Comment on DS9 S2 "Second Sight"
ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 10 months ago
Yeah…Star Trek has never been particularly good at one-off romance episodes, and this is certainly one of those.
For me, Gideon Seyetik is by far the most memorable part of the episode - Richard Kiley nails his particular brand of annoying charisma.
The episode also has Dax asking O’Brien to boost the top speed of Seyetik’s ship to warp 9.5 to avoid a potential supernova, a prominent example of Star Trek supernovae being apparently able to travel faster than light. So there’s that.
the_sisko@startrek.website 10 months ago
Yeah, I don’t think that I enjoyed any shoehorned romance with Picard especially…
Lol now that you mention it, yes that is quite silly.
I also remember a moment where O’Brien reports that he increased the speed to warp 9.6, and Dax asks “wasn’t the theoretical maximum warp 9.5” and he’s just like “it was.” Top tier O’Brien right there.
ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 10 months ago
You know, I kind of like that. It’s a little touch of the rules of the ST universe being just a little bit different, and it sheds light on how something like the Romulan supernova can be so devastating.
Subspace, y’all.
lemillionsocks@beehaw.org 10 months ago
I didnt mind inner light but I guess since that involved him living an entire life in this kinda simulation thing that it wasnt quite shoehorned.
the_sisko@startrek.website 10 months ago
That was a great episode actually, my only complaint was that he didn’t seem to require serious therapy afterwards.
Same with O’Brien’s mental imprisonment episode, though at least they tried to show the psychological damage there. He just managed to get over it at the end of the episode 🫠
lemillionsocks@beehaw.org 10 months ago
My headcanon regarding the federations seemingly impossibly rosey outlook on psychological trauma is that they genuinely have good mental health treatments. That we have the ship’s counselor as a member of bridge crew in TNG is indicative of how important and useful they are.
Between that and psychics existing, the federation is pretty good at dealing with trauma at least in a way that keeps things functional.
In the case of inner light however I suspect the device was designed to have a dreamlike quality to it since it wouldnt be helpful for your knowledge spreading device to cause trauma to whoever it comes into contact with. You remember the important bits and major pieces of historical information but a lot of it kinda fades as just a dream.