Tuesday, January 06, 2015

Star Trek DS9 Episode 120 - Children of Time

"An accident causes the crew to meet their own descendants - and presents them with an ethical dilemma."

I rather enjoyed this episode. It was a good premise. The Defiant, with a full crew, gets trapped in a quantum bubble around a planet. They make their way down to the surface and discover that they have gone back in time two centuries. They end up meeting their own decedents. When the ship first got trapped they decided to start a new colony, so they all had kids and stuff. The only thing that is different is that Kira died soon after they initially landed.

They face a dilemma. Should they fix the past, but cause their descendants to no longer exist or should they stay trapped. They surprisingly decide to stay trapped. But, Odo is unwilling to allow Kira to be dead so he makes so he changes the past. They make it back to reality, but all of their descendants cease to exist.

120 down and 56 to go

4 comments:

Unknown said...

DS9 is so weird. Most of the time, it's a total original, different series, but then at least once or twice per season, they have real "Star Trek" episodes that stand out. It's not a bad thing, it's just interesting. The Star Trek episodes are always great, but they also stand out and feel out of place.

Mugato said...

I agree 100%. I almost feel that the Dominion episodes seem out of place. I feel that it should just be, "they live on a space station and people come to visit". I guess that would get boring.

Unknown said...

That sounds like a Trek version of Mama's Family.

Mugato said...

Hahaha. Literally filmed in one room