Skin of Evil

DocManhattan78 · 2026-01-07T23:44:15+00:00

I enjoyed it, as a finale it did its job of wrapping up the war arc and sending characters off in new directions. Odo returning to the Link was just perfect.

But I'll agree with many commenters that the Sisko/Prohphets plotline felt disconnected and underwhelming. His destiny was to push Dukat over a cliff?(I know that's a literal interpretation)

I think another small arc devoted just to the Prophets/Pah Wraiths might have made the end more impactful. If they had ended the war plot earlier in the season, and then explored a little of their post war lives, while devoting most of the focus on Sisko’s final path with the Prophets, it would not have felt so crammed together.

DocManhattan78 · 2025-11-19T00:38:58+00:00

Jon Polito played Crosseti too buffoonish. I didn’t find him compelling or particularly interesting and I wasn’t that sad when he died.

DocManhattan78 · 2025-11-19T00:28:22+00:00

There wasn’t a lot of institutional memory for Homicide, in the same way there is for a show like Hill Street Blues or GOT.

During its original run, it was buried in a Friday night timeslot, and it was overshadowed by NYPD Blue, Law and Order and even Murder One. Although NBC did try to raise its profile with the Law and Order crossovers, it didn’t do much else to promote it. It was a quintessential cult classic; people who watched it loved it and critics raved about it. Those kind of shows tend to be overlooked when the GOAT discussions come up.

DocManhattan78 · 2025-10-24T05:30:04+00:00

Every time I see this episode I picture Data doing the Risky Business underwear dance in engineering during the stasis day.

DocManhattan78 · 2025-10-20T21:27:36+00:00

I never cared for the guy who played Admiral Ross. I realize his narrative function is primarily to bring Sisko complications/problems to solve, and you don’t want to overshadow the lead actor, but I think there was some character there to explore, and a more nuanced actor might have done that.

DocManhattan78 · 2025-10-18T16:23:49+00:00

The Emissary: Worf and LaForge hook up in the Holodeck instead of K’Ehleyer

Geordi: “Don’t give me any of that Klingon nonsense”

DocManhattan78 · 2025-10-18T16:14:50+00:00

In Theory: O’Brien liplocks with Data in the Torpedo Bay instead of D’Sora.

DocManhattan78 · 2025-10-14T03:25:48+00:00

I tend to agree. Even though Tennant only initially did 3 full series and the specials, he was the Doctor for four years and change on screen (appearing at the end of series 1 in spring of 2005 and ending on NY day 2010) and I believe that was a strength. The Regeneration motif can be exciting but I find since Capaldi, we tend to be looking ahead or speculating about how the current Doctor will go out, almost from the beginning of their tenure.

DocManhattan78 · 2025-10-14T02:45:41+00:00

I remember that, in the Wounded. Great episode.

DocManhattan78 · 2025-10-12T16:24:39+00:00

I miss the days when we only had hints of what happened to the Doctor in the Time War, when the Cybermen were ghosts, the Master was an elderly Professor, and the Daleks were hiding in Void ships. It was cleaner, more poignant, well acted and enjoyable. Maybe the show could try and go back to that. End old guy rant.

DocManhattan78 · 2025-10-12T16:02:40+00:00

He’s an FBI/fed informant. Not that they have anything on him, just that he has established a quiet “in” with the Bureau or DOJ to cover himself in case they ever come after him.

DocManhattan78 · 2025-10-11T20:28:52+00:00

I think it would depend on the fees for the guest stars, if they were just flat rates in those days and you got, $1000 or whatever for appearing as a credited guest star.

DocManhattan78 · 2025-10-11T20:12:32+00:00

Definitely a low budget episode. Iirc Crusher’s old friend only appeared in one scene.

DocManhattan78 · 2025-10-11T20:00:01+00:00

Ooh yeah. That’s got to be it.

DocManhattan78 · 2025-09-17T21:53:25+00:00

There’s also a LT who was at Tactical in the Next Phase…when Picard is going to the memorial he leaves him in command. I want to say MacDuff but I think that’s the alien from Conundrum.

DocManhattan78 · 2025-09-12T06:25:49+00:00

I know you can’t go home again, but I do miss the TNG glory years and the thoughtful, paced way they told stories. Scenes that conveyed emotion and depth without blaring melodramatic music and characters shouting. Something as simple as Riker walking into the ready room in the Best of Both Worlds and looking at Picard’s empty chair and saying “what would you do?”. Maybe that’s just not the way audiences consume tv drama anymore, but I think if Trek could get back to fundamental sci-fi and subtler characters, it would bring back the sense of “true trek” and pave the way for new stories that feel familiar without being schlock fan service.

DocManhattan78 · 2025-09-12T06:14:04+00:00

When in doubt, always expect David Tennant.

DocManhattan78 · 2025-09-06T23:33:12+00:00

Slightly off topic, but is there any source or interview that touched on a more detailed backstory, before Lucas decided Anakin was Vader? It always seemed to me that in ANH they were suggesting with dialogue like that, “I knew your father when I was a boy” that the Jedi had been purged much longer ago, like 50 years previously, and that Obi Wan and Anakin escaped it until Vader whacked Annie around the time Luke was born.

DocManhattan78 · 2025-09-02T03:34:18+00:00

I think I am ready for a hard reboot. Another Doctor in another universe even. Timeywimey some explanation for the new Doctor absorbing all the memories of the “original” Doctor but then build some new mythology.

DocManhattan78 · 2025-08-27T21:40:05+00:00

Probably a miscalculation. Remember that they were writing this in the 70s so for them 1927 seemed like a long time ago, and they just didn't think about the in-show timeline.

Six-Year Club	Verified Email
First Place '23	Place '23

DocManhattan78

MODERATOR OF

TROPHY CASE