Synopsis: Jack, Lauren, Patrick, and Sarina, the genetically-engineered Humans, return to the station, asking Bashir to help rouse Sarina from her cataleptic state.
Memory Alpha Summary: Breakfast Club
Review: I’m glad they brought back these characters. They’re acted well and continue to be treated well by the writers.
Continue reading 74. Chrysalis (7.05)Synopsis: A Federation ambassador brings newly-promoted Captain Sisko orders to take the Defiant on a patrol of the Tzenkethi border, where a destabilizing coup has just taken place, but everything is not as it seems. (Season finale)
Memory Alpha Summary: Wish they would have told me before I agreed to be host!
Review: A fairly disappointing season finale naturally features The Dominion much like TNG’s season 3 finale featured the Borg. And while The Dominion feel like more of a threat after this episode, the script itself is pretty cheeky and predictable.
Continue reading 75. The Adversary (3.26)Synopsis: New evidence reopens a thirty-year-old murder case and Dax’s previous host, Curzon, is the prime suspect.
Memory Alpha Summary: Wish they would have told me before I agreed to be host!
Review: Finally in season 1 we get an episode about the one main character we know the least about. Unfortunately, it’s yet another senior-officer-accused-of-murder episode, right on the heels of A Man Alone. Two of the same plot in the first seven episodes is really lazy. On the bright side, this episode does it way better, partly because Dax never denies murdering someone (even though she didn’t). The mystery is why she’s remaining silent, and it’s a decent one.
Continue reading 76. Dax (1.08)Synopsis: The Breen ally with the Dominion and attack Earth, the Federation Alliance loses its foothold in Cardassian space, Legate Damar organizes a rebellion, and Kai Winn begins to read forbidden texts about the Pah-wraiths. (Part 4 of 9)
Memory Alpha Summary: <a href="http://<!– wp:paragraph –> <p></p> O’Brien will be conflicted
Review: Now we’re talking. So far the best episode of the long arc as the Cardassians are pretty much all in on helping the Federation, Sisko loses the Defiant (which is as close to a character a non-living entity can get), and Dukat gets outed. Not digging the Dax/Julian sudden amortization. Not that it’s completely unrealistic; after all, Julian was crazy for Dax in Season 1. But it seemed like he had moved past it for five years only to fall for the new Dax so quickly?
Continue reading 77. The Changing Face of Evil (7.20)Synopsis: Sisko leads a commando team into Klingon headquarters in an attempt to expose the Changeling impersonating Gowron.
Memory Alpha Summary: Not that kind of commando. It was a fully clothed team.
Review: A nice resolution to the Klingon war story that always felt a bit forced, but retconned nicely here to include the Dominion being behind the whole thing.
Continue reading 78. Apocalypse Rising (5.01)Synopsis: Odo must face his feelings for Kira when she falls in love with First Minister Shakaar, her former Resistance leader.
Memory Alpha Summary: Kira sure loves her Bajoran politicians
Review: Another episode that deals with Odo’s love for Kira. Auberjonois kills again, bringing deep pathos to a character that restricts his emotion. The scene where he trashes his own place haa special impact given how orderly Odo needs everything to be. It also cements the sort of symbiotic relationship he has with Quark.
Continue reading 79. Crossfire (4.13)Synopsis: After an accident in the engine room of the Defiant apparently claims the life of Benjamin Sisko, Jake lives out his life in an endless quest to locate his father.
Memory Alpha Summary: Not Nana
Review: So many people love this episode and found it emotionally resonating. It definitely felt like it was trying to reach the high of The Inner Light. And while I appreciate the themes involved, it didn’t move me even a little bit.
Continue reading 80. The Visitor (4.03)Synopsis: The crew becomes infected by a telepathic imprint of a culture that destroyed itself.
Memory Alpha Summary: Troi’s feeling pain right about now
Review: A fun episode for the actors, but it’s yet another where some mysterious thing affects the entire crew and someone needs to save them at the last possible second before everyone dies. Didn’t we just do this with Babel (and several other times on TNG)? This episode is much better, but it’s still tiring.
Continue reading 81. Dramatis Personae (1.18)Synopsis: Investigating a planet surrounded by a powerful energy field, the crew of the Defiant discovers their own descendants, and learns that in two days they will crash two hundred years in the past.
Memory Alpha Summary: Great Scott!
Review: I’m a sucker for just about any time travel story and this one is no different; being confronted by one’s descendants and being told you can’t leave or they won’t be born is a pretty great story conflict. It allows for a lot of natural conflict (e.g. O’Brien debating about leaving his wife and child), Worf abandoning his descendants who honor him (being about the only Klingons who do so), and some fun jokes at Sisko’s expense.
Continue reading 82. Children of Time (5.22)Synopsis: When Quark learns that he is dying, he auctions his vacuum-desiccated body to raise capital. Meanwhile, an accident on a mission prompts Dr. Bashir to transfer Keiko’s baby into Major Kira.
Memory Alpha Summary: Keiko did this so Worf couldn’t deliver her baby again.
Review: I love Quark and I don’t love Ferengi episodes, but this one ain’t half-bad. Partially because of the totally awesome B-plot with Keiko’s baby being transported into Nerys. Just a perfect solution for the “Nana Visitor is pregnant” problem without resorting to any silliness about Shakaar.
Continue reading 83. Body Parts (4.25)
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