[DS9] Season 5, Episode 2: The Ship
Rating: 2
The standoff over a crashed enemy ship is promising, and a lot of the plot looks good on paper, but there are some critical missteps that lower this one for us. First, the episode tries to endear us to Muniz, but they keep hitting the same “giving each other a good-natured hard time” routine in all of his scenes, so we don’t get enough of his character for his death to really have gravity. There are also some odd bits of character work, especially the scene where Worf puts O’Brien in a headlock?? Everyone’s huffy disposition is supposed to indicate high stress, but we’ve seen these guys in worse situations and they didn’t crumble so quickly, especially Worf. It almost felt like there was going to be a sci-fi thing explaining why they were all acting strange. Lastly, there are a few extremely unsubtle scenes near the end. The tragic miscommunication between enemies is plenty apparent from the events that take place, so multiple monologues fretting over the tragedy and what it means kinda sour whatever effect there could have been.
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