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Thanks to the miracle of the internet, as it were, I’ve been watching Deep Space 9. I had flashbacks through the first few episodes, up to “A Man Alone.” I had seen the first few, it seems. It turns out that most of what I remembered about the series was the pilot, “Emissary.” I remembered Sisko meeting Picard for the first time & the species outside time. That plot is heavily influenced by Stanislaw Lem’s novel “Solaris,” btw. In that novel (made into two films in 1972 & 2003), an incomprehensible alien probes human minds & produces whatever it finds to be significant, usually something horribly painful. Until the last few days, all I really remembered of DS9 was that they were not bringing him there, back to Wolf 359 & the death of his wife. He just never left.

Anyhoo. I’ll probably make a few notes as I go.