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   4-2-18

   Keiran MacDuff says:

   1. I like the idea that Julian asks the computer to confirm that, yes, it is time for your alarm to go off. Most of my mornings are like that, although as we later find out there’s good reason for Julian to question it!

   2. “You do what you have to to survive” is not the best things for Julian to say in a briefing where the man doing the questioning is trying to imply you might be collaborating with the enemy.

   3. This believing one thing while doing another sounds like a cool ability, but isn’t it also something you can program? I mean, Geordi la Forge did it in The Mind’s Eye. Did he just happen to have that ability? Seems like this was something specific to Julian’s enhanced brain.

   4. I agreed with Sisko, the march along the promenade was ridiculous. Well, computer Sisko.

   5. Judge, jury and executioner. We actually see it with the guards when they first lock Julian up. They’ve all made up their minds already.

   6. The best bit of writing in this is when it’s suggested that Julian might have sympathy for the Jem’Hadar because they’re genetically modified like he is. That’s why he tries to cure them, seasons before it’s actually written that he himself is genetically modified. Terrific piece of ret-con.

   7. Surprise, fear, confess… I had a good laugh when I realised Sloan was picking things out of the Spanish Inquisition sketch from Monty Python.

   8. This is all very Future Imperfect. None of it is real, it’s all a holodeck, and the focused character figures it out when there’s a mistake in the programming.

   9. Section 31 enters the fray. I find myself wondering if Admiral Marcus was involved in it in the prime timeline. Clearly he never had the same backing like he did after Nero’s attack, and maybe he went under the radar because of that, but I’d love to know what prime Marcus was up to in his time.

   10. So we all sit around discussing how awful it is that Section 31 can go against morals and everything Starfleet stands for… and then follow this episode up with In The Pale Moonlight? Nice.

   I do enjoy this episode, although it does get a little bit silly at times. Bashir was clearly under stress and didn’t pick up on some of those aspects, but it’s not enough to knock this episode for me. It’s a good four out of five. Almost a five, but not quite.

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