Logline
Fissures must be closed before they get inflamed.
Written by: Lauren McGuire
Directed by: Brandon Williams
One of the best episodes of Star Trek I’ve seen in a long time. Loved it!
I agree.
The recipe for this show is just so good. I’m really not into most of the newer stuff where they’re trying to one-up every previous series in scope and stakes. I’m thinking particularly of Discovery here. It’s fine for those who like these things, but I think having a show that’s blasse about the routineness of life-threatening adventures and also presenting characters that seem like Trekies themselves as audience proxies is such a refreshing way to both enjoy the adventures and take the pressure off of the expectation that each show somehow has to out-do all the previous adventures of all the previous crews of all the previous Enterprises.
So Andrew Robinson finally got his wish. Love it.
Can you give the context? I can infer a bit, but I don’t know the specific wish you’re referring to.
He said in an interview that he always considered Garak to be gay as all get-out, and thought that it was perfectly obvious, and that Garak should’ve had an affair, preferably with Bashir.
Andrew Robinson’s vision of the Garak’s character was that he was sexually attractred to Bashir right from the start. Playing this openly would have been way too much for 90’s TV, so he stuck to the idea but downplayed it. Which most likely is the reason why the interaction between these two characters was so great.
I just started this one and have to keep pausing it to calm down every time he introduces a member of his crew.
Annotations for 5x09 up at: https://startrek.website/post/17237470
I absolutely loved it
