Comments on: Retro Review: The Search, Parts One and Two http://www.trektoday.com/content/2012/08/retro-review-the-search-parts-one-and-two/ Daily Star Trek news Fri, 24 May 2013 18:45:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Robert Clements http://www.trektoday.com/content/2012/08/retro-review-the-search-parts-one-and-two/comment-page-1/#comment-7772 Robert Clements Sat, 01 Sep 2012 01:06:00 +0000 http://www.trektoday.com/content/?p=19646#comment-7772 Odd that this show doesn't inspire the response the writers probably expected. The problem with reboots, i guess - they're mreant for people who can't stand the original but want to pretend that they did. ST XII please note For me, the beauty of The search is the Odo/Kira/Founders A story. The B story is obvious, essential & trite Odd that this show doesn’t inspire the response the writers probably expected. The problem with reboots, i guess – they’re mreant for people who can’t stand the original but want to pretend that they did. ST XII please note

For me, the beauty of The search is the Odo/Kira/Founders A story. The B story is obvious, essential & trite

]]> By: Enterprise1981 http://www.trektoday.com/content/2012/08/retro-review-the-search-parts-one-and-two/comment-page-1/#comment-7733 Enterprise1981 Tue, 28 Aug 2012 18:24:00 +0000 http://www.trektoday.com/content/?p=19646#comment-7733 On the issue of the revelation of it all being dream, I'm generally not a big fan since it deflates the whole story (Brian's comments at the end of Family Guy episode "Lois Kills Stewie"). On a practical level, one still sees it coming with all too obvious clues. One is that we never see the outside of the station throughout Part 2. And two, even a government that is willing to pay any price to make peace with the Cardassians would not be foolish enough to appease the Dominion so quickly and easily. Even after all the buildup in "The Jem'Hadar" and "The Search, Part 1", a lot about "The Search, Part 2" just seems to fall flat, especially with branching off into what seems at the start to be a completely unrelated subplot. At least the revelation that Odo's race was the Founders saves it from being a total failure (as some observers have found the resolutions of Trek two-parters disappointing). As usual, though, I enjoy the commentary of these episodes from the point-of-view of someone who has seen the series the whole way through where one can see subtle clues about character development later on down the road from Odo's inner conflicts to Bashir's having been genetically enhanced to how Sisko responds his role as Emissary. On the issue of the revelation of it all being dream, I’m generally not a big fan since it deflates the whole story (Brian’s comments at the end of Family Guy episode “Lois Kills Stewie”). On a practical level, one still sees it coming with all too obvious clues. One is that we never see the outside of the station throughout Part 2. And two, even a government that is willing to pay any price to make peace with the Cardassians would not be foolish enough to appease the Dominion so quickly and easily. Even after all the buildup in “The Jem’Hadar” and “The Search, Part 1″, a lot about “The Search, Part 2″ just seems to fall flat, especially with branching off into what seems at the start to be a completely unrelated subplot. At least the revelation that Odo’s race was the Founders saves it from being a total failure (as some observers have found the resolutions of Trek two-parters disappointing).

As usual, though, I enjoy the commentary of these episodes from the point-of-view of someone who has seen the series the whole way through where one can see subtle clues about character development later on down the road from Odo’s inner conflicts to Bashir’s having been genetically enhanced to how Sisko responds his role as Emissary.

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