A serious fan of Star Trek, Graham identified that “Captive Pursuit” adopted the basic custom of The Authentic Collection through the use of a futuristic story to make commentary on a contemporary challenge.
He praised how this episode, like all his favorites, is about “an actual challenge…not simply fluff.” He additionally famous how well timed this episode was as a result of, on the time, “individuals had been making an enormous stink about fox looking.”
On this method, Deep Space Nine established an early sample of doing issues in a different way than exhibits like The Authentic Collection and The Subsequent Technology. As an alternative of simply doing a literary homage or simply doing a commentary, they blended these two ideas collectively into one thing that felt contemporary and new.
The episode additionally laid the groundwork for the present’s serial storytelling, as Tosk himself was only a preview of how bizarre the guests from the Gamma Quadrant had been going to finally get.
