Honor Among Thieves: I’ll be honest: I was avoiding this episode a little bit because I watched the first ten minutes and realized this is not gonna go well for Miles. But the next few look so exciting so here we go.

There was also a flash effect in a few (or a lot of) scenes of this episode so I couldn’t physically watch those, I had to listen. If I missed something please let me know (for those of you who don’t know- I have a lot of optical migraine issues related to light- dim scenes are hard for me to see and flashing/flickering can trigger blind spots that last for hours).

It’s adorable that Mile’s fake girlfriend works at a flower shop. His imaginary girlfriend is his actual wife and that makes me so happy.

For a torturing Miles episode, this could have been worse. He kept the cat! But I just don’t think Miles can be anymore broken than he already was. I liked seeing Miles’ version of morality. I don’t think we’ve gotten enough of his decisions yet because he’s usually not the one making the decisions. I liked his thoughts. Miles is incredibly focused on being a good man. Being honest, loyal to his spouse, honoring his commitments to individuals as much as to Star Fleet. Julian’s conversation with him was very revealing to me. Julian holds a sense of duty to Star Fleet itself, regardless of its conflict with his own morality. Miles doesn’t maintain that. It’s something I feel he learned from Picard. Some things are more important to him than duty. I think that’s also reflected in the family values of the episode.

I appreciated the purpose of this episode. A little sad I couldn’t actually see most of it. Every time I tried to click onto it, there was still something flickering. Either the light in the room, or the lightning. But I still got a lot out of it.

Change of Heart: Man I loved the argument between Worf and Jadzia. I am glad they switched back to this format with two random plot lines that run simultaneously. I think it lightens the show a lot, and it gives us a chance to see more characters. And I also loved both character sets for this episode. I enjoy watching Jadzia be adventurous and in this episode, more scientific than we often get to see her. Worf is being less awful, and they work really well together. And then who doesn’t love Julian and Miles together? That’s the best thing.

Quark is awful. AWFUL. By the way, does anybody know if Tongo is a playable game in real life? Purely a curiosity thing.

This is so brutal and so sweet. I’ll come right out and say that I think Worf made the wrong decision, but I think he made the same decision absolutely anyone on this crew would have for anyone else on the crew. Regardless of whether or not they were married. I don’t know if I agree with that or not. It’s been a long time since I’ve been in love. And it was crazy teenage love. I don’t even remember his last name. But part of me wants to believe it works this way, so I’m going to choose to.