True Heroes

Ray’s Take on Season 2, Episode 1: “The Homecoming” 

This episode kicks off a three part arc, which I think is pretty ambitious. 

“Every once in a while, declare peace. It confuses the hell out of your enemies.” And, Quark is always quite the ladies man.

I’m not so sure that I would follow Sisko’s dating advice. 

The Circle graffiti reminds me of the Yellow Sign. Hail, Hastur!¹

Kira plays quite the saucy wench. I almost feel bad for the Cardassian.

Gul Dukat is always such a likeable snake.

For once a patient doesn’t die under Bashir.

Poor Quark. “Will there be a scar?” Ferengi vanity at its finest.

Li Nalas doesn’t want to be a leader. True heroes rarely set out to be heroes. The actual way that he defeated the Cardassian is awesome. Goes to show how things get blown out of proportion in the retelling. 

The freighter captain is Leslie Bevis who had a role in the movie Spaceballs.

Frank Langella always lends a certain elegant menace to whatever role he portrays. He asked to go uncredited, saying that he didn’t want fame or exposure but was appearing in the show as a gift to his children. The man has class.

¹ H. P. Lovecraft and many of his imitators were great admirers of Robert W. Chambers’ book The King in Yellow and incorporated many of his characters and symbols into their own works. In the latter-day Cthulhu Mythos, developed by August Derleth and other Lovecraft imitators, the Yellow Sign is the sign of the deity Hastur the Unspeakable and is used by members of his cult to identify one another.

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