STAR TREK DS9 Paradise + Shadowplay | 2×15 and 2×16 REACTION | FIRST TIME WATCHING!!

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• WATCH UP TO "THE WIRE" ON PATREON NOW!!!!!

• Sisko is the best dad <3

• Hi bro! Pls also watch 3 Idiots of Amir khan. I'm 100 percent sure you love it, just as you like taare zameen per also by actor Amir Khan.

• I'm not sure who told you that you need background information on the Maquis (pronounced "Mah-Kee"), but they were introduced on DS9… so you don't need to know anything in advance.

• Mar-key, not m'quees. Also, advice, leave Pre-emptive Strike until after The Maquis two-parter, since it is set after and forms a kind of fourth part in that story, with Journeys' End as the first part. 🙂

• If you want to watch about the maquis then watch Star Trek Voyager

• Mah-KEY not mawkweez – The Maquis (French pronunciation: [maˈki]) were rural guerrilla bands of French and Belgian Resistance fighters, called maquisards, during the German military administration in occupied France during World War II.

• Now I want to see a Star Trek crossover Poker game. Sico, Riker, others

• I play Star Trek Online every day. I've made 11 different Captains in it, with their own crews to go on adventures with. One mental exercise I will sometimes do is to place my main Captain, a human female tactical officer, in scenarios encountered by Captains from the series, and just wonder how she would have handled these situations. I don't do it for every episode, and I don't write fanfics about it. It's just something I mull over in my head. When it comes to Paradise, I realized that she would have gotten violent with the cult leader, at the mere suggestion of the hot box. It helps that she always carries a sword, and has killed Borg assimilate Gorn with it. It would not have ended well for anyone who supported the cult leader.

  Also, assuming things did not end in bloodshed, she still would've arrested the cult leader, then taken the rest of the town back as well, saying she would need to call them as witnesses to testify against the cult leader. Get them out of there to allow for some deprogramming. If they wanted to return later, she couldn't stop them, but she tried.

• I really like the concept of Paradise.

• Julia Nickson… Yummy.

• One thing of note about O'Brien's talk with Jake about how he was "supposed" to be a chello player- in TNG's "The Ensigns Of Command" we see O'Brien playing chello in Data's four piece orchestra (Data rocking the violin, naturally).
  It was a great callback. I guess he didn't have time for it on the station…
  Not with what's to come…bwHAHAHAHA!

• Nobody say it…

• I forgot Kenneth Mars was in this episode!

• If Israel was a person, it would be Alixus.

• Ladies are after that shapeshiftin’ D

• For your next movie reactions can you react to Trapped in paradise from 94 and Set It Off from 96.

• Ollie, i applaud your willingness to not edit out the parts of these reactions where you say, 'Mahkweeeezz.' I know that by the time you upload these videos, you already realized the mispronunciation, and you could have edited those bits out. But you chose not to, and i love your lack of egotism. I'm just excited to see the videos when you say, "Oops." Anyway, love seeing your joy, and looking forward to the next video.

• Oh lord…the best, most moving scene in the 'Paradise' episode, and it went right over Ollie's head. "Why is he getting back in the box?" Maybe older generations understand the idea better, but it's about defiance. It's Sisko saying, "I will not change," and by choosing to go back in the box, in front of the entire community, he is showing his defiance to the cult leader, at extreme cost and sacrifice. One of my favorite moments in all of DS9.

• The 'makweez'? And yer Canadian! Anyway, love rewatching DS9 with you!

• I love that you have chosen DS9 to react to. It's so old and compared to TNG and TOS and the new stuff it is very overlooked in modern circles. You are the only person making reaction posts to DS9 that are consistent and of a good quality.

• The cage box in the sun thing is directly taken from The Bridge over the River Kwaï, if you haven't seen this movie, YOU MUST watch it. It's an old time classic.
  That female leader cannot rule by force, for obvious reasons, so she rules by manipulation and fear.
  Shadowplay is one of my favorites of this season.

• We all wanted to kick Alixus's ass, plus they must've needed Sisko's codes because in "Armageddon Game" they were able to remote pilot another runabout, "Shadowplay" was a complex episode, the two subplots are followed up material, (and I can imagine a young O'Brien taking a bus into Dublin city, walking across O'Connell street and going into the Starfleet recruitment office near St Stephen's green)

• What if in reality, we are all living as in shadow play, at some point, whoever or whatever created our world could turn it off, or if it falters, the hands and tools of the cosmos step it to do maintenance, without us every knowing? Hmmm, kind of reminds me of matrix style concepts before the movie matrix came out. I've accepted a long time ago that I might not exist and that's ok. LOL Good reaction!

• The little girl in Shadowplay was also an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation where I cannot remember the exact title of the episode but it had an alien that came in and became her imaginary friend Isabella in body

• Star Trek has the best dad in the universe, Sisko, and also the worst dad in the universe, Worf.
  Well there is a worse dad, but you haven't seen the episodes in question. Keep watching ds9 😅

• Ollie: "Every duo is amazing!"
  It's interesting how the 1990s used ensemble casts in such a way that multiple narratives could be split between different duos and trios to develop the relationship dynamic as well as fleshing out each character's more complex attributes over the arc of a long-running series. The sitcom FRIENDS was notable for their mastery of ensemble cast dynamic as well, and ran concurrently with DS9, but honestly TNG had already been successful with pairing up main characters in a similar manner for years prior. The writing technique wasn't necessarily the novel aspect, rather the skillfulness and success in applying it to deepen characters' relationships and characteristics was.

• The one thing I find hard to believe is that Sisko would willingly go into that prison box. Without even attempting to argue against it. The message of the episode is morally reprehensible too.

• Paradise has the most implausible and irritating ending of any DS9 episode. The colonists didn't behave like real people would in that situation and the villain is a massive murderous hypocrite.

  They should've taken the colonists and left her behind to enjoy her utopia.

• Continuity & Production Errors
  
  (Unfortunaly, none of this week's errors can be seen in this edit)

  PARADISE (IMDb Rating 6.5)
  
  When Sisko is released from the box, he asks how long he was in there. The respose is "Since yesterday" but the close-captioning reads "Since this morning".
  
  When Alixus offers Sisko water, she says, "Once you've changed, you can have this water", and the close-captioning adds: "..and when you drink, everyone will be allowed to drink."
  
  Apparantly, Alixus was punishing everyone for Sisko's failure to conform.

  SHADOWPLAY (IMDb Rating 7.0)
  
  Normally Dax operates the sensing device with both hands, but she switches to one hand just in time for that cool effect where it dissolves.

• Paradise is one of the most frustrating episodes for me, where the villain gets no real comeuppance for their crimes.

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