{"id":5362,"date":"2017-12-07T06:26:49","date_gmt":"2017-12-07T06:26:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/318-Distant-Voices"},"modified":"2017-12-07T06:26:49","modified_gmt":"2017-12-07T06:26:49","slug":"318-distant-voices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/relivethemajesty.com\/index.php\/2017\/12\/07\/318-distant-voices\/","title":{"rendered":"3.18 &#8212; \u201cDistant Voices\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n        \n<p><strong>3.18 &#8212; \u201cDistant Voices\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Plot:<\/strong> Bashir is attacked and falls into a coma. The remainder of the episode explores his subconscious as he rapidly grows older and projects ideas onto dream versions of other members of the crew.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Thoughts:<\/strong> &#8220;Distant Voices&#8221; continues a run of bad episodes for DS9. All suspense is dispelled early as Bashir\u2019s rapid aging immediately confirms the suspicion that we are watching him dream from inside a coma. The only question remaining is whether he will wake up (yes, he will). I could have done without the 30 minutes in between where figments of his imagination discuss how interesting it is that they are figments of Bashir&#8217;s imagination. Only my sense of duty to this community kept me slogging onward to the obvious end.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The episode did win an Emmy for Outstanding Makeup Design. A quote from the makeup department on Memory Alpha suggests they were just as proud of the alien makeup (&#8220;\u201cLook at me! I\u2019m Freddy Kruger in Space\u201d) as they were of the makeup which ages Bashir. It was a pretty good looking alien.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Poor Alexander Siddig is put through his paces, and works very hard, but it\u2019s in service of nothing. There is one good line at the end:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>GARAK: To think, after all this time, all our lunches together, you still don&#8217;t trust me. There&#8217;s hope for you yet, Doctor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My rating: skip it. 1 out of 5 tennis balls that rain down like Tribbles.<\/p>\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/memory-alpha.wikia.com\/wiki\/Distant_Voices\" class=\"embedly-card\" data-card-recommend=\"0\" data-card-width=\"100%\">http:\/\/memory-alpha.wikia.com\/wiki\/Distant_Voices<\/a><script async src=\"\/\/cdn.embedly.com\/widgets\/platform.js\" charset=\"UTF-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n      ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>        3.18 &#8212; \u201cDistant Voices\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-5362","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\/5362","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=5362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/relivethemajesty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5362\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/relivethemajesty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/relivethemajesty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/relivethemajesty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}