The ending, when everything is finally realized and the truth is played back for the audience, always make me sad. It was an unavoidable loss and the Doctor wasn’t at fault no matter how much he wishes he were.
I really appreciate the Star Trek episodes that don’t just hit the reset button but rather show the beginning of a long road to recovery. It gives the contents of the episode weight and validity.
It’s definitely undersung.
The ending, when everything is finally realized and the truth is played back for the audience, always make me sad. It was an unavoidable loss and the Doctor wasn’t at fault no matter how much he wishes he were.
I really appreciate the Star Trek episodes that don’t just hit the reset button but rather show the beginning of a long road to recovery. It gives the contents of the episode weight and validity.
Meanwhile, O’Brien shows no signs of PTSD after, well, everything.
O’Brien crashing out would have been a much better long term setup and payoff than putting the dax worm in a different actor.
Guinness. Every goddamn day.
He got a massive gold(en?) statue. What does he have to complain about? Keiko on the other hand just got forgotten.
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I mean he did try to eat a phaser.
In that episode. Never mentioned again. No lasting effects. Sure he’s a stalwart fellow, but still.
Like how in TOS’s The Changeling, Uhura is still not back at her post by the end of the episode?