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The Quickening – Ft. Clay

Bashir and Dax discover a planet where the inhabitants have been punished by the Dominion – they’re cursed with an incurable plague that can strike you dead at any time. Bashir’s Trek-ian optimism is put to the test when he finds that a culture of death may prevent him from ever discovering a cure. It’s an old-fashioned “beam down to a planet and fix a problem” episode, but that’s a tried and true narrative device that worked very well on TNG – will it still work at this point in DS9? Clay joins me to discuss episodes with a slow burn, saving your makeup budget for a single scene, and not being impressed with 24th-century medicine!

Bashir and Dax discover a planet where the inhabitants have been punished by the Dominion – they’re cursed with an incurable plague that can strike you dead at any time. Bashir’s Trek-ian optimism is put to the test when he finds that a culture of death may prevent him from ever discovering a cure. It’s an old-fashioned “beam down to a planet and fix a problem” episode, but that’s a tried and true narrative device that worked very well on TNG – will it still work at this point in DS9? Clay joins me to discuss episodes with a slow burn, saving your makeup budget for a single scene, and not being impressed with 24th-century medicine!

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