Tuesday, May 05, 2015

Star Trek DS9 Episode 171 - When It Rains…

A very solid episode here. First of all Damar has been effectively keeping the Dominion on their toes with his uprising, this gives Sisko enough time to rebuild his forces. He also sends Kira to train the Cardassians in guerilla warfare. It's a crazy decision because the Cardassians not only hate Bajorans but I'm sure they especially would not want to take orders from a Bajoran woman. She handles herself well and kicks a bunch of ass, I almost start to like Kira at this point.


Meanwhile, fake Dukat looks at the sacred book and goes blind. This plot is getting worn thin, they could have ended it two episodes ago.

Bashir has taken a sample of Odo in order to test it. He is trying to found a cure to the disease that has been wiping out the Founders. It was sort of weird because I expected Odo to rip a piece of himself off and give it to Julian. But he seems to piss in a cup??? Anyway, Bashir finds out that Odo is infected! That is rather shocking. Not only that but Starfleet is unwilling to help him find a cure because they actually want the Founders to die...which honestly is understandable. Bashir then discovers that not only has Section 31 been sabotaging his work, but they were the ones who initially spread the virus. In fact, the first one they infected was Odo.

171 down and 5 to go

3 comments:

Unknown said...

I remember really enjoying the run to the end of DS9, but that Dukat storyline really sucked.

Mugato said...

I do enjoy this run. But yea this Dukat storyline is terrible, unless it is leading to something... I don't know. I must say though that Louise Fletcher has been excellent in these episodes. Although she just basically acts like Nurse Ratched

Unknown said...

It's leading to something, but nothing great.