We’ve started going back and watching the rest of Season 5. So we’ve just watched The Ship and Nor the Battle to the Strong. Man, the writers loved doing grim war episodes, didn’t they? Poor Muniz. Poor Jake, who at least gets some character time in the latter episode, even if it’s basically a redo of The Red Badge of Courage. I guess it certainly hardens his resolve to not enter Starfleet. The two episodes also serve to foreshadow just how awful the Dominion War is going to be.
I had to remind myself that those two grim episodes were sandwiching Looking for Par’Mach in All the Wrong Places, which is brilliant and lighthearted.
I had to remind myself that those two grim episodes were sandwiching Looking for Par’Mach in All the Wrong Places, which is brilliant and lighthearted.
