In the eighth episode of the fourth season of\u00c2\u00a0Deep Space Nine<\/i>, THIS EPISODE IS ADORABLE. Intrigued? Then it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s time for Mark to watch\u00c2\u00a0Star Trek<\/i>.<\/p>\n
OH MY GOD, HOW IS THIS EPISODE REAL. I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know how \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Little Green Men\u00e2\u20ac\u009d came about, and I almost don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want to know. But in the midst of a season full of some of the most serious and upsetting stories\u00c2\u00a0Deep Space Nine<\/i>\u00c2\u00a0has given us, the show goes for full-on absurdity. BECAUSE QUARK\u00e2\u20ac\u2122S SHIP IS THE CAUSE OF ROSWELL. I just typed that and started laughing. You know why? It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s perfect. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s such a deliciously ridiculous idea, and thankfully, the show runs with it.<\/p>\n
I expected that the show would cover Nog\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s time on Earth, and\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 well, now I hope we\u00c2\u00a0do<\/i>\u00c2\u00a0actually get an episode about that. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d be interested to see it, as well as an episode about Morn. WHY DOESN\u00e2\u20ac\u2122T HE TALK. Anyway, I love the surprise that comes from the journey instead. I expected it in a general sense; there was no way they had an eventless trip to Earth. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Quark, y\u00e2\u20ac\u2122all. Nothing normal ever happens around him. BUT CRASHING TO EARTH IN 1947 WAS NOT SOMETHING I CONSIDERED ONCE.<\/p>\n
It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s so beautiful. Quark, insulting humans with every breath. Quark, realizing he can manipulate these tiny balls of bigoted righteousness for profit. Quark, being faced with temporal paradoxes and saying FUCK IT I WANT TO MAKE MONEY. This episode works with\u00c2\u00a0no one<\/i>\u00c2\u00a0but these three Ferengi, and I love that. I love that a Ferengi episode made me EXCITED! There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s even a moment where things get a little scary because I started to think that Quark was truly going to pull off the worst business plan of all time.<\/p>\n
Yet \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Little Green Men\u00e2\u20ac\u009d never strays too far from the sense of humor it has for Quark\u00c2\u00a0or<\/i>\u00c2\u00a0the Americans. I am perfectly fine with the ridiculous stereotypical Americans in this episode too, not just because it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s funny, though. If we accept Roddenberry\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s vision of the future, then a trip back to 1947 would be\u00c2\u00a0horrifying<\/i>\u00c2\u00a0for anyone from the time of the Federation. Bigotry, fear, paranoia, and hatred was kind of a huge thing in 1947. I daresay that for anyone other than a straight white cis dude, it was a nightmare scenario, an active dystopia playing out every day. Thus, the military characters here seem barbaric in comparison with who we usually see. It works! And it makes sense to me that a\u00c2\u00a0Star Trek<\/i>\u00c2\u00a0show would pit the scientists against the military. THAT IS VERY MUCH SOMETHING RODDENBERRY WOULD LOVE, Y\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ALL.<\/p>\n
I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t find this to be the most intellectually challenging episode, but I adore how fun it was. This family works together to get back home (after convincing Quark that using time travel to set up an empire is a bad idea 100% of the time), and in the process, we get to see both Nog and Rom do brilliant things. Hell, this episode outright states that Rom lacks self-confidence, which is the only reason anyone thinks he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not a genius WHEN HE TOTALLY IS.<\/p>\n
Bless this episode. What a treat.<\/p>\n
The video for \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Little Green Men\u00e2\u20ac\u009d can be downloaded\u00c2\u00a0here for $0.99<\/a>.<\/p>\n Mark Links Stuff<\/b><\/p>\n – I am now on Patreon<\/a>! There are various levels of support, from $1 up to whatever you want! You’ll get to read a private blog, extra reviews, and other such rewards.<\/b> In the eighth episode of the fourth season of\u00c2\u00a0Deep Space Nine, THIS EPISODE IS ADORABLE. Intrigued? Then it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s time for Mark to watch\u00c2\u00a0Star Trek.<\/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-5663","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\/5663","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=5663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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