STAR TREK DS9 The Assignment + Trials and Tribble-ations 5x5/5x6 REACTION | FIRST TIME WATCHING!!

[@RolyPolyOllieReactions]

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[@miller-joel]

Think about how awesome Trials and Tribble-ations is. Now understand it lost the Hugo to B5's Severed Dreams. So did TNG's movie First Contact.

[@tomtortolani8082]

@RolyPolyOllieReactions Sisko mentioned Kirk's fight with the Gorn. Now you need to react to TOS "Arena" to see what he meant.

[@filigrant]

You should watch season 4 of Enterprise if you want to know why there are ridgeles KLINGONS

[@adamsnavely4193]

Armin Shimerman came in that day. Went through makeup to put on his Ferengi loaf. All to wear a tribble as a hat.

[@TomGallagherSuperboyBeyond]

And i bet he didn't complain once. Absolute professional, that man.

[@InterdimensionalCowlick]

I love that Dax's role in this film is just one of us, a Star Trek fan. She spends the whole episode nerdgasming over Spock, Bones, Koloth, the uniforms, the tricorder.

[@platinumspider7859]

And she looks great in the original uniform.

[@KJAkk]

@@platinumspider7859 I wish she had been in a blue uniform. I recall reading that they went with red due to an issue with the blue fabric though I am not sure of the details.

[@spiderwayful]

@@KJAkk I’ve not researched this and I’m not a technical expert on 90’s CGI, but I’d imagine they would’ve used some sort of blue screen technology for the bridge and corridor scenes. That could be a reason why they red instead of blue.

[@michaelfinlay6341]

Dax got down with Bones

[@darthroden]

Fun fact: at 40:22 that middle-aged redshirt Lieutenant picking up the tribble is none other than David Gerrold, Hugo Award winning author and the writer of the original Star Trek episode "The Trouble With Tribbles" doing a cameo. Also the Tribble he picks up is one he brought to the set, one of the remaining original Tribbles made for the episode in 1967.

[@crownprincesebastianjohano7069]

There is an interesting interview on KZbin where Gerrold talks about getting the cameo for this episode. Gerrold and Roddenberry fell out hard after TNG Season 1 over Gene stiffing him on fees (as usual) over something as well as the blood with Leonard Mazlisch (see Chaos on the Bridge documentary). So for the next number of years Gene had bad-mouthed Gerrold and Rick Berman took those statements to heart. Indeed, for years into the 2010s, many TNG staffers believed Gerrold had made stuff up about the behavior of Gene and his attorney Mazlisch. Years later in 1996, Gerrold became aware that DS9 was doing a tribble episode and called Berman wanting to have a cameo in the episode. Berman puts him off for a while, but eventually speaks to him, and bluntly asks "What do you want, David?" expecting Gerrold to demand money or something. Gerrold says, "just a cameo" and Berman relents gracefully, later apologizing for the cold-shoulder for years.

[@darthroden]

@@crownprincesebastianjohano7069 Originally, Gerrold wrote himself a part in the episode (Lt. Freedman) but he didn't get cast because he was too skinny at the time, so the role went to William Shatner's stuntman. 30 years later, he gets the cameo he finally wanted and got to wear the Red Shirt.

[@Calzaki]

Dulmur and Lucsly from the Department of Temporal Investigations... Their names are anagrams for Mulder and Scully from X-files 😂

[@THOMMGB]

*Dulmer*

[@Calzaki]

@@THOMMGB someone needs to correct Memory Alpha. I know your right, I thought I was right (the same spelling you gave). I went to Google to double check I got it right but the star trek wiki still lied to me!

[@waltergilpinjr9041]

I spit out my coffee laughing at the moment the Enterprise showed up "No, what....no, what....no, what"

[@BadFremen]

I haven't seen anyone mention this fun tidbit yet: the officer whom O'Brien mistakes for Kirk was actually played by Kirk's stunt double. :)

[@sarcasticstartrek7719]

Other thing to notice/spot - they change the film they use. When they're onboard K7 or the Enterprise, they used film stock from the 60s - it "looks" like it's old because the film stock was the same they used on TOS (30 years old at the time of making this episode). When they're on the Defiant and DS9, they use the 90s 35mm film - and you can tell the difference. That's why it "it even looks like it's from back then" - in a way, it IS from back then.

[@jasonfabrick9308]

A great 30th Anniversary tribute. To quote Adam Savage "I'm going to need a grin-ectomy."

[@marydodsonmt]

When they edited this episode for syndication, they cut out Dax's line about how McCoy had the hands of a surgeon. It was tragic.

[@sarcasticstartrek7719]

The compositing in this episode is outstanding. Whilst there's a couple of matte lines here and there, for a 90s TV show it's better than some stuff today. Not out of technique as such, just they put in SOOOOO much effort for this episode.

[@ThiloAdamitz]

I love the Enterprise-model Greg Jein built for this episode. I think it looks even better than the original 11-foot- model.

[@meropetied]

The Assignment was one of the best episodes of early season five, perhaps especially because it's so focused on characters and how Rom and Miles experience it all. But the Pah Wraiths are introduced! And Rosalind Chao plays evil amazingly.

[@jesahnorrin]

She was chillingly brilliant!

[@patsk8872]

She just amplified her already evil character 🤣

[@williamjackson6705]

The Assignment gave Rosalind Chao a chance to show how great an actress she is. Trials & Tribble-ations was pure perfection.

[@silikon2]

Chao was very good in The Assignment but overall the episode was a weaker torture O'Brien episode.

[@karter95]

During the filming Walter Koenig visited the set and showed Colm Meany how to open the communicator

[@davidgorman994]

The most unrealistic part of Trouble with Tribbles is Dax being on the bridge of the Enterprise and Kirk not talking to her :) It's such a great episode and there's something about DS9, the "odd one out" of the series at the time, delivering the best anniversary episode.

[@fakecubed]

Kirk wasn't as lady-obsessed as his public perception of him is.

[@rogerschneider5971]

Kirk avoided fraternizing with his female crew. There's an episode where he complains of tension in his back, and then his female Yeoman starts to rub his back, and he thinks it's Spock doing it, and the moment he realizes it's her, he freezes and says, "that'll be all."

[@richardb6260]

"Some kind of genetic engineering?" "A viral mutation?" Yes.

[@Calzaki]

"We don't talk about it with outsiders... Because it happened in Enterprise and no-one wants to talk about Enterprise even if season 4 was a step up in quality. It was too little too late. And the finale... " "OK Worf forget we asked"

[@EvanG529]

No spoilers!

[@richardb6260]

@@Calzaki Enterprise was infinitely better than Discovery and often better than Voyager. There were some great episodes in the first two seasons, the third season was good, and the fourth season was great. The worst Enterprise ever got was that terrible series finale written by Brannon Braga. I'll take Enterprise over JJ Trek and Kurtzman Trek any day.

[@JusticeGamingChannel]

@@Calzaki Re-watch it, it's not a bad series, not as bad as we all thought back then at first watch, it's in a whole different league compared to Discovery, for example, Enterprise at least feels Star Trek.

[@Emburbujada]

@@richardb6260 Anything is better than Discovery

[@jonm3427]

This might be my favorite Keiko heavy episode. I especially like how O'Brian went from thinking she's roleplaying to realizing she's under alien control in a matter of moments. There's a comic called New Visions that actually covers The Great Tribble Hunt, entirely from the Klingons perspective. Although Enterprise did give the story of the difference between Worf and the TOS Klingons in 2005, there were some very entertaining fan theories back then that were much better than what Enterprise gave us. My favorite was supposedly an abandoned plot point from Phase 2 that would have explained that Klingon wasn't the name of a species, but the Empire. It was a caste system that was mostly segregated by species. The TOS Klingons were the tech and science experts. The TNG Klingons were the warrior caste. The existence of the clergy caste, had that been the real backstory, would have even prevented issues with the appearance of the season 1 Discovery Klingons. TNG Klingons are definitely my favorite. "End the war" Would you think I was giving a spoiler or making a joke if I was to claim that Starfleet used that incident to genetically engineer predator tribbles exactly for that reason?

[@plainsimpledav946]

14:51 - This was one of my favorite Rom moments. "For the first 40 minutes it was like pulling teeth to getting him to admit his name."

[@cleekmaker00]

A couple things about "Tribbleations"... this Episode was made to commemorate Trek's 30th Anniversary; at first, DS9's Producer Ira Stephen Behr didn't want to do one but was persuaded to by Executive Producer Rick Berman. Behr wanted to revisit " Charlie X", but couldn't because the Actor who played Charlie Evans had quit acting. They then thought of planet in "A Piece Of The Action" but nixed the idea. They settled on "Tribbles" when the SFX Coordinator did a seamless insert of a Crewman into a clip of "Tribbles" that wasn't in the original Episode, ála "Forrest Gump", and a serendipitous encounter with the Actor who played Arne Darvin in a Los Angeles pizza parlor. " Tribbleations " also answered the question as to why assorted Tribbles were spontaneously falling down and hitting Captain Kirk; Dax and Sisko were throwing them looking for the 'Tribble Bomb' Darvin planted in the storage compartment holding the Grain.

[@shuboy05]

Ron Moore's idea for the "A Piece of the Action" sequel was having the Iotians now imitating Kirk and the Enterprise crew. As in they had become LITERAL Trekkies. There is a Star Trek TNG comic that used that idea but I wish DS9 could have tried it too (and do the Tribble episode as well). Granted they would have the chance of making the episode too goofy.

[@michealoceallaigh4716]

Check out TNG S5E15 "Power Play" for another example of possession, plus I would imagine the Gabriel Bell incident was the reason Sisko was wary of Temporal Investigations

[@CaptainJZH]

Best part of that last scene with Kirk & Sisko is that it's actually taken from episode "Mirror, Mirror" when they're seeing the prime universe version of someone they met in the mirror universe, and Uhura was there for that so that's why she's staring in that direction. But in this, she's staring at Sisko which means she's probably thinking "oooh who's that sexy black man I've never seen before"

[@otakuwolf4ever985]

"I was mistaken to say that the Enterprise should be hauling garbage. I meant to say that it should be hauled away AS GARBAGE." Me: (Cracks knuckles.) Oh no he didn't.

[@chrisfraser5088]

2 great episodes! Trials and Tribble-ations is such a great love letter for the fans. Watching this live back in the day was epic! Seeing Julian and Miles standing in that line up with Kirk absolutely destroyed my teenage brain 😂

[@YooTubeSlave]

6 Enterprises. I've never known whether he was pointing out that Kirk had two or that Enterprise-E was being commissioned.

[@gordieparenteau6555]

The episode takes place in 2372, around the time that the E was undergoing her space trials.

[@zvimur]

FYI, the lines Kirk spoke to Sisko were borrowed from "Mirror, mirror", Kirk meeting Federation Marleena.

[@sarcasticstartrek7719]

T&T was DS9's Trek's 30th Anniversay episode. Voyager's one is called "Flashback" which also deals with TOS characters but during the movie period (and features some of the actors).

[@Calzaki]

And was just worse, more about the Voyager characters than any celebration... Plus it ended with one of Janeways high and mighty speeches where she talked down the entire original series way of doing things

[@LMoftheCoast]

I love the background information about these two episodes. Both series wanted to celebrate the 30th anniversary with a callback to previous Trek, and the production teams had a very friendly rivalry going on, especially for the anniversary. Both productions pretty much went into lockdown as they produced their anniversary episodes, with only the top brass knowing what was going on with either show. Once completed they aired both episodes together for both teams, and after watching them the Voyager team shrugged their shoulders, and pretty much went “well, we lost this one fair and square.” And congratulated the DS9 team on their incredible work.

[@jawbone78]

Specifically, the events in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country aboard Sulu's Excelsior.

[@Calzaki]

@@LMoftheCoast could say the same about all seven seasons

[@hippusmaximus9319]

George Takei (Sulu) was not in the original TOS episode because he was filming "The Green Berets" which ran over schedule. The DS9 episode coincided with the 30th anniversary of Trek.

[@TerenceLight]

I love how, to make up for his absence here, Sulu played a main role in Voyager’s own anniversary episode, “Flashback.”

[@fakecubed]

If you want to know what happened with the Klingons, you'll have to keep watching more Star Trek, in release order. Eventually, you will get your answers. Whether or not they satisfy, up to you to decide. Personally, I liked how DS9 addressed it and then still kept it a mystery, but a later series does explain it fully.

[@majkus]

And the non-explanation included theories that were floating around the fandom at the time. Genetic engineering? Some kind of viral mutation? "We do not discuss it with outsiders." Keeping it a mystery was a funny gag, and honestly, this wasn't the place for a serious explanation. Brilliant.

[@exhistoriascientia]

When Bashir finds the tribble and O'Brien says, "He's not alone" we see a shot of the hallway with tribbles all over it. The officer bending down to pet the tribbles is played by David Gerrold, the author of "The Trouble with Tribbles".

[@darthroden]

Also the Tribble he was holding was one of the original surviving Tribbles made for the episode back in 1967. Gerrold brought it from home (he kept about a dozen of them and once gave one to a Children's Hospital in Los Angeles).

[@stevesalyer6261]

I watched your face more than I watched the episode during the Tribble episode. The utter JOY on your face made the reaction AMAZING! When you first saw the Enterprise, the excitement on your face was soooooooooooooooooooo great!

[@hyzenthlay7151]

When T&T came out it was just mouthdropping magic to see. They used the same tech to include the DS9 cast in the origina as was used in Forrest Gump, so it was just next tier technology back then, and it's great to see it still holds up pretty well. Such a fun episode and a must on any Star Trek top ten.

[@jeanettecarnell8933]

You find out why the klingons look so different in Star Trek Enterprise's episodes The Augments. When they Bashir and O'Brian) first look down the hall at the Tribbles,David Gerrold (writer of the original episode) is down looking at a Tribble.

[@djco5782]

44:15 Sisko on his knees before Kirk, since they had to put Avery Brooks at Barbara Luna's height to match the "Mirror, Mirror" footage.

[@italianviking80]

38:20 In Season 4 of Enterprise, a two-part episode explains Klingon's change in appearance.

[@HalHawkins]

There is a "Short Treks" episode that deals with tribbles as well. The name of it was something like "The Trouble With Edward" or something very similar. Edit: There is also an episode of Star Trek Enterprise that deals with the appearance of the Klingons in TOS.

[@ddiamondr1]

Walter Koenig was on the set of this DS nine episode. And one of the actors, I can’t remember who, was having trouble getting the communicator to stay open when he flipped it open. So Walter walked into the shot saying let me help you with that and flipped it open and of course it stayed lol. Walter later said he was praying it would work. Lol. your excitement is absolutely understandable. I think we all felt the same way seeing this. It was just fantastic.

[@stefanfeyle1096]

T&T was one of the 30th anniversary episodes of Star Trek. And they went to great lengths to make it work. Combining new footage with old ones and letting people from both footages interact with each other was up until then only done in feature films like Forrest Gump.

[@josephbrown6906]

How Cyrano Jones ŵas able to pick up all the tribbles is shown in the Star Trek: The Animated Series episode "More Tribbles, More Trouble".

[@JanetDax]

Keiko: Miles, remember the time you were possessed on the Enterprise? Now it's my turn. Miles: Possessed? You seem perfectly normal.

[@pigs18]

If I'm not mistaken, the actress that gets on the turbolift with O'Brien and Bashir is the same woman who offered Picard jamaharon on Risa.

[@Nomadic-canadian]

Enterprise E is the 6th enterprise.

[@jpwphoenix1701]

The first episode’s kind of a reversal of the TNG episode “Power Play”, as Miles was possessed by an energy being and threatening Keiko that time. Also, Rom doesn’t work for Starfleet, he works for Bajoran engineering (hence the different uniform). For the second episode, the correction about there being 6 Enterprises now was referring to the new Enterprise-E now being in service. The movie “Star Trek First Contact” was about to come out shortly after this episode transmitted. Also, the compositing’s so good looking because they used the same tech they used for the movie “Forrest Gump”, which had come out before this. My favourite moment in the episode is definitely Dax and Sisko throwing tribbles out of the grain silo and that’s the reason they keep falling on Kirk.😂👏

[@brucechmiel7964]

Walter Koenig, James Doohan, and Nichelle Nichols were on set during the filming of this episode as uncredited technical advisers. They showed the DS( cast how to use the props and interact with the retro sets. Walter even took out the clamshell communicator out of Colm Meany's hand to show him how to open it correctly. He even surprised himself when he did it on his first try. "I still got it." The dvd commentary and the documentary that released along with this episode are just great. Using at the time state of the art camera tricks and digital compositing learned from the production of Forrest Gump combined with building replicas of the original series sets almost seamlessly combined two shows 30 years apart. Along with this episode, Jason Alexander (George Costanza-Seinfeld) hosted the Trek 30th anniversary show. It featured him in Kirk cosplay acting out a series of skits in Hollywood. The only thing that bittered the festivities was the God Awful Voyager 30th anniversary episode which launched a week later. Seems all the best writers wanted in on the DS9 script as soon as it was announced.

[@shuboy05]

Flashback is still a pretty good episode of Voyager. George Takei was great in all his scenes.

[@sdfried4877]

@@shuboy05A glimpse of the Captain Sulu series everyone wanted but didn’t get.

[@zvimur]

"I'm beaming"? You're practically radiating😅.

[@Choalith_Ikanthe]

Him saying he's Beaming as the characters are also Beaming. I giggled.

[@zvimur]

@@Choalith_Ikanthe yes, well people also sometimes radiate (Wrath of Khan)🥵

[@LMoftheCoast]

I was just about to say “wow Ollie, you’re beaming.” Right before he said it himself. Was great to see him so happy watching this episode. Ollie is always very happy and smiley regardless, but that particular one was just so genuine and joyful, it needed commenting on.

[@shallowgal462]

The temporal agents' names are anagrams of the agents' names on _The X-Files._ _Of course_ you should have rewatched "The Trouble with Tribbles" in its entirety! This episode was made to mark the 30th anniversary of Star Trek. You can tour the _Enterprise_ set in Ticonderoga, N.Y. Shatner, Takei, and Koenig are there occasionally, usually during summer. _TOS_ guest stars also appear there sometimes.

[@607995]

whoa Dulmer and Lucsly - good tip.

[@VieVentar]

God this episode was so fun back when it first came out, the work they did blending the old footage in with the new, compositing it together and doing all new effects. A superb tribute and lampshades the anachronisms just right. The Assignment gets a bit looked over being next to this one, but is also damn good. Oh, by the way, there's a guy here on KZbin who does a series of "Starfleet Job" videos where he plays various characters across starfleet in a variety of roles. He did one recently with a Chef that makes for an amusing tie in given the appearance of TOS's food cubes. Hold off on watching the rest, some have spoilers for stuff you haven't reached. But the Chef one is purely TOS based so should be quite safe.

[@BillinHungary]

Colm Meaney actually wasn't that aware of the "Obrien must suffer" syndrome. There were hundreds of episodes and they each take at least a week to produce. Terry Ferrell said that Colm is amazing, he just reads the script and immediately has it down. I think the reason that the writers liked to make his character suffer, is that he is the "every man". He's not a superhero, he has a family, and he just goes about his job with a can-do attitude, so the viewers can relate to him.

[@jonathanmurphy3141]

I showed a good friend of mine, who was mostly a TNG fan, a set of "crossover" episodes, as we had some beer and pizza. T&T's was one. I won't reveal the others, for the sake of Ollie. For the 30th Anniversary, this was grand! The Voyager anniversary, was alright. The end scene of Sisko meeting Kirk was from "Mirror Mirror" where the Man who was with the alternate Captain, is now on the real Enterprise, giving here report. The Time Agents names are a riff' on The X-Files Agents. (The Klingon genetic question was solved on Enterprise.)

[@_bulenty]

Watching a newbs reactions to this episode is amazing! Such a magical episode.

[@tofersiefken]

Who knew that, like Phillip J. Fry (in Futurama), Dr. Bashir is his own great grandparent, or at least potentially could have produced a "Back to the Future" styled family tree.

[@sarcasticstartrek7719]

The Tribble homeworld apparently has two species on it. Tribbles and the aggressive creature that eats them - it's the only thing that keeps their population in check.

[@jasonolson3133]

I want a Tribble for a pet.

[@sdfried4877]

You can walk around very authentic bridge sets from fan series in two locations: Ft Ticonderoga in Upstate New York and Neutral Zone Studios in Kingsland GA. I visited the latter a few years ago and it was a magical experience.

[@sarcasticstartrek7719]

You can have pancakes and pineapples - they replace the syrup / sugar as they're very sweet themselves, though you cook them first so they're soft and squishy.

[@CraigWells-k7h]

Not the 1950s, Star Trek TOS ran from 1966 to 1969.

[@ThomasReeves-s7u]

Yeah. 50s sci-fi is fairly primitive and also, well on TV, black & white.

[@timmooney7528]

@@ThomasReeves-s7u TV programs were very low budget in the 1950's. Good looking sci-fi only existed in films. One of the reasons there were so many westerns was they were inexpensive to make. Star Trek's budget for props and visual effects was likely to be several times that of a standard TV series.

[@tofersiefken]

Another hardship for O'Brien, this time Keiko. It's not often that tertiary characters take the spotlight, but Rosalind Chao was up to the task for sure. And who wouldn't love Trials & Tribble-ations? What clever use of old footage!

[@redemption2]

Fun fact, the actress who played Dax eventually married Leonard Nimoy's son Adam. So her complimenting how hot Spock looked is rather ironic.

[@sdfried4877]

Did not know that. There’s definitely a resemblance.

[@justinbaro4950]

Further explanation for the Klingons different appearance is told in the Star Trek Enterprise 2 part episodes "Affliction" and "Divergence".

[@POWERtothePEOPLE-GP78]

The explanation for the difference in the Klingons is explained in Enterprise. I love this episode though - it's probably my favourite DS9. Good review dude, it was fun to see someone else enjoy it. Cheers bud!

[@nerdyglory1715]

Watching your reaction brought me back to 1996 when 13 year-old me watched it for the first time

[@sfkeepay]

Quick note just so you know, those miniature Japanese-style trees are called bonsai, pronounced “BONE sigh” where the Japanese pronouncement of enthusiasm is banzai, pronounced “BAN zahee!”. They’re spelled almost identically, but sound quite different and, obviously, mean totally different things. No biggie, but I thought you might want to know.

[@themotleycollector]

I think of how lucky you are not to have major spoilers for T&T, even down to the fact that we'd see the original Enterprise and crew. I think even back when it aired, the promos gave that away.

[@auntvesuvi3872]

Thanks, Oliver and Huxley! 🖖 Allan Kroeker and Jonathan West directed these two.

[@ericstarkey551]

Fun fact the actress who plays keiko, is the same actress who played klingers wife on m.a.s.h.

[@TomGallagherSuperboyBeyond]

Gotta love how Dax has the hots for Spock, and Terry Farrell would go on to marry Nemoy's son.

[@tyranusfan]

It's funny how aggressively Worf reacts to the tribble, considering that by his own admission, the trbbles were exterminated some 60 years before he was born. 😀

[@Ulriquinho]

If you wanna know about the Klingon look change, you will have to watch the enterprise episodes that address this!

[@tyranusfan]

You can see that tech size migration in cell phones. They went from huge to tiny back to huge, then to small, and then some of them start small and fold out huge.

[@Renegade2786]

The Assignment is like retelling of *Power Play* in TNG, but it is Keiko, not Miles that gets possessed.

[@Aweal7]

The Klingon in universe explaination is covered in a Star Trek Enterprise Episode (the first prequal series from 2005).

[@TimberlakeTigerGirl]

If you want to know how the franchise solved the Klingon appearance plot hole, watch the show Enterprise. If you don't know, it's sort of like a prequel series to Star Trek. It takes place 100 years after Vulcans made contact with Earth and before the Federation even existed. It's admittedly not the best of the franchise (though way better than Discovery), but you'll get some answers as to how and why the Federation came into existence. It was supposed to go longer than it did but was canceled out of the blue.

[@Greggie77]

When this aired for the first time, Trekkies like myself could not believe it either it was an exciting moment in star trek history.

[@WilliamMoses355]

Nice that, while the tribble spoiler was unavoidable, it seems like no one told him about the even bigger spoiler of time travel and meeting the TOS crew.

[@nicholasregan6526]

When Trials first aired it was pretty groundbreaking and exciting! To be able to use convincing effects to pull it off! Was so exciting to wait week to week for the next one.

[@edmonguy]

5x6 is my favourite reaction of yours ever 🧡

[@greyTigerGames]

I'm pretty sure that it was Star Trek: Enterprise (the last series of the Golden Era of Trek) that explains the Klingon differences in it's 4th season.

[@StarShipGray]

Ole Miss is my family’s legacy school. I was so excited to learn McCoy went there! 😂🖖🏻

[@BillinHungary]

And Cisco's reaction to Jadzia remarking about how she knew he would be a doctor, was TMI, and you could see that in Cisco's face :)

[@Whalewraith]

Definitely a contender for best crossover of all time, certainly the best idea wise. I'm just also insanely fond of the Supernatural Scooby Doo 'Scoobynatural' episode. Watching the crew scan tribbles reminds me of when I worked for Amazon.

[@JustBen81]

"Wait, die are we getting the original TOS crew? No. But they no! What? No. What!l? Guys. What?"

[@shuboy05]

I like to think Captain Kirk was walking toward Jadzia because he detected a beautiful woman he'd never met before! Shame he got called to the comm panel.

[@anthony1701d]

The scenes where Sisko and his crew were with Kirk and his crew, including the last scene on the Bridge, were done using the same type of visual effects that were achieved in Forrest Gump. For example the scene with Sisko interacting with Kirk on the Bridge was originally from the original TOS episode called "Mirror, Mirror" where Lt. Moreau was, whereas Sisko is in this shot.

[@tofersiefken]

If you want to know about the variety in cranial ridges vs. smooth craniums among the Klingons, there is some clarification in early episodes of Star Trek: Discovery. I know some of y'all hate Disco, but it exists within the Star Trek franchise, so it still counts. Honestly, I'm not a fan of Star Trek; The Animated Series (the original from the '70s), but it's part of the franchise too and reactors still cover that one, though not as much as TOS.

[@martinfehringer6408]

To get the Klingon thing explained you have to watch the 2001 - 2005 produced prequel series "Enterprise" which is set a century before TOS 🖖

[@MrDeathpilot]

The specific episodes are Season four's "Affliction" and "Divergence"

[@jasoncaldwell5627]

Something worth noting in the time travel episodes is how the Prophets are grooming Sisko through these experiences. Even episodes like The Visitor were probably manipulated by the Prophets (as they sit outside the normal flow of time. And they definitely want something from their Emissary.😎🖤😎

[@julianozaur444]

Imagine Klingons hearing about Tribbles getting back on mass years after they killed them off "Chancellor Gowron, the Tribbles! They're back " Gowron: vader scream NOOOOOOOO

[@monkeyzorr3090]

His eyes would fall out

[@Sabrecho]

The weirdness of the Klingons is explored in the spinoff series "Enterprise".

[@stonebaxter]

Nice love-letter to TOS. Impressive CGI for 90's television imo

[@jedlogan392]

TOS Was filmed in the mid to late 1960s not the 50s, which you may have accidentally misspoken a few times..otherwise, I really enjoyed your content. Keep up the good work. 👍👍

[@ericstarkey551]

The sets to tos, were only recently taken apart, they kept it up so fans were able to use it. In fact you can find full episodes of fan films using the sets here on youtube.

[@jayturner6570]

That was the best cross over.... WAS. Be excited bro; keep on with trek and you'll get an amazing surprise down the line.

[@MrDeathpilot]

CONTINUITY AND PRODUCTION PROBLEMS THAT I NOTICED ALL BY MYSELF 😁 THE ASSIGNMENT (IMDb Rating: 7.3) 3:48 I'm thinking that maybe those Fire Caves shouldn't be a Bajoran tourist attraction. 🤨 17:35 It seems unlikely that O'Brien figured out that the pah-wraith would want a Runabout. She had no reason to go to the wormhole other than to witness the destruction first-hand and gloat. Even If she planned to move in, she should've waited to be sure the destruction of The Prophets was successful. 17:57 That blast lasted a lot longer than a fraction of a second. TRIALS AND TRIBBLE-ATIONS (IMDb Rating: 9.4 Only one other DS-9 episode beats it) 27:17 Just before the Enterprise is detected, O'Brien mentions that the Defiant is de-cloaking, so why doesn't the Enterprise detect the Defiant? 43:39 Wouldn't the Enterpise have detected that explosion?

[@JusticeGamingChannel]

I won't mention what, where, or which series, but the question about why the Klingons look that way (in canon) is revealed in this franchise.

[@RC-nv4bh]

You can read up on why the Klingons look different. Or you can watch Star Trek: Enterprise episodes Affliction and Divergence. It’s from a virus that affected generations of Klingons but it eventually dies out and they return to their original appearance. If they saw Worf they probably wouldn’t have said much. The virus affected most of the population but not all.

[@little_forest]

I know, the "star" of those two episodes is "trials and tribble-ations", but seeing Rom in the first episode is just something so special! So I have to say something probably lots of people will not like, but the best male role model in DS9, nay, in the entire Star Trek franchise, is Rom! Be like Rom, Ollie, be like Rom!

[@Tony-wj5mp]

You weren't just "beaming", you were firing phasers and quantum torps in all directions!

[@ThomasReeves-s7u]

The Assignment - I always kind of hoped they would bring up that Miles had been possessed by an imprisoned entity in TNG. Sure it's different, the Pagh-Wraiths are more like devils than alien entities, but what an odd experience for a couple to share. "So what was it like to be possessed by a Pagh-Wraith" "I think it was different than your possession experience." Trials and Tribble-ations - A lot of fun. Not sure what to add though. That said a great many women did crush on Spock more than Kirk. I believe science fiction author James Tiptree Jr (pen name for Alice Sheldon) was among them and she was maybe more into women than men.

[@michaelvincent4280]

This episode blew minds, and why they haven't made more mixes like this, I do not know.

[@shauncraigparkinson8165]

Star Trek: Enterprise explains the difference in Klingon appearances, incorporating Star Trek II. So clever.

[@MrDeathpilot]

The specific episodes are Season four's "Affliction" and "Divergence"

[@jasonolson3133]

I want to put a Tribble in the Whitehouse and in the Capital building just in time before Trump gets sworned into office.

[@ericstarkey551]

One of the investigators also played George Lopez's boss on the George Lopez show.

[@quoniam426]

Temporal Investigation is a branch of Starfleet Intelligence specialized in investigating temporal incursions, wether from Starfleet personnel or from exterior timelines into ours. Watley being Bashir's ancestor, had she had an intercourse with him would have explained a great deal in a future episode, the writers seemed to have missed the mark, you'll understand when you see it. Keep the hypothesis about Klingon's physical apparence, Matt, but you'll have to wait for two entire series to have the awnser...