Season 6 Episode 3 Sons and Daughters

Oh, were there Klingons in that episode? I didn’t notice. (Sorry, guys; Worf & Alexander et al just don’t do it for me. If it pleases you, I tumbled through all of those scenes.)

Ziyal’s makeup was about 5000% better in this episode. The slightly stronger facial ridges and the more greyish cast to her skin make her work better for me.

I like Dukat a lot better when he’s being a horrible creeper than when he’s just generally being a horrible person. He and Kira are great to watch when he’s toying with her. When he’s being a sweet ickle woobie who wuvs her, he makes me physically ill. He never really sees Kira. He sees imaginary Kira seeing him. It throws him when real Kira disrupts the fantasy. And even then, he’s not too bothered about it. Eeeyuuuuurgh.

I mean, Jesus, he makes her meet him at the airlock every time he comes back to the station, and then he sends her a dress, and then he plays the Ziyal card, and then when she says she never wants to see him again he says, “Major, that’s simply not true!”

FULL. BODY. SHUDDER.

Dukat, you were kind of hot back in season 4, but I think I just might be done with you.

(Well done, Marc Alaimo! More more more!)

And Kira is looking thinner and thinner and is wearing less and less makeup and she’s giving me worrying Resistance flashbacks.

Also enjoyed Odo and Kira closing Jake out completely, and even Quark saying in a kind of fatherly way that Jake really does not want to get involved in this. They care about him, not just because he’s Sisko’s son, but because they’ve watched him grow up, and he’s family. It’s nice to see.

Bashir & O'Brien bitching about gagh was cute too.

Where was Garak? (I always wonder!) Also, an aside - is it not kind of weird that Garak even came along? I mean, he got on to the Defiant because he begged, basically, and Sisko is not enough of an asshole to leave him on a station that is about to be taken over by his worst enemy. But then, what you do with the Cardassian spy is, you leave him on a Starbase where he can be watched. You don’t give him a comm badge and take him on a secret mission in a Jem'Hadar ship because he “might be useful”! How the hell did Sisko get clearance for that? And hasn’t he already tried to jump ship back to Cardassia twice during DS9? I mean, I love him, I’ll watch him do anything, but it doesn’t make any sense! He Is Not Trustworthy!

So, you know, your thoughts?