{"id":5360,"date":"2017-11-30T07:30:15","date_gmt":"2017-11-30T07:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/317-Visionary"},"modified":"2017-11-30T07:30:15","modified_gmt":"2017-11-30T07:30:15","slug":"317-visionary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/relivethemajesty.com\/index.php\/2017\/11\/30\/317-visionary\/","title":{"rendered":"3.17 &#8212; \u201cVisionary\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n        \n<p><strong>3.17 &#8212; \u201cVisionary\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Plot:<\/strong> A freak radiation accident allows O\u2019Brien, on a series of occasions, to temporarily travel five hours into the future at just the right moment to witness and subsequently evade a cavalcade of unexpected disasters, including his own death (twice!) and the destruction of Deep Space Nine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Thoughts:<\/strong> I&#8217;m going to assume this episode takes place on a Thursday. Is it an unlucky day, or the luckiest day? As an episode, it&#8217;s extremely silly and a waste of an hour. Watching O\u2019Brien go forward in time, I thought, why should I care? Why is he always in the right time and place to witness momentous preventable events? Why not witness himself doing paperwork, or sleeping? Why should any of this happen?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If the writers had created interesting Klingon or Romulan characters, doing something more than the obvious chest beating and bar fighting, I might like this episode better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Temporally, it\u2019s a mess. O\u2019Brien&#8217;s first jump into the future in which he witnesses the destruction of the station apparently doesn\u2019t disrupt the timeline at all even after he returns and puts the station on alert, because when he jumps forward again, his future self is in bed and doesn\u2019t remember any of this. The second jump is all so he can learn that to protect against the known threat of an external attack, DS9 should raise its shields. They were already going to do that, right?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since future O\u2019Brien travels back in time and successfully prevents the Romulan attack from occurring, wouldn\u2019t he also prevent himself from deciding after the attack has begun to travel back and prevent it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>IMDB has an ominous entry in the episode&#8217;s trivia section. \u201cThis episode marks the first time the total destruction of DS9 is depicted.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1.5 out of 5 lightup dartboards.<\/p>\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/memory-alpha.wikia.com\/wiki\/Visionary\" class=\"embedly-card\" data-card-recommend=\"0\" data-card-width=\"100%\">http:\/\/memory-alpha.wikia.com\/wiki\/Visionary<\/a><script async src=\"\/\/cdn.embedly.com\/widgets\/platform.js\" charset=\"UTF-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n      ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>        3.17 &#8212; \u201cVisionary\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-5360","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\/5360","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=5360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/relivethemajesty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/relivethemajesty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/relivethemajesty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/relivethemajesty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}