I wasn’t sure if I’d watched this one or not… checked the comments, there I am…
I actually got a comment read out on one of Steve’s videos recently, and it was O’Brien related!
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“An alien coworker is acting as a surrogate mother for our baby” or “our marriage is being tested because one of us has been replaced by a replicant” sure sounds like domestic drama crossed with SF adventure to me.
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I think he invoked her as an excuse to get out of space adventures that he wasn’t really interested in doing anyway. Like when he helped that Tosk guy escape his pursuers (who were hunting him for sport) and said “yeah, I’d totally love to join you in your life as hunted prey but you know, the wife wouldn’t approve…”
I guess the costuming team was all out of lab coats?
(Not that I’m criticizing that choice in plots. It was creative, and maybe it helped destigmatize surrogacy for couples that need it?)
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I meant more specifically the longer term plot of the O’Briens moving to DS9 for Miles’ career and it leaves Keiko in a rut because there’s little call for an exo-botanist, but fair point.
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Which is why they gave her a whole new personal story arc about becoming a teacher. They even raised the stakes and tied in contemporary social issues by having her curriculum challenged by religious fundamentalists.
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She became a teacher in one episode and was only seen teaching in one other episode though. That’s what I mean by the ongoing domestic drama part of it, it was a small part of a couple of episodes. And as Steve Shives notes in the video Mindy posted, Keiko disappears from In The Hands of the Prophets after the school is bombed - it’s not even a story about her.
Sadly the solution to Keiko’s problems with living on DS9 became shipping her off for long periods of time so she could be a botanist elsewhere, or be evacuated from the station when there was danger and they didn’t have to explain why Rosalind Chao wasn’t around for half the series.
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Not directly Star Trek, but Jonathan Del Arco (Hugh) was recently on the Pod Meets World podcast. He only briefly talked about his time on Star Trek but he also discussed acting in the 90’s as well as his political, environmental, and gay rights activism.
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I remember watching him on The Closer (he had a recurring role as the ME, IIRC) and it took me a few episodes before I had that “ah ha” moment when I finally realized that he was Hugh!
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Tempting.
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As Q said in the end, it was more like a fondness a human has for a beloved dog. One last reminder that classic Trek was about humans being unimaginably more powerful than today, but still mere ants in comparison to oh so many others in the universe.
You know, a lot of Trek is really along the same lines as Lovecraft’s mythos, only the protagonists don’t go mad when they discover they aren’t the pinnacle of creation. Because they aren’t bigots. I personally would be tickled to learn that Q was just short for Cthulhu.
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He doesn’t look anything like a tea cup.
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We need Picard singing the I’m a little teapot song.
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speaking of Master Replicas, does everyone know they have a plush Badgey and Moopsy shipping next month?
I just got paid and the urge to order them is huge
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do want…
They also have this!
And this!
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