http://www.trektoday.com/content/2011/11/retro-review-babel/ Daily Star Trek news Sun, 19 May 2013 05:40:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://www.trektoday.com/content/2011/11/retro-review-babel/comment-page-1/#comment-690 Roy Frank Tottie Sun, 06 Nov 2011 23:01:00 +0000 http://www.trektoday.com/content/?p=13284#comment-690 One of the things that I like about Babel is that while in some ways it's not quite a fully formed DS9 episode, it cannot I feel be dismissed as nothing more than a TNG redress, thanks to the fact that the main problem doesn't merely come out of the blue from the aliens of the week, but rather is caused in part by what has taken place in the past with the stations history. As a result it makes even a weaker story (and I'd put the weakest of DS9 stories against many of the stronger ones of other Treks) feel much more grounded and plausible. One of the things that I like about Babel is that while in some ways it’s not quite a fully formed DS9 episode, it cannot I feel be dismissed as nothing more than a TNG redress, thanks to the fact that the main problem doesn’t merely come out of the blue from the aliens of the week, but rather is caused in part by what has taken place in the past with the stations history. As a result it makes even a weaker story (and I’d put the weakest of DS9 stories against many of the stronger ones of other Treks) feel much more grounded and plausible.

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