Synopsis: O’Brien and Bashir help to rid two races of their biological weapons, however both governments want to ensure no technical knowledge of the weapons can survive.

Memory Alpha Summary: Tabula Rasa

Review: A really good show to develop Bashir and O’Brien’s relationship. It’s just too bad the plot that does so is so contrived.

Synopsis: Three years after his wife died at the hands of the Borg and following the Cardassian withdrawal from the planet Bajor, Commander Benjamin Sisko and a new crew of Starfleet and Bajoran officers take command of an abandoned Cardassian space station and make an incredible discovery that will change the galaxy and Sisko’s future.

Memory Alpha Summary: The Sisko begins.

Review: The pilot of DS9 tries really, really hard to usher in a new era of Star Trek. Like most pilots, it has its ups and downs. The intro is great, utilizing one of the iconic moments of the currently running TNG series (Wolf 359) as a backdrop for our Captain Sisko’s character. Using Captain Picard could have been cheap, but it works seamlessly with the plot. Sisko’s confrontation with him is fantastic, as he reminds Picard they had already met before (when he was Locutus).

Synopsis: Quark’s cousin Gaila offers him a job as a weapons dealer.

Memory Alpha Summary: That can’t possibly go wrong

Review: A shockingly decent Quark episode, though as usual they’re not terribly subtle with the moral dilemma Quark has to wrestle with.

Synopsis: After Worf becomes first officer of a Klingon Bird-of-Prey commanded by General Martok, he is caught between loyalty to his commander and loyalty to the crew.

Memory Alpha Summary: Worf torn between two decisions? Glad to finally see it.

Review: Bashir is an asshole, jesus. The way he treats Martok is condescending and culturally demeaning. 

This reminds me quite a bit of A Matter of Honor, with Worf replacing Riker as the first officer. In some ways it’s more ambitious as the Klingons on the ship are diverse. The writers also do their best to explain how the Klingon system of murdering one’s captain is only a last resort and otherwise their system is quite functional. 

Synopsis: Quark finds an abandoned Jem’Hadar child, and Odo is the only person who can control him.

Memory Alpha Summary: Well, as much as one can without Ketracel-White

Review: A show more interesting than satisfying, as we learn more about the Jem’Hadar and why the Dominion has them at their bidding. I like that Odo was unsuccessful in rehabilitating the boy, as it further showed how much power the Dominion has over its subjects, and because rehabilitating someone is not exactly realistic in just a couple of days.  

Synopsis: The Bajoran scientist who used to be Odo’s teacher arrives with evidence of others of Odo’s kind.

Memory Alpha Summary: Sort of

Review: Most episodes that focus on Odo and his possible origins end up being pretty good, though this one is only about average.

Synopsis: The Dominion and the Breen negotiate an alliance; Ezri and Worf are sentenced to death.

Memory Alpha Summary: Honestly, these bedfellows all seem kind of obvious

Review: I take back what I said about Kai Winn from ‘Til Death Do Us Part. Dukat just admits everything to her and she only resists for a hot minute before turning to the dark side like a caricature.  Her speech as the episode closes nears that of a Bond-villain and I’m less excited now about her comeuppance.  

Synopsis: Scavenging an abandoned Cardassian space station identical to DS9 for equipment, O’Brien’s team discovers that the station may not be completely abandoned.

Memory Alpha Summary: Haunted house…in space!

Review: Yet another late Season 5 episode that has the makings of something special but ultimately doesn’t deliver.

Synopsis: Sisko fights to keep the wreckage of a crashed Jem’Hadar fighter.

Memory Alpha Summary: …because!

Review: A somewhat entertaining but ultimately dissatisfying episode involving Sisko and Co. trying to salvage a Jem-Haddar ship. There’s just so much bad writing here. For starters, four senior officers, including the captain of the freaking space station, are on a remote planet in the Gamma Quadrant for…wait for it…mining exploration. What the hell?  I was waiting for them to say what they were mining for would be used as a defense against the Dominion or something, but nope. Just mining. And sending the captain to do it.