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… Deep Space Nine's Most Endearing Episode

"Twenty-two years ago today, Deep Space Nine—at the height of its dark, complex, morally nuanced depiction of war, and the impact it has on utopia—delivered a poignant message about the concept of accepting loss. It did so in a comedy holodeck baseball game, and the result cemented itself as one of the all-time greatest Star Trek episodes there ever was.

Season seven's "Take Me Out to the Holosuite" reads, at first, like a thoroughly absurd, almost un-Trek-like escapade, especially to a series like Deep Space Nine (the Dominion War is exalted as the franchise navigating its ethically darkest hours with a light that is daring to flicker out). Captain Sisko calls his staff to a dire-sounding meeting, only to reveal that the reason for his graveness is that the visiting captain of the T'Kumbra, Solok—the vampiest Vulcan to have ever vamped in a Star Trek show—has challenged the staff to a team exercise with his own all-Vulcan bridge crew. But it's not just any match: it's baseball…"
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Armand

One of my all time favorite episodes from my favorite Trek series.

To me – it's been Star Trek, DS9, TNG, ENT and finally Voyager – in that order.

DS9, despite being VERY different from the original show, seemed to pickup something that none of the other series really did (let alone any of the new Dreck).

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Armand

Now that I think of it, maybe this was the episode that set the tone for the Vulcans in the first three seasons of Enterprise.