I was happy to come across this article last week, written on the 22nd anniversary of the first airing of the episode. I love Deep Space Nine and have previously listed Take Me Out to the Holosuite as one of my favorite episodes.
I love baseball and I love that Benjamin Sisko loves baseball. He keeps a baseball on his desk, even when the Federation is forced to abandon the station to the Dominion. Gul Dukat knows it's Sisko's message that he will return.
When his Vulcan nemesis Solok challenges Sisko to a baseball game, Sisko is obsessed with redeeming himself. Of course only Sisko and his son Jake have any knowledge of the game. Team practice does not go well. Neither does the game itself.
After Sisko's been kicked out of the game by Umpire Odo, he convinces Acting Manager O'Brien to have Rom pinch-hit for Jake. Sisko had previously cut Rom for his bad play. But Rom has stayed in the stands to cheer on his teammates.
Rom's inadvertent bunt helps the team score a run, and the Niners manage a moral victory.
The Niners' postgame celebration perplexes and seemingly annoys Solok. That is another kind of victory.
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