Star Trek VGR Episode 38 - Innocense

"Tuvok crash-lands on a moon and finds children who have been abandoned."

By far the best Tuvok episode yet. This was fantastic. The plot starts out as Tuvok attempts to basically babysit these kids. The contrast between stoic Vulcan and out of control children is very entertaining. Soon, Tuvok discovers that these children had been sent here to die, and now the others have come back to make sure that they are dead. Tuvok protects them and bonds with them. It is a very interesting look into the character of Tuvok.

In the end, you find out that these children are actually 90 year olds. Their race ages backwards. They were actually sent here to be in their final resting place.

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Star Trek VGR Episode 37 - Deadlock

"Attempting to evade the Vidiians, a duplicate Voyager is created after it passes through a spatial scission."

So that woman is having her baby and suddenly the ship starts getting ripped apart. It is evidently going through spatial scission just as The Doctor is making an incision.. that was a joke I guess. Anyway the baby dies and Kim is killed as well. Then suddenly Kes is back on Voyager and the baby survived. There are now two Voyagers... So Janeway meets with Janeway and they talk about how to get back to normal. The undamaged Voyager is without power and is soon attacked by Vidiians. The alternate Kim takes the alive baby and escapes through the rift to the damaged Voyager (which is hidden from the Vidiians). Janeway of the undamaged Voyager self-destructs the ship, leaving only one Voyager. But, is this the real Voyager? And Kim is now an alternate universe Kim?? I guess??? I'm very confused.

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Star Trek VGR Episode 36 - Investigations

One of the craziest cameo appearances ever. King Abdullah II of Jordan has a non speaking role towards the end of the episode. Evidently he is a huge Star Trek fan.

Neelix decides to have a talk show... no lie. He talks about random ship news and other corny variety show type stuff. Meanwhile, Paris (who has been increasingly out of control these past few episodes) finally snaps, he pushes Chakotay and gets put in the brig. He then asks for a transfer off of Voyager and onto a cargo vessel. Which is granted. While being transported he is suddenly abducted by Seska who tries to recruit him. Tuvak figures that the only way that Seska would have known about the transfer is if there was a spy on the ship.... and there is, Jiminy Crickett.

In order to get better ratings for his show...ughh.. Neelix decides to figure out who the spy is. Janeway and Tuvak reveal that this entire Paris incident was a ploy to flush out the spy. Unfortunately, Chakotay had no clue. But anyway, the plan works and Neelix ends up in a fight with Jiminy Crickett. Neelix kills him and Paris escapes from Seska. Even though Neelix was mostly a joke (as usual), I was glad to see his tougher side for once.

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Star Trek VGR Episode 35 - Lifesigns

The dying body of a Vidiian with the Phage is beamed aboard Voyager. As The Doctor works on her, he creates a hologram replica of the woman using her brain function. She even looks the same way that she did before the Phage. He discovers that this Vidiian woman is also a doctor, named Dr. Pel. They fall in love with each other.

Dr. Pel doesn't want to be put back into her human body because it is ugly. But the Doctor tells her that it doesn't matter, he will still love her. So he saves her physical body and she goes back. This is at least the second time that the Doctor has made-out with someone. He gets the most action on the ship!

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Star Trek VGR Episode 34 - Death Wish

No they do not discover a mummified Charles Bronson floating in space, this episode ain't that cool. What they do find is a suicidal Q trapped in a comet. He for some reason wants to die. Then the actual Q shows up! Yes, the one from TNG. He wants to have the Q (named Quinn) put back into the comet. This was his punishment for being suicidal. Quinn seeks asylum on Voyager, so Janeway decides to have a trial in order to decide Quinn's fate. Will Q take him and imprison him...or will he get asylum on Voyager where he can kill himself in peace?

Yes, that's the actual plot.

Q asks to bring witnesses from Earth, which he does under the agreement that he erase their memories afterwards. So he brings Riker, Isaac Newton and the fictional soundman at Woodstock named Maury Ginsberg?? Whatever. So at some point Quinn affected all of their lives for the best. Nonetheless, Janeway decides to grant Quinn asylum but also asks that Q make him human. She hoped that this would help him to be happy...it doesn't, he kills himself. What a weird episode. It was nice to see Q and he was just as funny as ever. But really...no need for this plot.

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Star Trek VGR Episode 33 - Dreadnaught

"A highly advanced Cardassian AI missile that had been reprogrammed by B'Elanna Torres is found in the Delta Quadrant."

I would say that this must be one of the best episodes so far. Very creative. So years ago when Torres was a Marqui with Chakotay, they found this super powerful Cardassian AI missile. This thing is the size of a small ship and can basically devastate a planet. In a controversial move Torres reprogrammed it to seek out the Cardassians. Then they never see the thing again.

Fast forward to the present. They are now in the Delta Quadrant and they find this missile flying through space. It is headed straight for a populated planet. Torres beams to the missiles control room and tries to deactivate it, but her initial safe guards prove too strong. I enjoyed how she converses back and forth with the missile.

Torres is having a tough time trying to deactivate this thing. She figures that she will have to basically beat herself in a battle of the wits. Meanwhile Janeway makes the decision to crash Voyager into the missile, thus stopping it but also killing themselves. Before she could do this, B'Elanna finally stops the AI system by shooting a wire with her phaser...yeah very anticlimactic. Nonetheless, it was well done. Also, it is revealed that Jiminy Crickett is betraying them to the Kazon.

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Star Trek VGR Episode 32 - Meld

A crewman is killed and Tuvok must find out who did it. This proves easy as the last man to see this crewmember, ends up being the killer. DNA confirms this and he finally confesses. His name is Lon Suder and he is played by Brad Dourif who was Billy in "The One Who Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest". Tuvok struggles to find out why Lon Suder killed this guy, but the answer is just too illogical... for no reason, Suder is a psycho killer qu'est ce que c'est ... Talking Heads anyone?? ...anyway he has  no control or remorse. In fact he claims to have killed a ton of people. This drives Tuvok mad because he doesn't understand this, so he decides to mind meld with Suder in order to get clarification.

Tuvok ends up with Suders emotions and vice versa. So now Lon has some elements of peace, but Tuvok has elements of a psychopath. He realizes this and locks himself in his room to keep the rest of the crew safe. There he goes crazy and destroys everything. The Doctor tries a process that will stabilize Tuvok but it takes time to work. In the meantime Tuvok goes to murder Suder but he stops himself and instead melds again, turning things back to normal. It was a good episode, Tuvok was great and Brad Dourif did an excellent job.

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Star Trek VGR Episode 31 - Threshold

"Tom Paris breaks the transwarp threshold in the Shuttlecraft Cochrane, designed to reach warp 10, but there are some peculiar side effects."


I'm sure there is a transwarp joke to be made, but I'm too lazy to think of one.

This episode had promise, then they just completely goofed it up. Having Voyager find a rare form of dilithium and Paris testing it out by going Warp 10 in a shuttlecraft is rather cool. Then Paris has a reaction to his test run. He begins to see things from every view point at once (mentally speaking), he loses the need for oxygen and for water. He physically turns into a hideous looking creature. Like Bruce Jenner.

The Doctor discovers a bombshell, Paris is actually going through the next phase of human adaptation. Like Bruce Jenner?? His journey caused him to accelerate this process significantly. Ok, this is actually interesting.

Then Paris kidnaps Janeway, they go to a swamp planet, they literally turn into salamanders (like Bruce Jenner??), they mate and have babies, and the Doctor turns them human again....

I should stick with Rocky Dennis jokes.

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Star Trek VGR Episode 30 - Alliances

"Janeway attempts to form an alliance with the Kazon to improve Voyager's standing in the Delta Quadrant."

A Kazon attacks and kills a crewmember. Chakotay offers up the controversial proposal to make an alliance with the Kazon, rather than fight them. After all, they just want to survive and get home. They set up a meeting with Seska. Meanwhile Neelix goes down to the Kazon planet and uses his contacts to inquire about an alliance. He ends up being taken prisoner by the Kazon and put into a "cell" with a group of Trabe. Neelix helps them escape and they end up back on Voyager.

The Kazon backstory is revealed... The Trabe had been a suppressive race that ruled the Kazon. But, at some point they rose up and overthrew the Trabe. Now they hunt the Trabe throughout the Quadrant and make their lives miserable. Janeway sets up a meeting between the Trabe and Kazon. They are leery of the Kazon because they are so angry and unpredictable. During the meeting a ship appears and begins firing at them... it is the Trabe, they betrayed everybody! Now everything is a disaster because nobody trusts anybody.

There are some great visual scenes in this episode, most notably the starship battle scenes. Also, the guy that plays Jiminy Crickett from Once Upon A Time is in this one... and I think he becomes a somewhat regular. Anyway, if you haven't seen Once Upon A Time, it's a very entertaining show.

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Star Trek VGR Episode 29 - Prototype

"The crew find and reactivate a robot's body which was adrift in space only to find themselves in the middle of a war when B'Elanna is abducted."

Excellent! Voyager finds a robot floating in space. Torres works night and day to reactivate it. The unit looks kind of cool, it's your basic looking AI system...almost like something from a 1950s Sci-Fi film. The backstory on these robots is that they were made by the "The Builders" (humanoids). The Builders died out and the AI units had to fend for themselves. They were basically used as servants and typical robots, but now they had to work together to survive. Which they did. Now they are starting to lose energy. This robot is impressed by Torres and asks her to help create a way to give his society more power. They already asked Tim Allen and he said no. Unfortunately Janeway denies this request due to the Prime Directive.

The robot departs the ship, but just before he does he zaps Torres and takes her. On the robot ship she is threatened into creating a prototype AI robot/energy source. Suddenly another ship arrives and begins to attack. This ship is full of different looking AI robots. Torres realizes that she is in the middle of a robot war. She also discovers the truth. The Builders had been in a war with another group, they eventually came to a truce. However, their AI units had no intention of ending the war. They eventually rose up and killed off The Builders so that they themselves could fight on with each other.
After hearing this, Torres destroys the prototype. While the two ships are engaged in battle, she manages to get beamed out. Voyager leaves the area. I wonder if we will see these robots again?

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Star Trek VGR Episode 28 - Resistance

"A mission to acquire Telerium goes wrong causing Tuvok and B'Elanna to be captured and believed to be with the resistance."

There was more to this episode than this rather basic plot. In fact, the Tuvok and Torres part was hardy interesting at all. It was the Janeway subplot that really sticks out. Tuvok, Torres and Janeway go to a planet ruled by the Mokra. They are basically an evil dictatorship. Tuvok and Torres end up captured, and Janeway ends up injured. She awakens in the home of a man. This guy (Caylem) thinks that she is his daughter. He is obsessed with saving his wife, who has also been captured by the Martok. Caylem and Janeway go to infiltrate the prison camp to save their wife/crewmembers. They are caught and taken to the leader, Augris. Augris reveals to Janeway that Caylem is just a crazed fool... they killed his wife like ten years ago and his daughter was killed a few years back.

A fight then breaks out and basically everyone is killed, except for Tuvok, Torres and Janeway. As Caylem is dying, Janeway soothes him by pretending she his daughter. It was a good moment. The guy that played Caylem (Joel Grey... Jennifer Grey's father) was outstanding. His acting was far superior to everyone else.


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Star Trek VGR Episode 27 - Maneuvers

"Kazon Nistrim board Voyager and steal a transporter module in an attempt to unite the Kazon sects."

Seska returns. She has taken her Kazon allies and lays a trap for Voyager. They attack and steal a transporter module. She is working hard to unite all of the various Kazon sects... because as one, they can easily rule this quadrant of space. Chakotay takes this personal and steals a shuttlecraft to go after her (which eventually earns him a
reprimand from Janeway). He ends up captured and tortured for the Voyager command codes. Unfortunately for Seska, the Kazon sects begin fighting each other and while everyone is distracted Torres beams Chakotay back out of there. The transporter module ends up destroyed. All seems fine, until Seska reveals that she stole Chakotay's
"DNA" and impregnated herself with it.... yes, "DNA".

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Star Trek VGR Episode 26 - Cold Fire

"An Ocampan helps Kes with her mental abilities as the crew encounter a being who appears to be the Caretaker's female counterpart."

I liked this episode. Voyager crew finds out that there is another Caretaker out there, a female. They venture off to track her down. They stumble upon a space station, full of Ocampan. This is a real surprise as Kes always thought that she was one of only a few Ocampan left. They meet the leader Tanis. He is played by Gary Graham, who I really like but honestly he has guest starred on TNG and Enterprise, as well as Of Gods and Men...it ruins the illusion to be on so many series as different characters!

Tanis shows Kes that she has telepathic powers beyond what she dreams. Tuvok offers to train her to improve her skills, but Tanis insists on doing it. She begins to move objects and (in a great scene) she learns how to boil water with her mind. This power gets out of control and she boils Tuvoks face!! This scene was actually horrifying, it reminded me of when Michael Jackson turned in to a werewolf in the Thriller video. That really scared the shit out of me!

The finally track down the Caretaker and it is in the form of a little girl named Susparia. Janeway expects her to help them, but she is pissed over the death of the other Caretaker and she goes nuts. She starts killing crewmembers, it really turns into a horror movie at this point. Janeway captures Susperia but shows her sympathy and lets her free. She then vanishes off of the ship. Janeway vows to convince Susperia to help them get home.

Meanwhile Tanis wants Kes to go back to the space station with him. She refuses but he gets aggressive and Neelix steps in. eventually he gives up. Tuvok takes over as Kes's trainer. Fantastic episode!

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Star Trek VGR Episode 25 - Tattoo

"Chakotay encounters non-humans that have the same tattoo on their foreheads that he has."


Unfortunately this episode was not about the Voyager crew going to Fantasy Island. Nonetheless, it was good. They finally linked Native Americans and an Alien encounter! I seriously always wanted this to happen. I feel it was well done, others disagree.

Chakotay keeps having flashbacks to when his father took him to the Central American Rain Forest looking for his ancestors. Years later Chakotay is on a planet and he finds people that look like him and speak his Native language. They explain that thousands of years ago they went to America and met people wandering through a snow covered landscape. They did not have language or knowledge of farming etc.. These aliens gave them these skills and told them to travel to a warmer climate. From then on Native Americans referred to them as the Sky Spirits. This is sort of what I hoped they would do, but maybe talk about taking some of the Natives into space with them. Like, link up the Anasazi with it or something. Or not, who really gives a shit.


There is a scene where a crewmember says that he served under Captain Sulu, which I thought was a cool reference.

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Star Trek VGR Episode 24 - Persistence of Vision

"The crew experience hallucinations brought on by an alien that put them into a trance-like state."

Good, throwback, TOS type episode. The episode had the basic setup of; they happen upon a single unknown alien and he causes havoc. This alien even looks rather crappy, just like TOS. Anyway, he has the ability to telepathically take a persons buried memory and bring to life before their eyes. Every crewmember ends up "mesmerized". The only ones left are Kes (a telepath) and the Doctor (a hologram). They work together to stop the alien and capture him. While Janeway is reading the alien the riot act (whatever the hell that means), he comments that "there is only one problem ... I was never even here". Then he disappears. Hope to see this thing again, it was a cool villain.

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Star Trek VGR Episode 23 - Parturition

So Neelix's jealousy boils over and he attacks Paris. Although Neelix is not at all tough. Which I don't like. In the pilot they made him seem tough...then he ends up as a pacifist chef? Anyway, eventually Neelix and Paris end up trapped on a planet together...because why not? They must work together to survive and also take care of a baby dinosaur??? So dumb. Meanwhile The Doctor tells Kes that Paris is indeed attracted to her, Paris also admits this to Neelix. Kes reaffirms that she loves Neelix. Then everyone ends up friends. Which would never happen in real life. Either way...Kes is so adorable.

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Star Trek VGR Episode 22 - Twisted

"A region of space distorts the interior of Voyager."

After having a birthday party for Kes, the ship suddenly turns into a maze. No matter which way you walk you end up looping around to the same spot. Everyone is just basically walking around the ship the entire time trying to figure out where to go, but it was actually an interesting episode. This episode has that "crewman" that is always going to the gym in it... he shows up numerous times in the series and he is always "on his way to the gym". Anyway, the subplot is about Neelix being jealous about Kes and her friendship with Paris. In the end, the incident ended up being due to a sentient energy being ... as always.

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Star Trek VGR Episode 21 - Non Sequitur

"Harry Kim wakes up in 24th century San Francisco with no record of him on Voyager."

After an incident on a shuttlecraft, Kim wakes up next to his ex-girlfriend in San Francisco. His time on Voyager had never happened. He tries to figure out what is going on by accessing sensitive Starfleet info. He sees that Tom Paris is on Earth and tracks him down. Paris also never ended up on Voyager but is rather an ex-Marqui spy. Paris is skeptical but eventually helps Harry.

Harry gets in trouble from Starfleet because of his actions. Then he discovers that there has been an alien following him, this alien is sort of like a time-line guardian...I guess. Then it gets really confusing. Eventually he gets pulled from the time-shift and put back into the proper timeline. The episode started off good, then got sort of dumb. Still, I liked seeing more of Harry Kim's character. Garrett Wang was good in this one, the woman that played his girlfriend however ... was god awful.

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Star Trek VGR Episode 20 - Elogium

"Space-dwelling life-forms cause Kes to enter the Ocampan fertile phase called Elogium, putting pressure on her relationship with Neelix when she wants to have his child."

Kes goes through puberty episode. Weird. The ship is attacked by these space life-forms...they have actually mistook the ship for a male of their species and are attempting to mate with Voyager. This somehow causes Kes to prematurely go through puberty (which I find to her behavior to be far too stereotypical; moody, can't stop eating blah blah blah). Kes and Neelix talk about having children, and it is revealed that a crewmember is pregnant.

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Star Trek VGR Episode 19 - Projections

"The Doctor becomes delusional after an accident, causing him to believe that he is a flesh-and-blood person and his time on USS Voyager is a holodeck program."

It was an interesting episode. I really enjoy The Doctor, but seemingly every featured episode seems to be about him "saving the ship/getting stuck in the holodeck". So he "wakes up" one day to find that he is a real person and that he needs to save the ship. The only way to save it, is by destroying it.

He is about to do it, when he is told by Chakotay that he is trapped in a holodeck program and needs to just wait it out. If he destroys the ship, he will be erased. The Doctor needs to figure out which story is real... is he a real person or a hologram? He guesses at the later and he eventually is freed. His "guide" the entire time was Lt. Barclay from TNG. It was nice having him on the episode, even though I hated him from Next Gen.

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Star Trek VGR Episode 18 - Initiations

"Chakotay encounters a Kazon youth who is on an initiation rite; to earn his name by killing an enemy or to be killed in the attempt."

I liked this one too. The Kazon youth goes up against Chakotay in an aerial battle and loses. Instead of dying, he is saved by Chakotay which brings him great shame. They are then captured by the Kazon and Chakotay is forced to kill the kid. Instead, him and the boy escape. Neelix steps into a bigger role and negotiates with the Kazon for Chakotay's release...basically he blackmails them. An away team goes to retrieve Chakotay but they are double crossed by the Kazon... Meanwhile Chakotay offers to let the youth "kill him" in order to gain his name. Everyone eventually beams the hell out of there.

The young Kazon was played by Aaron Eisenberg, who was great as always. People thought that he looked to much like Nog, but that didn't bother me. He was excellent.

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Star Trek VGR Episode 17 - The 37's

"A group of humans from the 1930s are found in stasis on a seemingly abandoned planet, including the lost Amelia Earhart."

I really enjoyed this episode. One of the things that I always wanted Star Trek to do is tie-in the UFO craze of 20-21st century Earth. They have done this several times, but I am never satisfied by it. Well, I'm still not satisfied but I like when they bring it up nonetheless. In this case, an Alien race named the Briori came to Earth in the 1930s and abducted 300 people and enslaved them (I would have liked if they showed a Briorian and had them look like a typical "gray"). Among them are Earhart and Fred Noonan (played by Tackleberry from Police Academy...still can't take this actor seriously). At some point the Humans rose-up and overthrew their captors, now they inhabit the planet...over 100,000 of them. They have three magnificent cities and good civilization. Some of the original abductees lie in stasis (Amelia, Noonan etc), they keep them as a shrine.

For some reason Voyager can't beam down, so they decide to land Voyager on the planet. It's an odd gamble by Janeway considering nobody knows how to physically land the ship. If anything ever happened to the ship, it would mean that they would never find a way home. Anyhow, the effects looked pretty good, considering it's old CGI. The episode pretty much consists of the crew trying to convince Amelia and Fred that they are currently in the future. In the end, the colonists offer to let the Voyager crew stay and live there. Some take up the offer, but the core group denies it. There are many flaws to this episode and people seem to find it hacky, but I liked it.

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Star Trek VGR Episode 16 - Learning Curve

"Tuvok trains several Maquis members who have not fully integrated into the Voyager crew."

The Marquis crew is incredibly defiant and refuse to listen to Tuvok. It's basically like training a bunch of Pirates to be Marines. Neelix suggests that Tuvok change his teaching tactics, which goes completely against the Vulcan's nature. He goes by the book, while the Marquis wing-it.

A pathogen has been released on the ship. They narrow it down to a batch of cheese that Neelix had made ..... cough... Anyway, they increase the heat on the ship in order to kill it.... hmm... And um, the ship gets messed up and Tuvok must work together with his Marquis crew to save the ship. The rest is predictable, they learn from each other and save the ship. This is the Season One finale, and it was a decent episode but a terrible finale. I guess due to a scheduling issue this was the finale by default. It was not intended to be and producers were not happy with this. But, overall I thought season one was good. I was surprised by it. I've said this before that Star Trek has too many episodes and 16 episodes was perfect. Unfortunately from now on Voyager rises up to an annoying 26 episodes per season, ugh.

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Star Trek VGR Episode 15 - Jetrel

I was wondering when they would use Neelix more. It's weird, the pilot had him in a major role but then he just ends up being the fucking cook! Instead, Kes ends up in a major role. This was a good glimpse into the character of Neelix, well acted too.

So years ago Neelix fought in a war against the Haakonians. They eventually used a superweapon to devastate Neelix's homeworld and kill 300,000 people (including his family). Now, the scientist that invented that weapon is on Voyager looking for Neelix. His name is Jetrel. He tells Neelix that the survivors of the weapon have been dealing with a terrible disease and he has come to cure Neelix. Of course Neelix is suspicious and angry with him. Finally he agrees after Janeway persuades him to cooperate.

Neelix admits to Kes that he lied about his war record. Something about a Swift Boat, oh no wait...that was another alien. Anyway, Neelix never served, he was a coward and hid. But, not because he was afraid, but because he was anti-war. Regardless, Neelix is pretty torn up about everything. They eventually find out that Jetrel was lying about Neelix having this disease. The disease is real though, Jetrel himself has it. So why is he on Voyager? Well, his intension was to use their transporter in order to test his experiment to restore the lives all of those that he killed with his weapon. Their molecules are still in the atmosphere and he thinks he can reconfigure them and restore it in the transporter. ....he tries it, and it fails. Then he dies. The end.

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Star Trek VGR Episode 14 - Faces

"B'Elanna Torres is split into her human and Klingon halves by the Vidiians."

As soon as this episode started I had my doubts about it. There is just so much technically wrong with it. Although it was interesting to hear B'Elanna's origin story and how she struggles with her human and Klingon sides. I did enjoy that they brought back the Vidiians.

So in an effort to cure the Phage, the Viddians have kidnapped Torres, Paris and a redshirt. The Vidiian doctor uses his advanced medical technology to separate Torres into two people; her Klingon self and her Human self. The human side is the total opposite of the Klingon side. He experiments on Klingon Torres in an effort to figure out the Klingons amazing ability to resist sickness. Then in a weird scene...he kills the redshirt and wears his face in an effort to impress Torres?? Haha, what the hell?!?!

So the two Torres's escape with Paris and try to get back to Voyager. Meanwhile, Chakotay has been altered to look like a Vidiian, he shows up guns blazing and gets them out... although Klingon Torres is killed?? Back on the ship, The Doctor adds B'Elanna's Klingon DNA back into her human body. She is restored. First of all, if the Vidiians have such advanced medical tech ... to the point where they can separate a person into two ... why can't they cure this fucking disease!?!? The Vidiians seemingly could at least create new faces for themselves. Then back on Voyager, The Doctor so easily turns human Torres back into a Klingon. It's all too convenient.

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Star Trek VGR Episode 13 - Cathexis

"A shuttlecraft with Chakotay and Tuvok aboard is attacked; Chakotay is left brain-dead, while Tuvok begins acting strangely. An unknown force begins controlling crewmembers."

Again, I just can't look at Chakotay the same way after finding out that the consultant was a phony. This episode is full of "Native American mysticism".
An alien being begins possessing crewmembers and has them steer the ship towards the center of a Nebula. This race needs to feed off of their energy to survive. Realizing that no one is safe, Janeway divides the ships Command Codes between various people. Meanwhile, Torres uses a Native American mystic wheel to help guide Chokotay's spirit while he is brain dead ... just go with it.

Things get serious when Tuvok is possessed and takes over the ship. Janeway gives special Command to The Doctor, as he is the only one that is "unposessable". I'm happy for The Doctor, this is an important moment for him. The spirit of Chakotay helps to overpower this being and they remove it from the ship. Now they are still deep inside the Nebula and do not know how to get out. Chakotay's spirit possesses Neelix and has him make a map of the exit on his mystic wheel. They escape and all crewmembers are restored to normal by The Doctor. It was a watchable episode.

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Star Trek VGR Episode 12 - Heroes and Demons

"The holographic doctor must rescue crew members who were turned to light energy in a Holodeck simulation of Beowulf."

Kim goes missing and they figure out that the last place he was, was in the holodeck using a Beowulf program. Everybody that they send in after him, disappears as well. The Beowulf program has seemingly come to life. Typically I do not like these Holodeck episodes, but this one is well acted (particularly Freya) and it looks great (particularly Freya). I enjoy this 10th-ish century time period stuff generally. So anyway, the only person that can safely go into the Holodeck is The Doctor. Janeway gives him, his first mission. He admits that he is nervous.

The Doctor goes in and plays the role of the hero very very well. I very much enjoyed seeing him in this capacity. Oh yeah and he also picked a new name, Shcweitzer?? Whatever. So, he forms a romance with Freya, but she is killed and dies in his arms. He then swears off the name of Schweitzer because it reminds him of Freya. The Doctor figures out that at some point the ship went through an energy cloud. Within this cloud was alien life forms. Essentially they attacked these aliens without knowing it. Now they are retaliating through controlling the Holodeck. In a gesture of peace, they take one of these energy life-forms and return it to the cloud. The End. I'm annoyed now for some reason.

The actress that played Freya was in Babylon 5.

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Star Trek VGR Episode 11 - State of Flux

Another good episode. Neelix, Chakotay and others are foraging for food on a planet. A Kazon ship shows up (remember them from the pilot episode?) and Janeway orders the away team back to the ship but Seska is missing. Seska is one of Chakotay's Marquis crew and evidently his girlfriend. She is also Bajoran. He finds her but they are attacked, he is hit but they manage to escape.

Back on the ship a distress call comes in from that same Kazon ship, there has been an explosion and they need help. An away team goes to the ship and finds only one Kazon alive, but in a coma. They also find something very surprising, Federation technology.

Tuvok deduces that the most logical explanation was that they have a spy on the ship. Blame points to Seska as she was the only one to "disappear" during that away mission. She denies it and tries to prove her innocence by retrieving proof on the Kazon vessel. She brings it back and Torres examines it, and realizes that it is one of their food replicators. Another Kazon ship shows up and they come aboard to retrieve their comrade, but they kill him instead. Very suspicious.

Kes and the Doctor make another odd discovery, according to Seska's blood sample she is not Bajoran but a Cardassian! This just gets weirder. Still she denies being a spy and seems very genuine. Signs now point to another crewmember, Lt. Carey. He also denies it. So Chakotay and Tuvok lay a trap for the spy....and Seska walks right into it. It was her after all. She did it to make peace with the Kazon. She thinks they will make strong allies. But, no one agrees. Suddenly she beams off the ship and onto the Kazon vessel.

Honestly, I hoped it wasn't her. I actually started to like the character, but I'm guessing we will be seeing her again. Also I felt bad for Chakotay, he seems like a good guy. Oh well. This was a well done, "whodunit" episode.

An interesting factoid. Star Trek called in a Native American consultant to assist with the Chakotay character. Evidently this guy was a fake Indian, he was really an Armenian pretending to be Native American. This unfortunately makes the character of Chakotay incredibly offensive. I mean, The Accused: The Animated Series would be less offensive.

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Star Trek VGR Episode 10 - Prime Factors

"A race that could shorten Voyager's journey with a transportation device will not share its technology."

Voyager is contacted by a race called the Sikarians. Their technology is far superior to that of the Federation. They ask that the Voyager crew come their planet for leave, which they do. The planet is amazing in all ways. Kim discovers that they have a device called the transporter that the Sikarians use to send them 40,000 light years to any planet. This could in theory send Voyager 40,000 light years closer to home. Janeway meets with one of the leaders named Gath (the other one being Wayne). She asks to acquire this technology to which Gath declines, citing that they are forbidden to give technology to primitive races. Janeway likens this to their own Prime Directive, and realizes that this time THEY are the primitive people.

Kim is approached by a man willing to trade a transporter for a download of the ships library. Arts are very lucrative on this planet and having these would make this man very wealthy. Kim brings this offer to Janeway who declines because it would be immoral to do it this way. However, Torres and Tuvok take upon themselves to undermine the Captain and make the trade. Tuvok brings the device back to Voyager and activates it, but it is incompatible with Federation technology and the device explodes. So it was all for nothing. Janeway is pissed and disciplines everyone involved. This was a weird plot for Tuvok. He is a Vulcan so I doubt he would go behind his Captains back and he should be smart enough to realize that the technology may not even work... Anyway, decent episode.

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Star Trek VGR Episode 9 - Emanations

Voyager detects a brand new element and goes to a cavernous planet to investigate. There they discover a graveyard of sorts with humanoid bodies wrapped up. Suddenly a rift starts to open, they all beam out but Kim gets sucked into it. Simultaneously, out comes one of those humanoid bodies. The body ends up on Voyager and the Doctor revives it. It is a woman and I swear ... now I'm not just saying this ... it looks like Rocky Dennis.

Kim has been sent to this woman's home world of Vhnori and finds himself in a coffin of sorts. He gets out of the coffin pod and everyone now thinks that he is from the afterlife. There is a Vhnori guy who is about to die and he now questions if there even is an afterlife because Kim seems so...boring. Kim offers to take the guys place in his coffin, in hopes of getting sent back to the cavern (but he will also be killed in the process??).

Back on Voyager, Rocky Denise is freaking out because she realizes that there is no afterlife. She wants to just go home now. Her and Kim get transported simultaneously and switch places again. They revive Kim and all is well. Kim worries about ruining the planets religion but Janeway says that a mysterious energy is indeed coming from the caverns and it could be an afterlife. I like this about Star Trek, they never choose a side when it comes to Science or Religion. They leave anything open. It's show in which anything is possible.

This episode has the great Jerry Hardin in it.

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Star Trek VGR Episode 8 - Ex Post Facto

"Tom Paris is convicted of murder on an alien world, and his punishment is to witness the murder from the victim's perspective every 14 hours."

A fine episode directed by LeVar Burton. I must say that I'm sick of these "trial" episodes, they always have to rehash this plot. Nonetheless, this one was ok. So Tom and Harry go to a planet and meet with some scientists from a race named the Baneans. Tom notices that one of the scientists has a much younger and very sexy wife. Naturally he can't control himself and they get together. Though when confronted by Janeway, Paris basically says "I did not have sexual relations with that women..." Anyway, the ladies husband walks in on them and Paris stabs him. This is viewed through the memories of the dead man.

Tuvok eventually uncovers a plot between the wife, another scientist and Baneans' enemies to kill this guy. They lay a trap for the enemies in a shuttlecraft. Basically when they board the craft, Paris and Harry beam out. Then Janeway says that they have a bomb on the craft and it will detonate if they don't surrender. So simple, but effective. Now Tuvok plays the role of lawyer and reveals the plot to the other Baneans, thus clearing Paris. Tuvok is awesome.

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Star Trek VGR Episode 7 - Eye of the Needle

"A micro-wormhole is discovered that leads to the Alpha Quadrant, and the crew make contact with a Romulan ship on the other side."

Dare I say that this episode was fantastic? DARE I??? It actually was. Voyager discovers a wormhole. They send a probe into it and suddenly the probe is being scanned. They examine this and find out that the scan is coming from the Alpha Quadrant! I mean obviously they will not make it home in episode 7 but still, I was onboard. A communication comes in from the other side and it is a cargo vessel. Janeway explains their predicament but the other Captain thinks they are lying and ends communication. Tuvok figures out that the ship is not a cargo vessel but rather a Romulan science ship.

Later that night Janeway is in her quarters, in her nightgown and looking very nice may I add ... she communicates again with the Romulan Captain. They have a heart to heart and she convinces him that they are Starfleet and truly lost. She asks him to at least relay personal messages to their families. He wants to try and have a face to face communication first, which happens the next morning. Now he believes them.

Torres discovers a way to piggy-back a transporter beam onto their comm beam, meaning that they can all beam back to the Alpha Quadrant. The Romulan says that he is not allowed to let them beam to his ship, but he offers to beam to Voyager first and then maybe he can take them back. They successfully beam him over. So everything is looking great so far. Suddenly Tuvok discovers a big problem. The wormhole is also a time warp, the Romulan commander is from 20 years in the past! They can not follow him back, it would disrupt history. The Romulan is actually a very nice guy and he offers to relay their messages in 20 years. So he beams back to his time. Tuvok then reveals more bad news, the Romulan died four years ago... their messages were most likely never sent.

Subplot is of the Doctor. He has been training Kes to be a medical officer. Kes talks to Janeway about how everyone treats the Doctor like shit. Janeway point out that he is after all just a hologram. Kes argues that he is very real. Janeway meets with the Doctor and sees that he is more human than most people think. In the end, the Doctor asks for a name. I think it ends up being Doctor Funktavius.

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Star Trek VGR Episode 6 - The Cloud

"The crew enter a nebula to collect samples before realizing it is a living organism, and not before doing it an injury."

Classic Star Trek plot in which they find some sort of creature floating in space. Not too much going on here. Neelix has taken over as the ships chef (to save power on replicators) and morale officer. Kim and Harry go into the holodeck to a French whore house?? and meet a famous pool player. Chakotay helps Janeway discover her animal guide, a gecko. This is the first that I realized that Chakotay was a Native American. That is cool. It would have also been interesting if they made him a "Native American" from the planet in which Kirk became Kirok. Plus if their so concerned about power, then why are they wasting energy using the holodeck?

So after taking Voyager through the nebula, they discover that it was actually a living being and that they have injured it. So they bring the ship back inside and seal the wound using the ships engines as an energy beam. They fix the creature but use up precious power. Neelix knows of a planet nearby that they may be able to get some energy from, so the episode ends with them heading out.

Also, the guy that owns the junkyard on Breaking Bad is in this episode.

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Star Trek VGR Episode 5 - Phage

"An organ-harvesting species known as the Vidiians steal Neelix's lungs, leaving him to die."

I enjoyed this episode. In fact, so far I sort of liked all of the episodes. It does have that old Star Trek basic feel to it, they fly around and go to a planet. The characters are not great, but some are interesting at least. Mainly Neelix and the Doctor. Janeway is just ok, Kim seems like a nice guy in the vain of LaForge and Kes is friggin adorable ... in fact I think this actress is great. I'm still not big on Torres, Chakotay and Paris ... but that is fine, I never warmed to Kira or Dax on DS9 either.

As mentioned above, Neelix goes to explore a planet with Paris and ends up getting his lungs stolen. The Doctor gives him holographic lungs to keep him alive, but he can never again move. Janeway and crew go to the planet and find a sophisticated structure and medical equipment that trumps what Starfleet has. Voyager suddenly sees a ship fly away and they pursue it. The track the ship to an asteroid belt where it hides. Voyager uses a cool trick to find the ship. They shine lights into the asteroid belt and it reflects off the metal of the ship. Janeway immediately has the aliens taken aboard Voyager.

They are called the Vidiians and they are an intelligent, artistic and sophisticated race ... however a pathogen has been destroying them (called the Phage). It eats away at their flesh and organs. They can only survive by harvesting others organs. Janeway is horrified and she is tempted to kill them in order to retrieve Neelix's lungs from them. However, she refuses to stoop that low. The Vidiians are grateful and offer to use their sophisticated medical equipment to save Neelix. They do a lung transplant from Kes to Neelix. Saving Neelix! ....but how the hell is Kes still alive? I seriously have no idea.

The Doctor is funny in this one. The Vidiians scan him and they remark that it is strange that he is "not really here", to which the Doctor replies "I wish I wasn't". It's the best character, a witty, annoyed and miserable hologram???

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Star Trek VGR Episode 4 - Time and Again

"Investigating a planet just devastated by a polaric explosion, Janeway and Paris are engulfed by a subspace fracture and transported in time to before the accident."

The episode starts with Paris trying to get Harry Kim to go on a double date. It's very "Three's Company". All we need his Harry to bite his fist. He declines anyway because he has a wife and kids. Paris tells him to forget about his wife because she will not wait for him to return anyway. What a dick.

Kes than has a psychic vision of an entire planet burning and everyone dying. They do indeed detect a giant explosion on a nearby planet. An away team of Janeway, Paris and others go to the planet and see that it is devastated. There are energy anomalies everywhere and they get stuck in one, it brings them a few days in the past. They see the civilization as it was, they are pre-warp and use power plants. They discover terrorists that plan to blow up the power plants (which they assume is what causes the explosion).

Meanwhile on Voyager Kes psychically sees that Janeway and crew are in the past. Torres, Harry and Kes go to the burned-out planet and find an anomaly and try to open it with a warp generator. In the past, Janeway and Paris have been wrapped up in the terrorist plot, they try to prevent it but discover that the explosion is actually caused by Torres opening up the rift! Janeway closes the anomaly rift before Torres opens it and suddenly they are sent back to the beginning of the episode. Paris and Kim are discussing going on the double date. Janet overhears them but misinterprets it as they are going on a date with each other... Kes realizes that the planet is safe. They have avoided the destruction, at least for now ... the terrorists still exist. They can't interfere however because of the Prime Directive. One of the people on the planet is played by Joel Polis, who was the rival bar owner Gary from Cheers!

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Star Trek VGR Episode 3 - Parallax

"Voyager is trapped in a quantum singularity's event horizon, and Captain Janeway must decide between Lt. Carey  and former Maquis B'Elanna Torres to be the new chief engineer."

Janeway has trouble buying into Torres as chief engineer. She is a hothead and Janeway has an order of rank to abide by. The union would have a field day with this one! New first officer Chakotay stands by her abilities however.

The ship has been stuck in this quantum singularity. They try to travel to a nearby planet but end up back at the beginning of the singularity (also they physically went back to the point in time that they first reached the singularity). They must find their original entrance point and exit through it. Finally they find the point but it has shrunk. Janeway and Torres take a shuttlecraft to the point and they succeed in expanding it. Janeway also sees that Torres is the right choice for Chief Engineer. They go to turn the shuttlecraft around and they see TWO Voyager's! One is the "current" one and the other is the "past" one. Janeway makes an educated guess at which one to return to. She guesses right.

Meanwhile the Doctor is shrinking. His program needs some repairs. This plot has nothing to do with anything, but damn the Doctor is a fun character.

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Star Trek VGR Episode 2 - Caretaker pt. 2

Tuvok figures out that The Caretaker is dying. They confront The Caretaker about sending them back home. He reveals that his intention was to kidnap people from all over the place in order to run his Array when he was gone. With this plan not going to happen, The Caretaker now intends to destroy the Array so that it doesn't fall into the Kazon's hands. If the Array is destroyed, then Voyager will not get back home. The Kazon now begin trying to take over the Array (this is weird because previously the Kazon seemed to be desert people who barely had water and food, now they have spaceships??). Voyager and the Marquis begin fighting to protect the Array. Chakotay decides to kamikaze his ship into the Kazon ship, which is awesome and insane. They beam him out at the last second.

With the Kazon stopped. Janeway and Tuvok go to see The Caretaker. He slowly dies. Janeway now has to make a decision...use the Array to go home or respect The Caretakers wishes and destroy it, effectively trapping them 70 years from the Alpha Quadrant. She decides to destroy the Array. Flat-out, wrong decision. Even Tuvok said that interfering is a breach of the Prime Directive. Granted it would most likely mean doom for the Ocampa but still, I am not on board with this. Kirk would have figured out a way to do both, get home AND destroy the Array. Also, I remember a TNG episode in which they ended up light years away from home and they were able to get back rather quickly somehow (not sure if Q helped though). At the end Janeway gives a pep talk. She says that sure it will take 70 years to get back, but she is optimistic that they will find technology, a wormhole or a race that can help them speed up the process. After all, they are completely in unknown territory so anything is possible. She also makes the Marquis officially part of Voyager.

So right there, the setup to Voyager has awesome possibilities. It harkens back to TOS in which everything was a new discovery. The writers could make up an entire new Universe. It can really be like TOS but with far better filming technology. The characters themselves are not great, but there are a few that already standout. The Doctor is a great character, although why they made the hologram have the personality of a 1980s stand-up comic I have no idea. Neelix is already cool. He is quirky like Quark but has already proven to be a thousand times braver. Tuvok is awesome and I love having a Vulcan back on a Starfleet crew. Janeway is just OK, tough but can be annoying...and that voice. Torres and Kim so far do not have any character development. It seemed like they made a big deal about Paris and then he was completely lame in this episode. Chakotay, at least in this episode, was badass. The ship itself looks cool, typical Star Trek looking. The opening sequence was beautiful, especially when it shows Voyager travelling over Saturn. Basically, I would say so far so good with Voyager.

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Star Trek VGR Episode 1 - Caretaker pt. 1

So begins Voyager. I was going to watch Insurrection first but it is not on Netflix so I don't have a good way to watch it right now. Therefore I will hold off until after Season 4 of Voyager (which is were it falls in the timeline). This is assuming that I don't have a nervous breakdown by then.

The episode begins with the crew getting together on DS9 and Janeway recruiting the former Starfleet Officer/former Marquis operative Tom Paris to assist in their new mission. The only crossover with DS9 however is a quick scene with Quark, they should have had Sisko show up at least. Voyager is tasked with finding a Marquis ship that went missing in the Badlands. The reason why this ship matters is that Tuvok is undercover on it. The leader of this ship is Marquis Mark ... I can't remember if I already used that joke. Anyway, his name is actually Chakotay and the other crewmember is the human/Klingon B'Elanna Torres. So suddenly Voyager is bombarded by an energy beam and they find themselves 70,000 light years from the Alpha Quadrant. Also, the same thing has happened to the Marquis ship.
Nearly the entire crew is killed, including the whole medical staff. They are now forced to use the Emergency Hologram Doctor. The crew is then brought upon a large structure called the Array by a being named The Caretaker. They are subject to experiments and exams. They also find out that crewmember Harry Kim and Torres have been taken to a nearby desert planet.

The Caretaker is from a race that has been keeping this planet functioning for a long time. He aids the original inhabitants known as the Ocampa (they live underground). There is also a race of top dwellers named the Kazon and they oppress the Ocampa. The crew is released from the Array and Voyager then meets a local space adventurer named Neelix and recruits him to help rescue Kim and Torres. He agrees, if they give him water. They all go the desert planet and Neelix gives the water to the Kazon in exchange for his girlfriend? named Kes, an Ocampa. Now they can use her to get underground to find the lost crewmembers. The Marquis and Voyager crews decide to join forces, because they basically have no other choice. An away team is sent and Kim and Torres are rescued.....

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Star Trek Deep Space 9 - Final Thoughts

Wow, so I managed to finish another Star Trek series. DS9 took me a little over a year to complete, which is pretty quick considering TNG took me two full years. I desperately want to say that I enjoyed DS9 better than TNG, but this may just be me in the afterglow and in my heart I know that this isn't true. But! It is pretty damn close.

I did not consistently watch the show when it was originally on TV. I caught only episodes here and there. So this is the first time I had seen the series in its entirety. I was pleasantly surprised at how well written, well acted and well directed it was. The show always looked great, especially the space scenes ... they really nailed this down. While TOS and TNG had a bunch of great episodes, DS9 had a few phenomenal episodes. Mainly the ones in which Sisko goes to Earth as an alternate self. Now I'm not one for social commentary in my TV shows, I watch TV to get away from real life and not to be preached to, but DS9 did this so well that you can't help but get swept up in it.

The show knew exactly how to mix up the episodes. They would do a Worf plot and then follow it up with a Bashir plot and then follow that up with a comic relief Quark plot. They mixed it up so well that it never dragged (except that episode where Quark dresses like a woman ... get it? dragged?? whatever). I would say that even at it's worst, DS9 was average. That is saying a lot.

So now I have to watch Insurrection and then followed by the dreaded Voyager. I have been told by many people that I will not make it through Voyager. I will make it through, simply because at this point I have to. I barely watched any Voyager episodes when they originally aired and in fact I can't recall ever seeing reruns of this show either. Is it really as bad as everyone says?

Star Trek DS9 Episode 176 - What You Leave Behind pt. 2

So it continues. The visuals in this episode are amazing. The battle scenes between the Federation/Klingon/Romulan and the Jem'Hadar/Dominion/Breen (plus the Cardassians) are so cool looking. Think back to TOS, did you ever think you would see Starfleet forces ever combined with Romulans and Klingons? Excellent stuff.

Now thing begin to wind down. Odo meets up with the Founder and offers to cure her and all of the rest if they agree to end the war. She eventually agrees. Odo must now go back to the great link, forever. Garak heads to Cardassia to help them rebuild, he says goodbye to Bashir and doubts that they will ever meet again. The rest of the crew meet up at Vic's for the peace treaty signing. Suddenly Sisko feels that he must hurry up and leave. He is being drawn to the Bajoran fire caves, he says goodbye to Kassidy (who is pregnant).

At the caves, Dukat has been in a fight with Kai Wynn. She had poisoned "fake Dukat" but the Pah Wraiths brought him back to life and made him even more powerful. Sisko finally shows up but Wynn is dying, she tells Sisko to destroy that book thing. He does and suddenly Sisko is transported to the Celestial Temple where the Prophets tell him that he has finished his task. He must now rest with them. This could take years. Sisko visits Kassidy in a dream and tells her that he will return but doesn't know when.

Everyone says their final goodbyes. Quark makes amends with Odo and Odo shares a sad moment with Kira before he leaves forever. O'Brien goes to teach at Starfleet Academy and Worf joins Martok as a Klingon ambassador.

There is a great montage at the end highlighting the relationships between all of the characters. The final scene is great, it shows Jake and Kira looking out one of the DS9 windows as the camera pans out into space. Beautiful. I didn't always get the Dominion plot, I didn't particularly like the prophet plot but I thought that this final episode as a whole was great.

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Star Trek DS9 Episode 175 - What You Leave Behind pt. 1

The final two episodes! Amazing.

The Federation is about to embark on the big assault. O'Brien is thinking about leaving the station after the war. Bashir and Ezri are now an item. Kira, Damar and Garak are captured and sentenced to die by the Founder. But amazingly all of the Cardassians suddenly turn on the Dominion. Kira, Garak and Damar attack the command base. They kill the last Weyoun and capture the Founder. Sadly, not before she orders the massacre of every Cardassian. Thousands are killed and the Founder refuses to give up.... So far this is an excellent two part final episode. As much as the build up to this entire Jem'Hadar/Dominion thing was painful at times, well this is ending has been very entertaining.

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Star Trek DS9 Episode 174 - The Dogs of War

"Sisko takes command of a new ship; Kira and Garak face a Dominion ambush on Cardassia."

Kira, Garak and Damar walk into a trap and end up having to hide out in Garak's "mothers" house. It is sort of funny because she continues to coddle him. Unfortunetly this is a big blow to the Cardassian rebellion as everyone now thinks that Damar is dead. The Jem'Hadar have taken major hits because of the combines forces of the Federation, it's allies and the Rebellion. The head Changeling calls for one final mass assault. Sisko anticipates this and calls for one final mass assault of his own.

Kira suggest they attack the Jem'Hadar which the three of them do and succeed. After this Damar reveals himself (not in that way) to the public and gets the rebellion going again.

Meanwhile the Grand Nagus is retiring and he offers his position to Quark. After learning that the Nagus has turned the Ferengi into civilized people, Quark becomes disgusted. He wonders how anyone can live in a world where the rich do not get richer and an employer can't demand sex from his employees (he actually does say this, it was pretty funny). Come to find out that it was all a misunderstanding and Rom was actually the one to become the new Grand Nagus.

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Star Trek DS9 Episode 173 - Extreme Measures

As an episode, this was good. I just did not like some of the details of it. The premise is this: Bashir lures Sloan into a trap. Him and O'Brien interrogate him to the point of suicide... oops. Now in order to get the information that they seek (how to cure Odo), they use this machine to link up with his brain and access his memories. Which I do not think is too far fetched for Star Trek but it is however too convenient. Plus, I don't recall this device ever being used before. So O'Brien warns Julian that he must hurry because once Sloan's brain dies, then all memories are lost. Also, if Bashir is sill in Sloan's mind when he dies... then Julian dies as well. Really??? REALLY??? Anyway, Bashir gets the info and also learns secrets about Section 31 which he plans on using to bring down that organization. I don't know how I feel about that. In the end Bashir gets the cure and injects Odo, who is then completely cured in literally 3 seconds. This is a big mistake. They really should have killed off Odo. Nothing against him, I really liked the character. But, the series is over and Star Trek never really kills off a big name character. This would have been the perfect opportunity. It could have been one of the most dramatic things to happen in a Trek series.

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Star Trek DS9 Episode 172 - Tacking into the Wind

Got a little lost during this one. But basically, Odo turns himself into that female Changeling and goes with Damar to steal the powerful Breen energy weapon (Odo is the first transgender person on TV). Which they successfully do. The Federation now has this weapon and it's a game changer. Odo is also hiding his illness from everyone, but Kira suspects the truth. Miles and Bashir plan to release false info about discovering a cure in order to draw Section 31 out of the shadows.

In a very important Star Trek moment, Worf and Martok turn agains Chancellor Gowron because he seems corrupt and power hungry. Worf challenges Gowron and ends up killing him. Gowron has been Chancellor since TNG, but now that honor falls to Worf. He declines and instead gives the honor to Martok.

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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.

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Star Trek DS9 Episode 170 - The Changing Face of Evil

"The war reaches a crucial turning point when the Dominion retakes the Chin'Toka system, the only Allied foothold in enemy space. Meanwhile, Winn learns that Dukat plans to release the Pah-Wraiths, and Damar leads a revolt against the Dominion."

The episode begins with Sisko finding out that the Breen attacked Earth and destroyed San Francisco. Unless I missed something, they never actually showed this. It would have been an incredibly dramatic scene, but maybe they felt strange about showing a U.S. city being destroyed?? I don't know.

There is a huge battle and the Defiant is destroyed. Meanwhile "Dukat" convinces Winn to get him some powerful Bajoran book that while give him powers or something, again I don't know. She eventually figures out his secret.

Damar sends a message that the Cardassians will be fighting against the Dominion. He proves their intent by destroying the Vorta cloning facility meaning no more Wayoun's. Bashir and Ezri have weird tension now. Worf is jealous and he keeps saying how Bashir plays with action figures because Julian has been building a model of the Alamo. The episode ends with Sisko about to join forces with Damar.

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Star Trek DS9 Episode 169 - Strange Bedfellows

"An alliance is born between the Dominion and the Breen which will prove devastating for the Federation. Ezri and Worf are sentenced to death on Cardassia."


The Breen are really cool, too bad it took them this long to be introduced into the series. They are very "Star Wars".

The Cardassian named Damar does not want an alliance with the Breen. He is very skeptical. It makes matters worse when Weyound doesn't react to a Klingon attack on one of the Cardassian outposts, and also the Breen are then allowed access to secret Cardassian data. Damar decides to withdraw the Cardassians from the alliance, save the lives of Ezri and Worf and help the Federation. This is a very lucky turn of events because The Federation would have had a very formidable enemy if that alliance held.

Meanwhile Bashir realizes that he likes Ezri. Also, "Dukat" convinces Winn to follow the Pah-raith path and basically destroy Bajor in order to rebuild it into a stronger society. At least that's what I got from it.


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Star Trek DS9 Episode 168 - Til Death Do Us Part

"Captured by the Breen, Ezri and Worf undergo mental torture. Sisko agonizes over his broken engagement."

So Sisko doesn't listen to the Prophets and marries Yates anyway. I'm expecting this to come back to haunt him at some point. Dukat (now surgically altered to look like a Bajoran) arrives on DS9 and he immediately starts to bond with Kai Winn over their shared experiences at the hands of the evil Cardassians (which is obviously a ploy). It works because soon Winn believes that "Dukat" was sent to her by the Prophets to be her guide. The Dominion could now have total manipulation over one of the Bajorans main leaders. Well played.

The ending reveals that Ezri and Worf are still captured and being tortured. Although the mental torture involves them agonizing over their love (or not) for each other. Lame. Ezri yells out that she is in love with Bashir, for some reason. Then Wayoun officially announces that the Breen have joined the Dominion.

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Star Trek DS9 Episode 167 - Penumbra

"Ezri searches for a missing Worf and Sisko makes plans to marry Kasidy Yates."


Here is where DS9 heads for the home stretch. Things start getting wrapped up and the plot begins moving towards the final episode. Worf is on a Klingon mission and he gets lost in the Badlands. Ezri goes searching for him and Sisko reluctantly lets her to go. Because why not send the therapist alone into a hostile environment to save a Klingon. Anyway, she finds him and he is irritated by her...so eventually they have sex. They still have some odd connection because it is still technically Dax, I think. Also, Sisko asks Kasidy to marry him....but the Prophets show up (in the guise of his dead wife) and tell him that marrying her is a bad idea.

Ezri and Worf get captured by the Breen. They are a new alien race and I sort of dig them. They are kind of badass looking. Soon Wayoun shows with a Cardassian and a Founder, it is reveled that the Dominion has a new alliance. In addition to this, Dukat has been surgically altered to look like a Bajoran and he has a really good plan up his sleeve to take down the Bajorans, this will be revealed next episode.

I thought of something while watching this episode. Isn't Sisko being the Emissary a conflict of interest for him being a high ranking Starfleet official. The Federation is supposed to be impartial I think, but the Emissary would somewhat beholden to the Prophets and Bajor.

167 down and 9 to go

Star Trek DS9 Episode 166 - Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges

"While attending a diplomatic conference on Romulus, Bashir becomes an unwilling pawn of Section 31."

Finally Section 31 is back!. I like Sloan and am generally interested in the Bashir super-spy plot. In this one Bashir is being used by Section 31 to affect the outcome of a diplomatic conference. I think. Too be honest, it was the longest most complex and convoluted plot ever. I didn't understand half of it. But, I don't understand half of the James Bond plots either so maybe I'm just dumb. Anyway, at least the episode was fun. Also, Adrienne Barbeau is in this episode as Senator Cretak, who is sort of in the center of this entire plot, she was very good. I'm pretty sure that Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges is Latin for 'She got legs and she knows how to use them".

166 down and 10 to go

Star Trek DS9 Episode 165 - Badda-Bing Badda-Bang

"The crew attempt to help Vic Fontaine when Vic's hotel is bought by mobsters Frankie Eyes and Carl Zeemo."

So I didn't really hate this Vic episode. It was actually watchable. Maybe because Vic gets beaten up in it. It has a good cast of Hollywood mobster bit actors in it too. Not really much too say about this one except it ends up being a straight up mob episode with maybe a little bit off Ocean's Eleven thrown in. They always seem to have Kira play the femme fatale, but she is really not that sexy anymore so it doesn't really work that well.

165 down and 11 to go

Star Trek DS9 Episode 164 - Chimera

"A Changeling, Laas, asks Odo to leave the station and join his search for other shapeshifters. Laas was with the Varalans and has learned to assume a space-faring creatures form."


At first I thought this was going to be an old school Trek type episode. They find a weird creature floating in space, I mean that's the basis of like half the TOS episodes. I was disappointed when it ended up being a shapeshifter. This shifter is part of a group that has no clue about the Founders. He wants Odo to join them and he teaches Odo some new shifting skills. Odo wants to stay with Kira, even though (as she puts it) she is unable to join with him??? Not sure what she means.

164 down and 12 to go

Star Trek DS9 Episode 163 - Field of Fire

"Ezri summons a homicidal Dax, Joran, incarnation to understand the mind of a killer in order to solve recent murders."

It sounds like a dumb plot, but I sort of enjoyed this one. Dax gets drunk and hooks up with some guy, the next morning she finds him dead. The weapon they discover is a prototype Starfleet phaser/rifle that can shoot through walls by using a small transporter attached to it (which is actually a cool idea). Soon more people start to die. Ezri summons a former serial killer Dax from her subconscious and he helps her solve the crime (yeah, this is a bit far fetched). They find out that the killer is a Vulcan, I really liked the twist because you would never think that a Vulcan would do this. Come to find out that this Vulcan is one of the few survivors from the USS Grissom. He witnessed many deaths and is now insane because of it.

163 down and 13 to go

Star Trek DS9 Episode 162 - The Emperor's New Cloak

"Quark and Rom cross into the alternate universe to rescue Grand Nagus Zek."

This mirror universe is seriously the most flawed plot in Star Trek history. DS9 should never have used it more than two times, because the more they show the mirror universe the more it exposes inaccuracies.

So, Nagus Zek steals secrets for a cloaking device and takes them into the mirror universe to sell them for profit (a. is the currency even usable in the real world. b. cloaking devices already exist in mirror world, as seen in earlier episodes). Nagus gets arrested or something and Rom and Quark go to save him. Which they eventually do. Not much else going on, other than all of the females in the mirror universe are lovers for some reason. Kira is matched up with Ezri (who in this universe is a sexy vixen) and then at the end it seems like Leeta is also involved with Ezri. It's just a weird twist, but if you think about it ... in the real universe Kira is dating Odo, Leeta is married to Rom and Ezri/Dax was married to Worf. If these are your fucking options for men, than might as well just go for the women. Anyway, there is a scene were Kira says to Ezri "I have to debrief you now" and Ezri says "This must be my lucky day". Who wrote this episode, Larry Flint???

162 down and 14 to go

Star Trek DS9 Episode 161 - Prodigal Daughter

"Ezri goes to New Sydney to find O'Brien and uncovers some disturbing family secrets. Miles goes in search of the widow of Liam Bilby, Morica Bilby, whom he befriended in an undercover operation."

O'Brien goes awol to find the wife of some guy that died while he was undercover for the Orion Syndicate. Why would O'Brien even do this? Yet another plot that doesn't make sense, but who really cares anymore. He ends up on the same planet that Ezri is from. (may I add she is still cute as ever). Sisko sends Ezri to find Miles.

On the planet (which for some reason is named New Sydney ... also it seems like a dump), Ezri meets up with her family which seem to be some kind of bigwig mining family. Meanwhile, O'Brien discovers that Morica Bilby has been murdered and he suspects the Syndicate.

Plots collide when it is revealed that Ezri's family had to pay a ransom of sorts to Morica by order of the Syndicate. Tired of being beholden to this, Ezri's brother killed Morica Bilby.

This episode has a bunch of guest stars including; some guy that was on Knots Landing, Ted from Mad Men, Leigh Young who played Rachel Harris on Picket Fences and maybe the greatest Star Trek cameo ever .... Jambi from Pee-Wee's Playhouse.

161 down and 15 to go

Star Trek DS9 Episode 160 - It's Only a Paper Moon

"Nog struggles with PTSD and begins living with Vic Fontaine."

And here it is. The shittiest Vic Fontaine episode ever. Which is a shame because the subject matter had potential and actually Aron Eisenberg was fantastic in it. I would almost suggest watching it just to see his performance, almost. It's just that Vic Fontaine is just so fucking intolerable.

Nog is losing his shit over losing his leg. ...that was almost clever. He "moves in" with Vic. Which I don't understand how that even works on so many levels. First of all, when the holosuite is off it appears to be the size of an average living room. So, how does it suddenly turn into Vic's gigantic casino plus Vic's apartment? Also (Captain Naps brought this point up), Vic is a hologram so obviously he doesn't need to go to the bathroom...but Nog is humanoid. Nog has evidently been living in the holosuite for weeks. I assume he is crapping in a hologram toilet, so once the program is shut off wouldn't there just be shit and piss like all over the floor???

There is a ridiculous montage of Nog and Vic having fun together; eating popcorn, watching movies, reading the newspaper together. In one scene they are at the zoo, Vic lifts up one leg pretending to be a flamingo, Nog falls over a fence and Mr. Furley mimics a lion! Ok, that one didn't happen.

160 down and 16 to go

Star Trek DS9 Episode 159 - Covenant

"Dukat, now a religious leader, holds Kira hostage. Mika, one of Dukat's followers, gives birth to a half-Cardassian child."


What a waste of time. Fine, Dukat is a cult leader, I will buy into that. He want's everyone to commit suicide (except he will fake it), why not. He gets lady pregnant then kills her to cover it up, I guess. By why the hell did he kidnap Kira? He all these plans and then he kid naps her for no reason and she ruins everything. It's pointless. But maybe he is just supposed to have gone crazy.

159 down and 17 to go

Star Trek DS9 Episode 158 - The Siege of AR-558

"Sisko and crew relieve Starfleet troops under siege by Jem'Hadar at a key communications outpost, AR-558, the largest dominion communications array in the sector."

Fantastic. This has to be the "realest" depiction of war that Star Trek had ever done. That's not to say it's accurate, because damned if I know. So the basic plot is that Starfleet has just taken over the largest Dominion Communications Array. It was a tough fight and many Starfleet members are wounded. Sisko and crew (consisting of the usual members...plus Quark for some reason) are sent to assess the area and help with aid. Unfortunately, while they are there helping out the wounded the Jem'Hadar attempt to take the outpost back. They launch an insane attack. It's not the typical "spaceships shooting at each other" fight scene, this is ground troops. Sisko and the remaining soldiers are vastly outnumbered but they fight hard. Many more are killed and Nog loses his leg. Also, Vic Fontaine shows up for no reason ugghh. In the end they fend off the attack but not before many loses. I must mention that Bull Mumy and the dude that plays Tuco from Breaking Bad/Saul are both in this episode. And I guess it never aired on BBC because it was too violent.


158 down and 18 to go

Star Trek DS9 Episode 157 - Once More Unto the Breach

"Worf finds a battle assignment for Kor, an aging Klingon hero."

I feel that DS9 is now starting to limp to the end of the series. I don't blame them for running out of ideas or putting out subpar episodes at this point, I mean 25 episodes per season is way too many. These series' easily could have put out 14 awesome episodes and done away with the 10 remaining average ones.

Anyway, this episode is ok I guess. The elderly Klingon Kor asks Worf to help him participate in one last battle before he is too old. So Worf hooks him up ... completely unaware that Kor is senile. They end up with Martok (who hates Kor), but after Kor loses his mind on the ship Martok starts feeling bad for him.

They are soon attacked by Jem'Hadar and of course Kor ends up sacrificing himself and saving the day. Very predictable. His family then went on to create Kors Beer and have a series of commercials starring Mark Harmon.

Also this should have been the plot: An elderly Kor asks Worf to help him get laid one more time before he is too old. The episode is named "Once More Unto the Breeches"

157 down and 19 to go

Star Trek DS9 Episode 156 - Treachery, Faith, and the Great River

"A Vorta defector, Weyoun-6, gives Odo valuable information in exchange for asylum. Weyoun-7, the next clone in the series, pursues them. Meanwhile Nog engages in a series of barters to get a Graviton Stabilizer for Miles."


It was good to have an Odo plot again, I missed him. This one was not great however, but oh well. I really dislike these Weyoun clone characters. Weyoun-6 was decent because he was "defective" meaning that he new that the Dominion was bad. He has a good idea to have Odo take over the Dominion and rebuild it into something good. Which would have been an interesting plot, but unfortunately this idea seemed to die out by the end of the episode.

I enjoyed Nog going through a complicated and strange series of barters to obtain the stabilizer for Miles.

156 down and 20 to go

Star Trek DS9 Episode 155 - Chrysalis

"Bashir falls for a genetically enhanced patient, Sarina Douglas, that he brought out of a catatonic state using an experimental medical procedure."


There's really not much too this episode. Those genetically enhanced mental patients show back up on the station and they want Bashir to help them operate on Sarina. She has not been able to speak for years (or maybe ever, I don't know), and they want Bashir to give her a voice. Which he does. She is sort of freaked out by this. Bashir falls in love with her, but she leaves DS9 to work as a scientist somewhere. But, it's left off as maybe she will be back and I think she seems interested in Bashir. Don't know. It was an OK episode. Also, remember when Bashir became a real life super spy?? So far, it has never been mentioned again.

155 down and 21 to go

Star Trek DS9 Episode 154 - Take Me Out to the Holosuite

"Sisko must train his staff to play baseball when the Vulcans, led by Solok, challenge them to a game."

This is such a dumb episode. A huge waste of time. Why would Vulcans even care about playing baseball? They end up losing 10-1 anyway. Rom is really bad at baseball and he ends up bunting home the only run (scored by Nog). I guess the message is, if you try hard enough at something then your team will still lose by 9 runs. When Rom hits home Nog, they should have cut to the scene in the Who's the Boss theme song where Tony Danza slides into home plate. For no reason.

154 down and 22 to go

Star Trek DS9 Episode 153 - Afterimage

"Everyone who knew Jadzia Dax reacts strongly to Ezri Dax's presence, particularly Worf. Meanwhile Garak suffers from bad claustrophobic attacks."

This episode is basically an into to Ezri. She ends up on DS9 and reveals that she is Dax. Everyone seems to hate her, especially Worf. So she does the natural thing and decides to stay on DS9 as the station councilor. It doesn't make much sense, but whatever.

153 down and 23 to go

Star Trek DS9 Episode 152 - Shadows and Symbols

A few things going on in this one. Sisko, Ezri (the new Dax), Jake and Sisko's dad go searching for what Sisko saw in the sand in his vision from last episode. They end up on a desert planet named Tyree. Sisko find a spot and digs. He discovers an Ark with one of those magical orbs in it. Ezri urges him to open it and basically it opens the wormhole back up. Then Sisko's mothers ghost shows up and tells him that she was an alien the entire time. His birth was pre-destined, as was his entire life.

Meanwhile Kira has set up a blockade to fend off the Romulans who are being rather sketchy. Worf and crew are off destroying a Dominion base in addition to trying to secure Jadzia's spot in Klingon heaven.

A weird thing that has been happening these past few episodes is that there is flashes to Sisko in an insane asylum. The doctors keep commenting on how he is delusional and made up this entire story about being on a spaceship. I would love it if the last episode revealed that Star Trek was just a dream by some weirdo in a nut house. It would be so dumb.

152 down and 24 to go

Star Trek DS9 Episode 151 - Image in the Sand

Season 7 begins. Sisko is back on Earth with Jake. He is dealing with his feelings of failure and he has a strange prophetic vision of a mystery woman buried in sand. Back on DS9 Kira is in charge and has been promoted to Colonel. She is busy dealing with a new Romulan envoy on the station and she also opens a military hospital. Worf is still upset about Dax. Otherwise life goes on normally on the station. At the end, Sisko meets up with the "new" Dax. The trill is rather cute, but obviously much less abrasive than Jadzia.

151 down and 25 to go

Star Trek DS9 Episode 150 - Tears of the Prophets

This was a fairly action packed episode. Starfleet is planning an attack on the Dominion. The subplot is Work and Dax are trying to have a baby. Quark and Bashir are depressed because they officially stand no chance with Dax, they both go and spill their guts to .... ugghh Vic Fontaine. Anyway, this is all pointless.

Starfleet makes it's move, but the Dominion is ready. Dukat takes one of those artifacts and breaks it, allowing himself to be possessed by a powerful spirit (similar to what happened to Kira a few episodes back). On the Defiant Garak figures out a way to turn the Dominion weapons on themselves. Meanwhile on DS9 evil Dukat beams aboard and kills Dax. He then collapses the wormhole. Bashir saves the symbiote but  Jadzia dies. Sisko gets back to DS9 feeling like a failure. He takes Jake and goes back to Earth, leaving Kira in charge. This ends season 6. This episode had great space fighting scenes, it was very "Star Wars".

150 down and 26 to go

Star Trek DS9 Episode 149 - The Sound of Her Voice

"The Defiant picks up a distress call from Captain Lisa Cusak, whose escape pod has crashed on a remote planet following the destruction of her ship, the Olympia."

There is really not much else to this episode. Each individual member of the crew spends time talking to Captain Cusak as she slowly dies. They are trying to get to her in time, but it's going to be close. Meanwhile she sort of acts like a therapist as she helps everyone solve personal problems. They finally arrive on the planet to find Lisa dead. The thing is that she dies three years ago! This very night!! Due to a time distortion, they had been talking to her past self. It was actually a very interesting episode. Deb Wilson (from MadTV) played Lisa Cusak and was excellent.


(Side plot: Odo plans to celebrate his one month anniversary with Kira)

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Star Trek DS9 Episode 148 - Time's Orphan

"Molly O'Brien disappears in a vortex and reappears as an 18-year-old woman, but she is now feral, bringing great difficulty for her parents."

Normally a plot like this would be dreadful, but this one works. It ended up having some interesting moments. So the O'Brien's are on a getaway to some planet and Molly falls into a vortex that takes her into the planets past. To a time when no one occupied it. The Enterprise crew devise a plan to get her out of the vortex. It takes only hours to retrieve her but when they get Molly back she is now 18 years old.

Molly is feral because she survived alone on the planet for 8 years. Miles and Keiko go about re-teaching her everything, including who she really is. In the end she understands a good deal, but she really misses "home". Miles and Keiko make the tough decision to send her back to her time.

The end is a good twist though. They send 18 yr old Molly through the vortex and she ends up back in the planets past. She then stumbles upon 10 year old Molly and tells her to go back through the vortex and she will be able to see her parents again. Much to Miles and Keiko's surprise, out of the vortex walks their young daughter again.

There is also a subplot in which Worf babysits Mile's son.

148 down and 28 to go

Star Trek DS9 Episode 147 - Profit and Lace

"Quark's mother and the Grand Nagus show up on DS9, announcing a new amendment to the Bill of Opportunities"

This is the weirdest episode ever. I mean, hands down, it has to be. Honestly I am not making any of this up...

So the Grand Nagus starts to speak up for women's rights on Ferengar. This causes everyone to hate him, he is overthrown and replaced by Brunt. In order to get back in favor he has Quark, Rom and Nog cold call Ferengi's and try to persuade them. It doesn't work. The next plan is to have Quark's mother talk to the richest Ferengi, who evidently owns a soda company??, and try to sway his opinion. Before she could meet with this guy, she has a heart attack.

Now it gets extra fucking weird. They come up with a plan to have Quark dress as a woman and take the place of his mother. He learns how to act womanly from the females on the station. But wait! The must take this shit all the way, Bashir then gives Quark a sex change. Yes, seriously. Then Quark meets with the soda tycoon and the guy tries to have sex with Quark the entire time. Brunt busts in and reveals the truth, that the woman is really Quark. So Quark takes things a step further and starts making out with the soda guy. Brunt still insists that the woman is really a man. So Quark rips open his shirt and shows them his tits!!! HAHA. What the hell is going on....

It pretty much ends there. Although, in the beginning of the episode there is an odd scene where Quark is trying to force his waitress to be a prostitute or else he will fire her. He gives her a sex book to read and then basically says that she has to test out what she learns with him... So at the very end, he apologizes to her because he now knows what it feels like to be a woman. She replies that she actually enjoyed the book and was interested in trying the stuff out...so I guess he goes and has sex with her. What the hell was the message here??

147 down and 29 to go

Star Trek DS9 Episode 146 - Valiant

"Jake and Nog come under attack by the Jem'Hadar and are rescued by a rogue Defiant class starship, the Valiant, under the command of Starfleet Red Squadron cadets."

I didn't care too much for the first time Red Squadron appeared on DS9, but this time was different. The Valiant is being completely run by Red Squadron (who, if you don't know, is just a crew of the best Starfleet cadets). Jake and Nog are on their way to Ferenginar (which is the name of the Ferengi home world, I never knew that), when they are attacked by the Jem'Hadar. Luckily for them, the Valiant is in the area trying to destroy a new style Dominion battle cruiser. They are saved and Nog is added to the team, while Jake is seen as an outsider.

The Valiant is considered to be a rogue ship, but that's not entirely true. The former Captain commissioned them to finish his mission when he was unable to, but it is officially unofficial. So anyway, the new Captain is Tim Watters. I was getting the vibe that they might be setting up a spin-off series, like maybe a Starfleet Academy show or something. The tone was interesting and the Captain was a nutcase, sort of like a Kirk. But, I soon realized that a spin-off was not going to happen. The Valiant is destroyed and the entire Red Squadron is killed, except for Collins, Nog and Jake. At the end Nog comments that Watters was a hero and a great man, but a bad Captain.

146 down and 30 to go

Star Trek DS9 Episode 145 - The Reckoning

"Sisko is called to Bajor when an ancient tablet addressing the Emissary is discovered at B'hala."


I really hate these Emissary episodes. This one involves Sisko smashing a priceless artifact, much to the dismay of Kai Wynn. But he did it because the prophets told him too. It unleashes a spirit...I think... and the spirit takes over Kira in order to prepare for the reckoning (whatever that is). Then it takes over Jake. Evidently this is supposed to happen, so when Kai Wynn basically exorcises the spirit Kira is mad because she ruined everything. Or something.


145 down and 31 to go

Star Trek DS9 Episode 144 - His Way

"Bashir shows off a new Holosuite program of a martini lounge with the 1960s Vegas singer named Vic Fontaine who is very perceptive; and gives advice to Odo when Kira visits her ex-lover Shakaar."


This episode is completely unwatchable. DS9 had a good run so far. I mean, even the shitty episodes had been watchable. This one however.... Let me just say that not only is the plot annoying (because yet again a nice looking woman is attracted to a hideous monster of a man...seriously this sends the wrong message to all of us male nerds out there), but Vic Fontaine is the worst character of all time. I would rather have Cousin Oliver in this episode. Now this is by far the worst part of this episode, they literally perform three entire songs. Not clips of songs, but three full length songs. It's dreadful.

144 down and 32 to go

Star Trek DS9 Episode 143 - In the Pale Moonlight

"Sisko asks Garak to help him get the Romulans to join the war against the Dominion."

Very solid episode. So Sisko is very concerned over the war with the Dominion and he wants to get the Romulans to side with the Federation. Him and Garak try to find documentation proving that the Dominion is a threat to the Romulans but they cant find one. Much to Sisko's disapproval they decide to break a top notch forger named Tolar out of a Klingon prison and use him to create fake documents. Tolar is a complete nut case, but he does eventually complete his task.

The Romulan commander easily figures out that it's a fake document. Sisko is now concerned that his plan has back fired and the Romulans will now side with the Dominion. Meanwhile though, Garak kills Tolar to keep him from talking and he also plants a bomb on the Romulan ship (but makes it look like the Dominion did it). This ploy works and the Romulans side with the Federation. Sisko laments that Garak was right, even though it did cost two lives and his own self respect, it could save millions. At the end Sisko erases all of his Captains Logs concerning this situation. Strange how it's so easy to erase official Starfleet logs????

143 down and 33 to go

Star Trek DS9 Episode 142 - Inquisition

"Bashir is accused of unknowingly spying for the Dominion."

Some guy named Sloan runs Bashir through the ringer trying to test his loyalty to Starfleet. Finally he believes Bashir and reveals that he is actually the head of a secret Starfleet spy rganization named Section 31 and they want to recruite Bashir. Bashir tells him to screw. At the Sisko tells Bashir that Sloan will no doubt come asking again and this time Bashir is to say yes. Then Sisko can have the inside scoop on secret Federation info. Also, this makes Bashir's fantasy of being a spy a reality.

142 down and 34 to go

Star Trek DS9 Episode 141 - Wrongs Darker Than Death or Night

"When Dukat reveals to Kira her mother, Kira Meru, did not die when she was three, but was actually his lover, Kira goes into the past using the Bajoran Orb of Time to find the truth."

I'm sick of DS9 going back in time and going to alternate universes with such ease. It's just too unbelievable ... as if a giant fucking alien space station orbiting a wormhole is believable ... but you get my point. So even still, the episode was decent. That's what is good about DS9, even the bad episodes are watchable.

So Kira goes back in time to see if the rumor is true, that her mother left her family to become Dukat's lover. She discovers that initially her mom was taken as a sex slave, but she found that life was actually pretty good in this "position" ... get it??? Whatever. Kira now hates her mother and she decides to plant a bomb and kill both her mom and Dukat. But at the last moment she changes her mind and saves them.

141 down and 35 to go

Star Trek DS9 Episode 140 - Change of Heart

"When Jadzia Dax is critically injured on an away mission, Worf must choose between saving his wife and completing their assignment."

I really hate the entire Dax and Worf thing, but I sort liked this episode. Dax and Worf are sent to smuggle a Dominion defector out of the Badlands. Before they meet up with him they are attacked by the Jem'Hadar and Dax is shot. The mission must be completed so Worf has no choice but to leave her behind. Half way through his journey, he realized "what the hell am I doing!" and turns back to save Dax. Back at DS9 Sisko rips Worf a new one and tells him that never again will he go on a mission with Dax. He also said that in the same situation he would also try to save his wife.

In sad news, I just heard that Leonard Nimoy died today. He always seemed like a decent guy who was always up for a cameo appearance. A legend.

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Star Trek DS9 Episode 139 - Honor Among Thieves

"Starfleet Intelligence recruits Chief O'Brien to infiltrate the Orion Syndicate to find a Starfleet informant."


What is up with Starfleet sending random people into dangerous situations. They never use security people to do this stuff, it's always an Engineer or Doctor. So in this one O'Brien goes under cover to infiltrate the space mob. Now I have seen a handful of Biographies about FBI undercover agents and actually this one plays out rather realistically. O'Brien slowly gains the trust of the Boss and then they become good "pals". O'Brien uncovers a plot to kill Gowron, which he reports to Starfleet. He also discovers that the mob boss will soon be killed, he actually feels bad for the guy so he reveals everything to him. The mob boss still decides to walk into his own death, but before that he gives Miles his cat to take care of. In the end Miles feels bad about the entire ordeal.

139 down and 37 to go

Star Trek DS9 Episode 138 - One Little Ship

This may have been a good episode (although I doubt it), it's just that after that last episode everything else seems subpar so to follow it up with a Fantastic Voyage homage is just so disappointing. First of all, there is a space anomaly that has been causing probes to shrink down to miniscule size. So naturally Sisko sends the Runabout into the anomaly with Bashir, O'Brien and Dax aboard...because that makes perfect sense. Obviously they get shrunken. Meanwhile the Jem'Hadar take over the Defiant. Basically the mini Runabout sneaks aboard the Defiant and saves the day. So how does everyone get back to normal size? Well they reenter the anomaly and everything is reversed. Of course. I guess it was a fun episode but I would rather watch Honey I Shrunk the Kids if I wanted some fun shrinkage.

138 down and 38 to go

Star Trek DS9 Episode 137 - Far Beyond the Stars

Not only does the episode that follows "Who Mourns for Morn?" not suck, it may possibly be the best episode of a TV show ever. The premise is simple and in fact rather standard DS9 faire. Sisko has a vision, goes unconscious and gets thrown into Earths past. Now here is where this episode goes from Science Fiction to something much much more. There was the episode in which Sisko goes back in time to "become" the man that saves Earth from totalitarian take over. Although that episode was full of a lot of deep rooted meaning apart from the Sci-Fi element, it was still heavily "Star Trek". This episode however, turns into 100% not Sci-Fi nor Star Trek.

A great aspect of "Far Beyond the Stars" is that all of the main characters play totally human roles. This allows them to show their range as actors and they are all incredible. It is great to see Michael Dorn and Armin Shimerman not playing hideous monsters.

The premise is that Sisko goes back to 1950's New York. He is trying to make a name for himself as a Sci-Fi writer. He is working for a Sci-Fi Magazine. His stories are loved by everyone in the office but they will not publish it because of the potential backlash of having a black author. Finally they figure out a way to get one of his stories into the magazine, it is approved by the editor (the somewhat closeted racist Mr. Pabst/Odo) and sent off to print. But, the results are incredibly heartbreaking.

There is a scene at the end in which Benjamin finally has had enough with the racism, the oppression and being treated like garbage. He just snaps and has a complete mental breakdown. What a fucking performance by Avery Brooks. I actually got choked up. Which shocked the shit out of me because not only is this Star Trek, but I always assumed I was the least sympathetic person on the planet...evidently this is not true! That is why this episode is so damn good, it nearly got me to cry! So bizarre. Anyway, I suggest everyone watch this episode now, if only for the fantastic acting.

137 down and 39 to go

Star Trek DS9 Episode 136 - Who Mourns for Morn?

"Morn is killed in an ion storm and Sisko informs Quark that Morn left his entire estate to him. But Quark has a little competition."

What a weird friggin episode. Morn dies leaving everything to Quark. Quark ends up in a Indiana Jones/Amazing Race situation in which him, Morn's Ex-Wife and two of Morn's business associates end up in a scavenger hunt for Morn's hidden retirement fund. They are soon joined another individual who said that he is some kind of private detective. Anyway, Quark and the others end up back at the bar where Odo arrests the two associates, the ex-wife and the P.I. Also.....Morn is still alive! It was all a trap to lore those four people (all of whom are bank robbers) out of hiding so that Odo can arrest them. Sounds dumb? Well it was!

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