65 upvotes, 7 direct replies (showing 7)
This episode slaps and I don’t understand the hate for it.
Comment by TheJustBleedGod at 07/03/2025 at 18:49 UTC
54 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Seriously. Gamer aliens from across the aliens come to visit Quarks to check out the funnest games we have, just get swindled, and then are like "check this shit out"
Comment by Single_Volume_8715 at 07/03/2025 at 19:06 UTC
16 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Right! I was surprised that I didn't hate it after hearing all the complaints about it.
Comment by thejadedfalcon at 07/03/2025 at 20:35 UTC
16 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Because the quality of the game was "everyone around you is drinking while not being affected by the poison gas. You are being told to drink by the game master. What do you do?"
That's barely even a riddle, let alone a game. And if your answer is anything but an immediate "take a drink", like the characters who wandered around dying for a while first, you should be fired from Starfleet and thrown out of your DM's house for being too stupid to exist.
Comment by NikkoJT at 07/03/2025 at 23:12 UTC
13 upvotes, 0 direct replies
The plot is fine, but the allamaraine song and dance thing is silly and slightly annoying, and unfortunately that's the first thing that comes to mind when I think of the episode. Like oh wow, we're doing "a creepy kid says something cryptic in the form of a nursery-rhyme-esque song"? I sure haven't ever seen that one before!
Also it's a bit grating that the aliens refuse to explain anything and apparently think it's fine to kidnap four random people just to mess with Quark. It's not a plot weakness, they just seem like people I would hate to be around, and I don't really like watching them for that reason. Like, you show up to a party and some guy is being a bit of a dick, so you decide to tie up the host and three of their friends and lock them in a closet for 6 hours. "Just a prank bro!" doesn't really make up for it.
Comment by SkyeQuake2020 at 07/03/2025 at 19:52 UTC
8 upvotes, 0 direct replies
It's mid, not great nor horrible.
It feel like it set up the premise for a Gamma Quadrant first contact, and fell on its face.
Comment by mitthrawnuruodo86 at 08/03/2025 at 10:16 UTC
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I’d draw a distinction between those who hate the episode overall vs those who just cringe at the childish hopscotch song, to be fair. I rather enjoyed the episode when I rewatched it a few weeks ago, but yeah that part is a tad cringe lol
Comment by Basic-Pair8908 at 08/03/2025 at 12:54 UTC
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Yeah i got from it was to teach quark that gaining money at any means isnt a good way to go. Especially when he had lives on the line.