{"id":5327,"date":"2017-09-07T06:14:20","date_gmt":"2017-09-07T06:14:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/39-Defiant"},"modified":"2017-09-07T06:14:20","modified_gmt":"2017-09-07T06:14:20","slug":"39-defiant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/relivethemajesty.com\/index.php\/2017\/09\/07\/39-defiant\/","title":{"rendered":"3.9 &#8212; \u201cDefiant\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n        \n<p><strong>3.9 &#8212; \u201cDefiant\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Plot:<\/strong> Deep Space Nine receives a visit from Will Riker. Wait a second\u2026 that\u2019s not Will Riker! Meanwhile, Sisko must undertake a distasteful collaboration with Gul Dukat to avoid war between the Federation and the Cardassian Empire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What I like:<\/strong> The teaser of this episode is well-played. \u201cYou have to expect the unexpected.\u201d I like seeing Riker and Kira interacting on DS9 as professionals (before the Maquis reveal). It makes me wish that we had gotten a full fledged crossover movie between the TNG and DS9 casts (I don\u2019t strongly recall what happens in the remaining TNG films, but I don\u2019t think this is in the cards). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sisko\u2019s look when he realizes the <em>Defiant<\/em> has been stolen from under his nose, and there\u2019s nothing he can do about it, is priceless.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What isn\u2019t good:<\/strong> The episode goes off the rails a little after Tom Riker takes command of the <em>Defiant<\/em> and we flail around for half an hour figuring out how to wrap things up. Since when is Gul Dukat a peacemaker who will risk everything to avoid war? This feels like a plotline borrowed from another (better) story. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The plot bends over backwards to return matters to the status quo ante without allowing Tom Riker to do anything very bad. I\u2019ve been hearing that DS9 really takes off in the third season, but so far I\u2019m not consistently feeling it. I feel more like we&#8217;re floundering and second season was more on target.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Obsidian Order isn\u2019t very intimidating here. I feel like there should have been another turn of the screw, not just an orderly surrender by Tom that goes exactly according to Sisko&#8217;s plan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Rating:<\/strong> 3 out of 5 sucker punch phaser blasts.<\/p>\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/memory-alpha.wikia.com\/wiki\/Defiant_(episode)\" class=\"embedly-card\" data-card-recommend=\"0\" data-card-width=\"100%\">http:\/\/memory-alpha.wikia.com\/wiki\/Defiant_(episode)<\/a><script async src=\"\/\/cdn.embedly.com\/widgets\/platform.js\" charset=\"UTF-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n      ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>        3.9 &#8212; \u201cDefiant\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-5327","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\/5327","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=5327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/relivethemajesty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/relivethemajesty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/relivethemajesty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/relivethemajesty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}