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His Way – Ft. Clay

When Bashir shows off his new holosuite creation, a swinging lounge singer with top-notch relationship advice named Vic Fontaine, Odo has his interest piqued. He’s been pining after Kira for years now, but he’s unsure of how to proceed with her. Will this insightful, lightbulb powered hologram be able to provide him with any meaningful advice?

DS9 feeds the ‘shippers with an episode that finally gets Odo and Kira together! It’s also a holodeck adventure, which is fairly unusual for DS9, and it has a light-hearted, charming tone has has Clay absolutely smitten. Put on your finest lounge act record, stir up a martini, and have things “Your Way”!

Plus! Clay and Wes discuss the nonsense of judging a romantic relationship, the schism between backstory and series, and who O’Brien is looking at, but not touching!

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His Way – Ft. Clay

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When Bashir shows off his new holosuite creation, a swinging lounge singer with top-notch relationship advice named Vic Fontaine, Odo has his interest piqued. He’s been pining after Kira for years now, but he’s unsure of how to proceed with her. Will this insightful, lightbulb powered hologram be able to provide him with any meaningful advice?

It’s a divisive issue amongst Trek fans: are Odo and Kira meant to be? And shouldn’t Vegas lounge acts be involved in every single episode of Star Trek going forward? It’s an episode that pushes up against and contradicts the backstory of two characters that we are intimately familiar with, but does so in a way that feels inevitable and essential. 

It might be light on plot, but “His Way” has a kind of juvenile charm that feeds off the chemistry between Visitor and Auberjonois and also signals the incoming end of DS9 as a series. Even if it doesn’t make much sense as a destination, the journey has been worth it.

Of course, we also get to spend some time on the holosuite, which is a place that DS9 has tended to avoid (unlike TNG and VOY). DS9 has its own take on that magical technology and ends up playing a little fast and loose, but it also creates one of the more effective and interesting holo-characters in Vic Fontaine. Sure, his AI potential is frightening, but he can certainly croon some standards!

Wes and Clay discuss the start of Kira and Odo and the approaching end of DS9. Plus! The guys discuss O’Brien looking but not touching, dating the prison warden of the enemy who tried to commit genocide against your people, and Frank Sinatra’s sci-fi concept album!

 

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