Comments on: Retro Review: Blood Oath

By: Kang the Unbalanced

Kang the Unbalanced — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 15:16:00 +0000

I do get tired of the “everybody lives a ridiculously long time” for aliens, and I really don’t think it suits Klingons as a race. However, Klingons of any age are always up for a bloodbath!
Though… ouch, holy retroactive consequences Batman… perhaps the augment virus extended the lives of the generations that were infected. Drat.

By: Kang the Unbalanced

Kang the Unbalanced — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 15:12:00 +0000

I must have been very drunk that day, because I don’t remember this at all.
No really. I don’t remember what sounds like a terrific episode. I’ll have to look this one up and watch it now. {:-D>

By: captain spockVandeb460

captain spockVandeb460 — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 15:17:00 +0000

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By: Plazaarch

Plazaarch — Sun, 08 Jul 2012 04:18:00 +0000

The fact that they got these 3 actors together after all that time us astounding. I’ll take it for what it is worth– which is a gift for fans of TOS.

Not that I don’t love Christopher Plummer, but it is too bad they didn’t get at least one of these guys in any small way in to Star Trek 6

By: Seventhbeacon

Seventhbeacon — Sun, 08 Jul 2012 04:04:00 +0000

One of my favorite and most-watched episodes. I think the drawback of a 45 minute five act story is that much has to be implied and not shown… and the Albino’s elusiveness was one of those elements. It showed a lot of nuance with Kang and Kor’s motivations and how they were played in this, showing more than cookie-cutter Klingon attitudes (much like when Kurn came to Worf later to ask him to help commit suicide). Jadzea’s reliance or reference to Curzon came up quite a bit in the series, and maybe it was a crutch, or maybe it was deliberate on the writers’ parts, to better tie her to Sisko in plotting.

I agree w/ Robert in saying that it was more of a fun love-letter to the fans episode, and under that lens probably could get more of a pass, but your observations are spot on, though they also benefit from the hindsight of having seen the whole series. As a work in progress, I think DS9 was the only series that had very strong early season episodes.

As for pre-augment virus days, that crappy plotline (one of the only ones I didn’t care for from the 4th season of Enterprise, and the weakest of that season after the dreadful Berman and Braga final ep) was many years down the road from even being invented. I much preferred Worf’s non-explanation in Trials and Tribble-ations over a concrete shoehorned plot to explain it.

By: JohnS

JohnS — Sat, 07 Jul 2012 16:40:00 +0000

I think the writer of this article is forgetting the fact that since the Original series took place almost 80 years after the first 5 year mission… this means that Kor Koloth and Kang were more than a century old… let’s see the writer engage in a bloody violent Klingon bloodbath when he’s that age…

By: Zeorangerix

Zeorangerix — Sat, 07 Jul 2012 12:07:00 +0000

The only thing I could criticize the episode for is its contradictory way of treating the relationship of the Dax symbiote with Jadzia… the writers spent an entire episode (“Dax”) arguing in a court of law that Jadzia is an entirely different person from Curzon and the others, yet at every opportunity otherwise SHE makes the decision to allow herself to be held responsible for previous hosts’ debts and oaths. That’s not on Kang, either… he was willing to let her out of it.

Besides that, though, this was a definite highlight of the early seasons. Through this and “Crossover,” the second season really solidified ties with the original series.

By: Robert Clements

Robert Clements — Sat, 07 Jul 2012 10:31:00 +0000

I think you’re a bit tough on this one. Like the legendary Trials & Tribble-ations, Blood Oath is more of a fan film made by DS9 than a real Klingon drama; & while that shows in the story-telling short-cuts it hardly seems to matter

On the other hand, you’re right about Curzon being more real than Jadxia at this point (i’ve always thought that Curzon became one of the most interesting of DS9′s cast of supporting characters in DS9 even though you only see him directly twice); but that’s because the writers were still struggling with the original miscasting of Ms Farrell as the cool, cerebral Trill. They were frantically remaking the character to fit the actress & this episode was an important leap. I love the early exchange with Kira (& its final, unresolved exchange of looks). They remain thrilling to this old Niner, seeing the Old Man & the young woman to swap roles for a bit

By: Bobby

Bobby — Sat, 07 Jul 2012 01:09:00 +0000

Meh, I always enjoyed this episode. It’s not as good as it could be, but Klingons are always fun. It was fun to see the old guard Klingons again, this time as protagonists not antagonists.

The “glorious” battle, once it comes, seems low budget and anticlimactic, but I’m sure that’s just budgetary constraints. The epic scale battles come later (The Way of the Warrior)!

I always liked the Klingon stuff on DS9 – and TNG for that matter.