships there.
[SPEAKER_05]: I like that shot.
[SPEAKER_05]: It's Gauron's fleet.
[SPEAKER_05]: We learned in ops that Starfleet's getting closer.
[SPEAKER_05]: Kira shows up says that Odo told her someone sabotaged the industrial replicator on the ship and they need that for weapons and fighting the dominion.
[SPEAKER_05]: They need that industrial replicator.
[SPEAKER_05]: So that's a bad news.
[SPEAKER_05]: having that sabotaged, but I didn't catch who it was.
[SPEAKER_05]: And Cisco suggests having Gauron's men help Odo with security, guard everything like, you know, they don't know who's doing this, but it's not, it's not good.
[SPEAKER_05]: So maybe the clean, the clean-ons can help.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, they also do not know what was replicated because of the memory core being wiped.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, Cisco says these are interesting times, I don't know, interesting times, yes.
[SPEAKER_05]: But Cisco gets a call from gold to caught.
[SPEAKER_05]: Our evil villain, he's now back to his evil self, he says he'll take it in his office.
[SPEAKER_05]: Cisco sits there and they have a phone call.
[SPEAKER_05]: It's a long scene where Ducott tells Cisco the federation needs to join the dominion.
[SPEAKER_05]: Just like he did, you know, the federation needs to do what the Kardashians have done Join the dominion or billions of lives will be lost and I went wait billions Really do you think that's possible?
[SPEAKER_05]: I don't know what do you guys think billions seemed a little
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, hmm, he was being ill.
[SPEAKER_05]: He was ill like.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yes, billions.
[SPEAKER_05]: Ducaud also says in the scene, he wants all Cardassian property, that includes the station.
[SPEAKER_05]: And Ducaud says all you have to do is convince everybody to follow the Cardassian's example.
[SPEAKER_05]: And you guys will be good or you can try to fight us, but if you try to fight us, good luck with that.
[SPEAKER_05]: And Ciscaud doesn't back down at the end of the scene.
[SPEAKER_05]: bring it on.
[SPEAKER_05]: You're welcome to try.
[SPEAKER_05]: Bring it on.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yep.
[SPEAKER_05]: So we cut back to the barracks.
[SPEAKER_05]: Warf has won seven more battles now.
[SPEAKER_05]: So we skipped a lot of fighting.
[SPEAKER_05]: Seven battles.
[SPEAKER_05]: Maritox says they're going to write songs about your victories.
[SPEAKER_05]: Warf, you're going to be immortal.
[SPEAKER_05]: This year says, maybe they conclude me.
[SPEAKER_02]: And you know, Martin, yes, the healer, the healer that helped, yes, he does, yes, the healer who bound the warrior's wounds.
[SPEAKER_05]: So you could fight again, be sure once a copy of that.
[SPEAKER_05]: I thought that was funny.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_05]: But be sure to say here, we need a new escape plan.
[SPEAKER_05]: That's when Gary quakes up and Gary says, nope, the old plan will work.
[SPEAKER_05]: and he prepares to return to the dungeons.
[SPEAKER_05]: So he's heading back in there.
[SPEAKER_05]: And Worf does make a comment.
[SPEAKER_05]: It takes a brave man to face your fears.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, there's no greater enemy than one's own fears.
[SPEAKER_00]: Says Mark.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's so true.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, that's a great one of my favorite lines in the episode.
[SPEAKER_05]: Mark talks line.
[SPEAKER_05]: There's no greater enemy than one's own fears.
[SPEAKER_05]: That is absolutely relatable.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_05]: We go to the infirmary, back on the station, miles comes in to find an engineer.
[SPEAKER_05]: He needs the engineer that got in some plasma burns to help him with the clean on ships.
[SPEAKER_05]: It's one thing that Miles O'Brien is not good at is clean on ships.
[SPEAKER_05]: He needs the southern guy.
[SPEAKER_05]: Anyway, creepy Bashir tells Miles that the engineers looking for just left.
[SPEAKER_05]: And then they talk about Molly and Kaco a little bit, which I liked, that something that Armin brought up in the last episode about who was escaping.
[SPEAKER_05]: you know, that people should be mentioning their family, that, you know, miles should talk about getting cakeo and molly off the ship and the new baby and Cisco should talk about getting jake off the ship and they didn't really address that.
[SPEAKER_00]: Do you know?
[SPEAKER_05]: Not in the first part, so I like that they did it here.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yes, but Miles says they're safe on beige or and Bashir mentions, oh, the special darts that we wanted to get, they're going to be here next week and Miles is like,
[SPEAKER_05]: That's, what are you talking about darts at a time like this with the world's about to end and creepy Bashir says, oh, it's going to work out.
[SPEAKER_05]: It'll be fine.
[SPEAKER_05]: So that should have been a clue for miles.
[SPEAKER_05]: Like what do you think clues?
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, but that was huge.
[SPEAKER_05]: Did you think Sid was acting different enough that people should have noticed?
[SPEAKER_00]: No.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, it seemed that way to us, but we have the perspective, right?
[SPEAKER_00]: And we're in on it.
[SPEAKER_05]: So I was mixed about it.
[SPEAKER_05]: Sometimes I was like, why aren't they going, but sure.
[SPEAKER_05]: What's wrong with you?
[SPEAKER_05]: Why are you?
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, because also the last time we did these blood tests.
[SPEAKER_00]: the person who was saying, we need to do the blood test was a changeling.
[SPEAKER_05]: I don't remember what episode it was, but and Cisco said earlier in this episode, we're going to blood test everybody.
[SPEAKER_05]: So how did creepy vishier get around that?
[SPEAKER_00]: Was it Cisco that said that?
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: So why did my character say, where do you get that from?
[SPEAKER_00]: It's like a best what we've been doing.
[SPEAKER_05]: So it's that had happened before.
[SPEAKER_05]: Another little hole.
[SPEAKER_05]: That's a little bit of a seems like somebody should have picked up.
[SPEAKER_05]: I'm just saying the Bashir's acting different or something's up.
[SPEAKER_05]: Exactly.
[SPEAKER_05]: Nobody does.
[SPEAKER_00]: I want to just say this next scene that's coming up.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think was crucial to have a little comic moment.
[SPEAKER_00]: Bring us back to the station and have ZL and Quark.
[SPEAKER_00]: Not talking about what's going on.
[SPEAKER_00]: in a negative way that she spends it.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, I like the quark had that turn where he comes into press like I'm you know this is the end of you know they're going to the dominions going to ruin the place and uh and see all's got the answer she's like well maybe the vorta could be you know alcoholics and sex fiends and gluttonists and you're going to sell lots of stuff and quark's like oh yeah I never thought of that.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I wonder what their favorite food is.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yes, that was very funny.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's gaming right away.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: I love that, though.
[SPEAKER_00]: That felt like, yes, that's a little jewel we all needed.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, just a light moment, a little dampening this actually for a second.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_05]: Well, we're back to action in ops because we learned Starfleet is in Bejorn space and they're going to be here soon.
[SPEAKER_05]: And back to the internment center in the Gamma Quadrant.
[SPEAKER_05]: Warf is beaten everyone that they've brought.
[SPEAKER_05]: And Dayo's thinks he's a barbarian.
[SPEAKER_05]: He calls him a barbarian driven by nothing but honor.
[SPEAKER_05]: he contrasts the gem hadar that they fight because that's what they were designed to do.
[SPEAKER_05]: They're like, you know, gem hadar fighters in there doing it because of this efficiency in this, you know, this focus, whereas you were just a barbarian.
[SPEAKER_05]: So I thought that was interesting.
[SPEAKER_05]: contrasting the two kinds of fighters fighter aliens.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, and Mark talks says, you know, you're worthy fighters, but you have no sense of honor.
[SPEAKER_00]: There's part of that too, where to defend the clingsons have honor.
[SPEAKER_05]: Mm-hmm.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, exactly.
[SPEAKER_05]: I like the contrast of how the gem had our fight and how the clings on the fight and why they fight.
[SPEAKER_02]: There's heart.
[SPEAKER_02]: I also like the fact that the gem had our have a saying just like the clings on's do, the clings on say today is a good day to die and the gem had our say victory is life, so they have their little chant that they do before.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yes, yes, yes.
[SPEAKER_05]: Well, we cut back to the barracks.
[SPEAKER_05]: The Romulan still on look out, uh, the brain is still there, but she is very worried.
[SPEAKER_05]: They're just waiting, very worried.
[SPEAKER_05]: Inside the crawl space, Gerek wishes Tane was here, which touched my heart.
[SPEAKER_05]: I love that connection.
[SPEAKER_05]: I wish there was more of that in this episode.
[SPEAKER_05]: I wish he was driven by, uh,
[SPEAKER_05]: What, you know, the last episode, kind of the win of being his dad being proud of him, I wish that could have driven this whole story for Gerek, but he does mention it here, which I thought was great.
[SPEAKER_05]: But he kind of undercuts it, because he says, I wish you were here instead of me.
[SPEAKER_05]: It was just like, oh, you want your dad to be in the claustrophobic space.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, his dad started it right, so maybe his dad could do it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, his dad could fix it quick, Murray.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, that's true.
[SPEAKER_05]: We cut back to the fighting ring.
[SPEAKER_05]: What's his name?
[SPEAKER_05]: It cut.
[SPEAKER_05]: He cut.
[SPEAKER_05]: He beats up.
[SPEAKER_05]: He beats up warf very badly.
[SPEAKER_05]: It was sad to see warf getting beaten up this badly.
[SPEAKER_02]: And he wouldn't give up.
[SPEAKER_02]: And everyone's encouraging him.
[SPEAKER_02]: Even Mark talks saying, you've already satisfied the honor portion of
[SPEAKER_02]: being honorable.
[SPEAKER_02]: Don't do this.
[SPEAKER_02]: Just tap out.
[SPEAKER_02]: Please.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: Everybody's so bad.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: It even the Vorta is like, really?
[SPEAKER_02]: What are you doing, dude?
[SPEAKER_02]: Just stop and nobody wants this to continue.
[SPEAKER_05]: Well, inside the barracks, while Warf is being beaten up so badly in the barracks, three Gemhadara arrive.
[SPEAKER_05]: They won't garrick for the first time.
[SPEAKER_05]: They're like, wait a minute.
[SPEAKER_05]: Where's that guy, garrick?
[SPEAKER_05]: They hit Bashir, really hard.
[SPEAKER_05]: Bashir asked them.
[SPEAKER_05]: you know, why they want him and inside the crawl space, Garrett can hear them and the gym had already said they want him because they're going to put him to death.
[SPEAKER_05]: Bad.
[SPEAKER_05]: Oh, yes.
[SPEAKER_03]: Wow.
[SPEAKER_05]: They find the key for the panel.
[SPEAKER_05]: They threaten Bashir to tell the truth.
[SPEAKER_05]: So things are falling apart.
[SPEAKER_05]: Warf's getting beaten up.
[SPEAKER_05]: They're going to kill, garrick.
[SPEAKER_05]: We come back to ops.
[SPEAKER_05]: The clingsons are in position now.
[SPEAKER_05]: Cisco tells Kira, Good Luck, and Kira, and Dax, our favorite duo, head off in the defiant.
[SPEAKER_05]: Very exciting.
[SPEAKER_05]: We cut inside the runabout Yukon, and this cool wraparound shot reveals creepy Bashir is in a runabout is in the pilot seat.
[SPEAKER_05]: Miles calls the run about, um, creepy Bashir, then speaks like a woman in a woman's voice.
[SPEAKER_05]: I guess in the same voice that was of the person that was supposed to be there.
[SPEAKER_05]: Can change suddenly speak in other voices?
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, they can now.
[SPEAKER_05]: I really can't.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, maybe because he's actually from the great, whoever the changeling is is from the great pool.
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, yes, because he speak exactly like Bashir, so he copied Bashir's room.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes, okay.
[SPEAKER_05]: So he's going to come out of the female pilot, right?
[SPEAKER_05]: I didn't knock out the crew.
[SPEAKER_05]: They're all on the floor.
[SPEAKER_05]: They're run about but he's talking like the female pilot So the run about heads out.
[SPEAKER_05]: He's not busted here.
[SPEAKER_05]: He heads out.
[SPEAKER_05]: He's he's kept his cover back up in ops The Romulan's deep cloak.
[SPEAKER_05]: They want to join the fleet.
[SPEAKER_05]: What?
[SPEAKER_05]: Romulan's coming?
[SPEAKER_05]: Um, Kira says that the Dominion and Cardassian ships are 10 minutes away.
[SPEAKER_02]: Cisco is very happy to see the Romulans.
[SPEAKER_02]: His response is like, well, I'll be damned permission granted.
[SPEAKER_02]: He's so good.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, he's like, yes.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, yeah.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, I love that.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, the more the merrier.
[SPEAKER_05]: Hmm.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, unlikely friends, all of these, right, clinging on the Romulan Starfleet very unlikely.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, it's like cats, dogs, and mice all together.
[SPEAKER_05]: Every hour.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_05]: We cut back to the barracks.
[SPEAKER_05]: I prison the gempadar asked one last time, what is this, you know,
[SPEAKER_05]: tool for and be sure, but sure says, well, it's either a self-sealing stem bolt or a reverse ratcheting router.
[SPEAKER_05]: I'm just not sure.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, Aaron.
[SPEAKER_02]: I was a bird.
[SPEAKER_02]: We'll be very proud of the self-sealing stem bolt.
[SPEAKER_01]: But he had to say with his, yes, teeth.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, but the Gemma Dar shoots the Romulan vaporizes the
[SPEAKER_02]: The Romulan, this is the guy, this is the guy that appears out of nowhere, Robbie, the male robber, all of a sudden he's in their barracks.
[SPEAKER_02]: He's never shown in the beginning parts, but all of a sudden he was, well, I said he was in another wall.
[SPEAKER_02]: Remember he's in another third wall, but I think he was outside.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay, that's fine.
[SPEAKER_00]: He was outside smoking.
[SPEAKER_00]: He was, yeah, it was taking a very well-connected action.
[SPEAKER_00]: Literally, exactly.
[SPEAKER_05]: Well, they vaporize this poor Romulan that we didn't know well.
[SPEAKER_05]: And then they start to open up the panel there.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, I was losing it when that happened.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's like, yeah.
[SPEAKER_05]: And Garrick hears this, so it feels like, you know, this is, there's no way out.
[SPEAKER_05]: We cut back to the, to, to, to, to Warf who got beat up really badly.
[SPEAKER_05]: Mark Talk says your honor has been satisfied.
[SPEAKER_05]: Just stay down, but Warf gets back up.
[SPEAKER_05]: He gets knocked down again inside the barracks.
[SPEAKER_05]: He looks in the crawl space, the soldier that opened it up, but he doesn't see anything.
[SPEAKER_05]: He said, I don't see anything.
[SPEAKER_05]: Two dark.
[SPEAKER_00]: Thank goodness that light went out.
[SPEAKER_02]: That moment, unfortunately, the lead Gemhadar has his attention on that crawl space with his soldier there, the under.
[SPEAKER_02]: That that's when the brain walks up behind him pulls his weapon out and just vaporizes him.
[SPEAKER_02]: He's out.
[SPEAKER_02]: At that point, the brain then turns towards another Gemhadar.
[SPEAKER_02]: They vaporize each other.
[SPEAKER_00]: I love that.
[SPEAKER_00]: Did you love that?
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes, that was real cool.
[SPEAKER_02]: That was sheer does pull out of knife and end the the life of the one jemodars year off space a ship was at a prison that was a night it was a knife one of the jemodars right.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, yeah, it was
[SPEAKER_00]: But also, I think you're being completely literal.
[SPEAKER_00]: You're being funny too.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: Can we just nip it for a quick second?
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_02]: That one device that opens up the wall, the one that just prize it.
[SPEAKER_02]: Where did they get that from to begin with?
[SPEAKER_02]: That's what that's, what?
[SPEAKER_05]: In prison, you make use of whatever you can find.
[SPEAKER_05]: Fine.
[SPEAKER_00]: After these guys get vaporized, these last two, then Bashir says to, um, I'm said Andy, garrick, uh, you've got to work fast, they won't be long and they're going to be flooding in here.
[SPEAKER_02]: Right.
[SPEAKER_00]: Right.
[SPEAKER_00]: Bashir says how much trance.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: How many circumuits do you have left to work on?
[SPEAKER_02]: And that's when Garrick says three.
[SPEAKER_02]: So he says work fast because soon all the other gentlemen in regards to going to be exactly Terry they're going to be in here.
[SPEAKER_05]: So hurry up and finish this and be flooding in.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, all right.
[SPEAKER_05]: We go back to Worf's fight.
[SPEAKER_05]: He's nearly dead at this point, honestly.
[SPEAKER_01]: He's almost there.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, Deos tells Iki Takah.
[SPEAKER_05]: There was name is Iki Takah.
[SPEAKER_05]: Deos tells Iki Takah to finish him off.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, and Tika Tika.
[SPEAKER_05]: Ecoptica tells, uh, tells Deus that killing holds no interest for him.
[SPEAKER_05]: He has a little empathy, which we don't see from these jemodars.
[SPEAKER_05]: Correct.
[SPEAKER_05]: He says actually.
[SPEAKER_05]: I told.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I think that's because he's impressed because they talk right before they battle when that whole thing was going on about how jemodars are versus klingons that they both get each other.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's talking talk, yes, he's talking talk, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick
[SPEAKER_02]: Exhaust, definitely.
[SPEAKER_02]: Let me read very quickly to both of you.
[SPEAKER_02]: This episode shows the audience the third honorable gem had are this is the third one.
[SPEAKER_02]: So the first one was Geronagar in the episode Hippocratic.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, he was, you know, empathetic, I guess.
[SPEAKER_02]: And the second one was omet Eklon into the death and then now.
[SPEAKER_02]: take it in this one.
[SPEAKER_02]: So there we go.
[SPEAKER_02]: Tiki Tiktok is the one who's vulnerable.
[SPEAKER_02]: But what does that show you?
[SPEAKER_02]: It shows you that the gemidar, even though they're bred as killing machines, they can be
[SPEAKER_00]: reprogramming it away I think or maybe genetically just like all of us.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: There's always a anomaly.
[SPEAKER_02]: There's going to be a anomaly of one that actually has empathy and honor and morals and ethics, right?
[SPEAKER_02]: There's there will be one out of a thousand, we'll say.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_00]: When the first one really young one, who where he said, oh yeah, what is he going?
[SPEAKER_02]: There was a young one, but he wasn't very
[SPEAKER_02]: little crazy right oh yeah he did he did he was like a teenager he was a rebellious and all that yeah but we do see two prior ones like I said Goranagar and Hippocratic Oath and a metaclon into the death or the two adult jemodars that were kind of you know hey you guys are standing out you're the abnormally a jemodar okay yeah well um when um
[SPEAKER_05]: Tiki Tiktok says he yields.
[SPEAKER_05]: Dayos says shoot them both.
[SPEAKER_05]: So he's going to kill Tiki Tiktok and worth.
[SPEAKER_05]: That made me mad.
[SPEAKER_02]: I was so mad at dayos.
[SPEAKER_02]: The Vorta are the worst.
[SPEAKER_02]: So far we've seen a female Vorta, right?
[SPEAKER_02]: Which we're okay with.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, we've we've seen our good friend.
[SPEAKER_02]: Um, um, my favorite home.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes, thank you.
[SPEAKER_02]: We've seen Jeffrey Combs as a Vorta.
[SPEAKER_02]: We're okay.
[SPEAKER_02]: But this Vorta is especially kind of ruthless.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I think this is our home.
[SPEAKER_05]: Well, he's going to take him both out.
[SPEAKER_05]: We cut in the crawl space.
[SPEAKER_05]: Gary says he got it.
[SPEAKER_05]: Finally, back to the internment center, just as the guards go to kill Wurf and Tiki Tiktok.
[SPEAKER_05]: Tiki Tiktok gets shot, but Wurf and Martak beam out.
[SPEAKER_00]: That was so joyful.
[SPEAKER_00]: Just see the energize.
[SPEAKER_00]: It was like, as...
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, and poor T. E. T. Talk.
[SPEAKER_05]: He found some empathy.
[SPEAKER_05]: He was yielding.
[SPEAKER_05]: He did.
[SPEAKER_05]: He gets shot immediately.
[SPEAKER_05]: He doesn't get to live his good life the best life that he could.
[SPEAKER_05]: I know.
[SPEAKER_00]: He should have left the jamher door.
[SPEAKER_05]: But I like him.
[SPEAKER_05]: It's a heroic move.
[SPEAKER_00]: It is.
[SPEAKER_05]: We go in the round about.
[SPEAKER_05]: We go in the run about next.
[SPEAKER_05]: And Garrick jumps in the pilot seat, Bashir checks on Warf, Warf tells Garrick that he did great.
[SPEAKER_05]: And Garrick says, so did you all.
[SPEAKER_05]: Nice moment.
[SPEAKER_05]: Is there an odd couple on this mission?
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, and I love that Warf, especially in all of the pain he was in, gave that to Garrick.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: There's a little issue here with the beam in because if you notice they're all beamed into the runabout at the same time.
[SPEAKER_02]: Now it has been established in a prior deep space 9 episode that the runabout transporter can only beamed to at a time.
[SPEAKER_02]: So it should have been two, two, two.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like you see them come in like in succession and bears that if they all came together.
[SPEAKER_02]: So that was, they kind of feeders, you know, or cheater.
[SPEAKER_02]: I guess the, they modified it, you know, maybe the transletters are more, more advanced now.
[SPEAKER_02]: Then well, hold on.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_05]: The thing that was beaming them wasn't the right about,
[SPEAKER_05]: Transporter.
[SPEAKER_05]: It was a thing that Garic adjusted down in the crawl space.
[SPEAKER_00]: That was the immediate superpower.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_02]: So this might answer Robbie's question about Robbie's comment about maybe the transporter originated from the tech on the ground.
[SPEAKER_02]: Regarding how the transporter identified the escapees, Ronald E. More commented, I think that Garic programmed the transporter to beam out anyone who wasn't a gem hadar or a voida within a given area.
[SPEAKER_02]: So that sounds like he's saying the program the transporters.
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, that could be either he could still program it.
[SPEAKER_02]: remotely, right?
[SPEAKER_02]: It could be either ground or remote I suppose from that point because all of this is make believe.
[SPEAKER_00]: Exactly.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's going to go with Rhine more because Rhine.
[SPEAKER_05]: Let's go with Rhine more.
[SPEAKER_00]: Rhine more.
[SPEAKER_00]: I agree.
[SPEAKER_00]: But this is smart guy.
[SPEAKER_02]: Quote though.
[SPEAKER_02]: What are you going to go with?
[SPEAKER_02]: Very successful.
[SPEAKER_02]: Would you say it's a grant?
[SPEAKER_02]: It's the ground.
[SPEAKER_02]: Transporter.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's what I would say.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_02]: All righty.
[SPEAKER_05]: I would say that.
[SPEAKER_05]: All right.
[SPEAKER_05]: Well, we go back to the battle in the Alpha Quadrant.
[SPEAKER_05]: We're in Ops.
[SPEAKER_05]: Big intercut scene here now we're into our final battle.
[SPEAKER_05]: The dominion fleets should be there, but they don't see Them, they don't see anything and they can't get a lock on a target.
[SPEAKER_00]: So it's very No, they stream them on the view screen, right?
[SPEAKER_02]: No, are you?
[SPEAKER_02]: They do not see them on the view screen They just sense they on the sensors.
[SPEAKER_02]: They say they're coming.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yes, this goes says on screen.
[SPEAKER_05]: There's nothing there is
[SPEAKER_05]: he says where are they?
[SPEAKER_05]: So they can't see them.
[SPEAKER_05]: They can't get any kind of lock on them.
[SPEAKER_05]: So they can't attack them.
[SPEAKER_05]: Right.
[SPEAKER_05]: Cisco says chief.
[SPEAKER_02]: I need targets and well Brian's like, well, they're everywhere, but I can't lock on anybody.
[SPEAKER_02]: So something is up.
[SPEAKER_02]: Something is up.
[SPEAKER_05]: Something is up.
[SPEAKER_05]: We cut to the defiant.
[SPEAKER_05]: Kira sees the same thing.
[SPEAKER_05]: She says, there should be diminishing ships all around us, but we can't get any targeting locks.
[SPEAKER_05]: Back in Ops, they're super confused.
[SPEAKER_05]: Miles gets an incoming message from Creepy Beshear.
[SPEAKER_05]: They locate his location.
[SPEAKER_05]: He's on a runabout, not on the station.
[SPEAKER_05]: Kassisco calls as the computer is located.
[SPEAKER_05]: Locate, but Dr. Beshear computer says,
[SPEAKER_05]: Last known location was run about patty so they know he's on a run about and they know the Yukon left patty So that's why they know that.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, mm-hmm.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, so Cisco calls to Kirin says major You've got new orders.
[SPEAKER_05]: I want you to find the Yukon and destroy it Take out that run about and he says at any cost
[SPEAKER_05]: So this is very serious.
[SPEAKER_05]: We learned from DAX that the Yukon is headed straight for the Bejoran Sun.
[SPEAKER_05]: Why?
[SPEAKER_05]: We headed to the Sun, great shot in space where we see the Yukon heading towards that Sun.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, Bashir too, the creepy Bashir switches a device on the console.
[SPEAKER_05]: That was the thing he was working on in that cool profile shot.
[SPEAKER_02]: And he looks even creepier now.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yes, very creepy.
[SPEAKER_05]: On the defiant, Kira and Dax realize that creepy Bashir modified the Yukon that he's turned the run about into a bomb, basically, and plans on.
[SPEAKER_05]: going into the sun and making the supernova sun.
[SPEAKER_05]: And it will destroy everything for light years around.
[SPEAKER_05]: So maybe there's the billions of people.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, that's what I'm going to wish, though, that once he's in the Yukon by himself, and we're at the stage that he would have gone back to his changeling self instead of being.
[SPEAKER_05]: Oh, great.
[SPEAKER_00]: No, thank you.
[SPEAKER_05]: That would have been cool to see a change laying there.
[SPEAKER_02]: But as liquid, he couldn't have pushed the buttons as well, though, right?
[SPEAKER_02]: Does or I don't know.
[SPEAKER_02]: But like, with a changelings when they do, you mean just just their little kind of like shimmer neutral, right?
[SPEAKER_02]: They're neutral.
[SPEAKER_02]: You mean neutral forms.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: And we already know this whole time.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's not really Bashir.
[SPEAKER_02]: Right.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: Or why is he holding that shape?
[SPEAKER_02]: or tear fair, it fluctuates, like as you're seeing his face, you see a little more, you know, it's morphing a little bit of a help to anything.
[SPEAKER_05]: It's a great note.
[SPEAKER_05]: It would have been great.
[SPEAKER_05]: Thank you.
[SPEAKER_05]: Our heroes, Kira, and Dax decide to chase it, to track to it, pull it away from the sun just before it explodes.
[SPEAKER_00]: Cool moves.
[SPEAKER_02]: But it's dangerous, though.
[SPEAKER_02]: You're not supposed to walk.
[SPEAKER_02]: No, I'm not saying it's not.
[SPEAKER_02]: No, no, I'm saying you,
[SPEAKER_02]: they have modifications so it doesn't do anything right so that's when they say we go to tractor beam it and so dax is that dax says we're too far away here's just one of that take us to warp and dax is like inside a solar system so you're not supposed to go to warp I know this is all made up but you're not supposed to go to warp inside the solar system because you could end up causing damage to
[SPEAKER_02]: a planet nearby, whatever it may be.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I care as like, look, if we don't do this, there won't be a solar system left.
[SPEAKER_02]: So you guys take that huge risk.
[SPEAKER_02]: I just want to bring that up because that's an important point that I didn't know about.
[SPEAKER_02]: I had no idea.
[SPEAKER_00]: No, it was a buildup that was important.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: I had no idea you could not go.
[SPEAKER_02]: You're not supposed to go to warp within a solar system.
[SPEAKER_00]: but it's very cool looking.
[SPEAKER_05]: Oh, it's very cool looking.
[SPEAKER_05]: Super cool.
[SPEAKER_05]: Back in Ops, they see that the runabout has been destroyed.
[SPEAKER_05]: Cisco says scam for the dominion fleet.
[SPEAKER_05]: It's not there.
[SPEAKER_05]: Creepy Bashir set this whole fake trap up.
[SPEAKER_05]: Cisco says, you know, he wanted to destroy everything without ever firing a shot.
[SPEAKER_05]: Without ever, the fleet was never coming.
[SPEAKER_05]: They weren't sending, it wasn't what we thought.
[SPEAKER_05]: It was all a con in the trap.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: the ultimate chess move by the Dominion.
[SPEAKER_02]: Make a move without making a move, cause them to do their own destruction.
[SPEAKER_02]: Basically.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_05]: There's the end of that war adventure for now.
[SPEAKER_05]: Oh, and now it's reunion time.
[SPEAKER_05]: We cut the quarks, garrisons, y'all have a, have a warm and fuzzy moment.
[SPEAKER_05]: What did you pick up from garracks attitude there?
[SPEAKER_05]: Was he happy?
[SPEAKER_05]: I couldn't quite tell like uncomfortable a little.
[SPEAKER_00]: So feeling towards him, it's a mixed kind of.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's really unhappy, but it's like, how do I, it's like somebody having a crush on you and using the friendship, I think it's purposeful so that we don't find Garrett creepy about his relationship with her.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's her and she's so young.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's just misguided.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, but I think Andrew Robinson played it perfectly because there was that sort of like hey Yeah, that's what we're saying.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's almost like you didn't know how to feel himself, but that's the way it shouldn't have been Because if he was all like, oh, hey, baby Let me kiss you on the cheek too.
[SPEAKER_02]: We would have been like, oh, what's happening?
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: No, that was everything intention.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah
[SPEAKER_05]: in the infirmary of Bashir, real Bashir is back.
[SPEAKER_05]: He's not creepy at all.
[SPEAKER_02]: Doesn't Bashir say like, you didn't even suspect that it wasn't me this whole time?
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, exactly.
[SPEAKER_00]: And O'Brien's like, well, he was just easier to get along with.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, so they're kind of teasing each other, I guess.
[SPEAKER_05]: It's like, yeah, a nice banter between the old friends.
[SPEAKER_05]: And I like the transition panning over to finding Warf and Dax back in the back of the,
[SPEAKER_05]: In Firmary, they have a very romantic reunion.
[SPEAKER_05]: I wrote a little too much PDA for the infirmary, don't you think?
[SPEAKER_00]: No, no, because when the beginning of this, she was so mad at him for having to go on it and she took a clean on operas and then she was in a much more dangerous position that he even knew.
[SPEAKER_00]: Right?
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, that's true.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I'm assuming they've heard, I mean, she can see what condition he's in.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's a nice couple moment.
[SPEAKER_02]: You know, as a nice reunion couple
[SPEAKER_02]: I almost felt like there wasn't enough, like during the whole internment camp fighting thing.
[SPEAKER_02]: He doesn't mention Dax, I almost felt like there should have been something like, well, you know, but I guess he can't really say anything when he's about to go to battle.
[SPEAKER_02]: Today is a good day to go, and I commemorate this battle to my girlfriend, Dax.
[SPEAKER_02]: He's not going to say that.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, he could've said something to be sure if I don't make it out of this one.
[SPEAKER_05]: Tell Dax this.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_05]: That would have been nice.
[SPEAKER_05]: I would have been really nice.
[SPEAKER_00]: Tell her she can keep the clings on operas.
[SPEAKER_05]: Great.
[SPEAKER_05]: That's a great line.
[SPEAKER_05]: We cut to the the promenade next in Cisco is meeting with Gauron and Mar talk and the clings on make a deal to keep a permanent presence.
[SPEAKER_02]: uh... it you know by the station right right there with them they're going to team up with them and help defend uh... the alpha quadrant and the station from the dominion so and Cisco has one requirement and that is i want to choose who's in charge of this clean on detachment of guards here and right galeron agrees to it and that's when um... you know Cisco looks over at martach and says uh... i think you'd be the best person for the job in martach is very very
[SPEAKER_02]: you know, ecstatic.
[SPEAKER_00]: Super touch.
[SPEAKER_02]: Super touch too.
[SPEAKER_02]: To receive this, you know, posting now.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's in charge of the plan on to do something after this major bonding with war.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's even better than both there.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's just yes.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, we go inside the captain's office.
[SPEAKER_05]: Do caught calls.
[SPEAKER_05]: Cisco says, you know, zeal might have died here.
[SPEAKER_05]: and Dukhats has, she's no longer my daughter.
[SPEAKER_05]: She made her choice.
[SPEAKER_05]: She's dead to me.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_05]: He is definitely an evil guy now.
[SPEAKER_05]: He's no question.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's gone back to the, to the, I thought it was bad when he said on the celebration of my son's birthday.
[SPEAKER_00]: It was like,
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, he, he, he Uber emphasized suns on that one, didn't he?
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: He's hurt though.
[SPEAKER_02]: He's hurt that his daughter didn't come along with him.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think he's absolutely.
[SPEAKER_02]: A hundred percent.
[SPEAKER_02]: Inside he's ripped apart.
[SPEAKER_02]: He's just trying to hide it.
[SPEAKER_05]: I like here I said, you know, watch what people do know what they say.
[SPEAKER_05]: It's a very true.
[SPEAKER_02]: What what he's doing?
[SPEAKER_05]: Very true.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, Cisco says he was wrong.
[SPEAKER_05]: He thought, do caught had changed.
[SPEAKER_05]: I thought it was good for him to say that explicitly because we see it as an audience.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_05]: Do Caut says Cardassia is building a monument to him that they will be strong again.
[SPEAKER_05]: And Cisco says, Okay, we'll see.
[SPEAKER_05]: So clearly, there's we've got our villain back.
[SPEAKER_05]: We've got, you know, alliances we never expected and
[SPEAKER_05]: this feels like the beginning of this dominion war that I've heard about for years now.
[SPEAKER_05]: My lesson is, Mar-Talk's line, there is no greater enemy than one's own fears to me that captures a sprawling epic episode that has so many different storylines, but that was my favorite.
[SPEAKER_05]: Take away.
[SPEAKER_02]: And a great lesson for life, in real life, outside of Deep Space Nine as well.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, tougher me to because that spoke to me the most that resonated The things that hold me back are my own fears, right?
[SPEAKER_00]: So that and all of us everybody on the station
[SPEAKER_00]: all of us.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think that's true.
[SPEAKER_00]: But yeah, that stood out to me very much.
[SPEAKER_02]: So yeah, mine was kind of, I said no change from the prior episodes, theme and lesson, which was expect the unexpected, because there's so many twists and turns.
[SPEAKER_02]: But I also have an additional one, which is be a person of action, not a person of words.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think Terra has the Patreon Paul winner for theme lesson more of this episode.
[SPEAKER_00]: I do.
[SPEAKER_00]: And it's submitted by Jenny.
[SPEAKER_00]: You can't judge people by what they think or say only by what they do.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, they gave it to us in the episode.
[SPEAKER_00]: Beautiful.
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