Nog: What’s wrong?
Miles O’Brien: He didn’t touch home, Nog!
Nog: Is that true?
[Odo harrumphs]
Nog: Wha- what do I do?
Worf: Find him and kill him!
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Season 7: Episode 4 – “Take Me Out to the Holosuite”
*Update: My full recap of “…Ye Who Enter Here” is now live. Read it here!
After another week off SHIELD is back with the penultimate episode of the fall half of the season, making good on the previous episode’s setup. Next week is the winter finale, promising some big moments and some bigger revelations. Tonight’s episode gave us a big confirmation of a popular theory, a serious cliffhanger, some thrilling fisticuffs, some great lines, and more Koenigs than you could shake a stick at. It may have also given us some FitzSimmons developments, but… well… more on that below. Everything is shaping up for a much more epic midseason finale, and while the prospect of waiting several months for new SHIELD episodes (even with Agent Carter in between) is not particularly enticing, I still can’t wait to see what next week will bring. Read on for my instant reaction to tonight’s episode, and check back tomorrow for my full recap of “…Ye Who Enter Here”.
Willow: You dreamed about Angel again?
Buffy: Third night in a row.
Willow: What did he do in the dream?
Buffy: Stuff.
Willow: Oh! Stuff! Was it one of those vivid dreams where you could feel his lips and smell his hair?
Buffy: It had surround sound. I’m just thinking about him so much lately.
Willow: You two are so right for each other. Except for the, uh…
Buffy: Vampire thing.
Willow: That doesn’t make him a bad person. Necessarily.
Buffy: I’m brainsick. I can’t have a relationship with him.
Willow: Not during the day, but you could ask him for coffee some night. It’s the non-relationship drink of choice. It’s not a date, it’s a caffeinated beverage. Okay, sure, it’s hot and bitter like a relationship that way, but…
Xander: What’s like a relationship?
Buffy: Nothing I have.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Season 2: Episode 5 – “Reptile Boy”
By the Right Honourable Lord Keith, Knight of the Bath, Admirable of the Blue and Commander in Chief of His Majesty’s Ships and Vessels employed and to be employed in the Mediterranean, etc., etc., etc.
Whereas Captain Samuel Allen of His Majesty’s Sloop Sophie is removed to the Pallas, Captain James Bradby deceased —
You are hereby required and directed to proceed on board the Sophie and take upon you the Charge and Command of Commander of her; willing and requiring all the Officers and Company belonging to the said Sloop to behave themselves in their several Employments with all due Respect and Obedience to you their Commander; and you likewise to observe as well the General Printed Instructions as what Orders and Directions you may from time to time receive from any your superior Officer for His Majesty’s Service. Hereof nor you nor any of you may fail as you will answer the contrary at your Peril.
And for so doing this shall be your Order.
Given on board the Foudroyant
at sea, 1st April, 1800.To John Aubrey, Esqr,
hereby appointed Commander of
His Majesty’s Sloop Sophie
By command of the Admiral Thos Walker
Master and Commander – Patrick O’Brian
The Love Pirate 