Star Trek: Deep Space 9
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This is generally accepted as the best of the 3 post-TOS series, probably because it was a clone of the far superior Babylon 5 . The secret, beyond the existence of an actual plot arc, is the jokey air the show takes - unlike the other series it doesn't take itself too seriously. The best scene is in Way of the Warrior [the Season 3 introductory 2-parter] where Garak and Quark discuss the Federation and compare it to ginger ale. This is a magnificent metaphor for the Trek franchise itself; sweet, cloying and unpleasantly addictive.
Such a blatantly self-mocking scene could never have been used in the other series.
Season 1
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Deep Space Nine [Season 1, Episode 3]
A Man Alone
Shown 17 Jan 93
We get a further introduction to the characters. Bashir and Quark both take a liking to Dax. Sisco just wants to be friends with him.
A Bajoran Black Marketeer is murdered. It looks like Odo was responsible! Bashir, the doctor who likes puzzles, must try to find out what happened.
Jake Sisco befriends Nog the Ferengi. O'Brien's wife is bored, and becomes a schoolteacher to stop the kids from running wild. Yes, a dozen kids aged 8 to 16, all in the same class!
Deep Space Nine [Season 1, Episode 4]
Past Prologue
Shown 10 Jan 93
Kira welcomes an old friend aboard the station. He's an ex-terrorist, pursued by a Cardassian [ Vaughn Armstrong ] and expecting a Pardon from the Bajoran government.
However, Kira's pal is an extreme seperatist and a racist xenophobe. His splinter-group has been at war with the relatively moderate Bajoran government. Lursa and Betor, the Klingon villainesses later seen in Star Trek: Generations ], are after him. And Garak the exiled Cardassian tailor [in his first appearance] may know more about whatever the extremist is up to.
Deep Space Nine [Season 1, Episode 5]
Babel
Shown 24 Jan 93
The replicators start to malfunction. They create a virus that makes everyone lose their linguistic abilities! Worse, after a long enough gestation period the virus becomes lethal!
Deep Space Nine [Season 1, Episode 6]
Captive Pursuit
Shown 31 Jan 93
Star Trek: DS9 [Season 1, Episode 7]
Q-Less
Shown 20th October 2001 [Saturday]
Bashir and O'Brien are called to the docking port. Dax's runabout, the Ganges, has returned from the Gamma Quadrant. The runabout's power has been drained and the doors can't be opened. Why not beam the crew off, eh? They have a passenger - the archaeologist Vash [ Jennifer Hetrick ], who has apparently been in the Gamma Quadrant for 2 years. Unbeknownst to the crew, DS9 has another guest - Q [John De Lancie]. He doesn't want to give up on the woman who dumped him ...
This is a nice way of making Season One more accessible to new viewers by having a cross-over with a couple of recurring characters from Star Trek: The Next Generation .
Deep Space Nine [Season 1, Episode 8]
Dax
Shown 14 Feb 93
Dax is kidnapped by aliens. It turns out that the aliens want Dax to stand trial for something that Curzon may have done 30 years ago! Because DS9 is Bajoran territory, Sisco and Kira insist on an extradition hearing. Odo goes to the aliens' homeworld, to investigate the incident. He questions the victim's widow, who resembles Data's mother.
This story idea would later be used in Stargate SG-1 at least twice. That must make this one of the original and most thought-provoking eps of DS9 - and strangely, it's in the first Season!
Instead of trying to extradite Jadzia, they could just wait until she dies and then extradite the Dax symbiote. They've already waited 30 years, so why not risk another few decades? And the Federation has outlawed the Death Penalty, so why extradite Capital Cases to death-penalty regimes? They have agreements with the Bajoran Provisional Government as well, and as shown in a later ep the Bajorans have the Death penalty.
Deep Space Nine [Season 1, Episode 9]
The Passenger
Shown 22 Feb 93
Star Trek: DS9 [Season 1, Episode 10]
Move Along Home
Shown 1st April 1999 [Thursday]
The Command Crew find themselves in an alien holodeck-type game, with only Quark and Odo on the outside to help them.
Star Trek: DS9 [Season 1, Episode 11]
The Nagus
Shown 8th April 1999 [Thursday]
Shown 27th October 2001 [Saturday]
The Grand Nagus of the Ferengi Empire [Wallace Shawn - Princess Bride ] holds a special conference aboard DS9. He announces Quark [Armin Shimmerman] as his successor, then promptly dies. Quark's good cheer is short-lived, once he realises how many of his fellow business-beings are lined up to stab him in the back. Quark selects Rom as his bodyguard. Quark's promotion leads on to a wonderful parody of The Godfather.
Nog, Quark's nephew, is ordered by his father Rom to quit school. This leads to tension between Jake and Nog - since their fathers are convinced they are too different, can they still be friends?
Star Trek: DS9 [Season 1, Episode 12]
Vortex
Shown 15th April 1999 [Thursday]
Shown 27th October 2001 [Saturday]
An alien called Croden [Cliff DeYoung] arrives on the station. However, he is a criminal and Odo arrests him for murder. This is complicated by Croden's claim to have discovered a changeling colony. Especially since Croden is a compulsive liar.
Sisco had Croden extradited without trial, and washes his hands of what the aliens will do to the man. Odo is ordered to pilot the ship into the Gamma Quadrant.
Star Trek: DS9 [Season 1, Episode 13]
Battle Lines
Shown 28th October 2001 [Sunday]
Sisko, Bashir and Kira [most of the senior officers!] take the Bajoran spiritual leader Kai Opaka on a tour of the Gamma Quadrant. They get shot down and crash-land, then captured by bedraggled warriors led by Jonathan Banks [ Seaquest: DSV ]. Sisco's attempts at peace-making fall foul of the fact that both sides care more about destroying their enemies than they do about making peace.
Star Trek: DS9 [Season 1, Episode 14]
The Storyteller
Shown 28th October 2001 [Sunday]
Bashir and O'Brien are sent to Bajor. Bashir tries to heal a village's holy man, who declares O'Brien to be his successor. The holy man, The Storyteller, is needed to protect the village from a mystical energy-beast.
Meanwhile, Sisco is busy trying to manage negotiations between two Bajoran villages. One negotiator is a precocious teenage girl [ Gina Philips ], who Jake and Nog both fall in lust with.
Star Trek: DS9 [Season 1, Episode 15]
Progress
Shown 6th May 1999 [Thursday]
Shown 3rd November 2001 [Saturday]
This week's rerun centred around Major Kira, and included shots of her in that tight white t-shirt thing. Otherwise it was quite forgettable.
Kira has too persuade a crotchetty old farmer [Brian Keith - ] to leave his home.
Star Trek: DS9 [Season 1, Episode 16]
If Wishes Were Horses
Shown 13th May 1999 [Thursday]
Shown 3rd November 2001 [Saturday]
The station had a visit from 3 mysterious entities, one of whom was the super-horny Dax. Methinks this entity made a reappearance in Season five, and replaced the regular Dax!
Star Trek: DS9 [Season 1, Episode 17]
The Forsaken
Shown 17th May 1999 [Thursday]
Shown 4th November 2001 [Sunday]
A group of Federation ambassadors [including a Vulcan and Luxwana Troi] arrives on the station, and Bashir is assigned to give them a tour. An alien probe arrives, and starts to affect the station's computer. O'Brien tries to sort it out, while systems such as the elevators go off.
For some reason the Vulcan doesn't recognise Dax as being a Trill! Luxwana becomes interested in Odo, and gets stuck in a lift with him. However, there is some nice character development and Mrs Troi turns out to have some depth. Quite unexpected, to be sure.
Star Trek: DS9 [Season 1, Episode 18]
Dramatis Personae
Shown 4th November 2001 [Sunday]
A Klingon ship arrives through the wormhole and is mysteriously destroyed. Soon the station's command crew go completely paranoid, and Kira tries to lead a Bajor revolt against Starfleet.
The problem with this episode is, under strange Alien influence the characters start to act NATURALLY. Its believability shows up how unbelievable the series is as a whole.
Deep Space Nine [Season 1, Episode 19]
Duet
Shown 13 Jun 93
Kira arrests a Cardassian passenger on suspicion that he worked at a labour camp. She reveals her deep-seated prejudice against the Cardies, while the prisoner's past is dredged up. Sisco allows Kira to take charge of the interrogation, rather than the unbiased and impartial law-enforcer, Odo. Naturally it's Odo who actually solves the mystery!
The issue of the Federation extraditing suspects in Death penalty cases was also ignored in Deep Space Nine [Season 1, Episode 8]Dax. However, the ending allows us to see development of Kira's character.
Deep Space Nine [Season 1, Episode 20]
In The Hands Of The Prophets
Shown 20 Jun 93
With the old Kai lost in the Gamma Quadrant, the Bajoran Vedeks have to elect a new one. The two main candidates are the good guy, Vedek Bareil, and the fundamentalist Kai Wynn [ Louise Fletcher ]. Wynn starts her campaign by visiting the school on DS9 and disrupting a science lesson. Will Bajoran superstition win over Federation logic?
Meanwhile, Chief O'Brien's favourite wrench is missing. So is his Starfleet flunky, but now he has a gorgeous Bajoran babe to help instead. However, he begins to suspect that a criminal conspiracy could be underway. Is someone copying the Babylon 5 Season One climax, and using assassination to fix the outcome of an election?
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Deep Space Nine [Season 2, Episode 1]
The Homecoming/The Circle
Shown 8th July 1999 [Thursday]
We visit DS9 for a double-bill of Kira/Bajoran episodes. She helps recover a Bajoran war hero from the clutches of the Cardassians, and he subsequently becomes a political figure.
Deep Space Nine [Season 2, Episode 2]
The Circle
Shown 8th July 1999 [Thursday]
This episode sees political plotting among the Bajorans, who now include Frank Langella [ Masters of the Universe]!!!
Deep Space Nine [Season 2, Episode 3]
The Siege
22nd July 1999 [Thursday]
17th November 2001 [Saturday]
DS9 is scene of a Federation face-off with Frank Langella's Bajoran rebels.
Deep Space Nine [Season 2, Episode 4]
Invasive Procedures
22nd July 1999 [Thursday]
17th November 2001 [Saturday]
Having bravely seen off the battle-scarred veterans of the Bajoran military, the station is then hijacked by a socially inept Trill [who resembles Roger Daltrey - Highlander: The Series ], his GF and a pair of Klingon mercenaries. Mr pseudo-Daltrey was rejected as a host for the Dax symbiote, and forces Dr Bashir to transplant Jadzia's friendly parasite into him. The only problem is, Jadzia will die as a direct result of the surgery.
This is an interesting episode only insofar as Quark shows more spirit and backbone than all the other regular characters put together.
The cast includes Jon Glover [ Brimstone], Megan Gallagher and a black Vulcan named T'Kar [played by, who else, Tim Russ]!
Deep Space Nine [Season 2, Episode 5]
Cardassians
29th July 1999 [Thursday]
18th November 2001 [Sunday]
Garak discovers that a Cardassian boy raised by Bajorans is actually the son of an important Gul.
Deep Space Nine [Season 2, Episode 6]
Melora
18th November 2001 [Sunday]
Bashir falls in love with a stroppy lo-grav-worlder babe.
Meanwhile, a killer is after Quark.
Deep Space Nine [Season 2, Episode 7]
Rules of Acquisition
24th November 2001 [Saturday]
Grand Nagus Zek [Wallace Shawn - Princess Bride ] recruits Quark to take charge of Ferengi trade negotiations with the Gamma Quadrant. Brian Thompson [ X-Files ] is the negotiator from the Gamma Quadrant, while Helene Loy is a Ferengi who has something to hide.
Deep Space Nine [Season 2, Episode 8]
Necessary Evil
24th November 2001 [Saturday]
Quark is hired by a lady from his past to retrieve an item concealed on the station. Quark is double-crossed and left for dead. Odo investigates, and discovers links to an unsolved case from five years previously ... where one of the suspects was Kira!
Deep Space Nine [Season 2, Episode 9]
Second Sight
12th August 1999 [Thursday]
25th November 2001 [Sunday]
This episode introduces Sisco to a mysterious woman who becomes his love-interest-of-the-week. She keeps appearing and disappearing, and distracting Sisco from his duties, which involve reactivating a dead star. We all know the romance will not last ...
Deep Space Nine [Season 2, Episode 10]
Sanctuary
12th August 1999 [Thursday]
25th November 2001 [Sunday]
This episode delivers a group of refugees from through the wormhole. A reminder of the foreshadowing of the Ferengi in Season 1 of TNG, this time the refugee mentions her race was fleeing something called The Dominion.
Deep Space Nine [Season 2, Episode 11]
Rivals
Shown 2 Jan 94
Chris Sarandon [ Fright Night ] arrives on the station. Quark turns him down as a business partner, so he sets himself up in business.
Deep Space Nine [Season 2, Episode 12]
The Alternate
Shown 9 Jan 94
Deep Space Nine [Season 2, Episode 13]
Armageddon Game
Shown 30 Jan 94
Bashir and O'Brien complete the dismantling of biogenic weapons that an alien race have been using in a bitter Civil War. As soon as the weapons are gone, a murder squad kills all the witnesses. Bashir and O'Brien go on the run, and hope that Starfleet will turn up to rescue them.
On DS9, Sisco and the others get word that there was a terrible accident. Everyone disarming the weapons was disentigrated - there's even a video to back this claim up!
Deep Space Nine [Season 2, Episode 14]
Whispers
Shown 6 Feb 94
O'Brien arrives home after an away mission, and discovers that there seems to be a conspiracy. Everyone on the station is hiding something from him ...
This evokes memories of the Conspiracy ep from Star Trek: TNG Season One . However, the ending has a wonderful twist.
Deep Space Nine [Season 2, Episode 15]
Paradise
Shown 13 Feb 94
Sisco and O'Brien get trapped on a planet where their tech won't work. They must adjust to life with a village of lo-tech settlers. However, the village matriarch is a controlling bitch!
Deep Space Nine [Season 2, Episode 16]
Shadowplay
This was written by Robert Hewitt Wolfe [creator of Andromeda ].
Quark's cousin is due to arrive on the station, wanted by the Cardassian authorities. Kira wants to arrest him and hand him over to the Cardassians - she is self-richeous enough to call QUARK a collaborator!!! Kira is distracted when her pseudo-lover Vedek Barial arrives, so she assigns Dr Bashir to spy on the Ferengi.
Odo and Dax are on a shuttle. They discover a remote colony, and assist the local Law Enforcement in investigating a series of mysterious disappearances.
Sisco decides that his son Jake should get a job. When they have labour-saving devices and no need for money, why bother?
Deep Space Nine [Season 2, Episode 17]
Playing God
Dax is given an aide, a trainee host. She shows him the ropes, including the Klingon restuarant!
The station has dual dangers this week - an infestation of Cardassian voles and some Space Seaweed that turns out to be a mini-universe!
Deep Space Nine [Season 2, Episode 18]
Profit and Loss
Shown September 1999
This features some Cardassian Dissidents, one of whom is Quark's former lover. Yes, unlike other Drek shows DS9 allows its characters to become well-rounded, to have merits as well as flaws. Quark is this reviewer's favourite character; he is not part of the namby-pamby Federation, and actually has to work for a living!
Deep Space Nine [Season 2, Episode 19]
Blood Oath
Shown September 1999
This episode features John Colicos, Michael Ansara and William Campbell. Yes, yet another crossover with TOS. The 3 Klingon Captains that Kirk faced turn up on DS9. Dax joins them - Curzon [the previous host of the Dax symbiote] had sworn a blood oath to avenge their sons, slain by a pirate known only as the Albino.
Dax shows the Klingons how to neutralise all the phasers in an area before they attack with Bat'leths. How come Klingon scientists and technicians never thought of this? They would be invincible!
40. 2-20 440 24 Apr 94 The Maquis (1) 41. 2-21 441 1 May 94 The Maquis (2) 42. 2-22 442 8 May 94 The Wire 43. 2-23 443 15 May 94 Crossover 44. 2-24 444 22 May 94 The Collaborator 45. 2-25 445 5 Jun 94 Tribunal 46. 2-26 446 12 Jun 94 The Jem'Hadar
Season 3
Star Trek: Deep Space 9 [Season 3, Episode 1]
The Search (1)
Shown 26 Sep 94
The actor who plays Bashir is listed as Siddig El Fadil , and Avery Brooks still has hair!
Star Trek: Deep Space 9 [Season 3, Episode 2]
The Search (2)
Shown 3 Oct 94
Star Trek: Deep Space 9 [Season 3, Episode 3]
The House Of Quark
Shown 16 Oct 94
Closing time at Quark's bar, and a Klingon dies in a drunken brawl. Quark is then dragged into Klingon politics.
Star Trek: Deep Space 9 [Season 3, Episode 4]
Equilibrium
Shown Third Week, July 2000
This is an early Dax episode. It is character-based, not part of the Arc that appears in Season 2. Dax [ Terry Farrell ] has strange waking dreams where she sees a mysterious masked man. The answer has to do with one of her symbiote's previous hosts.
Star Trek: Deep Space 9 [Season 3, Episode 5]
Second Skin
Shown Second Week, July 2000
Kira is captured by the Cardassians, and wakes up to discover she has been adapted to become one of them. This episode is the earliest this reviewer is aware of that mentions the Obsidian Order, the Cardassian Intelligence organisation that fights for power against rival Cardassian military power-bases. The Order seems to be plotting something. Only Garak [Andrew Robinson] can save her.
Star Trek: Deep Space 9 [Season 3, Episode 6]
The Abandoned[directed by Avery Brooks]
Shown Second Week, July 2000
Quark buys a cargo that contains the salvaged parts of a mysterious ship found in the Gamma Quadrant. Among the wreckage he discovers a baby of unknown species - and when he reports this to Sisco the entire cargo is impounded without compensation.
The child grows at an incredible speed - by 12 weeks old it is the equivalent of an 8-year-old human. Its cognitive abilities mean it has mastered the English language by this stage. Which begs the question, do Fed crew wear Universal Translators? Bashir discovers the kid was genetically altered, and has an inbuilt dependency on an isogenic enzyme.
After all these hints, most regular viewers should be able to guess the creature's species. The only one who can capture the kid is Odo, who it reveres. Yes, this episode takes place AFTER the revelations about the Founders.
The creature moves in with Odo, as a house-guest. Can Odo teach the creature free will, or will its killer instinct win out? Can touchy-feely crap win out over the nature of a Tiger or a Great White Shark?
The B-story is about Sisco's relationship with his son. Jake is a 16-year-old boy, while his GF Marta is a 20-year-old Dabo Girl [a woman]. The problem is, Sisco does not realise how mature his own son is.
Deep Space Nine [Season 3, Episode 7]
Civil Defense
Shown 7 Nov 94
Deep Space Nine [Season 3, Episode 8]
Meridian
Shown August 2000
Shown 20th January 2002 [Sunday]
The Defiant stumbles across a planet that phase-shifts in and out of the solid universe 50 years at a time. The crew beam down and explore, and Dax falls in love with one of the natives. She must decide whether to stay in her own universe, or join the phase-shifters.
Meanwhile, back on the space station one of Quark's business associates [played by Jeffrey Combs, who also plays the Dominion's ambassador] wants a holo-sex program of Lieutenant Kira. Kira not only will not shag anyone in RL, she won't let people shag holograms of her, either!
This was directed by Jonathan Frakes.
Deep Space Nine [Season 3, Episode 9]
Defiant
Shown August 2000
Shown 20th January 2002 [Sunday]
Commander Riker [TNG] arrives on the station, and Kira takes a liking to him. She decides to give him a tour of the Defiant, and he decides to take it for a spin.
The Cardassian Obsidian Order is plotting against the Cardassian military.
Riker and Kira both misuse the term terrorist.
Sisco says he helped to design the Defiant, now he must help destroy it. He tells the Cardassians how to detect cloaked ships by using a Dominion anti-proton beam - thus revealing a major military secret.
Deep Space Nine [Season 3, Episode 10]
Fascination
Shown August 2000
Shown 27th January 2002 [Sunday]
It's a Bajoran festival, Luxwana Troi [Councillor Troi's mother, played by Majel Barrett ] arrives on DS9, and the crew start to go super-horny. Jake develops a crush on Kira, who wants Vedek Bareil, who wants Dax, who wants Commander Sisco ...
Bashir and Kira can't keep their hands off each other. This is a terrible piece of acting, as their so-called lust displays a complete lack of passion! This episode was obviously made several years before their real-life romance!
Meanwhile, the married couple [O'Brien and Sisco] are having troubles.
This was directed by Avery Brooks.
Deep Space Nine [Season 3, Episode 11]
Past Tense Part I
Shown 27th January 2002 [Sunday]
Sisco, Dax and Bashir travel to Earth and beam down to San Francisco. However, they end up several centuries earlier!
Oddly enough, they aren't in the 20th century! They're in the year 2125, days before San Fran is scene of terrible riots.
Deep Space Nine [Season 3, Episode 12]
Past Tense Part II
Shown September 2000
Shown 3rd February 2002 [Sunday]
This episode was directed by Jonathan Frakes.
Sisco, Bashir and Dax [ Terry Farrell ] are trapped in a previous century. The 2 guys are inside a ghetto for the unemployed; Dax is shacked up with a multi-millionaire publisher. This is one of the first episodes where we are shown what a babe Dax is: she struts round in high heels, sheer black stockings and a micro-skirt.
Meanwhile, Kira and O'Brien are on the Defiant in DS9-time, trying to recover their comrades.
Deep Space Nine [Season 3, Episode 13]
Life Support
Shown 3rd February 2002 [Sunday]
Kira's BF the Vedek is brought aboard the station. He is slowly dying of an illness. Wynn pressures Bashir into trying a quick cure, regardless of the risk.
Deep Space Nine [Season 3, Episode 14]
Heart of Stone
Shown 3rd February 2002 [Sunday]
Odo and Kira explore a remote cave. Kira gets trapped by a strange crystal, and as it slowly kills her Odo must examine his feelings for her.
Deep Space Nine [Season 3, Episode 15]
Destiny
Shown 10th February 2002 [Sunday]
Starfleet decides to embark on a wormhole project with help from civilian technicians from the Cardassian Science Ministry. They include Tracey Scoggins [ Babylon 5, Watchers 2], who is still babelicious despite the make-up.
However, the Bajorans have an ancient prophesy that the Celestial Temple [the wormhole] will be destroyed by the Sword of Stars [a comet].
Ms Scoggins starts to develop an attraction to Chief O'Brien. O'Brien allows the Cardassians full access to Federation phaser technology!
Deep Space Nine [Season 3, Episode 16]
Prophet Motive
Shown 10th February 2002 [Sunday]
Grand Nagus Zek arrives on DS9, and acts in a generous and caring fashion. Quark is shocked by the change, and tries to uncover the source.
Quark was planning to sell a cargo of stem-bolts at excessive profit. Somehow commerce is supposed to be unethical, though if the goods cannot be replicated then they are worth whatever people are willing to pay for them!
Deep Space Nine [Season 3, Episode 17]
Visionary
Shown 17th February 2002 [Sunday]
Deep Space Nine [Season 3, Episode 18]
Distant Voices
Shown 17th February 2002 [Sunday]
Bashir suffers a telepathic attack courtesy of an alien. He finds himself rapidly aging, and the rest of the DS9 crew reflect aspects of his personality.
This is something of a wasted opportunity. It could have been a wonderfully surreal episode, worth of David Lynch . However, they ended up with something far inferior to Vanilla Sky .
Deep Space Nine [Season 3, Episode 19]
Through The Looking Glass
Shown 24th February 2002 [Sunday]
Deep Space Nine [Season 3, Episode 20]
Improbable Cause
Shown 24th February 2002 [Sunday]
A known assassin is aboard the station, and someone blows up Garak's shop. A conspiracy is afoot, and both the Romulan Tal Shiar and the Cardassian Obsidian Order are somehow involved. Garak and Odo set out to discover what is going on.
Deep Space Nine [Season 3, Episode 21]
The Die Is Cast
Shown 2nd March 2002 [Saturday]
Deep Space Nine [Season 3, Episode 22]
Explorers
Shown 3rd March 2002 [Sunday]
Dr Bashir meets Dabo-girl Leeta [ Chase Masterson ]. However, their assignation is cut short by news that Bashir's rival from Medical School will soon be visiting the station.
Sisco decides to do a Thor Heyderdahl. He builds a primitive space-ship equipped with solar sails, and plans to repeat an ancient journey from Bajor to Cardassia. His son Jake joins him for the journey.
Deep Space Nine [Season 3, Episode 23]
Family Business
Shown th February 2002 [ day]
Deep Space Nine [Season 3, Episode 24]
Shakaar
Shown
Kai Wynn, now the Bajorans' First minister, requests Kira's help. Some rowdy farmers have refused to return government-owned agricultural machinery. Kira is the obvious negotiator, because the farmers are her old Resistance colleagues.
This ep shows the dangers of having a government dependant on the support of its own military. The Bajoran society is based around the Resistance, which is not the best way to run a society. The debate of centring agriculture on small-scale food crops or industrialised export crops becomes a violent struggle that may turn into civil war. The Bajorans have no native concept of democracy - although the solution is sickly-sweet.
Sisco is officially asked for help by the Bajoran Government, but refuses because he feels Wynn is overreacting. Although it's nice to see a loose attitude to insurrection on a Federation protectorate, one can't help thinking that he only does it because of his personal dislike for Wynn!
Meanwhile, Nog is trying to get into the Starfleet academy. Now, it took Wesley Crusher (a supposed uber-genius) several tries. Can the teenage Ferengi master simple tasks?
Deep Space Nine [Season 3, Episode 25]
Facets
Shown
Dax summons 7 major characters to the wardroom for a secret briefing. She regards each as a friend, and asks them all to embark in a secret Trill ritual. Another Trill, a guardian, will magically transfer the memories and personalities of the previous hosts into the unjoined Humans, Bajorans and Ferengi!
Each pseudo-host displays different aspects. Bashir gets to use a different accent, while Lyta shows off her gymnastic skills. She's not just a set of large breasts - she has great legs as well! Quark is conned by sexual pleasure into becoming a little old lady - Shimmerman gives a great performance, which rather puts Sisco's turn as Joran (the murderous musician) to shame. But best of all is Odo, who becomes the Old Man Curzon that Sisco was so fond of!
The shapeshifter's body allows for a more complete melding, so Odo is now the equivalent of a joined Trill. Curzon's presence allows him to create a more humanoid face, with actual hair. The joined personality is completely different, too. He drinks like a fish, and wins at Tongo against a cheating Ferengi!
The climax is Curzon's confrontation with Jadzia. She's had self-doubts for some time, and now she gets to physically confront herself (in a manner of speaking). Curzon admits why he didn't accept her as a host first time round.
Dax wants Curzon to return. But he likes being bonded with Odo, and the feeling is mutual. The benefits for both parties are incredible. This is similar to Voyager episode Tuvix, where Tuvok and Neelix are bonded as a new creature. However, Sisco can't justify forced seperation ...
Shown 17th January 2001 [Wednesday]
Newly-promoted Sisco is commanded to take the Defiant on a dangerous mission. However, there is a saboteur on board. Luckily [and inexplicably] Odo and Kira are aboard the Federation vessel!
The Defiant is sent on a mission, to stop a civil war. Sisco takes most of his command crew - Bashir and O'Brien are essential, Dax is probably useful but Kira's not Starfleet, so why is she going? It's just as well that she does, because she's one of the few people authorised to initiate the Defiant's self-destruct. Why such an important duty is given to someone who's not even a Federation citizen isn't explained. And who will run the station when the main crew are away?
Someone aboard is a changeling. Is it a regular cast member, or the Head of Security that Starfleet appointed. The new character isn't in the title credits, and the writers don't go out of their way to make him likeable. Almost as if he's just there to be written out ...
Odo refuses to carry a phaser, even one set to stun. He says that no Changeling has ever harmed another - although he's not part of their society, and thus shouldn't be held to their rules. Also, the Security Boss points out that if the imposter's mission is successful then everyone aboard will be killed as a direct result - including Odo.
The crew attempt to search the ship, one room at a time. But not only do they forget that the Changeling could be ANY physical object, they also get split up repeatedly. They then decide to test everyone's blood, like in The Thing ...
Season 4
Shown 7 Oct 95
A Klingon Fleet appears at DS9, under command of General Martok. Sisco calls in the best negotiator Starfleet has - its own tame Klingon, Worf!
Worf manages to embitter General Martok. Luckily he's still friendly with Chancellor Gowron. This is especially ironic when you consider how the final Season ends!
Shown 7 Oct 95
Shown 9 Oct 95
Fifty years in the future, and Jake Sisco now looks like Tony Todd [Worf's brother!]. He reminisces about how his dad disappeared during a wormhole anomaly. The rest of the crew helps him try to get his dad back. In that future, the crew are all the original actors in makeup (including Dax!).
Shown 16 Oct 95
O'Brien and Bashir head home from the Gamma Quadrant a few days early. They get captured by some Jemhadar - and nobody knows they're missing, so there's no hope of rescue. The Jemhadar are running out of Ketracel White. Their leader wants to break the addiction, so they can escape from the Dominion. Bashir feels obliged to help them, while O'Brien feels his duty to Starfleet is to escape.
Back on DS9, Worf is suspicious of Quark. He thinks that Odo is letting him get away with criminal activity, and takes it as his duty [as Starfleet Security Boss] to interfere.
Shown 23 Oct 95
Shown 30 Oct 95
Some Trill Scientists arrive on the station. One is the new host for the symbiote of a wife of a previous host of Dax's. Strangely, since all they have is someone else's memories, they decide to pursue a lesbian relationship. Unfortunately, that's a major taboo among Trills.
The story itself is nonsensical, but it addresses issues in contemporary American society.
Shown 6 Nov 95
Jemhadar attack the Defiant, and trap it in a planet's corrosive atmosphere. The crew pair off and bond - Worf and O'Brien, Kira and Sisco, Dax and Bashir, Quark and an alien he cheated [a makeup-clad James Cromwell - Star trek: First Contact ].
Shown 11 Nov 95
Quark gets a shuttle from his untrustworthy cousin. He and his brother take Nog to Earth, to enroll in the Starfleet Academy. Thanks to a temporal anomaly the Ferengi end up on Earth ... Roswell, New Mexico, in 1947!
Conor Farrell [ Dark Skies ] is in a black suit, helping debrief the aliens. However, this time he's a professor rather than an MIB!
Shown Nov 95
Quark's bankrupt. Luckily, his arms dealer cousin [who tried to kill him last ep] pops up and offers him a job. There's even a great reference to Orson Welles' speach in The Third Man.
Steven Berkoff [Rambo II] pops up as a business partner, and Laurence Tierney [Reservoir Dogs] is a customer.
The Federation disapproves of Quark's business, but can do nothing against him. Berkoff supplied the Bajoran resistance, you see. Back when the Federation signed non-aggression pacts with the Cardies, and even handed their own colonies over! Yes, the feds are fascists.
Sidig El Fadil directed this. He also appears in the subplot, concerning O'Brien's baby.
Shown 2 Dec 95
Bashir and Garak are enjoying a 1960s-style spy adventure in the holodeck. However, the rest of the main cast are in a transporter accident and end up trapped in the emergency buffers of the holodeck. Bashir and Garak must play along with the plot, without killing any of the others. Predictably, of course, the safeties are off!
83. 4-11 483 1 Jan 96 Homefront (1) 84. 4-12 484 8 Jan 96 Paradise Lost (2) 85. 4-13 485 29 Jan 96 Crossfire 86. 4-14 486 5 Feb 96 Return To Grace
Shown 17 Feb 96
Worf's brother [Tony Todd - Candyman ] arrives on DS9. He wants to remove the family dishonour - by the Klingon version of Sepukku.
88. 4-16 488 19 Feb 96 Bar Association 89. 4-17 489 26 Feb 96 Accession 90. 4-18 490 8 Apr 96 Rules Of Engagement 91. 4-19 491 15 Apr 96 Hard Time
Shown 27 Apr 96
93. 4-21 493 29 Apr 96 The Muse 94. 4-22 494 6 May 96 For The Cause 95. 4-23 496 13 May 96 To The Death 96. 4-24 495 20 May 96 The Quickening 97. 4-25 497 10 Jun 96 Body Parts
Shown 1st August 2005 [Monday]
Odo has contracted a disease, so Sisco takes him to the Dominion. Garak tags along for the ride. He even gets to fight someone, though it's not exactly exciting.
There's lots of continuity in this ep - unusual for Trek. The Founders want to put Odo on trial for killing a fellow shapeshifter in a previous ep. Garak wants to know what happened to a Cardassian invasion fleet sent after the Founders. And the ending - Odo's punishment and the Klingon intervention - set up yet more continuity between future eps.
Season 5
Star Trek: Deep Space 9 [Season 5, Episode 1]
Apocalypse Rising
Shown 30 Sep 96
Thanks to Odo's revelation at the end of last season, the Federation know that a senior Klingon is actually a changeling.
Shown 7 Oct 96
The DS9 crew are besieged aboard a crashed Jemhadar ship.
This is a predictable piece of filler. O'Brien bonds with some Starfleet tech we've never seen before ... Guess who the redshirt is?
Shown 14 Oct 96
Quark's Klingon wife, Grilka [ Mary Kay Adams ] from the Season 2 ep House of Quark pays a visit. Dax helps Quark learn Klingon courtship ritiuals ...
Meanwhile, Dax and Worf begin a courtship of their own.
Shown 21 Oct 96
Jake Sisco, teenage reporter, becomes war correspondent at a small Starfleet outpost under attack by the Klingons.
Shown 28 Oct 96
O'Brien's wife Keiko returns from the Pah-Wraith Caves. Unfortunately she'd been possessed by one of the pah-wraiths, and it wants him to help it attack the wormhole ...
Shown 4 Nov 96
The main cast get sent back to the Kirk era. Digitally edited into the TOS episode Trouble with Tribbles, they try to save Kirk's life but without disturbing the timeline.
Sisco, Bashir, Dax and O'Brien are all in earlier versions of their Starfleet costumes, while Odo and Worf try to look like civilians. Bashir states I'm a doctor, not a historian. When asked about the TOS-era Klingons, Worf replies We don't talk about it! And Dax, in a skimpy red dress, has a thing for ... Spock? And McCoy, too!
Shown 11 Nov 96
Dax and Worf go for a romantic holiday. However, when they meet up with Curzon's ex [ Vanessa L Williams ] Worf gets jealous and teams up with a bunch of puritanical bores.
Shown 18 Nov 96
Sisco, Garak, Odo and Dax find themselves 7 years back in time. They're Bajorans on DS9 under Cardassian Occupation.
Dax gets lucky, and catches the eye of Gul Dukat. After all, he was good enough for Kira's mother! Meanwhile, the others avoid the attentions of Odo's predecessor, Thrax [Kurtwood Smith - who co-starred with Odo and Worf in ST 6: Undiscovered Country ].
Shown 12th August 2005 [Friday]
Odo takes Quark to a Federation prison, but their runabout is sabotaged. They crashland on a remote uninhabitable planetoid.
Meanwhile, Jake and Nog become roomies. While the enemies started to bond, the 2 buddies realise how different they are.
Shown 30 Dec 96
Shown 13th August 2005
Sisco becomes obsessed with finding a lost city on Bajor. After being KO'd by an electrio shock he also claims to have visions ...
Kai Wynn decides that Sisco is the true Emissary, and tries to help him. The Federation announce they will accept Bajor as a member - and Kassiday Yates [ Penny Johnson ] pops by for a visit.
Everything looks good for Sisco. But the electrification he received is killing him, and if Bashir cures him he may not get visions again ...
Shown 6 Jan 97
Shown 15th August 2005
Someone is assassinating members of Kira's terrorist unit. Odo and the other self-richeous gits are eager to get the person responsible, irrespective of the fact that Kitra confesses to crimes and terrorism.
It's scary that a pair of middle-aged ex-terrorists are better than Odo's trained deputies. Even scarier is the fact that Kira, heavily pregnant, outfights multiple Starfleet Security personnel!
The assassin is far more sympathetic than the racist Kira. Unfortunately her racism isn't addressed. A pity, especially since Sisco harps on about our people in a later ep. Racism's an issue in Trek, it seems, but humanising the racists isn't.
Shown 27 Jan 97
Shown 3 Feb 97
Shown 17th August 2005
Sisco is on a personal mission - revenge against a Starfleet officer who outsmarted him and defected to the Maquis. The defector outsmarts the Feds at every step, sabotaging the Defiant and outwitting his pursuers. Finally, a decent antagonist! And since O'Brien installed an ESB-type holo-com system, he and Sisco can go face to face.
The defector is out to ethnically cleanse all Cardassian colonists out of the DMZ. He sees himself as a robin hod syle figure, protecting the innocent.
Sisco realises that he must think like a villain to defeat the defector. He doesn't appreciate the irony that his hunt for the defector begins in a refugee camp filed with starving childen! For all his self-richeousness and high-minded ideals, he cares nothing for the suffering of innocent people. And his solution illustates this.
Shown 10 Feb 97
Shown 18th August 2005
Gul Dukat arrives on DS9 to see his daughter. He discovers she's befriended Garak, and blames Kira for this.
Garak and Worf go to the Gamma Quadrant to find Garak's mentor, whose ship was destroyed by the Dominion. This allows Garak some character-development, and introduces the thrat of Dominion invasion.
With regard to the Soap Opera aspects of the series: Kira's squeezed out the O'Brien sprog, and Odo's got his mojo back.
Shown 17 Feb 97
Shown 19th August 2005
Cardassia, under its new leader Gul Dukat, has joined the Dominion! Strange, since the Founders previously told Garak they would exterminate the entire Cardassian race. Dukat's plans - drive the Klingons out of Cardassian space, destroy the Maquis ... and retake Terak Nor!
Bashir, Worf, Garak and Martok are all cellmates in a Dominion POW camp. Nice coincidence! And just like in The Great Escape, the one in the tunnel is claustrophobic!
Sisco, with a Dominion saboteur aboard DS9, must organise a defence against the Dominion/Cardassian invasion. Unfortunately, despite the setup the ep's climax is ... unclimactic.
Shown 24 Feb 97
Shown 21st August 2005
Dr Zimmerman [Robert Picardo] arrives on DS9. His task - to build the EMH mark II, using Bashir as the template!
This is a wonderful, light-hearted piece. We get to see our favourite Comic Relief character interview the main cast, and even try to seduce Lyta the Dabo Girl! She's a money-grubbing slut, of course - playing him off against the Ferengi.
The ep takes a more serious twist when Bashir's parents turn up. The twist itself has no foreshadowing, and makes no real sense when compared to earlier eps. A pity, really - the ep's wasted potential just underlines everything bad about modern Trek.
Shown 31 Mar 97
Shown 22nd August 2005
Odo drops out of of Bashir's new James Bond holonovel, because he is still uncomfortable with interpersonal relationships with humanoid females. Unluckily for him, his next criminal investigation involves a manipulative Femme Fatale.
The lady in question is on the run from the Orion Syndicate. They send a couple of sub-Tarantino hitmen after her.
Odo's stupid enough to fall tor a completely . Luckily, she's stupid too - she tries to trade them a data crystal, but doesn't even think to chack what's on it.
Strangely, while Starfleet had phaser-blast sensors in ST 6: Undiscovered Country they haven't installed them in DS9, over half a century later. Also ... Odo's liquid form is about a couple of litres worth. How can he ... with a humanoid female?
Shown 7 Apr 97
Shown 23rd August 2005
Shown 14 Apr 97
Shown 24th August 2005
Kira's Cardassian father-figure arrives on DS9. Unfortunately he's dying, which takes Kira back to the death of her real father.
Being a Kira-centric ep, we get lots of typical Kira racism. After all, she is an unreformed terrorist and hatemonger.
Speaking of villains, Gul Dukat arrives on the station. Purely in a diplomatic role, of course. No mention is made of his daughter or Garak, her paramour.
Dukat is accompanied by Weyoun. Yes, it seems the Weyouns are clones. In other words, Jeffrey Cooms won't be out of work any time soon..
Shown 21 Apr 97
Shown 25th August 2005
Quark's bar is closed due to re-infestation by Cardassian voles. Worse, his idiot brother is marrying Dabo-slut Lyta [ Chase Masterson ]. Yes, it's not just Ferengi who like to profit - that angelic Bajoran is sleeping with her boss, shagging her way to the top.
Quark, in his dispair, runs home to his mother. She's still having an affair with Grand Nagus Zek, a source of much discomfort for Quark. But Liquidator Brunt [Jeffrey Cooms] offers him his trading licence back if he saves Ferengi society from the Females influence ...
Shown 28 Feb 97
Shown 26th August 2005
General Martok is sent to rescue a missing Klingon warship. He takes Worf and Dax along, as first mate and science officer.
Klingon morale is at an all-time low. Martok, scarred by 2 years in a Dominion prison camp, avoids combat at all chances. There isn't even any blood-wine aboard!
Small wonder the crew are revolting. As in, mutinous. Can Dax and Worf set things right?
It's amazing how much Dax's character has been developed this Season. She's Curzon in Jadzia's body, and so much more interesting because of it. Pity it took 5 years to make her interesting!
Shown 5 May 97
Shown 29th August 2005
Shown 12 May 97
Shown 30th August 2005
Shown 19 May 97
Shown 31st August 2005
O'Brien, Garak, Nog and a pack of redshirts go to a derelict Cardassian space station. Unfortunately they aren't alone on the station. They get picked off one by one ...
The final confrontation pits a couple of central characters against each other. It's certainly an interesting idea.
Conveniently the station's internal structure is identical to DS9's, so they can use the same sets [with different lighting, of course].
Shown 9 Jun 97
Shown 5th September 2005
Jake and Nog try to buy Sisco a present, a Willie Mays baseball card, at auction. However, someone else bids more than them. They try to buy it back from him ...
The problem with Federation Communism is, it has no currency. Therefore, everything is reduced to a barter system. Nog is really the brains behind this - Jake is taken in by Feddie propaganda, but admits he doesn't know what working for the betterment of ourselves and mankind actually means.
The winner, being a mad scientist, wants lots of specialist gear that only the senior officers can provide. Therefore the dynamic duo end up satisfying the desires of the main cast. This raises morale ...
Kai Wynn and Weyoun are on the station to sign a non-aggression pact between the Dominion and Bajor. Nice use of foreshadowing - this fits in well between Sisco's Emmisary ep [keeping Bajor out of the Federation] and the next ep [Season 5 finale].
Shown 16 Jun 97
Lyta and Rom are preparing for their marriage. However, the Dominion are preparing an invasion fleet.
Kira and Odo are avoiding each other - the result of a previous ep.
Season 6
Star Trek: Deep Space 9 [Season 6, Episode 1]
A Time To Stand (2)
Shown 29 Sep 97
Shown 6 Oct 97
Shown 13 Oct 97
Shown 20 Oct 97
Shown 12th September 2005
Jake, Rom, Kira and Odo have all stayed on the station. They're secretly running a resistance operation. For Jake and Rom this is a breach of neutrality, making them illegal combatants. Kira and Odo, however, are guilty of Treason against Bajor! Quark, Morn and other innocent bystanders are put at risk, too.
They shouldn't bother with resistance - Weyoun and Dukat do well enough sabotaging their own plans. And Gul Dumar has started taking to the bottle.
One of the founders is trapped in the Alpha Quadrant. Yes, it's the female one we always see. She visits Odo, melding with him and convincing him to embrace his nature. She explains about their species - when she rejoins the link the droplet is lost in the ocean. In other words they have no individuality ... like the Borg! And when she melds with Odo, he slowly loses his own individuality.
Sisco is promoted to a desk job, leaving Dax in command of the Defiant. Given the symbiote's experience [from Curzon alone], it should be an Admiral by now!
Shown 27 Oct 97
Shown 3 Nov 97
Shown 14th September 2005
It's time for the final battle for control of DS9. The Dominion send about 1200 ships, and the Feds have a similar number. They line up opposite each other in archaic style, within visual range. Sisco commands from his flagship, while Weyoun and Dukat share command and issue orders from the safety of DS9. And the Feds are using starfighters!
Meanwhile, Dumar is sorting out the Resistance on DS9. This means Quark has to take action, and Odo has to choose sides.
Shown 10 Nov 97
Shown 17 Nov 97
Shown 16th September 2005
Kira's old lover, the religious leader,is back on the station. However, it's not him - it's his duplicate from the Mirror universe.
It seems the Mirror universe rules of attraction hold steady. And naturally enough, the most intersting duplicate, the Intendant, turns up.
Quark, oddly enough, is the one who saves the day. A real shame that Kira never truely appreciates him.
Shown 24 Nov 97
Shown 18th September 2005
Bashir, an out-of-the-closet genetically enhanced person, is put in charge of a group of botched enhancements. However, these mismatched savants turn out to have their uses.
Dumar has taken Dukat's place, but is still shaken by events. A wonderful attempt to humanise the non-human, anti-Federation characters.
The enhancements ARE human, but the Fed characters have a discussion about the morality of enhancing people. It gives them an unfair advantage is the excuse for keeping them out of Starfleet. Harrison Bergeron might have something to say about that. And as for people PAYING to have children enhanced? I thought the Federation was a Socialist Utopia, where money was abolished. It was back in Star Trek: Deep Space 9 [Season 5, Episode 25] In The Cards !
Bashir is given temporary custody of a group of similar GM humies - though unlike him their modifications have made them both briliant and flawed. All have personality disorders to a varying extent - though since they had all been under lock and key since early childhood it is small wonder!
Anyhow, the perfect people [too perfect for the Federation nazis, anyhow] show their superior intellect by analysing Intelligence info on the Dominion - but in the end their findings are too shocking for the feeble Feds to take!
Shown First Week, January 2000
Shown 19th September 2005 - Monday
Quark's mother is captured by the Dominion, and the bartender recruits a gang of Ferengi renegades to rescue her. Finally, the most [ok, only] interesting species in the Drek universe finally get to display some talent and diversity!
Predictably, one of them [Inspector Brunt] is played by Jeffrey Cooms.
Shown 8 Jan 98
Shown 21st September 2005 [Wednesday]
Sisco is on a ship taking Dukatto trial. Typical Federation justice - the poor fellow's a Prisoner of War, and in his current mental state is unfit for trial. But that doesn't stop Ben Sisco. Until the ship is wrecked ...
Sisco wakes up alone with Dukat on an isolated planetoid. Yes, the Starfleet life-pods have warp engines and sensors to detect M-Class planets. Now, will our duo bond? Like in Enemy Mine [itself based on a classic World War Two film] ?
Dukat explains his actions during the occupation of Bajor. As in the flashbacks shown frequently in previous episodes, he is seen as reasonable. Does Benjy try to understand him? Difficult as the task may be, since Dukat is hallucinating about Kira goading him [though the racism she spouts is certainly in character].
Sisco condemns Dukat as being utterly evil. Ironic, considering the curent US occupation of Iraq. Would he be so flippant about a US Officer serving in Vietnam?.
Shown Third Week, January 2000
We only saw him at the bar, and he never spoke. However, everyone turns out to have been his best friend! This episode must be around Season 5; the Dax & Worf relationship is in full bloom.
Shown 11 Feb 98
Shown 18 Feb 98
Shown 23rd Sepember 2005 [Friday]
The Defiant sends a shuttle to investigate a subspace anomally. Then the JemHadar attack, easily boarding and capturing the Starfleet warship.
While Sisco tries to stall the JemHadar [rookies, cloned in the Alpha Quadrant so obviously less than a year old!] his only hope is the shuttle crew.
Unfortunately, the shuttle and crew [Bashir, O'Brien and Dax] have all been shrunk to minature proportion. Which leads on to some funny lines, and a not-too-serious but still quite fun episode.
Shown Second Week, February 2000
Chief O'Brien joins Starfleet Intelligence for an episode, and goes undercover as a gangster. However, like the Al Pacino/Johnny Depp movie Donnie Brasco he starts to get close to the targets ...
This is about the only insight we have ever had into non-Starfleet members of the Federation.
Shown 4 Mar 98
Shown 27th Sepember 2005 [Thursday]
Worf and Dax, despite being a married couple, are sent on a deadly mission together. They must trek through a jungle, avoiding Jemhadar patrols.
Worf is left with a choice - will he choose love over duty?
Shown 1 Apr 98
Was Kira's mom Dukat's lover? Kira uses the Orb of Time, and travels back. She and her mum are conscripted as comfort women. This involves makeup and expensive hairdos.
Shown 8 Apr 98
IA Boss Sloane William Sadler [ Roswell ] claims Bashir's a Dominion spy.
Shown 15 Apr 98
Sisko and Garak try to trick the Romulans into declaring war on the Dominion. Stephen McHattie guest-stars.
The Federation is desperate - we hear of the Fall of Betazed! However, we have to endure the self-richeous Sisko.
This ep has a very dark theme [for Trek].
Shown 22 Apr 98
This is a lighthearted ep after the serious ones - a musical. Vic Fontaine [James Darren - Time Tunnel ] is a 1960s niteclub singer, but he knows he's a hologram!
Worf and Dax go, as a married couple. Kira and 1st Minister Shakaar are together - her lover, 1 year after breakup.
Odd that Bashir has holo version of Kira, Quark doesn't.
Shown 29 Apr 98
A stone tablet uncovered is uncovered. It contains a prophecy of DS9's destruction.
Jake is put at risk.
Shown Fourth Week, April 2000
The intro scene involves Quark and Dax - Odo realises that the Ferengi cares about something other than gold-pressed latinum.
Nog and Jake are on a secret mission to Ferenginar, when they are ambushed by the Jem Hadar. They are rescued by a Defiant-Class ship called the Valiant. It turns out that the ship is run by Red Squad, a group of top-class Starfleet cadets who were on a training mission when the war broke out 8 months previously.
Star Trek: Deep Space 9 [Season 6, Episode 23]
Profit And Lace
Shown Second Week, May 2000
After the disgraced Ferengi Liquidator, Brunt, rescued Quark's mother from the Dominion, the Grand Nagus [Wallace Shawn] gave him his old job back. Brunt used the opportunity to depose his boss and become the new Nagus.
Quark must help his mother and the old Nagus regain power, by convincing the Ferengi that females should be allowed to wear clothes and earn profit. And once his mother ends up in sick-bay, there is only one way to provide a suitably business-minded Ferengi female ...
Star Trek: Deep Space 9 [Season 6, Episode 24]
Time's Orphan
Shown Third Week, May 2000
Chief O'Brien's daughter Molly is trapped on the far side of a time portal. O'Brien tries to get her back - but the time-grab gets her 10 years after she had first been trapped there. In other words, she went there aged 8 and came back aged 18, with no human interaction in between.
Molly's atavistic behaviour causes problems - she cannot adapt to her new environment, and wants to return home. Starfleet believe that homesickness is a mental illness, and want to confine her to a lunatic asylum indefinitely. How could ANYONE think that Federation is less than perfect?
Part of the problem of the episode is Molly's apparent immaturity; 8-year-olds are not completely lacking in intellect, for if they were then there would be no point in sending them to school! Also, she has no sign of any female hormonal activity - she does not even appear to become aware of the male gender.
Shown 10 Jun 98
Jake helps Quark organise Odo and Kira's anniversary. Of course, Quark has an ulterior motive.
Sisco and crew [including Kassiday Yates] take the Defiant to rescue a trapped Starfleet officer. They've never met her in person, but they talk to her [audio only] on subspace radio.
The twist ending is reminiscent of a 1970s animated scifi movie.
Star Trek: Deep Space 9 [Season 6, Episode 26]
Tears of the Prophets
Shown June 2000
Sisco is awarded the Christopher Pike Medal for Valor for his part in the re-taking of the space-station. He has been selected to lead an alliance of Federation, Klingon and Romulan fleets against the Dominion/Cardassian alliance.
Quark and Dr Bashir are both more than a little put out when Worf and Jadzia Dax [ Terry Farrell ] announce that they are planning to have children. As with Jane Seymour in Battlestar Galactica , this should set off alarm bells for everyone watching.
On the Cardassian side, Gul Dukat has returned from the wilderness - no longer in command, and slightly crazy to boot. However, he has a cunning plan.
Season 7
Shown 24th January 2001 [Wednesday]
Sisco and Jake leave DS9 and return to Earth. However, the Prophets have something in mind for him. Also, Niki de Boer pops up at the end ...
On DS9, Odo and Kira [apparently now lovers] have to negotiate with their new Romulan allies.
Finally, Worf and everyone else go off on a dangerous mission so they can send Jadzia's soul to Klingon Valhalla.
Shown 31st January 2001 [Wednesday]
The new Dax was an unwilling host, which certainly makes for a more entertaining character than the elitist perfect person type would. She joins the Siscos, who head out to a desert planet [the budget actually covered REAL desert scenes!] with entrenchng tools. While Sisco digs, he gets visions of himself as a writer in a loonybin.
Shown 21st February 2001 - Wednesday
Ezri Dax cannot adjust to the way people on the station treat her, so she decides to leave. First, she has to soothe Garak's troubles.
Shown 21st March 2001 [Wednesday]
DS9 is visited by a starship captained by a Vulcan rival of Sisco's. The Vulcan challenges Sisco to a baseball match, and Sisco naturally accepts. The result is ... DS9's motley crew against a bunch of well-trained Vulcans!
Shown 28 Oct 98
Bashir's genetically-enhanced gimps want him to cure comatose girl. Can he?
This is a nice little interpersonal drama with characters we almost care about.
Shown 4th April 2001 [Wednesday]
Weyoun contacts Odo and claims he wants to defect from the Dominion. Weyoun defects to Odo - Bonding.
Nog gets tech gear for O'Brien, thanks to his Ferengi bartering skills.
This is the first mention of disease among the Founders.
Shown 11th April 2001 [Wednesday]
Worf is visited by the legendary Klingon warrior, Kor [John Colicos]. Kor wants a commission aboard a Klingon war vessel. Worf gets it for him, despite the antipathy that Admiral Martok bears for the old man. However, when battle commences we learn why Kor was refused a commission by the high command.
The sub-plot involves Ezri Dax and Quark, who seems to have a crush on her.
Shown 18th April 2001 [Wednesday]
Shown 9th May 2001 [Wednesday]
Dukat is now leader of a Pa-Wraith cult. There is preaching about Sins of the Flesh, but the story-telling is extremely predictable. The scope for developing Dukat beyond a cardboard villain is totally lost, as is the chance for Kira to appreciate any change that may have happened to him.
Shown 16th May 2001 [Wednesday]
Shown 23rd May 2001 [Wednesday]
Ezri Dax is sent home because her Trill pal was killed. She meets with her mother [ Leigh Taylor-Young ], and we learn that Ezri's family runs a Big Business. As a result they have been targetted by the Orion Syndicate. They trade for gold-pressed Latinum - the Ferengi currency, so why it is used within the Federation is a mystery.
Shown 30th May 2001 [Wednesday]
Quark, Rom and the Grand Nagus accidentally end up in the Mirror Universe. They land in the hands of Worf, Garak, the Intendant and Ezri. Meanwhile, O'Brien and Bashir are in the Defiant ...
Quark has to go to the mirror universe to rescue the Grand Nagus. There are some Cool ferengi! Also, there's a scenario with Dax, Intendant and Leeta ... the fanfic writes itself!
Shown 6th June 2001 [Wednesday]
There's a serial killer on the loose on DS9. Ezri Dax, the nearest thing they have to a psychiatric profiler, tries to discover who the killer is. She has an advantage: one of the previous Dax hosts, Joran, was a killer. Actually, so were Kurzon and Jadzia - the klingon-lovers who butchered their foes with deadly bat-leth blades. However, brutal disembowellment of complete strangers apparently doesn't count as killing!
Ezri channels Joran, and his consciousness [reconstructed from the symbiote's memories] appears to her. Joran tries to put her in the mindset of the killer, and as a result she has to choose - to kill or not to kill?
Shown 13th June 2001 [Wednesday]
A renegade shapeshifter tries to get Odo to help set up a new Link ...
Shown 20th June 2001 [Wednesday]
Vic Fontaine, the hologram singer in the Holosuite lounge, gets fired by his gangster. Although just a program, he knows about Starfleet. The crew band together to help Vic, and the only way is to rob the casino. Ezri Dax looks GREAT in the cocktail-waitress dress. Bashir's drink is a vodka martini, stirred not shaken ...
Quark and Worf aren't interested in helping. Quark thinks of you as the competition, someone tells Vic. But since Quark gets the door fee from Vic's, Only Sisco mentions that the place is historically inaccurate insofar as it doesn't bar African-American patrons. Yes, in the perfect Federation, racism is still an issue with him. His references to Our people make him a segregationist ...
Shown 11th July 2001 [Wednesday]
Bashir is due to attend a medical conference on Romulus. Security there will be handled by the Tal Shiar, the infamous Romulan Secret Police.
Bashir is approached by a Section 31 operative named Sloan [William Sadler]. Sloan states that Bashir worked for them before, and will do so again because he is a man who likes secrets. There are more references to previous episodes, and this makes Bashir's namby-pamby hand-wringing pretty unbelievable.
Bashir tells Sisco, and we learn that Section 31 is unofficial and unacountable to Starfleet Command. Section 31 seems the only part of the Federation that is actually EFFECTIVE, so the distaste the Feds show towards it is quite worrying.
We get to see the Friendly Romulan, Senator Cretak [ Adrienne Barbeau ], and Romulan Ale, which resembles the blue milk in Star Wars.
Bashir's target is the Chairman of the Tal Shiar. Despite the Romulan's interest in using germ warfare on civilians [and torture on prisoners], our goody-goody Doctor gets moralistic about his mission.
Shown 25th July 2001 [Wednesday]
Typically for Trek, this episode does not have an Arc. Instead in just leaves all the plot threads hanging, without even a to be continued at the end.
Ezri sets out on a one-Trill mission to save Worf. They run foul of the Boush-helmeted guys, the Breen ...
Sisco plans to marry his girlfriend, Kassidy Yates. However, the Prophets object ...
Weyoun assists the Founders in finding a cure for a mysterious malady that afflicts them. His Cardassian sidekick, sickened by the loss of life his people have suffered, secretly helps his old friend Dukat. As a side-effect, we finally get to see what Marc Alaimo looks like without the make-up.
Shown 1st August 2001 [Wednesday]
Kai Wynn gets a vision that tells her to follow the guide. Meanwhile, Dukat sets off for DS9 ...
Worf and Ezri are prisoners in a Breen spaceship. There are shades of the far superior Outer Limits episode.
Shown 15th August 2001 [Wednesday]
Kai Wynn and Dukat are now lovers. He reveals to her his belief in the Pah Wraiths ...
Sisco and his new wife Kassidy Yates start their underhand battle for supremacy within the marriage.
Gul Damar and Weyoun [re-cloned] bicker, especially since the Founders are now selling the Cardassians out to their new allies, the Breen.
Ezri and Worf are still bickering, now in Dominion prison. Worf even admits that he may use the word honour too much.
Shown 22nd August 2001 [Wednesday]
The Breen launch a secret surprise attack on the Federation's HQ - San Francisco!
Dukat and Kai Wynn get hold of the secret texts that contain the hidden message of how to unleash the Pah-Wraiths.
Ezri and Worf are finally back on DS9.
Shown 29th August 2001 [Wednesday]
Bashir and O'Brien try to find a cure for Odo's disease.
Odo and Kira join up with their new allies. Garak pops up ...
Worf and the Klingons prepare for battle.
Dukat falls out with Kai Wynn.
Star Trek: DS9 [Season 7, Episode 22]
Tacking Into The Wind
Shown 5th September 2001 [Wednesday]
Kira is having trouble with Damar and the Cardassian rebels. Garak discovers that Odo is physically degrading. They head off on a secret mission to steal a Breen superweapon, and it all ends in a Mexican stand-off.
Bashir and O'Brien realise that they cannot reverse-engineer an antidote to the shapechangers' virus. The only way to help Odo is by getting the antidote from the people who made it - the secretive Section 31.
Klingon Chancellor Gowron is sacrificing his own men in order to undermine his political rival, General Martok. Worf decides to make a stand against corruption.
Star Trek: DS9 [Season 7, Episode 23]
Extreme Measures
Shown 12th September 2001 [Wednesday]
Bashir and O'Brien set a trap for Bureau 31, in order to get the cure for Odo's disease. They get Sloan [Bill Sadler], but also get more trouble than they expect. O'Brien and Bashir do VR in Sloane's head - 42 minutes [like 24!]
The Breen and their weapon and Odo are taken to DS9.
Star Trek: DS9 [Season 7, Episode 24]
Dogs of War
Shown 17th September 2001 [Wednesday]
The episode's teaser ties up several plot threads from previous episodes: Bashir and Dax, Odo's disease, the Breen energy-damping weapons.
Kira, Garak and Damar end up trapped on occupied Cardassia. Jeffrey Combs in his first role [Weyoun] has things stitched up.
Odo accuses the Federation [since Section 31 is part of it] of genocide. He wants to give the Founders the cure. Sisco refuses - he claims to hate Section 31's tactics, but won't help his enemies repair the damage. And his attitude when the Dominion implements its new strategy is equally blunt.
Quark is in line to be the new Grand Nagus. Jeffrey Combs in his second role [Liquidator Brunt] kisses ass, and lets Quark know what's happened to the homeworld. It's almost like ... a Federation world!
Star Trek: DS9 [Season 7, Episode 25]
What We Leave Behind
Shown 24th September 2001 [Wednesday]
Ezri and Bashir are now lovers. They join Sisco, O'Brien, Worf and Odo aboard the new Defiant. The Federation fleet sets off for the final invasion.
Kira, Garak and Damar arrange for the Cardassian Resistance to co-ordinate their attacks to coincide with the Federation invasion.
Dukat returns to his lover, Kai Wynn. They head for the Fire Caves, intent on releasing the pah-wraiths.
Star Trek: DS9 [Season 7, Episode 26]
What We Leave Behind: Part II
Shown 3rd October 2001 [Wednesday]
The start of this episode is unique for a couple of reasons. Firstly, the Last Time On DS9 voice-over is by Louise Fletcher [Kai Wynn]. Secondly, before the opening credits roll we see the deaths of a couple of recurring characters.
The Dominion war is quickly ended, and the good guys head off to Quark's holosuite for a celebratory drink. Everyone is planning to split up and follow their own destiny.
However, Sisco has to complete his task as Emissary. He has to defeat the Pah-Wraiths.
The final quarter of the episode is flashback clips and tearful goodbyes. There are scenes from several comedy holodeck episodes, but nothing stirring - and Worf doesn't even remember his wife Jadzia!!! The final shot is reminiscent of the Babylon 5 intro shot, but in comparison Straczynski's ending is far superior.
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