This is a decent episode about Jake having the confidence of youth, thinking war would just be more interesting fodder for his writing.
Then he sees real death in the infirmary and gets caught up in the actual fighting and learns it's a lot different than when written on the page.
What I didn't understand was why he thought he was a coward just for running in the other direction when a ton of bombs were going off all around him. He ran away from bombs that could have killed him, so what? What was he going to do if he reached Bashir, somehow protect him? It just didn't make much sense to me. It was the fog of war, he ran to save his life, big deal.
Also didn't understand the guy who blew off his own foot in order to get out of the fighting, then just blurts out for all to hear that's what he did and ruins his career in doing so? Just doesn't seem like real motivation.
Anyway, Jake is the best and least annoying of all the Star Trek "kid characters" so I'll give him a break. He did the best he could with spotty writing on this one.
Then he sees real death in the infirmary and gets caught up in the actual fighting and learns it's a lot different than when written on the page.
What I didn't understand was why he thought he was a coward just for running in the other direction when a ton of bombs were going off all around him. He ran away from bombs that could have killed him, so what? What was he going to do if he reached Bashir, somehow protect him? It just didn't make much sense to me. It was the fog of war, he ran to save his life, big deal.
Also didn't understand the guy who blew off his own foot in order to get out of the fighting, then just blurts out for all to hear that's what he did and ruins his career in doing so? Just doesn't seem like real motivation.
Anyway, Jake is the best and least annoying of all the Star Trek "kid characters" so I'll give him a break. He did the best he could with spotty writing on this one.