{"id":5370,"date":"2018-03-08T17:31:45","date_gmt":"2018-03-08T17:31:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/320-Improbable-Cause"},"modified":"2018-03-08T17:31:45","modified_gmt":"2018-03-08T17:31:45","slug":"320-improbable-cause","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/relivethemajesty.com\/index.php\/2018\/03\/08\/320-improbable-cause\/","title":{"rendered":"3.20 &#8212; \u201cImprobable Cause\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n        \n<p><strong>3.20 &#8212; \u201cImprobable Cause\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Plot:<\/strong> An assassination attempt on Mr. Garak draws Odo into an investigation of intrigue between the Romulans and the Obsidian order that has potential long-lasting impact on the politics of Deep Space Nine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Thoughts:<\/strong> This episode is terrific. OMG! Good writing for Odo and Garak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But it\u2019s not just the writing; there is some fine direction going on. That beautiful scene where Odo goes to meet his Cardassian informant, with the multilevel set and the beautiful light in the cave? Very imaginatively shot. I watched it like, \u201cLeveling up.\u201d The director? Avery Brooks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The casting helps, too. I love Paul Dooley as Enabran Tain! I looked him up, his resume goes on and on. In the makeup, he looks and sounds like a Cardassian Albert Brooks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s not nice to make comparisons, but I was looking at all the beautiful special effects and alien makeups, and could not help but think how much better this week&#8217;s Flaxian assassin Retaya looks compared to the Sikarians the week in VOY.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The teleplay is credited to Ren\u00e9 Echevarria, but I suspect much of the writing was done by Ronald D. Moore, who is credited with the second part of the story. I love the references to Julius Caesar in the opening. The Boy Who Cried Wolf story has two great payoffs, the quip \u201cWell that\u2019s a little graphic for children, wouldn\u2019t you say?\u201d and Garak&#8217;s alternative moral \u201cYou should never tell the same lie twice.\u201d The chance of episodes like this make the effort of this community worthwhile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When it finished, I wanted to start the next part immediately, although I knew I couldn\u2019t. The seemingly self-contained mystery had just become vital to Dominion arc! Good work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>5 out of 5 uninvited copilots.<\/p>\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/memory-alpha.wikia.com\/wiki\/Improbable_Cause?title=Improbable_Cause\" class=\"embedly-card\" data-card-recommend=\"0\" data-card-width=\"100%\">http:\/\/memory-alpha.wikia.com\/wiki\/Improbable_Cause?title=Improbable_Cause<\/a><script async src=\"\/\/cdn.embedly.com\/widgets\/platform.js\" charset=\"UTF-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n      ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>        3.20 &#8212; \u201cImprobable Cause\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-5370","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\/5370","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=5370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/relivethemajesty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5370\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/relivethemajesty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/relivethemajesty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/relivethemajesty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}