#odo ds9

S01E05 - Babel

• I would be fully on board for a whole episode where we just follow Miles around as he solves station problems for everyone

• Mr. “I hate him but I will jump to save the stupid Ferengi from his customers who attempt to harm him via bad soup” Odo. You’re not fooling anyone.

• Sisko’s “What did I do!?” face when O'Brien blows up at being asked to fix the replicator

• “She’s flower units about the lad herself.” Can we give a giant shout-out to all the actors who must have practiced their asses off to speak random words and make it sound like attempted conversation? It’s one thing to memorize a flowing dialogue with other actors you’re sharing a scene with, but to memorize all these random words and deliver the lines as if you’re speaking English is just wow. Everyone did a great job.

• Man, watching this in 2020 gives a whole new perspective to the freight captain who wants to leave the station in the middle of quarantine. “None of my crew are showing symptoms so we should just be allowed to go on our way la la la that’s how it works right?”

• In later seasons it must have gone something like this: “We want Rom to be an engineering genius but we established in early episodes that he’s an idiot, what do we do about it?” “Why not both?”

• Noooooo not Julian! How will they find an antidote now!?

• Young Cirroc Lofton’s acting in this ep is adorable. I love when he runs to grab the nurse to help O'Brien.

• I approve of Kira’s way of solving issues

• Odo and Quark running Ops together because everyone else has the virus. That’s it. My day is complete now.

• I mean, do we assume all of the other Ferengi on the station are, like Quark, unaffected? And they didn’t show up at Ops because they just didn’t want to help?

• But no, if that was true Julian would have studied the Ferengi immune system to help whip up an antidote. So Quark is just randomly super healthy against this particular virus, I guess.

• Regardless, I’m now picturing a pack of Ferengi running Ops and it’s like that scene at the end of Ratatouille where all the rats are running the restaurant.

• You know with 100% certainty if this episode was made today, it would have been written that the freight captain Jaheel would have died as his ship exploded. We’re very into “you get what you deserve when you’re an idiot” morals in our society right now. But my favorite thing about Star Trek has always been that it shows a universe where we rise above the petty feelings we’re dealing with in our culture today. It shows a future where we are better than we are now. The future is better. So yes, Jaheel was a selfish idiot who almost blew up a station full of innocent people. And yes, Odo saved him and he survived anyway. That, my friends, is true Star Trek.

thenotoriousscuttlecliff:

This episode is terrible, but I do love Odo and Sisko just hanging out at the Replimat being gossip buddies. 

fullmetal-angelgrace:

i will never NOT love this type of humor