Yeah with long running series like this, there are a least a few absolute trash episodes like this regardless of how great it is overall.
Usually it's because they needed a filler, a writers strike is happening or an actor for some reason can get there so need to buy time till they can return and then they can carry on the main plot.
Practically all of the episodes of the first half of the seventh season are filler, though. Really bad filler, at that. The one where they play baseball against a team of Vulcans? Or all those godawful Ezri episodes.
One of the funniest scenes was in episode 2, where an orb-maddened Sisko grabs his father and is shaking him. The resulting scene is slapstick ham. Surprised it wasn't turned into a gif. Hilariously hammy.
Yeah with long running series like this, there are a least a few absolute trash episodes like this regardless of how great it is overall.
Usually it's because they needed a filler, a writers strike is happening or an actor for some reason can get there so need to buy time till they can return and then they can carry on the main plot.
Practically all of the episodes of the first half of the seventh season are filler, though. Really bad filler, at that. The one where they play baseball against a team of Vulcans? Or all those godawful Ezri episodes.
One of the funniest scenes was in episode 2, where an orb-maddened Sisko grabs his father and is shaking him. The resulting scene is slapstick ham. Surprised it wasn't turned into a gif. Hilariously hammy.
Avery really is a bad actor.
He has such a strange cadence. I did like the baseball episode though. All that stupid religious stuff was terrible.