Star Trek DS9 Episode 23 - The Siege

Now DS9 is being attacked. Sisko orders everyone to evacuate. Quark is shrewdly selling seats on the transport, but finds out that his brother Rom has sneakily sold Quarks seat. Well done Rom. Quark freaks out as he realizes that there are no seats left and he will be stuck on the station...very Titanic.

Kira and Dax escape to a Bajoran moon to pick up an old star fighter, which they will use to get onto Bajor.The main crew decides to stay on DS9 and fight. Kiko is pissed at Miles for choosing work over his family. Odo helps the crew hide by using his shapeshifting ability. They go around the station and subdue the terrorists. Finally they capture one of the Circles top Colonel's ... it's Steven Weber! Evidently at some point he flew an airplane from Nantucket and into a wormhole.

They tell him about the Cardassian involvement in the plot. Eventually they convince all of the others, including the leader General Krim, about Cardassian involvement. Meanwhile Kira and Dax get into Winn's temple on Bajor and convince her of the same thing. The Circle stops their assault in order to reassess their organization. Suddenly Steven Weber tries to assassinate Sisko, Li Nalas jumps in the way and takes the "bullet", saving Sisko's life.

Wow, lot going on in these three episodes. I'm not one for a long story arc, but this one was pretty good. Lots of character growth, across the board from Kira to Rom, and tons of action. Well done.

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Star Trek DS9 Episode 22 - The Circle

Part 2 of a 3 part story arc. So now Nalas has taken over for Kira on DS9. He doesn't really want to be there. Meanwhile Kira is back on Bajor working on a farm for some reason. She is with this creepy guy named Bareil ... he shows her his orb and she has an orgasm. The Circle is beginning to take over Bajor. Odo turns into an actual rat and hides on a freighter trying to get some info on them.


Kira gets kidnapped by The Circle. Quark uses his contacts to find out where she is being hidden, Sisko and the others go on a rescue mission and bring her back to DS9. Odo has learned that The Circle have built a powerful weapon (with the help of the Cardassians...for some reason) and will use it to take total control of Bajor. Also come to find out that the Prophet Winn is in on this as well.


A group of Bajor ships begin to assault DS9. Sisko seeks help from the Federation but they refuse, citing that it would go against The Prime Directive. Some how???


This episode was very action packed and it also showed a great solidarity between the DS9 crew. This seems like a real turning point in the series.


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Star Trek DS9 Episode 21 - The Homecoming

Quark gives Kira a Bajoran earring and she notices that it once belonged to a great Bajoran warhero named Li Nalas (he's good but he's no Li Emneeson). She tracks the origin of the jewelry to a secret Cardassian labor camp full of Bajorans.

Meanwhile, O'Brien discovers graffiti on the station that references "The Circle", which is an extremist Bajoran. They have started to take over Bajor with the intention of purging it of any non Bajorans.

Anyway, Kira and O'Brien go to this labor camp (pretending to be a pimp and prostitute) and they break Li Nalas out. The Cardassians then apologize for the labor camp and let everyone go. Li Nalas comes home to quit the fanfare and is eventually named to replace Kira on DS9 by the Bajorian high command. I'm not a huge Kira fan, but this guy is friggin tool.


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Star Trek DS9 Episode 20 - In the Hands of the Prophets

Episode 20 already! Season One is over. It ends on an odd note too. This episode is all about religion, religious fanaticism and religion in schools. So this Bajoran religious leader named Winn comes to DS9 (played by the great great great Louise Fletcher). She gets really pissed to find out that Kiko O'Brien is teaching the science of the wormhole and not the religious aspect of the wormhole. Eventually someone blows up the school. Hmmm I wonder what the message is in this episode? Stop preaching politics to me DS9 will you!!


It was sort of like watching Do the Right Thing but in space.


Anyway, whatever. Season One of DS9 was very solid, much better than season one of TNG.


I have grown to like Kira slightly more, Dax still remains rather boring, Odo has become one of my favorites, Sisko is ok but I like him better when he gets fat and bald, I love all of the Ferengi's...I think they make the show, Bashir sucks, Miles O'Brien is turning more into Colm Meaney and less into Miles O'Brien ... which is great. And that is it. Go away.


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Star Trek DS9 Episode 19 - Duet

Kira confronts a Cardassian that was responsible for the atrocities at Gallitep. This is where the Cardassian's massacred a bunch of Bajorans. There was not much to this episode visually but it showed really solid character development for Major Kira. She starts off hating this guy, but then she realizes that he was a silent observer and even though he did not speak-out she noticed how traumatized he was by it and she felt bad. I'm sure there is much more to say about this episode as it was a very serious and emotional one ... but I got nothing.


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Star Trek DS9 Episode 18 - Dramatis Personae

"In this episode, a "telepathic infection" sets the crew into two factions fighting against each other, with Major Kira leading the mutiny"


A damaged Klingon vessel enters DS9 carrying an infection that makes everyone hostile. Odo isn't affected and he manages to figure out the problem. He convinces Bashir to make a cure and everyone is saved...hooray!


I liked this episode because I feel that it showed an accurate depiction of "who would be with who" during an actual mutiny. It still feels like Kira does not trust Sisko ... or anyone else for that matter. But the best part was when Kira beats the shit out of Quark.


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Star Trek DS9 Episode 17 - The Forsaken

Who is calling for more Lwaxana Troi episodes?? No way she has any type of fan base. It's the same plot every single time too ... she tries to get laid. This time the object of her hornyness is Odo. At first he resists, but then he becomes interested. They eventually get stuck in a turbolift together and Odo begins to turn into his natural self ... liquid. Lwaxana feels bad and offers to give him her wig for comfort. Then he turns to liquid in her lap. What a fucked up episode. The name of the episode, The Forsaken ... who is the forsaken? Is it Odo, for having to be trapped with this old scarecrow?


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Star Trek DS9 Episode 16 - If Wishes Were Horses

All of the Star Trek series seem to have that episode were imagination comes to life. So here is the DS9 version. An alien culture comes through the wormhole seeking to experience imagination ... or something like that. Anyway, Rumpelstiltskin and Buck Bokai come to life. That's basically it. It was a fun episode. And it's nice to see that MLB finally gets the steroid problem under control, because Buck Bokai is like five foot tall and 250 pounds of pure fat.


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Star Trek DS9 Episode 15 - Progress

The Federation is helping Bajor tap into the core of one of its moons. Somehow this will release much needed electricity for Bajoran use. It will also release toxic gas that will kill anyone on the moon. There are humanoid inhabitants living here and they have been ordered to leave. Kira is sent to help remove the last remaining farmer, who is determined to stay. She begins to sympathize with him, but in the end she is reminded by Sisko that she has a duty ... and she burns down the guys home! What the hell is up with this episode? Is the Federation some kind of Totalitarian Government?? Forcing people from their homes for the sake of government projects is just garbage. I am guessing that most common people typically dislike the idea of imminent domain, but it seems like this episode was trying to point out that sometimes its necessary for the government to kick you out of your home and burn it down. Also the guy just wants to die, so just let him die! Stop controlling everything. Friggin' Federation. Also the name of the episode, Progress? Literally, zero progress made in this episode.


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Star Trek DS9 Episode 14 - The Storyteller

You got two plots going on here. One on DS9 involves Nog trying to get into some girls pants. (I actually like Nog, the kid is a good actor). The second one involves Bashir and Miles. They are down on this planet, every once in a while some cloud monster shows up and kills people in the village ... in fact it's sort of like that movie The Village. The only way to stop it is by telling it a story. So the king is about to tell the story and but he dies, before he croaks he tells the story to Miles who then recites it and saves everyone. They make him king. He is highly annoyed. The episode was not great, but it did have a very TOS feel to it which I enjoyed.


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Star Trek DS9 Episode 13 - Battle Lines

"The spiritual leader of Bajor, Kai Opaka, travels with Sisko on a trip to the Gamma Quadrant but is stranded with him on a world where the dead are resurrected."


I hate looking at Kai Opaka, she is so disturbing looking. She gets stranded on this planet with Sisko and some others. They drop right in the middle of a war between two peoples. The ironic thing is that nobody on this planet can die, so the war never ends. The best part of the episode was the performance of Jonathan Banks aka Mike from Breaking Bad. The funny things was that he played the part of this alien in the same way that he played the character Mike ... a tough guy with a New York accent???


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Star Trek DS9 Episode 12 - Vortex

"Odo discovers he may not be the only one of his kind when a visitor from the Gamma Quadrant claims he can contact Odo's people."

This visitor shows up on the space station, kills a guy and steals a "shape shifting" piece of material. He convinces Odo that he knows where others like him are, so Odo ends up going with him to a planet where this visitor uses the device too free his daughter from captivity. Instead of taking the guy to space prison for murder, Odo lets him escape.

I swear that on Star Trek they have met many shape shifters throughout all of the series. Why is Odo such a mystery? I just don't get it.

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Star Trek DS9 Episode 11 - The Nagus

Yeah, another Quark episode. I love the character but I hope they don't wear him out in season one. This episode was funny funny stuff. I would watch a Ferengi spin off of this group, its like the Three Stooges but not as ugly. The only thing is that, in this episode it is horribly evident that the Ferengi are supposed to be a Jewish stereotype. It seriously seems very Anti-Semitic. Anyway, funny stuff.


Quark gets named the Grand Nagus (head of all Ferengi) and his brother Rom tries to kill him. In the end Quark wasn't really named Nagus, it was all sham and he ends up actually respecting his brother Rom.


Rom is another good character, he is such a friggin dope. They do a really cool scene where they mimic the opening to The Godfather.


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Star Trek DS9 Episode 10 - Move Along Home

"Quark is forced to play a game by the Wadi, a newly encountered species, and the lives of the crew depend on the outcome. "


This episode was awesome. Only because I love the movie Jumanji and this episode was basically Jumanji in space. So Quark is stuck playing this game and the crew are trapped as pawns. One bad move and it could be death for Sisko and the others. Quark begins to crack under the pressure and finally has a nervous breakdown, which is pretty funny. In the end he loses the game and his players all "die", but not really because it was only a game. Anyway, I thought this episode was a lot of fun.


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Star Trek DS9 Episode 9 - The Passenger

A criminal entity hides in the body of Dr. Bashir. There is a Guard that is tracking this criminal and she follows him to DS9, but loses track when he hides within the Doctors mind. Quark is dealing with this criminal trying to help him escape...not because Quark is malicious but because he is greedy. Just when you think Quark is on the side of the good guys, he always shows his true colors. Anyway, in the end the extract the criminals consciousness from Bashir and destroy it.

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Star Trek DS9 Episode 8 - Dax

This episode got me thinking about Dax. How does this Dax symbiant thing work? Do they jump into new hosts, or they create their own new bodies? Like was Jadzia Dax just some woman named Jadzia at one point ... like a cleaning lady at a space motel or something?

So in this episode, Dax is accused of a murder that happened back when she was a man Curzon Dax (who was best friends with Sisko at the time). Curzon had an affair with a military generals wife and suddenly the man ends up dead. A group of aliens try to take Dax into custody, but Sisko orders a hearing first. He argues that Dax cannot be charged with the crime because THIS Dax is not that DAX, they are two different beings. I'm not sure I agree. It's still the same symbiant, just with a different skin right? I mean if this is true then Dax could commit a million crimes in this body and then just change hosts and she would be immune from the law.

It's a moot point anyway because the general guy basically ended up killing himself.

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Star Trek DS9 Episode 7 - Q-Less

Is Q Less a pun? If it is, I can't figure it out. Anyway, this episode is a bit weird but it's entertaining. It involves Picard's former girlfriend Vash (who appeared in a few TNG episodes) ... it seems that Q is in love with her or something. So he follows her onto the ship and causes trouble. Meanwhile Quark teams up with Vash to sell some crystals. Then Q boxes with Sisko. It's just crazy, but Q is fun and Quark is hilarious in this episode. Also, it's so weird to see Sisko this skinny and with hair.


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Star Trek DS9 Episode 6 - Captive Pursuit

I do no recall seeing this episode before, but it may now be one of my favorites. It was excellent.


DS9 gets their first contact through the wormhole with a being from the Gamma Quadrant. His ship is in distress and they take him in for repairs. He is only to be known as Tosk and Miles quickly befriends him. They did a really good job on the Tosk character, for once an alien actually looks cool. Also the actor played the part perfectly, the character was mysterious but likable. Finally! Miles O'Brien gets to show some range, he is not just the boring transporter guy from TNG any longer. He is gruff and irritable, but can also be a caring dude.


When another ship shows up seeking Tosk, the real plot becomes evident. Tosk is the prey in an intergalactic hunt and now the hunters have caught him. They are very disappointed with the outcome because it wasn't very entertaining. They are supposed to catch and kill him, not retrieve him from a space station. Miles tries to save Tosk by granting him asylum, but Tosk refuses. Their culture is very different than us humans. Tosk has been bred to be the hunted in this game, and in fact, that is the highest honor in his society. He was basically born to die. Tosk is actually ashamed that the hunt would end this way ... so, Miles helps him escape and the hunt continues.


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Star Trek DS9 Episode 5 - Babel

Miles O'Brien accidentally unleashes an old booby-trap while fixing a replicator. The Bajoran terrorists placed this virus in the system 18 years prior, now it is infecting everyone on the station. They start speaking in Shakespearean nonsense...and eventually die. Bashir, Sisko and Kira work together to solve the problem. Meanwhile a visiting ship is about to explode and destroy the station...Quark and Odo work together to stop the destruction of DS9. The episode was a bit crazy and seemed rather forced, but let me just say that the dynamic between Odo and Quark was excellent. Watching these two interact with each other will be lots of fun going forward.

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Star Trek DS9 Episode 4 - A Man Alone

At this point, there are many new faces on DS9 due to the wormhole. A Bajoran outlaw named Ibudan shows and up and immediately Odo tries to arrest him. Sisko puts an end to it stating that Ibudan has not broken any laws here. Soon Ibudan is found dead and Odo is blamed for the death. The next scene is fantastic ... the civilian population turns against Odo and chase him into a room where Odo locks the door. The entire crowd is chanting insults at the shape shifter (basically they are just saying "shifter" over and over again) and the look of panic on Odo's face is frightening. I actually started to feel really bad for him.

Dr. Bashir figures out that Ibudan created a clone of himself and it was the clone that was dead. It was just a big plan to frame Odo. So eventually Odo arrests the Bajoran outlaw for clone murder.

Side plot: Keiko and O'Brien are arguing over Keiko's unhappiness of living on the space station.

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