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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Sanctuary (1993)
What a horrible episode
Wow - I am a HUGE Star Trek fan - but this may be the worst episode of Star Trek EVER. The writing is terrible, and the story makes no sense. First, there is some stupid thing with a new musician in Quark's bar that really has no purpose and goes nowhere. Then, the Skrreans show up from a planet in the Gamma Quadrant. At first, the universal translator won't work with the Skrrean language, but then suddenly starts working like magic. It has no reason to even be in the episode except to try and be funny? I guess? But it isn't. After the UT starts magicaly working, the Skrreans ask for help in finding a new home because they have been forced to leave their planet by oppressors and invaders. The people on DS9 of course sympathize with the Skrreans and are very welcoming and compassionate and offer to let thousands of the Skrreans stay on DS9 while they help them find a new home (Quark and his nephew are jerks to them but what else is new? They are always jerks! :P). The DS9 crew finds them a new uninhabited planet, but the Skrreans decide they don't want the new uninhabited planet the DS9 crew found for them, they want to be given land on Bajor. When the Bajoran Provisional Government refuses, for the very logical reason that their planet isn't in good enough condition to support 3 million more people - the Skrreans act like ungrateful jerks - as if DS9 HADN'T just dropped everything to help them and that the Bajorans WEREN'T actually looking out for the Skrreans' well-being as well as their own. If I was supposed to be feeling sympathetic to the Skrreans, then the writing didn't do its job, because they pretty much seemed like invaders trying to be the 2nd coming of the Cardassians on Bajor (or something like Europeans to the Americas). Imagine some stranger coming to your house, you offer them food and shelter for a few days, and are perfectly kind and hospitable to them; but then they suddenly demand to be allowed to have half of your house. When you say, "I'm sorry, but that's just not possible," they suddenly act like you are a selfish, greedy, paranoid, uncaring oppressor. Wtf? This episode just did not make sense; the only way it makes sense is if the viewer is supposed to not like the Skrreans; but so many things seem to indicate that you are supposed to sympathize with them. I will just try to forget this episode exists; just like I try to pretend the Kazon and Seska in Voyager don't exist!!
Star Trek: Voyager: Muse (2000)
Underrated episode
This episode is underrated! It is funny and entertaining, while also being clever and resolved. It has serious undertones, showing how inspiring Star Trek really is, and the good messages it inspires, but within a simulacrum that is so ridiculous it's hilarious.