Antimatter Pod

217. Dad Harder (DS9 6.07)

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Anika and Liz attend a four-day Klingon bachelor party -- where the feats of strength include somehow NOT developing a time machine to go back to 1997 and fight the entire DS9 writers room for Jadzia's honour. 

Yes, our wedding series has brought us to Star Trek: Deep Space 9's "You Are Cordially Invited", and we have ... questions. Concerns. Loud protests. And that's just Anika's cats!

  • Both this and "Data's Day" were written by Ronald D. Moore, and we are trying not to read too much into anything
  • This is an episode about Dax rejecting the Klingon gender binary and being punished and publicly humiliated for it, including by her friends
  • Not a single character is changed by the events of this episode, except Jadzia, who learns an important lesson about tolerating abuse (it's good and she should do it)
  • Complaining that there are no TNG characters at Worf's wedding is a lot more fun than talking about all the ways the script throws Jadzia under the bus … so we do both!
  • Lieutenant Atoa, infidelity and using Polynesian people as props
  • If Odo has this "instinct for justice", why doesn't it apply to facing consequences for his own wrongs?
  • Giving Avery Brooks a line telling Terry Farrell to suck it up and kiss the boots of a racist, xenophobic asshole is … a choice. A REAL choice. 
  • Justice for all the Daxes (except Curzon, who is actually the reason some of the Daxes deserve justice)
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