I keep waiting for the day I am going really like Sisko. It hasn’t happened yet.
Let me take some of that back – the character of Sisko is fine. The problem is Avery Brooks. He is likeable, but he is a HORRIBLE actor. I know he will get better, but now, in the first half of Season Two, he is making me cringe. The other characters: Odo, Quark, Kira, Bashir & O’Brien are settled in. But Sisko (and Dax) are still plain awful.
Anyway, this is a Sisko-based episode, so it is going to be problematic. It is also stupid as hell. And ends in a very off-putting way. (Suicide with applause?) And why is it that if Avery Brooks is to have a relationship with an alien, she has to be an African-American playing an alien? Isn’t that reverse-reverse racism or something?
