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Quodo in Every Episode discussion: "Battle Lines"
This week we're discussing... episode 1x13 "Battle Lines"!
Episode synopsis: When Sisko, Bashir, and Kira take Kai Opaka on a brief trip to the Gamma Quadrant, they end up crash-landing on a moon that functions as a jail for two factions of people unable to die and at eternal war with each other. Once she realizes she cannot leave the moon without dying, Kai Opaka finds meaning in staying and mending the hearts of people who have for untold years only lived for war and vengeance.
What The Boys are up to in this episode: Odo has two very small scenes: he is present as part of security when Kai Opaka comes aboard DS9, and then later, he is stressing out over the commander's runabout having not returned from the wormhole yet with location unknown and emphasizing how important the kai is to the Bajoran people. Quark doesn't appear. ToT
One screencap from this episode:
Transcript: http://chakoteya.net/DS9/413.htm
Quodo fics tagged with this episode: None (https://archiveofourown.org/works?work_search%5Bsort_column%5D=revised_at&work_search%5Bother_tag_names%5D=Episode%3A+s01e13+Battle+Lines+%28Star+Trek%3A+Deep+Space+Nine%29&work_search%5Bexcluded_tag_names%5D=&work_search%5Bcrossover%5D=&work_search%5Bcomplete%5D=&work_search%5Bwords_from%5D=&work_search%5Bwords_to%5D=&work_search%5Bdate_from%5D=&work_search%5Bdate_to%5D=&work_search%5Bquery%5D=&work_search%5Blanguage_id%5D=&commit=Sort+and+Filter&tag_id=Star+Trek%3A+Deep+Space+Nine)
Tell us:
- What did you think about this episode?
- Have you written a fic set during/after this episode?
- Do you know of any other fics set in or that build off this episode that weren't linked above?
- What do you see as the Quodo potential for this episode?
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Episode synopsis: When Sisko, Bashir, and Kira take Kai Opaka on a brief trip to the Gamma Quadrant, they end up crash-landing on a moon that functions as a jail for two factions of people unable to die and at eternal war with each other. Once she realizes she cannot leave the moon without dying, Kai Opaka finds meaning in staying and mending the hearts of people who have for untold years only lived for war and vengeance.
What The Boys are up to in this episode: Odo has two very small scenes: he is present as part of security when Kai Opaka comes aboard DS9, and then later, he is stressing out over the commander's runabout having not returned from the wormhole yet with location unknown and emphasizing how important the kai is to the Bajoran people. Quark doesn't appear. ToT
One screencap from this episode:
Transcript: http://chakoteya.net/DS9/413.htm
Quodo fics tagged with this episode: None (https://archiveofourown.org/works?work_search%5Bsort_column%5D=revised_at&work_search%5Bother_tag_names%5D=Episode%3A+s01e13+Battle+Lines+%28Star+Trek%3A+Deep+Space+Nine%29&work_search%5Bexcluded_tag_names%5D=&work_search%5Bcrossover%5D=&work_search%5Bcomplete%5D=&work_search%5Bwords_from%5D=&work_search%5Bwords_to%5D=&work_search%5Bdate_from%5D=&work_search%5Bdate_to%5D=&work_search%5Bquery%5D=&work_search%5Blanguage_id%5D=&commit=Sort+and+Filter&tag_id=Star+Trek%3A+Deep+Space+Nine)
Tell us:
- What did you think about this episode?
- Have you written a fic set during/after this episode?
- Do you know of any other fics set in or that build off this episode that weren't linked above?
- What do you see as the Quodo potential for this episode?
Anonymous comments are on, so feel free to chime in even if you don't have a Dreamwidth account! If you prefer, we are also available on Discord:
https://discord.gg/VaCnMYvKu6 (18+ proship Quodo Discord - there is a dedicated channel for this event)
https://discord.gg/Htz4crCdCt (general Quodo Discord)
Event info & rules
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- Wow, I never noticed before that they show a picture of Kira's file here, and she has long hair in it. Anyway, A+ opening scene. Love the change on Kira's face when she hears that Kai Opaka is visiting.
- I also never noticed before how short Opaka is.
- I also love how happy Opaka and Kira look when invited on an impromptu trip through the wormhole. And Bashir inviting himself along. XD
- I always wonder why people don't have seat belts in spaceships. Seems important whenever you lose inertial dampeners, which happens, y'know, every other week.
- Such a good Kira episode. Also: a fairly heavy-handed metaphor for forever-conflict in the Middle East...
- Sisko+Bashir+Kira and Dax+O'Brien are some interesting/unusual combos here. That said, I have to say the Dax+O'Brien technobabble-filled B-plot here is pretty dull. Wish they had done more with those two characters!
- I think this is a pretty good episode for Bashir (maybe his first in the series so far?). He gets a lot to do here, including tackling Sisko to save his life and his analysis of the nanite technology. The brief exchange with Bashir's amused joke about assisting a jailbreak vs. Sisko's exhaustion highlight their different maturity/experience, I think. Once again, this episode (like the first episode, "Emissary") really highlights the difference between Bashir in Social Mode vs. Bashir in Doctor Mode -- in Social Mode, he's easygoing and laidback, a bit silly; in Doctor Mode, he's steely and authoritative. (I think the contrast between these two modes also shows up in "The Wire" and Bashir's interactions with Garak-as-patient vs. Garak-as-friend.)
- "My work is here now, Commander. But your pagh and mine will cross again." ...And then we never heard from her again...
I'm not sure what to think about this one. I really like the moment between Kira and Opaka here, but I kind of think it's a bit of a random way to write Opaka off the show -- on only her second appearance too. But then clearing the way for Kai Winn was a good move in the long run, and I think in general the theme here of Bajor needing to know how to live and move forward is a good/interesting one. So yeah, not sure what to think, to be honest!
Thoughts on Quodo potential:
- A bit tough, but I feel like you could add a Quark scene to the episode. Maybe he meets/has a brief interaction with Opaka (Opaka checks his pagh??), or maybe Odo complains to him about his stress at having lost the kai somehow.
- Or maybe a coda where Quark and Odo are discussing what happened to Opaka, what it means for Bajor, talking to Bashir or Kira about their experiences on the moon, etc.