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* PlotHole: Averted: When Sisko talks to the senior staff, he mentions that the game will be held in Holosuite 5, but when Rom and Leela ask about tryouts, Bashir and O'Brien mention their being held on Holosuite 4. They are using Quark's holosuites, on which they have to book time, so he might have 5 scheduled for the game, but 4 would be open for the tryouts. The programs would be the same in either.
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** Obviously it is for Sisko, for whom baseball has always been a very personal thing.
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** Obviously it is for Sisko, for whom baseball has always been a very personal thing. He finally realizes how much his team is trying when Rom is in the stands watching and applauding. He kicks Rom ''back'' onto the team.
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* NationalAnthem: We finally hear the Federation anthem before the game starts.
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* NationalAnthem: We finally hear the Federation anthem before the game starts. This is the only time to date in franchise history that the anthem of the United Federation of Planets has been heard. As is appropriate for the baseball stadium setting (and with no audience to sing any lyrics), the anthem is purely instrumental.
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* BunnyEarsLawyer: {{Implied}}. How such a blatantly racist {{jerkass}} as Solok made it to command level in the first place is not directly addressed, but he has two Christopher Pike Medals of Valor to his name. This suggests that Starfleet is putting up with his BS because with the Dominion War on, they need all the ships they can get.
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* BunnyEarsLawyer: {{Implied}}. How such a blatantly racist {{jerkass}} as Solok made it to command level in the first place is not directly addressed, but he has two Christopher Pike Medals of Valor to his name. This suggests that Starfleet is putting up with his BS because with the Dominion War on, they need all the ships they can get.get and presumably, racism aside, he's a highly-competent captain to his all-Vulcan crew.
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It all started at the Academy, when Solok's insistence on Vulcan superiority over [[FantasticRacism "emotionally handicapped"]] humans got under Sisko's skin. With the kind of judgment that comes with a night of drinking, Sisko challenged him to a wrestling match to settle the matter and [[CurbStompBattle wound up in the infirmary]], humiliated. Unfortunately, the rivalry didn't end there. Ever since then, Solok has continued to publish studies on human inferiority and include his wrestling victory as evidence. This latest effort, using Sisko's own game against him, is [[ItsPersonal too personal]] to tolerate. Kasidy swears to keep Sisko's secret and then [[GilliganCut immediately tells the rest of the team]]. They all agree that Solok is a {{Jerkass}} who deserves to be taken down a peg.
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It all started at the Academy, a bar during Sisko's Academy days, when Solok's insistence on Vulcan superiority over [[FantasticRacism "emotionally handicapped"]] humans got under Sisko's skin. With the kind of judgment that comes with a night of drinking, Sisko challenged him to a wrestling match to settle the matter and [[CurbStompBattle wound up in the infirmary]], humiliated. Unfortunately, the rivalry didn't end there. Ever since then, Solok has continued to publish studies on human inferiority and include his wrestling victory as evidence. This latest effort, using Sisko's own game against him, is [[ItsPersonal too personal]] to tolerate. At his insistence, Kasidy swears to keep Sisko's secret the story a secret...and then [[GilliganCut immediately in short order, she tells the rest of the team]]. They all agree that Solok is a {{Jerkass}} who deserves to be taken down a peg.
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* KnowWhenToFoldEm: After the Niners make ''one'' run, Sisko and the team give up the rest of the game, figuring they're down by nine anyways. They start celebrating, causing Solok to get thrown out of the game when ''he'' touches Odo in protest. (Technically, the Niners ''won'' since the Logicans only fielded nine players (as seen in the anthem), so they would not have had enough players to maintain the required team.)
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* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Sisko asks Odo to umpire the game, telling him that Odo is the only one Sisko would trust to be impartial. When the time comes down to it, Sisko intentionally touches Odo while arguing about Worf's called third strike. Odo quotes the exact rule in the book about touching the umpire.
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* ArtisticLicenseSports: The Vulcan runner who failed to touch home plate before returning to the dugout would, in reality, haven been ruled out without the need to tag him, at least by the time the episode was filmed. The scene was apparently based on an incident that Ira Steven Behr witnessed in Little League.
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* ArtisticLicenseSports: The Vulcan runner who failed to touch home plate before returning to the dugout would, in reality, haven haven't been ruled out without the need to tag him, at least by the time the episode was filmed. The scene was apparently based on an incident that Ira Steven Behr witnessed in Little League.
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* DatedHistory: Odo quotes the [[ShownTheirWork correct number of the rule that Sisko broke]], but many years after the episode was filmed, the rules were reorganized, so the number isn't correct anymore. Maybe Sisko gave him an outdated rulebook.
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* DatedHistory: Odo quotes the [[ShownTheirWork correct number of the rule that Sisko broke]], but many years after broke]] for when the episode was filmed, filmed late in TheNineties, but the rules were reorganized, so the number isn't correct anymore. have since then been re-organized. Maybe Sisko gave him Odo an outdated rulebook.
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* ForegoneConclusion: A team of Vulcans who are naturally stronger than most humanoid races and have been practicing baseball for some time already, versus three human baseball fans and their [[RagtagBandOfMisfits Ragtag Team of Misfits]] who only just recently started training, of whom only the Klingon and the genetically-enhanced doctor are any physical match for said Vulcans. Sisko's team never really had a chance.
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* ForegoneConclusion: A team of Vulcans Vulcans, who are naturally stronger than most humanoid races and have been practicing baseball for some time already, versus three human baseball fans and their [[RagtagBandOfMisfits Ragtag Team of Misfits]] who only just recently started training, of whom only the Klingon and the genetically-enhanced doctor are any physical match for said Vulcans.training. Sisko's team never really had a chance.
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* TheMainCharactersDoEverything: Sisko only invites main and recurring characters to join his team. You'd think that, with the stakes as they are, Sisko would do a survey of the athletic talents of everyone on the station to form his team.
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* TheMainCharactersDoEverything: Sisko only invites main and recurring characters to join his team. You'd think that, with the stakes as they are, Sisko would do a survey of the athletic talents of everyone on the station to form his team. (There are normally about 300 permanent residents on the station.)
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* HeroOfAnotherStory: Solok has twice been decorated with the Christopher Pike Medal of Valor. Given that Sisko received his Medal of Valor for planning and leading the retaking of [=DS9=], Solok and his ship must have done some pretty badass stuff offscreen to earn it twice.
