{"id":5623,"date":"2016-06-08T13:00:47","date_gmt":"2016-06-08T20:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/?p=5623"},"modified":"2016-06-08T00:38:56","modified_gmt":"2016-06-08T07:38:56","slug":"mark-watches-deep-space-nine-s04e02-the-way-of-the-warrior-part-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/2016\/06\/mark-watches-deep-space-nine-s04e02-the-way-of-the-warrior-part-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Watches &#8216;Deep Space Nine&#8217;: S04E02 &#8211; The Way of the Warrior, Part II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the second episode of the fourth season of\u00c2\u00a0<i>Deep Space Nine<\/i>, I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t even believe how far this show has come. Intrigued? Then it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s time for Mark to watch\u00c2\u00a0<i>Star Trek<\/i>.\u00c2\u00a0<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>WHEW, GOD, WHAT AN EXPERIENCE. WHAT A RIDE. WHAT A BOLD AND SCARY THING TO DO AT THE START OF THE SEASON. Hey, was the Dominion threat upsetting? Then how about A FULL-ON WAR that erupts IN A FEW HOURS and PERMANENTLY CHANGES THE FEDERATION\u00e2\u20ac\u2122S RELATIONSHIP WITH THE KLINGONS?<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s\u00c2\u00a0<i>Deep Space Nine\u00c2\u00a0<\/i>for you. I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t even know where to start with the second half of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Way of the Warrior\u00e2\u20ac\u009d because there are just too many good scenes and moments. Excuse the list, which I haven\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t done in a while, but my mind is a blur.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Okay, so perhaps moving through this as chronologically as possible is the best thing for me to do. How about that scene where Worf rejects Gowron\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s offer? Y\u00e2\u20ac\u2122all, Worf worked so hard to navigate the complexity of Klingon politics and custom in order to retain his family name, to keep his house in honor, and get Kurn a seat on the High Council. It was a massive part of his development on\u00c2\u00a0<i>The Next Generation<\/i>! And yet, he sacrifices it all because he refuses to abandon his post and he refuses to be part of the invasion of Cardassia. Just like that, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s all gone. His lands, his assets, his family name\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 gone.<\/li>\n<li>I love Worf so much.<\/li>\n<li>And I totally believed that this was going to be his sole appearance. I bought every red herring that he was going to bow out once this conflict was over, that he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d find some distant organization to work for. Sadly, the Klingon homeworld is no longer an option for him. (Forever??? Will he ever gain his rights back?)<\/li>\n<li>I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m convinced that this episode is pretty much perfect, but a flaw I found was the fact that we didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t see the Detapa Council aside from when they stepped off the transporter. I suppose it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not the most important thing, but it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s weird that this was a rescue mission for a group of people we otherwise never saw.<\/li>\n<li>KASIDY. SISKO. THEY KISSED. I DIDN\u00e2\u20ac\u2122T HAVE TO BUST OUT THAT \u00e2\u20ac\u0153\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 and now KISS\u00e2\u20ac\u009d MEME AT ALL.<\/li>\n<li>(Is it sad that I immediately expected Kasidy to die because black women cannot stay alive on television. I swear, this show is not allowed to do anything to her.)<\/li>\n<li>I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know if this is the start of something for this show, but hear me out. Multiple times in this episode, Sisko is faced with a hellish moral dilemma, and he barely hesitates when he decides what to do. You see that the first time when he admits that using the cloaking device in the Alpha Quadrant is forbidden by the Romulans. He reasons that the rescue mission is more important. When the\u00c2\u00a0<i>Defiant<\/i>\u00c2\u00a0comes across the debris graveyard, he refuses to de-cloak and check for possible survivors, despite Julian\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s protests. And then, for the entire second half of the episode, he orders the\u00c2\u00a0<i>Defiant<\/i>\u00c2\u00a0(and later DS9) to fire \u00e2\u20ac\u0153at will\u00e2\u20ac\u009d at the Klingons.<\/li>\n<li>SO<\/li>\n<li>MANY<\/li>\n<li>KLINGONS<\/li>\n<li>DIE<\/li>\n<li>IN<\/li>\n<li>THIS<\/li>\n<li>EPISODE<\/li>\n<li>This is not the first time that warfare has been portrayed on the show. Hardly! But oh my god, the battle sequences on this show are so much more violent and pervasive than they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve ever been on\u00c2\u00a0<i>Deep Space Nine<\/i>\u00c2\u00a0or\u00c2\u00a0<i>Star Trek\u00c2\u00a0<\/i>as a whole. The fight to rescue Detapa Council was bad enough, but once they get back to DS9?<\/li>\n<li>I WASN\u00e2\u20ac\u2122T READY<\/li>\n<li>YOU WEREN\u00e2\u20ac\u2122T READY<\/li>\n<li>(okay maybe you were)<\/li>\n<li>THE UNIVERSE WAS NOT READY<\/li>\n<li>FIVE<\/li>\n<li>THOUSAND<\/li>\n<li>PHOTON<\/li>\n<li>TORPEDOS<\/li>\n<li>5,000.<\/li>\n<li><b>look at all those zeros.<\/b><\/li>\n<li>I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t even know that DS9 had that kind of offensive power, but now I do! And what a time to reveal it! After a few dozen Klingon ships uncloak. HOW IS THIS EPISODE REALLY HAPPENING.<\/li>\n<li>Oh, was the battle outside space not good enough for you? Then how about COUNTLESS KLINGONS ALSO BEAMING ABOARD DS9 AND STABBING THEIR WAY THROUGH THE STATION.<\/li>\n<li>I feel like this show threw me into the deep end, and I have to remind myself: THIS IS THE SEASON PREMIERE. This is not some huge battle to\u00c2\u00a0<i>end<\/i>\u00c2\u00a0a season. This is how it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s starting!!!<\/li>\n<li>Like I said at least a couple of times on video, there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s no turning back from what happens here, and I was so pleased that the writers committed to what they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d written in the first half of this episode. The Khitomer Accords no longer apply; the Klingons now view the Federation not as an ally, but a future enemy. The Dominion most likely got exactly what they wanted, and both the Klingons and the Federation are vulnerable.<\/li>\n<li>This season is going to destroy me, I just know it.<\/li>\n<li>But there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a silver lining.<\/li>\n<li>Lieutenant Commander Worf.<\/li>\n<li>FULL TIME DS9 CREW.<\/li>\n<li>IT WASN\u00e2\u20ac\u2122T A GUEST APPEARANCE.<\/li>\n<li>OH MY GOD, HE\u00e2\u20ac\u2122S ON THE SHOW.<\/li>\n<li><i>OH MY GOD HELP ME<\/i>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The video for \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Way of the Warrior, Part II\u00e2\u20ac\u009d can be downloaded\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/markdoesstuff.com\/products\/mark-watches-deep-space-nine-season-4\" target=\"_blank\">here for $0.99<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><b>Mark Links Stuff<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; <b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/markdoesstuff?ty=h\" target=\"_blank\">I am now on Patreon<\/a><\/b>!!! <a href=\"http:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/2015\/05\/updates-european-tour-patreon-h-a-l-p\/\" target=\"_blank\">MANY SURPRISES ARE IN STORE FOR YOU IF YOU SUPPORT ME<\/a>.<br \/>\n&#8211; I\u00c2\u00a0will be at numerous conventions in 2016! <a href=\"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/tour-dates-appearances\/\" target=\"_blank\">Check the full list of events on my Tour Dates \/ Appearances page.<\/a><br \/>\n&#8211; My <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/calendar\/embed?src=815s3sbr8clhdi9tn8k7r3tim4%40group.calendar.google.com&amp;ctz=America\/Los_Angeles\">Master Schedule<\/a> is updated for the near and distant future for most projects, so please check it often.\u00c2\u00a0<b>My next Double Features for Mark Watches will be <em>Death Note<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0and\u00c2\u00a0<em>Neon Genesis Evangelion<\/em>. On Mark Reads, Diane Duane&#8217;s <i>Young Wizards<\/i> series will replace the Emelan books.<br \/>\n<\/b>-\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/markdoesstuff\">Mark Does Stuff is on Facebook!<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0I&#8217;ve got a community page up that I&#8217;m running. Guaranteed shenanigans!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the second episode of the fourth season of\u00c2\u00a0Deep Space Nine, I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t even believe how far this show has come. Intrigued? Then it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s time for Mark to watch\u00c2\u00a0Star Trek.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[640,614],"tags":[615],"class_list":["post-5623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deep-space-nine","category-star-trek","tag-mark-watches-star-trek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5623\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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