Notes on - Star Trek Deep Space Nine: Field of Fire

 

Field of Fire notes

Opening with a party in honor of a character we’ve never met before.  You can count his expected life span in minutes

Bashir:  He’s very particular about anybody seeing him in his coonskin cap.

It totally seems like Bashir and O’Brien are having sex in the holosuite

Drunk Starfleet officers are rare

It feels like they toyed with having Ezri accused of the murder, being the last person to see him

Ilario

Ilario:  You know Lieutenant, you’re very beautiful.

Ezri:  And you are very drunk.

‘Hot’ always seems like an imprecise request for a beverage

Yup.  Predictably, he’s now dead

Oh yeah,  Projectile weapons aren’t a thing anymore

Tritanium

Convenient that Sisko had heard of the TR116 rifle and remembered it off the top of his head

This is about 3D printed guns

It’s weird that they don’t even handwave to Ezri being accused

Fun that they had to find a way for Odo to know about powder burns just so that they can establish that there’s a mystery about the bullet wounds

Ilario looked up to Bashir and O’Brien

And now our reminder that one of Dax’ hosts was a murderer

Joran

Odo:  I’m sorry Lieutenant.  There’s nothing more annoying than a corpse with a mind of its own.

Why does Ezri dream that the murderer of Ilario was Ilario?

Love the Nightmare on Elm Street atmosphere of the dream sequence

The rite of emergence

***  I don’t want your help

Maybe not, but you need it.

Greta Venderweg

Subtle, the way they establish the framed picture without drawing too much attention to it

Why a rifle if killing at close range

O’Brien:  “Hmm.  Maybe I’ll start calling my tricorder ‘Sally’

Nice how Bashir’s tall tale suggested the answer to O’brien as to how the shooting happened.  Skillful scripting

Exri:  Well, what do you think?

Odo:  Nice melon.

The transporter tech added to the rifle is kind of genius.  Very cool idea

Very atmospheric in the empty dark promenade

Worf is worried about Dax.  That’s sweet

Worf:  I am certain you will do whatever is necessary to complete your task

Ezri: How do you know that?

Worf:  You are Dax. It is your way.

It’s not unlike a multi Doctor story really

The face in the mirror changing is a nice conceit

I don’t remember anything about the previous Joran episodes

Joran is going full Hannibal Lector ‘I want to corrupt you’

I’m not crazy about Joran’s pajamas

There’s something very unnerving about a gun that can shoot you from far away through many walls

The zooming through walls effect looks very cool

Joran is pushing her to be creepier and more intrusive

Ezri’s looking kind of badass with the eyepiece.

Now they’re psychoanalyzing the killer.  It is very Silence of the Lambs

There’s never any question that Ezri would pull the trigger. 

Never trust that a weapon isn’t loaded.

Maybe I should have watched the Joran episode in prep?

It’s interesting how they’re using the established Trill ability to channel old lives to facilitate the old ‘Ezri’s the only one who can see him’ setup

‘What does he do, this man you seek.

The GIF pictures are fun

How do they know that the victims weren’t chosen at random?

Ezri’s afraid to let herself identify too much with the killed because she’s scared of turning into Joran.  That makes sense given that half of her still is him

Feels out of character that she’d be willing to stab the ensign.  Chalk it up to Joran’s influence being out of his box

The guy collects weapons.  That feels very real

Makes sense that Ezri would immediately turn to expelling Joran after the knife incident

If Odo hadn’t interrupted

A wife and co-husband

Joran:  How could anyone be so happy with such unattractive children?

Nice clue to reveal that it’s the pictures of happiness that’s triggering the killer

She’s really jumping to a lot of conclusions that it’s a Vulcan and that he’s had trauma recently.  That’s clearly not the only possible explanation.

Convenient that the Vulcan didn’t stand in Joran

How does Joran ‘just know’ that elevator Vulcan is the killer.  They’re running short on time

Chu’lak

Where did we hear about the Grisson before

There isn’t room for bullets in that clip

Chilling that we zoom in on Chu’lak preparing to shoot Ezri.  Very rear window

Would Ezri be justified in killing Chu’lak in this circumstance?

Joran really seems disappointed that Ezri didn’t kill Chu’lak

This is a big step forward for Ezri making peace with her new existence as Dax