A Look at Call to Arms (Deep Space Nine)
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- čas přidán 17. 03. 2023
- Opinionated DS9 Episode Guide kicks off a week of Dominion War coverage. Constant convoys of Jem'hadar ships combined with political maneuvering leaves Sisko with no choice but to mine the wormhole, even if it will lead to war. The good news though is: cool space battles!
Here's one scene I particularly love:
Quark: "Rom, I always said you were an idiot, but I never believed it more than I do at this moment."
Rom: "Brother, if you want to insult me, it's going to have to wait till later. I'm busy."
Quark: "Busy doing what?"
Rom: "Preparing perimeter defenses for the attack."
Quark: "There are dozens of engineers that could be doing that. Starfleet engineers. Hew-mons. You should be on Bajor with your new wife."
Rom: "That's what Leeta said."
Quark: "Well, she's right. This is not your fight."
Rom: "It's not your fight either, but I don't see you leaving."
Quark: "I have to look out for my bar."
Rom: "And I have to look out for you."
Quark: "Me?"
Rom: "You're my brother. Whatever happens, we belong together."
Quark: "Well, like I said, you're an idiot." (gives Rom a kiss on the back of his head)
I love that ds9 actually tried to put depth in all its main cast even the comedic ones.
That scene made me cry
The captain round table is still one of my favorite gags. Good ol' parody Archer being crazy and parody Janeway being crazy awesome.
It is hands down my favorite gag. I wish it'd show up more.
Wish the mirror captain round table showed up as much as the normal one
I'd actually forgotten that I'd seen this review until the bit with Archer hit again.
It's a hilarious bit. :D
OMG, but I LOVE his Criminally Insane Janeway 🤣
@@MrChupacabra555 and the sane one from the mirror virson
The Captains Roundtable was a stroke of genius.
I hadn’t realized until these two episodes were put next to each other that Rom diagnoses and solves the problem the Klingon’s were having in Sons of Mogh.
You know DS9 is a great show when a fantastic episode like "Call to Arms" only gets a 7 compared to the rest of the series.
As for the self replicating mines, I think they can work by using material and energy from destroyed ships to replicate. It's impossible or extremely time consuming for the Dominion to pick off the mines at distance since the mines are cloaked, they're very small, and they have their own propulsion systems. And whenever a ship gets close enough to hit the mines with their weapons, the mines would be able to swarm the ship and blow it up. Then the remaining mines use the wreckage and anti-matter from the ship to replace the destroyed mines.
"Someone already tried that, wrong planet." Not every day you get to say that. Actually, with how much Stellaris I've been playing lately, I might've said that a few times this month.
10:29 My favorite Sisko joke from Chuck.
You gotta love how Dax and O'Brien reported the result of their top level meeting to Starfleet.
"Self replicating mines? Genius! Who came up with it? Wha...? A Ferengi? Who works for the Bajorans? On waste extraction?"
Happy to have Rom there, but you just know that violated a ton of security protocols.
1:22 Indeed. The name is in the PADD.
Oooh the opening arc of the Dominion War. One of my faves of DS9 and of your old reviews back in the day. I can only imagine how this arc was back when it first aired during the era where overarching stories in Trek were still a rarity. It is also, IIRC, the beginning of your League of Starship Captains gag that I wish would be used more often but I know would be difficult to do and keep in moderation without getting stale.
Also amusing that you're uploading your Dominion War stuff, given the latest Picard Season 3 developments.
The League of Star Ship Captain's!
I find I'm torn between "Wow, it's neat to see an actual _fleet_ of Starfleet vessels" and "When the hell did Starfleet get so big?" The Doylist answer, of course, is CGI starships instead of being limited to models... but the two biggest fleets we even heard of before this were Wolf 359 and the fleet trying to blockade the Romulan/Klingon border, and both those fleets were more talked about than seen in any sort of detail.
My headcanon is that they followed through on Shelby's promise to "have the Fleet back to full strength in less than a year" at the end of BoBW ... and then _kept building_.
More DS9 reviews yay!
Yes, the Risian Traditional was the two handkerchiefs and a loincloth one. It says so at the bottom of the pad.
good eye
Huh. More dignified than I would have expected a Risian wedding dress to be.
@@hariman7727 Honestly I'm a little shocked Risa even has marriage. I figured polyamory was de facto law there.
@@mikegates8993 I figure it's about 50/50.
I also suspect that planet is immune to STDs.
We didn’t get DS9 in my area, so I first saw this on VHS. I actually went out and bought season 6 on DVD when it was still ridiculously expensive to see where they took the story from here.
Such a great arc that DS9 did. So many great episodes!
Ferengi wear more clothing than Betazoids at weddings. Interesting.
It really speaks to the differences in their respective cultures: to the Betazoids, it's a presentation of intimacy. Literal nakedness as a metaphor for emotional nakedness. To the Ferengi, it's an act of titillation and objectification: pleasure for the guests at the expense of the bride.
Betazoids also practice arranged marriages. But that’s from season 1 so we may want to just ignore it.
Thanks for the video I always remember the end of this episode the look on Sisco's face like he's plotting on how far he's going to shove that baseball though I'm surprised Janeway didn't offer up Harry as a sacri... I mean greeter to welcome the incoming dominion.
Guess that Weyoun and his fellow Dominion lackeys are not invited to the wedding ?
How sad .
One of my favorite lines in all of tv "you'll still have the loincloth!"
I think Nu/Disco Picard would just roll into the fetal position rambling that someone needs to plug him into a wall socket because he’s a robot now.
Worf's only angry because they allowed the Barrelites of the Barrelion system to join the Federation.
Man, this is one of one of my favorite reviews of one of my favorite episodes.
If the Dominion had truly paid attention to what was going on in the Alpha Quadrant, they may have figured that it probably wouldn't be wise to attack a people who'd twice defeated Borg incursions and were developing advanced weaponry to more easily defeat future Borg attacks.
Vorta: Okay, I have hundreds of intelligence reports of Starfleet vessels being put in impossible situations and them getting out of it my rewiring their deflectors, engines, once even a electric toothbrush in a way that defies logic and science. There's no reason to believe they can't do that on mass.
Founder: going to war lol
Vorta: Brilliant decision, I am honoured to serve
@@Kameth there's a brilliant Tumblr thread from back in the day where a Klingon is asking a Vulcan why they let humans basically run the Federation. The Vulcan's reply was, "most civilizations would be happy with a gift of just a warp core. Humans would ask for three, one to travel with and two to experiment with." The Vulcan goes on for a time, explaining how the humans would do the most off the wall shit that wound up being beneficial to the entire quadrant and that they would be publishing the results of their experiments for everyone to read about something that had previously been thought completely impossible. The Klingon then said, "that sounds great. May we join?" 🤣😂🤣
You did a spot-on impression of Max Grodenchek.
The episode with my favorite psycho-Janeway bit ever. And its not even a Voyager episode.
MIND BOMB, BABY!
Mind Bomb!
DS9 is kinda like Belgium in either World War. It's gonna get smacked the second the fighting starts but they have to do whatever they can anyway
I'm surprised that this episode wasn't called *Para Bellum*
Deep Space Mine
Boy, she did have some great...personalities.
Will Pike, Burnham, Freeman, and Chakoty (PROD) join the council in future reviews?
Feels like there should be an expansion for the bit. But it is already a bit crowded…
Thinking about how they could apply in Chuck’s Trekverse:
Pike totally deserves a spot, I can imagine him being the serious member.
Burnham will suffer the same fate as pre-Beyond Kelvin Kirk as trying to join but being constantly pistol-whipped and being the butt of jokes.
Prodigy Chakotay we admittedly haven’t seen much of yet, but knowing Chuck he’ll just continue being the one who whips out stories of his people.
Those aren't cannon and don't count . Star Trek went on hiatus when Enterprise ended and has just come back for Picard S3 . ENJOY
@@laurarules3642Guys, I found the Founder spy!
* Also relevant in 2023! The times change but Star Trek doesn't! :p.
Captain Freeman would suggest on behalf of her security chief to shoot their warp core.
@@marshallhuffer4713Oh Freeman! Can't believe I forgot about LD.
Is there a spreedsheet somewhere with all the scores.
Does anyone know why Klingon ears were always covered by their hair in the TNG+DS9 era? I began noticing it recently, and with Worf's refined make-up in Picard actually letting us see his ears now, I was wondering if there was a specific issu at that time.
A few things. 1980's and 1990's males with long hair were seen as the tough guys. Also probably a good way to save on makeup. As the wig would cover the prosthetic edges. Just like why most of the Farengi had that odd band that covered the back of their necks. It just made the process cheaper.
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I just don't know why the Federation was so opposed to the Dominion helping starving children on Cardassia. Jealousy, the Federation is who poor suffering worlds go to for help, not some Gamma Quadrant power!
Politically speaking, it’s an insidious way for the Dominion to look like the more benevolent and promising than their enemy. Good PR for them because they can use that for propaganda.
Self replicating stealth munitions. I get that the situation is dire, but this sounds like all kinds of terrible. Like Grey slushy with bombs in the worst case.
DS9 was WAY better the whatever the shit was with Captain Harridan and Chef Shithead!
Captain emotional speech of weakness.