Star Trek: Move Along Home

Episode: "Move Along Home"

Series: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

Season 1, Episode 10

Original Air Date: March 13, 1993

via Memory Alpha

Commander Sisko and his senior officers prepare to greet the Wadi, visitors from the Gamma Quadrant.  However, the Wadi have no interest in niceties.  Instead, they head directly to Quark's to play games.  Naturally, the proprietor is delighted to introduce them to the thrills of the dabo table but the Wadi brought their own game to play.  Surprise, it kidnaps crew members to play as the pieces!

This much-panned episode is a popular choice for worst of the series.  To be honest, I don't hate it.  I am admittedly a sucker for the Through the Looking Glass concept.  I also think it's a fun Quark story.  What happens when someone turns the tables on him?  I believe his pain when forced - he thinks - to choose one of his friends to suffer a dire fate.  "Oh, that's right... you were here for the groveling."  Come on, that's a great line!

Oh well.  I need something to make up for all of the Q and Data stories other people like more than I do.

Acting Notes

via Wikipedia

Cirroc Lofton (Jake Sisko) was born August 7, 1978 in Los Angeles.  Before Star Trek, he got his start at age nine on Econ and Me, a children's educational show about economics.  After DS9, he was a regular on Showtime's The Hoop Life series and had a recurring role on that same network's Soul Food series.  

Lofton co-hosts a DS9 re-watch podcast called The 7th Rule.  His original co-host was Aron Eisenberg (Nog on DS9) until Eisenberg's death in 2019.  Now, Lofton co-hosts with actor Ryan T. Husk who also has several Trek credits on his resume.  

Lofton is the nephew of Kenny Lofton, one of the most exciting baseball players I've ever seen.  Kenny Lofton, I have learned, is one of only two athletes to have participated in both baseball's World Series (with Cleveland) and basketball's NCAA Final Four (with Arizona).  The other?  Fellow East Chicago Washington High School alum Tim Stoddard.  Stoddard is up on Lofton, though, because both of his teams (NC State and the Baltimore Orioles) won championships.

Thanks for joining me in my trip down the Wikipedia rabbit hole (another Alice reference...).