{"id":5242,"date":"2017-01-26T06:09:09","date_gmt":"2017-01-26T06:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/28-Necessary-Evil"},"modified":"2017-01-26T06:09:09","modified_gmt":"2017-01-26T06:09:09","slug":"28-necessary-evil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/relivethemajesty.com\/index.php\/2017\/01\/26\/28-necessary-evil\/","title":{"rendered":"2.8 &#8212; \u201cNecessary Evil\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n        \n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>2.8 &#8212; \u201cNecessary Evil\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Plot:<\/strong> When Quark is commissioned to retrieve a box hidden on the station, it revives a five-year old murder investigation. Flashbacks reveal how Odo was appointed constable and his first meetings with Quark, Kira, and Gul Dukat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Thoughts:<\/strong> Rumor had it that DS9 is the dark sheep of Star Trek family, an off-kilter alternative to the flagship series TNG and Voyager.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rumor said that to the extent DS9 has virtue, it takes several seasons to ripen, coming into its own in later seasons after the arrival of talent like Ronald D. Moore and Michael Dorn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rumor is a bawd. This is a great episode, with great production value. It\u2019s interesting to visit DS9 during the Cardassian rule, and to explore questions about how Odo&#8217;s history. It\u2019s even better to see DS9 energized and innovating and digging ever deeper into its characterizations and backstory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I love that Sisko is a completely peripheral character in the story, as are the other Federation officers. O\u2019Brien doesn\u2019t even appear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I love the humor in Odo\u2019s personal log narration which, besides being laugh out loud funny, invests us further in the idea of Odo as holding an alien perspective. \u201cHumans have a compulsion to keep records and lists and files. So many, in fact, that they have to invent new ways to store them microscopically.\u201d All of the TNG characters come from basically the same frame of reference, except maybe Data and Worf? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nana Visitor is awesome and looks great in long hair. Odo\u2019s Columbo routine, and the extended riff on detective noir that begins with the dark and stormy night at the top of the episode, are nice touches. So much more dextrous than &#8220;Dixon Hill.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Odo makes a great secret softie. I look forward to seeing where his relationship with Kira goes in the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gul Dukat\u2019s dialogue suggests the presence of some scruples, but as in all DS9\u2019s best episodes, we are aware none of the characters say what they mean. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Has anyone else noticed that the Cardassian military uniform is similar to a Sontaran\u2019s?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This detail bothers me: Kira feels bad after all this time for deceiving Odo about Vaatrek\u2019s murder. Yet she is still deceiving him! She knows what the list is for before Odo figures it out, and presumably Ches\u2019sarro\u2019s was killed after she knowingly passed his name on to the remnants of the Bajoran resistance. Is she still collaborating in executions? This doesn&#8217;t quite fit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">4.5 of 5 pulsatel lockseals.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"http:\/\/memory-alpha.wikia.com\/wiki\/Necessary_Evil\" class=\"embedly-card\" data-card-recommend=\"0\" data-card-width=\"100%\">http:\/\/memory-alpha.wikia.com\/wiki\/Necessary_Evil<\/a><script async src=\"\/\/cdn.embedly.com\/widgets\/platform.js\" charset=\"UTF-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n      ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>        2.8 &#8212; \u201cNecessary Evil\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-5242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-star-trek-relive-the-majesty-ds9-episode-threads","tag-kevin-black"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/relivethemajesty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/relivethemajesty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/relivethemajesty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/relivethemajesty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/relivethemajesty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/relivethemajesty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/relivethemajesty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/relivethemajesty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/relivethemajesty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}