Strange to have two lighthearted comedy episodes (this one is more like a screwball comedy) almost in a row. That's perhaps bad scheduling but I don't mind. Most lighter DS9 episodes are quite entertaining.
Like this one. This is not the most elaborate plot. It's not even the most hilarious one. There's not much of a serious philosophical core to it. But it's very entertaining and really humanizes (if that's the right term given that many of them are not humans) these people like in no other show of the franchise. Take Dax for example: her quips, her liveliness, her banter, her youth, her joy really comes to life in this episode (and since, it's a re-watch that makes me sad since we all know how it will end).
Plus, of course, it's great because it's about Morn. Morn has a special place in my heart. I'm just like his friends who attend his "remembrance/farewell party". The great thing about him is that all he does and all what he seems to be is totally hidden from the audience. We never saw him being loquacious. We never saw Dax having a crush on him. We never saw him rejecting Dax. That's all hearsay to us. We learn even more: he's a lover, husband, a ladies' man, a thief, wealthy man, con-artist and whatnot. Luckily, some didn't know either and that's part of the fun: Quark and the others are just as surprised about some details as we are. And quite honest, it's the most entertaining thought, to imagine how Morn did all this. And that's the magic: we don't need to watch him being loquacious, an excellent companion, how exactly he looks under this puffy vest or - as matter of fact - how he became a thief. It's much more fun to imagine all this. Likewise, this episode is about him but he's only a couple of seconds in this episode. Not all the fun is imaginary though: the guy Quark placed on Morn's bar stool is actually Morn himself. That is that counter-intuitive to all what I said before about Morn's qualities and how this episode is structured, that most wouldn't even notice.
PS: still don't understand whether there's a connection TOS's Who Mourns for Adonais? or whether the titles are just a coincidence.
Review by Alexander von LimbergBlockedParent2023-09-27T16:36:08Z
Strange to have two lighthearted comedy episodes (this one is more like a screwball comedy) almost in a row. That's perhaps bad scheduling but I don't mind. Most lighter DS9 episodes are quite entertaining.
Like this one. This is not the most elaborate plot. It's not even the most hilarious one. There's not much of a serious philosophical core to it. But it's very entertaining and really humanizes (if that's the right term given that many of them are not humans) these people like in no other show of the franchise. Take Dax for example: her quips, her liveliness, her banter, her youth, her joy really comes to life in this episode (and since, it's a re-watch that makes me sad since we all know how it will end).
Plus, of course, it's great because it's about Morn. Morn has a special place in my heart. I'm just like his friends who attend his "remembrance/farewell party". The great thing about him is that all he does and all what he seems to be is totally hidden from the audience. We never saw him being loquacious. We never saw Dax having a crush on him. We never saw him rejecting Dax. That's all hearsay to us. We learn even more: he's a lover, husband, a ladies' man, a thief, wealthy man, con-artist and whatnot. Luckily, some didn't know either and that's part of the fun: Quark and the others are just as surprised about some details as we are. And quite honest, it's the most entertaining thought, to imagine how Morn did all this. And that's the magic: we don't need to watch him being loquacious, an excellent companion, how exactly he looks under this puffy vest or - as matter of fact - how he became a thief. It's much more fun to imagine all this. Likewise, this episode is about him but he's only a couple of seconds in this episode. Not all the fun is imaginary though: the guy Quark placed on Morn's bar stool is actually Morn himself. That is that counter-intuitive to all what I said before about Morn's qualities and how this episode is structured, that most wouldn't even notice.
PS: still don't understand whether there's a connection TOS's Who Mourns for Adonais? or whether the titles are just a coincidence.