Tuesday, 19 June 2011
11 PM Eastern - 8 PM Pacific
“I told you, my life’s here. If I leave here, I’ll die. So I’d rather die here.”
Robert Keith plays Mullibok (the Bajorian who won’t leave his land) in this episode. For those that don’t know, Keith Played Uncle Bill on the series ‘Family Affair’.
He also tragically killed himself a few years after this episode. So sad. 
Writer Peter Allan Fields was not happy with how Mullibok came across in the finished episode. According to Fields, he’d written the Bajoran as a much more manipulative and less likable character; “I wanted a strong guy who did not change at the end. There are too many old guys in television dramas who start out nasty and then get meek and gentle at the end. That’s not what I wanted.” To help illustrate what he means, Fields cites the scene when Mullibok asks Kira for her given name. In the script, this question was specifically used to manipulate Kira (“He said it because he was trying to con her”), but in the final episode, it seems as if Mullibok feels a degree of warmth for her. Fields says he doesn’t fault Brian Keith’s performance, but instead Mullibok simply comes across as too sympathetic a figure; he is “less of an adversary than he ought to have been. He was less of a mountain for Kira to climb.” (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Companion) Interestingly, in the second season episode “Second Sight”, the exact opposite would happen with the character of Gideon Seyetik – a character whom the writers wanted people to like and sympathize with coming across as pompous and unlikable.
Avery Brooks’ voice when he made his log entry there was so soothing…hmmm I could nap 
(I’m counting down the episodes to “Duet”…)
“Jake, I’m getting that tingling in the lobes!”
Nog, I thought we agreed not to talk about that. :rolleyes:
This is the first time in DS9 where the Bajoran name order is addressed, when Major Kira says her birth-given name, or first name, is Nerys.
Oh noes! It’s Bajoran Gothic! :eek:
WWJTKD?
Judo chop Judo chop Judo chop
Four to beam up.
Bajoran Pastoral…
“One thing about Cardassians is they pay their bills.”
Are they like Lannisters?
I don’t know why she just didn’t beam them up.
… I’m just going to keep my mouth shut
It’s an interesting conflict, between the guy who escaped 40 years ago and doesn’t see why he should return to Bajor, and the government that wants him to return (or at least get off the moon they want to use as a natural resource)
Ah Brian Keith … you youngsters are too young to remember the great TV show “A Family Affair”.
I stand corrected. I guess you aren’t too young to remember Brian Keith
Reminds me of a Western. Settler being muscled by gov’t during the Gold Rush.
I’m older than 'talos, and I don’t remember him. 
True. Also reminds me of the issues of political exiles and the issue of return (or not)
Brian Keith’s character does seem very Old West
Did you every see The Parent Trap? Great fun movie (with Brian Keith).
The Lindsay Lohan remake did not compare.