No Insignia
Congrats, DS9 – you finally made an episode as awful as And The Children Shall Lead. In fact, this may be worse. A race from the Gamma Quadrant is met by some Vulcans so they come to DS9 for a First Contact ceremony. They are led by a big mullett-ed dork who kinda looks like Ricky Jay with makeup. All they want to do is go to Quark’s to play games – and wind up sticking Sisko & Co. down a rabbit hole as Quark has to roll dice for their lives. Not only is the game not explained, but it would appear that things are happening at Quark in real time, while the “players” are hopping around singing songs in a pocket universe or something. Who knows? When the punchline comes – it was just a game – and there was nothing really at stake (not like Odo ever demanded “Bring them back”) I wanted to punch the TV. Memory-Alpha.org states that this is Avery Brooks’ least favorite episode. Thank God for that.
Now is as good a time as ever to state that sometimes Major Kira reminds me of Edith Prickley.
