In fact, not to put too fine a point on it, he’s trying to get into her Bajoran knickers, in a heavy-handed, pseudo-charming manner that’s about as phoney as Tony Blair saying anything. He’s also behaving very creepily towards our dear Major. Though he doesn’t regret Ziyal at all, his fall has been spectacular, and his frustration is Eifell Tower high. And I kept waiting for this long past the point I should have realised that what was going on was really happening.ĭukat, you see, has been severely demoted because he has brought his half-Bajoran daughter Ziyal back to Cardassia, per the episode ‘Indiscretion’, a couple of months back. So, when Gul Dukat turns up as the pilot assigned to convey her to the conference, in a pretty lowly freighter ship, one heck of a comedown for him, I naturally assumed that the episode would revolve around the disclosure that the action ensuing was a set-up by Dukat to get these secrets out of Kira, by her effectively volunteering them to combat an unexpected menace. Enter Worf, to give the fair Kira a kist of Federation advanced devices and weaponry she’s not to mention to the Cardassians. The set-up is that Major Kira, at the personal request of First Minister and bed-mate Shakaar, is to attend a Cardassian/Bajoran Peace Conference inside the Cardassian Empire, to discuss the Klingon threat. Partly, this was by being over-clever and anticipating a twist that never came. Of course, this means the episode is utterly dependent upon its focus, which is where I found myself slightly uncertain. There’s been a recent change in the character-centred stories, in that these are now being presented as a single story, with those cast members not involved having only minor, walk-on parts at beginning or end: the notion that a more or less unrelated B-story is needed to give everyone else something to do, has gone for the moment, and welcome this is too: there wasn’t even a single line for Quark this week! We’re now into the back half of this venture, nearer to the end than the beginning, and I’m a little uncertain how to respond to this latest story. Trout Nation – Your One-Stop Procrastination StopĬome on, ladies, would you ever, seriously? Really?.The Infinite Jukebox: Aimee Mann’s ‘Deathly’.Wednesday Morning Sitcom Time: Last of the Summer Wine s02 e05-07 – A Quiet Drink/Ballad for Wind Instruments and Canoe/Northern Flying Circus.
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