Star Trek: Deep Space Nine 1x18 Dramatis Personae

Hitting a button on the wall and calling sickbay prolly works better than running thru a huge space station screaming.

Why did Odo grab his head? It’s not like his brain is in there.

well that’s disconcerting

See now, that would be the first bunch of folks I’d visit the Holodeck with. Dabo girls and Klingons. PAR-TAY!!

Dude, your comm badge. It’s right there. Raise your arm. It’s right…ugh…nevermind.

That could be interesting, if you’ve seen any of Hidden Frontier. :rolleyes:

Sisko’s assertion of authority there was quietly badass. Like it.

He panicked. Despite how they act, Quark and Odo are probably the closest thing that either has for a close friend.

Of his original concept for this show, writer Joe Menosky says, “I wondered if there could be something like a telepathic virus, a little packet of telepathic energy containing something that works in the same way that a virus co-opts the genetic code of a living cell and then changes its biology according to its own design. This would do the same thing, but according to a kind of theatrical complex that it carried, transmit a little drama. Each one of these telepathic viruses represents a little play, containing a bunch of character dramatics and emotions and traumas that had happened. In this particular case, the little play was a power struggle that led to the fall of a race or a civilization.”

How could they have possibly recovered that log?

[i]The Saltah’na clock that Sisko builds in this episode is seen in the background of his office in many episodes after this.

The reason writer Joe Menosky had Sisko making a clock was to try to convey to the audience that he had become “an obsessive quirky Emperor Rudolph-type” who fussed about with mechanical bits and pieces.[/i]

Sisko is kinda the broody, calculating type.

Right shoe first? Left foot first in the bathtubs?

Does anyone actually say that, much less do that?

Wooden ship!!! Arrrgh!! :oops:

and O’Brien literally twiddles his thumbs

I’m not watching, so I don’t know if this comment is too early. Mea culpa.

This episode is a favorite of Ira Steven Behr, who feels it was a bold move to do a show like this so early in the series; “it was a third season show that we had the nerve to do in the first season. Anybody else would say ‘You need to know the characters better before you twist them like this.’ But seeing Kira come on to Dax – I don’t care if it’s first or third season, people are going to be interested in that!”

Between Odo and Jazdia, Kira’s on a flirtatious roll

“If you’ve got it. Flaunt it, baby! Flaunt it!!”

oh, those silly, useless energy spheres.

Apparently medical privacy isn’t important in the future. :rolleyes:

Somehow I imagine that Bashir’s interest in being important overrides privacy concerns