Ups & Downs From Star Trek: Deep Space Nine 7.4 - Take Me Out To The Holosuite
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- Опубліковано 11 гру 2023
- Go Niners! Seán's here with all the Ups & Downs from a fan favourite episode of DS9.
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I’m sorry but I have to dissent in regards to Seán saying our main characters were being racist towards the Vulcans in this episode. Nah. It was Captain Solok, a literal VULCAN SUPREMACIST, who was the bigot. The fact that he only allowed people of his own race onto his starship AND consistently viewed other races as deeply inferior - that in it of itself is racist. Our main characters were simply exhausted with Solok’s bigoted bullshit. The fact that Starfleet allowed one of their leading officers to behave in such a manner is a whole other nerd discussion. All credit and respect to Seán, but sometimes his readings baffle me.
There is a difference between the crew of DS9 being upset at Solok, and making comments about Vulcans as a whole. Extrapolating from one individual to an entire race/species is a racist action. Solok was a douche, but some of the comments the Niners made were also problematic.
Also, we don't know that Solok was the reason for the crew being all Vulcans. Star Trek has a history of single species ships. In TOS, the Defiant was a ship crewed entirely by Vulcans. We're never really told why some ships are a mixed crew and some are single species, but they have existed since Star Trek's inception.
@@QBCPerdition It was the USS Intrepid in TOS not the Defiant.
It’s not so much that the Vulcans are racist in this episode that I have a problem with, it’s that they can use logic to justify anything and everything, throwing morality out of a car window onto a busy highway.
To the commenter above, I’ll acquiesce concerning your first point. As I’m likely forgetting dialogue said by the crew. But I’ll still argue on the second point. Sure, it’s not outright said. But given the context, it’s not at all far fetched to believe he’d only want his own species aboard the USS T'Kumbra and staunchly keep it that way due to his prejudices. It’s evident he expects the same from his crew. Regardless, thanks for the feedback. LLAP 🖖🏼
Basically, what I’m trying to say is, I felt Seán should’ve called out Solok’s problematic behavior; instead of solely lumping it all on the DS9 crew.
"Find him and kill him!" is one of the best lines in all of Ster Trek. It's right up there with "Sir, I must protest! I am NOT a Merry Man!"
Worf trying to get into the batter’s head by casually standing on tiptoe and saying “Death to the opposition” is the best moment.
"Find him and KILL HIM!"
With yesterday being the 25th anniversary of _Insurrection,_ the official _Star Trek_ channel uploaded the Captain's Yacht scene where Picard asks Worf if he's familiar with Gilbert & Sullivan to which Worf replies, "I have not yet had the chance to meet all the new crew members."
Also he swatted mini drone with the phaser rifle.
It’s one of my favorite lines in the series! 😂
Every time I think of this episode it's always that one line that pops into my head first. I love it so much.
I still feel they missed an opportunity with this one to recreate Abbot & Costello's Who's on First routine with Odo & Quark.
"To manufactured triumph!"
I just love that line to this day.
Leeta being 💯% ride or die for Rom is one of my favorite moments in the whole series.
"You can do this! I believe in you!"
They're such an odd couple romantic comedy. Like if Leeta was in communication with her Grand Nagus husband . A Rom . . . Com ? 🤓
Agreed Poor Rom
The fact that this episode very much sets the "average Vuclans are kinda douches" going forward is hilarious.
Also; DEATH TO THE OPPOSITION!
me in the 80s and 90s: average vulcans are mostly douchey
me now: most all vulcans are autistic. no seriously, they lack emotional expression, are highly logical, and are often confused or put off by human social conduct. think about it!
From a purely canonical standpoint, not likely since they spend their entire lives suppressing their emotions, otherwise they would be 10x more violent than klingons, From a out of context broad view of ''star trek' yes they are on the spectrum of autistic or they're sociopaths/psychopaths ( being psycho does not 100% guarantee violent tendencies, but the vulcans were very violent in their past)@@kenzieduckmoo
Worf is the ultimate comedy straight man. He makes comedy work by just by being so serious.
I don't know. Batman may give him a run for his money.
Basically anyone who is super serious works really well as a straight man.
This is true. "Picard" season three continued this tradition of Worf's deadpan delivery.
Counterpoint to not having a holographic umpire. The hologram can be hacked to call the game a certain way (and Quark might be tempted to do so), but Odo cannot be hacked or bribed into throwing the game for one side or another.
This is the episode that has lived rent free in my head since the day it aired. I grew up playing baseball, I love baseball, and I can't be a part of any game without doing Worf impressions. Thanks for revisiting it for us.
I can't believe you didn't mention one of the best moments of the episode, when Sisko decides that having a crowd of onlookers, even a holographic one, is too intimidating for his team, so he orders the holodeck to disable them, leading to Odo's shout of "Play ball!" coinciding with absolute dead silence. Plus it sets up the later moment when Sisko, finally deciding to relax and have fun, reinstates them all.
Before taking up acting, Grodenchik played shortstop in semi-pro ball. As a righty, he played left handed in the episode to make it seem that he was awkward and had never played before
Huh, neat.
Isn't that exactly what Sean said in the video, or were there two actors who were semi-pro baseball players who are right handed and had to bat left handed?
@@null6634 didn’t watch the video yet, apologies
I remember meeting Max at a baseball card store as a kid and he told me the same. Such a nice guy
As a baseball player, it’s really not difficult to swing lefty and look ok if you are right handed. Actually hitting a thrown baseball is a different story if you haven’t practiced. Throwing opposite handed, if you aren’t ambidextrous, is damn near impossible.
Odo the Umpire is just so perfect. When Sisko sees him practicing the moves I laughed my ass off. And then it being brought back when he sends Sisko to the stands was hillarious
The actual baseball scenes were a nice combination of TV broadcast angles (behind the pitcher) and movie styles (the dugout scenes especially). Not sure if they had a consultant, but they pulled it off very well.
"Take me out to the holosuite/Get me a drink. Make it neat/Buy me some gagh and some crackerjacks/I don't care if I ever get back/And it's root, root, root for the Niners/If they don't win, that's so lame/Cause it's one, two, three strikes the Logicians are out in the old ballgame!"
Or, Root, Root Beer for The Niners ? 🤓
I love the effort of taking on the vocabulary of taking on a sport from another country. The subtle differences of saying things like “scoring a home run” (local vernacular is hitting a home run) or “points” (we use runs) or referring to the field as the “pitch” just highlights that you all went though some real effort to put this together. I grew up and still play baseball and the minor differences in jargon makes me appreciate these videos even more because it means that while you didn’t grow up around the culture of something like baseball, you really do dive in (baseball pun intended) try to get as many details as possible. I’ve never heard of Dick Allen, but he seems like a stud - thank you for that!
Fun fact - they filmed at Loyola Marymount University’s field.
See also pronouncing a batting average of "point two nine two".
Fun Easter Egg: the team’s name. While Sisko was apparently a fan of the “London Kings” team (from The Emissary episode), there’s ties between Sisko and the San Francisco Giants, notably with Sisko wearing a Giants cap in this episode. Well, any San Francisco sports fan would recognize the name “Niners”, which is the nickname of another San Francisco team, the football “San Francisco 49ers”. Great nod to The City, and of course also home to Starfleet.
For Temporal Observations…Other than Sisko wearing the team’s cap in this episode, other ties to the Giants are Jake trying to get a (Giants superstar) Willie Mays rookie card in the 5th season episode “In The Cards”, and the 6th season episode “Far Beyond the Stars”, where Sisko met Willie Hawkins, a fictional Giants star player (the Giants then were playing in New York). (Hawkins appeared to be an amalgamation of Willie Mays and Brooklyn Dodgers star Jackie Robinson)
And side-sidenote: In The Cards was directed by Michael Dorn, and the fictional Willie Hawkins was portrayed by…Michael Dorn!
the best part about worf's chatter is he was raised by humans, he knows what human sports banter should be, he's playing it up for the lolz
A friend of mine wanted me to show them one episode to see if everything they'd heard about Sisko was true. This was the episode I chose. No regrets. It's one of the best episodes in the show and it's because the characters are so good together. So much chemistry on screen. :)
I really like Retro Ups and Downs. You need to do many many more. This one was a lot of fun like the actually episode was.
I would expect Bashir to be able to hit a moving target. Worf had a bit of trouble in that scenario. I forget the episode, but in an opening scene, Worf and Guinan squared off in a hollodeck program involving moving targets. Guinan bested Worf in the program.
She stepped down from her play level to play at Worf's and stomped his arse !
Worf's response "I am NOT a pro ball player!"
Well known fact, and something I have always laughed at, Max Grodénchik was a college baseball superstar, so watching him bumble around is hilarious for so many reasons
I loved this episode. It had heart and that's what Solok never understood.
Years ago, I heard that hitting a baseball is one of the hardest things to do in sports. Pitches can exceed 90mph and the ball being able to move up or down by its own width and a bat that's about the same diameter as the ball. It takes a whole lot of practice. Given these are Vulcan pitchers, it's amazing anyone could hit the ball.
What do you mean ups and downs? there are no Downs in this episode this is the purest episode in all of Star Trek
While there were better episodes of Star Trek, even better episodes of DS9, this was the purest episode of the franchise. If you need to know what this show could be, then just watch this.
I really wish you would go through the episodes in chronological order. Retro ups and downs is obviously a brilliant idea and will fill the gaps between seasons nicely for years to come, but if you pick out all the fan-favorite episodes now, the fun with this will go down over time. good episodes are of course fun to do, but "bad" episodes are also fun and even boring episodes can be important for canon reasons and gives us the option to talk about what could have made it better.
You do have a point...putting some random "iffy" stuff into this will help us anticipate those special episode reviews...and this one is definitely one of those good ones!
I wholeheartedly agree. I like the chronological layout of the ups and downs for the new series and I think they should do that for the old ones too
Going to get some hot dogs and soda from Quarks for this episode. One of my favorite DS9 episodes
" 'Hot' Dogs ?!?"
Hey, hadn't thought about that. I'd have ordered;
2 Chili Cheese Dogs with the works,
Steak-cut French Fries with Heinz Ketchup, & Tabasco Sauce, and 3 salt packets, a
Kosher Dill Pickle,
a medium butter Popcorn,
Nachos w/extra cheese n' jalapeňo peppers, and
3 Beers for desert.
It's "holographic", so it cancels all the cholesterol right-out. "Less filling, tastes great!"
Wow, I'd need a holographic wheelbarrow to cart my a** home after the game.
I always love scenarios where your worst player is secretly your best player.
When Sisko is waiting for Kassidy by the airlock, he swings the flowers he's holding like a baseball bat.
It was kind of alluded to but not stated outright, and maybe it wasn't even done on purpose, but one of the reasons the light-hearted tone of the episode was particularly great was because it premiered right after the Voyager episode "Drone" which is one of the most tragic Trek episodes ever and literally made me break down in tears. Getting to laugh again after haven been broken by that Voyager episode was kind of like Trek was leading me home instead of leaving me out in the cold. Watching the episodes now doesn't capture the experience of waiting to see them broadcast on a weekly basis (kind of like getting to watch The Best of Both Worlds part 2 right after part 1 instead of having to wait all summer).
Also, "Find him and kill him" is just about the best Worf quote ever. I was surprised to find when I asked Michael Dorn about it once that he couldn't actually place what episode it was from (for the record he said his favorite DS9 episode was Soldiers of the Empire).
As someone who doesn’t like sports at all, I still find this to be one of the most entertaining episodes of any series of Star Trek - love it!
I love the O’Brien shoulder. When he walked in holding the shoulder I had to laugh, because I loved the callback. So good.
It must have been a blast for the groundskeepers to see these actors out on the field in full alien makeup playing ball 😂
It would have been just as funny if Rom had been a natural at baseball and hit a home run every time he got up to bat.
Of all the series in the ST franchise, DS9's character placement, selection and development (regulars and guests) is the best (partly the writers, partly those in charge of casting, and of course the actors). Everyone is like someone we know in real life.
I cannot wait for the coverage of more light hearted episodes like this!
Worf declaring “Death to the opposition!” always makes me laugh. 🖖
As both a Star Trek and baseball fanatic, this episode always makes me smile.
Also - I LOVE this retro Ups and Downs series, please keep rolling with it!
It's very strange that O'Brien, as an irishman, infuses gum with scotch and not single malt whiskey. Idk, feels like a down to me.
isnt there a thing in star trek that irish people are actually from Canada?
Why can't it be a single malt Scotch?
I remember being really excited seeing Jake in the Atlanta hat growing up as a Braves fan.
The ensemble is the main reason (other than the dark edge) that DS9 was my favorite series.
At it's core Star Trek has always been about it's lead...
TOS was very much Shatner, then Shatner and Nimoy, then Shatner, Nimoy and Kelly.
The others had moments, but they really didn't start coming into their own until the films.
TNG was the same way with Stewart and Frakes, then Data, took a few years for the rest of the crew to become more than set dressing.
Even Voyager was really Janeway's show with a bit of Paris on the side. Then Tuvok came on more even by the end Chakotay and Kim were pretty much just after thoughts.
This is also one of the things DSC suffered from. Yeah there is character development in there, but honestly do the characters MATTER?
This is also why I like Lower Decks and SNW...
When Dax died... You felt it...
When Shaxs died you felt it... (even though he came back)
When Hemmer died? Oh yeah you FELT IT!
I know others will say different... But I didn't feel anything when Tasha died...
I didn't care when Culber died, or Airiam or Cornwell... Or Giorgiou... Cause who cared?
Now if they would have killed Culber LATER yeah... But at the time they did... Meh...
Ok, Discovery's premise was that nobody is safe, and I get that.... But why bother getting invested in a character that might not be there next week.
This episode of DS9... A lot of them in fact, would NOT have worked in the other franchises....
Come one even MORN got an episode!
My father and I are huge baseball fans and that's one of the things that hooked my dad into Deep Space Nine early on. We still watch this episode regularly for giggles.
Note to the editior. Sports in the star trek font was excellent
One of my all time favorite episodes of All Trek! My favorite Trek series with the Only sport I love! Perfection 😍!! 🤘😁🖖🇨🇦✌️
As an American baseball junkie you did a wonderful job with the game mechanics Sean! Home plate collision rule revision! This is in my top 10 Trek episodes! 🖖(though it's run, not point)
@Sean - thank you, thank you for this brilliant "Ups and Downs"! Now, I'm an original 'TOSser" as I watched the original series with my parents in it's original run starting at the tender ages of 4, and of all the sequel series since, DS9 with it's incredible multi-character development has been my favorite (until SNW came along...). Coming from a 4th Generation New York City Irish American family, Baseball is part of our blood, and to have this episode with the absolute love it shows baseball be a Trek episode, it can't help but be one of my favorites in the entire Trek canon - and as you pointed out it was a sorely needed breath of air in the midst of a very heavy very dark season.
I am giving you lots of props for the studying up you did on baseball, quite commendable, and as a gay man myself, I am aware that I'm one of the minority that truly follows a sport like baseball (unlike American Football for which it would be impossible for me to care less). Through no fault of your own, certain of your observations subtly show that baseball is not part of your everyday world, and what seemed odd or unusual to you is perfectly normal to an American Baseball fan. Chief of these would be Cisco's behavior. Avery Brooks captures with amazing veracity the American Father Little League Coach - wherein for decades good, fair, upstanding, generally moral fathers (and mothers) when they become the Coach of a Little League or High School Baseball Team with great suddenness turn into "complete dicks" I believe you observed, unless they are extremely careful. Many of these men (and women) had squelched dreams of playing ball in the majors. These Coaches are literally everywhere in the American Experience and for a kid like me, who did not find co-ordination and athletic abilities until Gymnastics in High School and who could barely hit and catch until it was realized that I had some vision problems, having a Coach like Sisko would have destroyed me and I watched that very thing happen to some of my less athletic friends condemned to the roster of a team with such a coach - league rules always placed a son on his father's team, and my Dad was the only one who let EVERY KID play in EVERY GAME for at least 3 innings no matter how good, or how awful they were. His teams (whether I was on them or not) consistently landed in last place year after year, but the Sisko-like Father Coaches of other teams could not understand why SO MANY kids would rather be on my Father's Team than on their more winning squad. Sisko's behavior in the episode was completely familiar to me and any other kid who played little league, right down to and including his treatment of Rom!
A few more baseball fan notes on the episode - I too expected more from Kira being how athletic we'd already seen the character be, up to and including regularly beating Cardassians in hand-to-hand, BUT even an in-shape athletic person her size with only two weeks practice under her belt in the most difficult and important of fielding positions was doomed from the start. The Colonel should have been assigned to SECOND BASE with SHORTSTOP played by Sisko, where his experienced timing, greater height and longer arm, along with his accurate throwing arm would have been perfect for the longer throw to FIRST, allowing Kira to concentrate on the shorter throw and tagging out base stealers (something she'd likely have been good at) which would also meld well with the fact that she was one of the few Niners who could apparently connect with the ball.
And one last quick note - the term is "RUNS". Just like there is no crying in baseball, there are no "points" in baseball either. When a runner scores, they score a RUN.
But enough of that quibble. I absolutely adore this episode on so many many levels, and your ups and mine match almost exactly. Thank you so much for this wonderful retro review, and please, keep up the good work and have a Happy Christmas!
Really enjoyed this as DS9 is my all time favourite trek and I love the light hearted episodes. Another great ensemble episode is Badda Bing, Badda Bang!
best line: what were you doing regenerating?
I amalways here for Deep Space Nine content. More, please!
The sports music and graphics are just perfection 🤣
There are a lot of Star Trek episodes, even episodes I consider really great episodes, that I don't seek out to rewatch. But this is one (along with Badda Bing Badda Bang) that I go back to over and over again.
Also, I think Sean missed the point just a little bit of Rom saying "It looks like a lot of fun," and Sisko changing his attitude. It's not just that Sisko's had time to cool off. It's that Rom, in that one line, reminds him of what baseball is really all about: to come together as a community and have *fun* together. O'Brien alludes to it earlier, "This game is supposed to be fun." And that's the aspect of the game that conservative Vulcans like Solok can never grasp and in the end Sisko resolves to rub it in face by resolving to have as much fun as possible. Not to say it's true for all Vulcans. I feel like the Logicians we see drinking with the Niners after the game understand somewhat; afterall, it's only Solok that storms off in the end. Yes Sisko cools off and sees the error of his ways, but Rom reminds him of the true meaning of baseball.
Just start with tng and go through all old treks doing ups & downs until new seasons of shows come out then resume old shows in between new seasons....WE ARE HERE FOR IT TNG DS9 VOY even ENT...it's content booked for next couple years!!!!
I agree, I wish they would just do all of them, but I can respect that they may not want to do hundreds of these.
I never thought about it before, but the Eddington and Solok comparison makes sense. Of the two, Solok is worse. Eddington was just trying to evade capture and fight for his cause. He would have done that to anyone. He just knew the buttons to push on Sisko. Solok though. Solok made it his life to torment Sisko for being "inferior".
Bashir really should have been able to hit every time he was at bat. Which should have lead to, even in a montage, the Logicians purposefully walking him. Equally frustrating.
A couple of things that could have been added to Temporal Observations. This was the second episode to involve Michael Dorn and baseball. In "Far Beyond the Stars", he played the baseball star and friendly rival to Benny Russel. Also, the Atlanta Braves were mentioned in the the TNG Season 1 Finale, "The Neutral Zone", by country singing de-frostee, L.Q. "Sonny" Clemmens. He was wondering if the Braves were still losing. Since he was frozen in the early 90s, this frustrates me as a Braves fan. They were awesome in the early 90s. 😠
Haha hands down, one of my favorite ups and downs episodes, LoL 🤣
Thank you, Seán!
"I promise...."
*sudden cut*
"He made me promise...."
My biggest question - how do you fit 20 people plus Odo into one of Quark's holosuites and not have everyone crammed in shoulder to shoulder?
One of Ultimate DS9 favorites. Please do more episodes. I enjoy Sean's review of any Trek episodes period.
I think you did well with the "Sports ball." As an aside, I remember watching Dick Allen play and he was a fearsome opponent when his Chicago White Sox team visited Minnesota.
'would you take a trip with me... to f- temporal observations'
i love the helloween reference THANK YOU
Love❤ as always! On final 80s style mixdown, I suggest a smidge less tape warble affect and substitute it with a tad of low pass filter with a dash of resonance. If you're going for analog, don't be shy:) as long as the overlay vocals are crisp, everyone is happy
Some recreation in a time of war...I was stationed at Dharan Saudi when Khobar Towers was bombed in June '96...a week later my crew set up four TF-1 light carts and played volleyball for two weeks @ 0100 hours following our shift, until being shut down by officers who declared it 'unrespectful'. It was a morale builder...
Excellent episode! My kids and I are coming up on this particular DS9 episode in our epic journey through Trek. We are watching everything in "in universe" order.
Remember to interleave the various series! I failed to do that in my last time through, and it was really noticeable and detracting at times.
Absolutely! We have an in-universe list we follow.
@@DawnDavidson we 100% are!
Loved this!! Thank you! ❤
I love the idea of Kira Nerys replicating baseball cleats for tryouts
I enjoy this very much. Keep on going.
Go for it ! keep going like that !
I'm almost 63 years old. Twenty years ago, I thought Star Trek was over. So nice to see younger people carrying the flame.
Love this, love DS9. great video
I truly enjoyed this episode i really did.
I'm lookin forward to the next one
Very enjoyable episode, thank you.
Just watched this again the other day, and I'd forgotten how fun this episode was.
Can't wait till you do ST DS9 ITPML
"Death to the opposition!"
From across the quadrant, Picard: "Belay that order!"
retro ups and downs!!!! yay!!!!!
This is one of my top 5 episodes. My father in law, a baseball lover but not a Trek fan, loved this episode too. And...they are the Niners, which are my favorite 🏈 team so it was fun hearing that in a Star Trek episode! 😎🤘
When I introduce a newbie to Trek I show them this episode. No ships, no space, but pure Trek. As Sisko says...it's got heart.
I just watched this episode for the first time a few days ago. It is great and unique
I think that the typeface on the jerseys being the same as the series titles (as well as Voyager and the TOS films) should count as an easter egg.
I cannot think of any other time this font was shown in-world in any Trek show except (now) the holodeck film titles in a few LDS episodes.
This is my favorite episode of Star Trek, hands down. The baseball action is done so well and I love how much Odo gets into being an umpire. As a huge baseball fan this episode is such a treat.
also the “robot umpires” joke has been around for 30 years, bless
also also perhaps Bashir and Worf aren’t the most patient hitters? An experienced hitter should know how to work the count in their favor.
I love the lighthearted articles. Maybe a good idea for a list would be Star Trek’s most light hearted episodes, or moments.
Just started the video. This DS9 episode is one of my favorite episodes in all of Trek.
20:33 Bang on. Worf in particular nailed that seeker drone with a good old fashioned baseball swing in Insurrection. If that was actually a baseball, he'd have hit it right out of the park!!
Well now he has practice.
One of my favourite episodes of DS9! :)
I enjoyed this video more than the actual episode. ♥
You touch home (plate), its a field, you score runs. 😂
Thanks for the video Sean, we'll work on your baseball later :)
Absolutely badass t-shirt, sir. I want one!
That Kira uniform bit was a good catch.
Love this episode, but the fact that there is not a scene with Garak complaining about having to make a ton of baseball uniforms, or offering to make some kind of exploding baseball for Sisko to cheat with will always seem like a missed opportunity for me.
If they would have given this the same money and time they did for the Casino episode, they may have. Not knocking it, but this was also a really good DS9 Crew episode.
When I saw this teased on Twitter, I was giddy!!
Fantastic job!! Loved the video and I loved learning about peices of history I didn't know before so thank you.
For the next poll my suggestions are:
In The Pale Moonlight - DS9
Data's Day - TNG
Move Along Home - DS9
Warlord - Voyager
Well you got me, Finally did a DS9 up and down. ggwp
Great review of the episode, especially with Sean proving he’s done his homework. In the bit about Worf not hitting the ball, I thought of another example that proves he should be good at it. Star Trek Insurrection, he literally uses a phaser rifle like a bat and whacks an incoming Son’a drone, “Definitely feeling aggressive tendencies!”😂👏 That was even just a few months before this episode!
Ok, just to clarify. Worf and bashir striking out is actually entirely valid. You can have the best, strongest swing in the world, but if you can't ready a pitch you're basically useless. This year, for example, the blue jays had a player (and unfortunately still do) named vladdy gurerro jr. Strong bat, basically is an instant homer if he can land the bat, won the home run derby....but for 70% of the season was basically considered an automatic out. This is because he couldn't read the ball, wanted to 'be the hero' so would swing at any garbage that even looked slightly decent and struck out all the time.
As for bashir, hitting a stationary board with a thrown object is one thing. Swinging an object to hit a thrown object is another and is well beyond an apples to apples comparison. Two weeks is not nearly enough time for them to learn a batter's eye and you better believe 1) bashir was over thinking it and 2) worf was doing a vladdy and swinging at anything that looked like it was in range. So no, them striking out that much is actually fully realistic.
Love your George and Gracie shirt!
episode reminded me of the stories of Australia's soldiers at Gallipoli playing cricket on the beaches.
This one makes me so nostalgic...
You snapped your fingers and BAM, Ryan Reynolds appears in a commercial. Good timing.
Sean, loved your Rom impression! Pretty sure Max would approve if he doesn’t know it already. 🤭
Oh man, I watched this episode morning because I bought a deep space niners hat last week
Technically we've met (if not *seen* very well) the Nebula Class earlier - the original Nebula-kitbash, with 2 small extra-nacelles instead of a mission pod, was part of the Wolf 359 graveyard scene.
As both an American and a fan of baseball, I have to say, no notes, well done.
Sean you hit a homerun this time this is my 2nd episode of ds9
My favorite episode is in the pale moonlight please do it next