Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 6

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 5

SPOILERS TOTAL.  You've been warned.

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601: A Time to Stand 1997 September 29

(First watched 2008-07-08)  Given the ending of the previous episode, I really thought this episode would begin immediately thereafter, with an attack on DS9 by Federation forces.  However, the jump forward several months into a war not going well is much more interesting.

Also, Admiral Ross.  That's a character I'd run across in reading the ~Nemesis-era TNG novels, but I think this is his first on-screen appearance.  Not that it was very big.

I was kind of surprised to see Jake going around freely on the station, but... I guess the Dominion aren't running a "harsh" occupation; at least yet.

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602: Rocks and Shoals 1997 October 6

(First watched 2008-07-08)  Interesting takes on similar subjects, in expected roles and whether to continue with them with the good of various people at stake.  Kira and Odo try to keep things as good for Bajor as they can, but find themselves becoming more like collaborators of old.  On the other hand, the Jem'Hadar soldier finds himself troubled by his doubting of his Vorta master.  In the end a crazy suicide protest convinces Kira and Odo they must resist, but the Jem'Hadar decides to retain his loyalty to the Vorta; even when he knows the Vorta has betrayed his men and sent them to their death.

I also couldn't help but notice the Starfleet side only had two characters who weren't regulars or regular guests, and picked them out as dying redshirts pretty quickly.  However, one of the two actually survived.

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603: Sons and Daughters 1997 October 13

(First watched 2008-07-08)  Boy, Alexander got big!  And... for some reason all warriory unlike before.  Well, at least wannabe warriory.

Kira and Odo seem reluctant to let Jake in on their resistance.  But sheesh, if he found out about it on his own, mightn't it be best that they use him?  They haven't even done anything yet and they've already got leaks to people outside of the resistance.

So AGAIN Dukat almost tricks Kira into being friendly with him before she realizes it.  She really ought to have caught on to that by now.

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604: Behind the Lines 1997 October 20

(First watched 2008-07-09)  Boy, Kira and Odo keep repeating the same difficulties.  Oh, we should try to lay low and keep Bajor safe.  No, we should rebel!  No, we shouldn't rebel THAT much.  Yes we should!  But this time the difficulty was with Odo, freakylinking with strange shapeshifters in his quarters, messing with his mind and causing Rom's capture.

I guess they took my advice about letting Jake in on their resistance, though.

Elsewhere, Sisko gets a "promotion" and just spends all his time worrying about the Defiant boldly going successfully on missions without him.

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605: Favor the Bold 1997 October 27

(First watched 2008-07-10)  Odo, you dope.  What happened was exactly what you were warned about.  This repeated back-and-forth of Odo and Kira being good enough resisters (or not) is getting to be the lamest bit of this serial string.  On the other hand, Rom is pretty awesome; being a big part of things and not wanting his freedom to take priority over saving that minefield.

Sisko and hundreds of other ships start to take on a Dominion fleet twice as large, while leaving critical areas of the Federation poorly defended... what sort of deus ex machina will be necessary for everything to turn out alright?  Well, I guess all the Dominion ships could be shittily ran because the Jem'Hadar are running out of their ketracel-white.

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606: Sacrifice of Angels 1997 November 3

(First watched 2008-07-12)  Hmm.  Big events, though some seemed pointless or on the other hand miraculous.  I know the plan wasn't that the Defiant would be the only ship to bust through enemy lines and make it to DS9, but given that was the case they could've accomplished the same by cloaking and avoiding the battle altogether.  In fact, the ship would've been in better shape.  That battle sure was big, though.  A larger Federation fleet than seen in the two battles against the Borg near Earth, but an even larger Cardassian/Dominion fleet against it.

Then the wormhole aliens/Prophets just up and disappear thousands of Dominion reinforcements because of concern about The Sisko?  Could he just make them do whatever he wants at this point, by threatening to put himself in danger if they don't?  Then again, they mentioned some sort of penance... but I haven't seen it.

So Ziyal... ouch.  And what will become of Dukat?  He can't exactly be an effective Cardassian administrator and Dominion ally if he's a crazy man in Federation/Bajoran custody.

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607: You Are Cordially Invited... 1997 November 10

(First watched 2008-07-20)  From a show point of view I guess it's a good thing Worf and Jadzia got married on an accelerated schedule and during a time of war; it gives a good excuse as to why none of Worf's old crewmates were in attendance.  I'm glad Alexander could be there, though.

Martok's wife and the end solution bothered me.  For all that Klingons are always shown to value strength, you'd think Jadzia's not putting up with her shit and fighting back would be considered the "honorable" thing.  Whereas in the end she basically consents to grovel to get her approval.

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608: Resurrection 1997 November 17

(First watched 2008-07-21)  Long-lost or previously-unknown-of person comes, forms a rapport with someone they sort-of have a connection with, and turn out to be scheming.  We've seen it before and before and before.  The only question is how repentant they are about it in the end.

I'm still surprised that the technology for transporting between the two universes seems to be mature, yet it's used so infrequently; and only in the area of DS9.

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609: Statistical Probabilities 1997 November 22

(First watched 2008-07-28)  Bashir meets his... less successful brothers-in-genetics.  A group of sort of Super Rainmen that begin providing Starfleet with situational analyses and future forecasts regarding the war against the Dominion, which takes a bad turn when they forecast that the Federation has no chance, and the best bet for preventing deaths is either to surrender or help the Dominion win as quickly as possible.  That one of their own group foiled their plan goes far to making the point that, as Dr. Bashir said, if they couldn't even predict what someone in the same room was going to do, shouldn't that cast some doubt on their forecasts for the galaxy at large?

Interesting, but I'm not sure I like Dr. Bashir being the only non-dangerous genetically engineered person... ever.  Khan's group, takes over the world in the 20th century and causes havoc in the 23rd century.  In Enterprise, the offshoot of Khan's group causes havoc in the 22nd century.  On DS9 now, even the group that doesn't seem to want to rule everything almost ends up giving the Federation away because they think it's in everyone's best interest.

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610: The Magnificent Ferengi 1997 [[]]

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