My relaxation this past week has been the incredibly geeky activity of watching Deep Space Nine episodes on DVD. It allows me to veg out, but since most episodes are less than an hour, it doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have to take large chunks of time.<\/p>\n
Michael and I watched all seven seasons of DS9 this spring<\/a>, but we went through them in one mad rush. Right now I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m skipping the episodes I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t particularly care for (anything in an alternate reality), so I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m really enjoying what I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m watching. I decided that The Visitor<\/a> is one of the top ten best DS9 episodes. Avery Brooks and Cirroc Lofton, especially as the series progresses, have a very believable father son relationship, so for me that episode is particularly wrenching, as I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been personally contemplating loss. <\/p>\n Another favorite episode is Explorers<\/a>, and I really wish they had been two episodes instead of one, since parts of it, especially Sisko building the ship, seem rushed. But it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s still good despite that, and I think the ship<\/a> he builds is fascinating.<\/p>\n And then there are the episodes with Garak; he is absolutely one of my favorite characters, although I have to wonder whether I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d like him if I met him in person. I think he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s at his best in episodes like \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Improbable Cause\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Die is Cast\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, where we get to see his conflict over his exile as well as in his relationship with Tain. <\/p>\n And, there is always the fun of looking for the regulars when they play extras. Michael and I are constantly saying things like, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153That Klingon over there\u00e2\u20ac\u201dis that Jake?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d <\/p>\n Yeah, we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re geeks, but it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s kinda fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" My relaxation this past week has been the incredibly geeky activity of watching Deep Space Nine episodes on DVD. It allows me to veg out, but since most episodes are less than an hour, it doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have to take large chunks of time. Michael and I watched all seven seasons of DS9 this spring, but […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-sequiturs"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pefxA-6R","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}