DS9 s1e10 “Move Along Home”
Edit: Coincidentally put together last night before NegativeNull’s Kiss post. Funny how that works.
“You’re always trapping people in games! Stop trapping people in games!”
I have seen all of DS9 but I have no recollection of this. For those who also don’t remember:
Joel Brooks made serious bank in the 90s playing jaunty assholes.
Lucky you.
I don’t know why people hate this episode so much.
It’s a little cheesy, but who cares? So are dozens of episodes people love
Personally, I find the main alien characters highly annoying and the little girl singing the song over and over again even more so. And that’s before we get into the “none of this actually mattered because there were no actual consequences” ending.
Edit: Not to mention, the exact same “this was all a game and there were no consequences” ending was done so much better in Shore Leave where Kirk still grew as a person despite the fact that he was never in any real danger.
To me, it felt like the episode mattered because you got character development. It’s the first time we get to see exactly how Odo and Quark’s relationship works, and we also get to see Quark’s…“unorthodox” problem solving style, in contrast to how federation weenies go about things.
And that’s before we get into the “none of this actually mattered because there were no actual consequences” ending.
To me, that doesn’t matter as much because the characters weren’t aware of that. Sure if it happened every other episode I’d be annoyed - it’s like the “it was all a dream” trope ending, in a way. But I don’t have issue with it if used sparingly.
I think it was also useful in terms of showing, early on, that Quark does care about people over profit, and signals to the viewer that he is very much a redeemable character, and will have character growth in the future.
Overall I view it as a silly but kinda enjoyable episode. I certainly understand why people wouldn’t like it, but I’ve never really understood why some hate it.
I don’t hate it, but it’s an episode I’d be fine to skip if I did a repeat viewing of DS9.
Fair
I’ve never met anyone who hates this episode. it’s one of my favorites
I’ve seen a lot of hate for it, although entirely online
Some people aren’t into cheesy stuff
Yeah but there’s a lot of cheesy Trek
me but with the Enterprise theme
It’s been a long road
getting from there to hereFigured Allamaraine was the safer choice since it’s universally panned as dumb.
I am among those few for whom the ENT theme
is enjoyablegrew on them as a result of Stockholm Syndrome.I’m from an outside culture and both me and my so loved the theme from the start. Until they messed up with it and made it upbeat.
Yeah, definitely a skip moment. Same goes for later seasons of DS9.
Wait, the song is what people hated? I get that the episode had bad acting and such, but the song didn’t feel out of place or anything to me.
The song is appropriate for the absurd situation. The gestures vaguely everywhere is what’s disliked.
The song was okay… the first 150 times I heard it.
I’ve done like 3 full watch through of TNG and somehow I have always skipped this episode. I’ve never seen it start to finish.
Not sure if youre joking but its a Deep Space Nine episode.
Well that explains it!
I’ve only done one DS9 watch through and I must have missed this or not been paying attention.
Well, it IS only midway through season 1, after all.
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ALLAMARAINE! 🙌🎉👏
My wife and I just watched this episode like 2 days ago! 😂
