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Ric Crossman
Apr 21, 202221 min read
4.1 War And Peace
Deep Space Nine Season 1 Retrospective Deep Space Nine is fundamental to the IDFC project, in the sense that it’s why the project exists...
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Ric Crossman
Apr 17, 202212 min read
4.1.19 The Damascus Ring Road
In The Hands Of The Prophets Here’s something new. Well, new for IDFC, anyway. We arrive, at last, at our very first season finale....
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Ric Crossman
Apr 7, 202217 min read
4.1.18 Only Obeying Stationery Orders
Duet So, this will be interesting. I’m not dealing with a minor entry to the canon this time, or some forgotten classic in need of a...
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Ric Crossman
Mar 29, 20229 min read
4.1.17 Proof By Counter-Example
Dramatis Personae Not to go all undergraduate essay here, but let’s start with a definition. “Dramatis Personae” translates as “the masks...
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Ric Crossman
Mar 17, 20229 min read
4.1.16 I Have No Mouth, And I Must Sigh
The Forsaken An introvert and an extrovert walk into an unreliable turbolift... Old Skin For The Slightly Older Ceremony I see no point...
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Ric Crossman
Mar 1, 202210 min read
4.1.15 "...These Nags Would Be Lame"
If Wishes Were Horses The episode that claims to celebrate human imagination, but doesn’t bother displaying any itself. “It’s Easy If You...
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Ric Crossman
Feb 15, 202213 min read
4.1.14 Russian Toll
Progress The revolutionary struggle doesn’t end the day the palace falls. Major Dilemma “Progress” is another episode that’s hard to...
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Ric Crossman
Feb 1, 202210 min read
4.1.13 Maps And Legends
The Storyteller "The people and the land are one." It was about time we returned to Bajor. The Widening Gyre I haven’t really talked all...
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Ric Crossman
Jan 18, 202212 min read
4.1.12 Pro Nihil Mori
Battle Lines War, huh? What is it good for? Killing recurring characters in order to generate cheap drama, it turns out. The Vengeance...
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Ric Crossman
Jan 4, 20228 min read
4.1.11 Death In The Clouds
Vortex At first glance, “Vortex” looks like an anomaly. With the exception of “Silent Enemy” (and we’ll get to that sinking, burning...
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Ric Crossman
Dec 19, 202111 min read
4.1.10 Escher's Spiral
The Nagus "I found one day in school a boy of medium size ill-treating a smaller boy. I expostulated, but he replied: “The bigs hit me,...
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Ric Crossman
Dec 5, 202111 min read
4.1.9 Shout "Allamaraine!" And Sit Down
Move Along Home LIQUID ASSETS, INTESTINAL BLOCKAGES, A SURFEIT OF SCATHES QUINT: GAMES, my friends. Don’t you just wish you were in them?...
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Ric Crossman
Nov 21, 20218 min read
4.1.8 “The Law Is Inside Out, The World Is Upside Down”
The Passenger Here we run into another episode that seems to be no-one’s favourite, and for reasons which are not difficult to...
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Ric Crossman
Nov 7, 202114 min read
4.1.7 "You've Been Sanctified, And I've Been Tried"
Dax Well, this certainly didn’t arrive too soon. It’s finally time for Deep Space Nine to start picking at the gloriously complicated...
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Ric Crossman
Oct 21, 202113 min read
4.1.6 Old Skin For The New Ceremony
Q-Less (Content warning: generalised references to abusive relationships) Jambly crisps. Reading reactions to this episode make me wonder...
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Ric Crossman
Oct 7, 202110 min read
4.1.5 "Freedom To Starve Ain't No Freedom"
Captive Pursuit We open on an employee complaining to the station commander about her working life. A brief introduction to the questions...
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Ric Crossman
Sep 22, 20218 min read
4.1.4 "Once Again, The Communication Process Has Broken Down"
Babel “Babel” feels like DS9‘s first misstep. It’s not particularly a bad episode – bits of it are rather good, in fact. The issue lies...
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Ric Crossman
Sep 9, 202120 min read
4.1.3 Three Threes Make Nine
A Man Alone Intro Once again, Deep Space Nine has to push back against TNG‘s mistakes. The appalling flood of clueless racism that swept...
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Ric Crossman
Aug 26, 20219 min read
4.1.2 "And We Did It Without A Single Bilitrium Bomb Being Detonated"
Past Prologue So this is how it’s done. The Kohn-Ma Clustercuss “Past Prologue” is about as far from “The Naked Now” as one can get. Back...
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Ric Crossman
Aug 12, 20218 min read
4.1.1 How Sisko Got His Groove Back
Emissary Sometimes you've just got to boldly stay. Progress And Paradox Ira Steven Behr once said that the biggest problem The Next...
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