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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine season 3 disc 3
I’ve been racing through watching these episodes much faster than I am writing them up. I’m currently in the middle of disc 6.
ST: DS9 Season 3, disc 3
I liked the four episodes on this disc slightly less as they went on. We start with ‘Defiant’ - a high point is Bashir using his Chief Medical Officer voice to order Kira. Ahem.
Anyway, a stressed out Kira and the Defiant are kidnapped by a face from TNG – Tom, Riker’s transporter clone, who I’d forgotten about, see also his or the real Riker’s beef with O’Brien. Tom has joined the Maquis – as Kira rightly diagnoses, it’s mainly because he wants to out-hero Will.
This means that Sisko has to work with Gul Dukat, which is a much more interesting dynamic than Kria-Tom (as I found his charms resistible, and they didn’t do enough to emphasise the cracks of Kira’s long-distance relationship with Bareil…). Both Sisko and Dukat want to avert the looming war stirred up by the Maquis, so Sisko has to spill the Defiant’s secrets to the Cardassians and we learn more about Cardassian factions.
I was curious as to why the Cardassian class of ships was named Kelvin (too human) and why Tom never changed out of his Starfleet uniform.
‘Fascination’ felt like part of a Shakespeare play, but with bits lopped off. At the beginning, Miles is looking forward for the two-day return of Keiko and Molly that coincides with a Bajoran festival (that I don’t remember us hearing about before). Also coming to DS9 for the celebrations are the Hot Vedek (which makes Odo sad) and Lwaxana Troi (which doesn’t help much with the Sad!Odo).
Suddenly, various people are ‘in love’ with unexpected people. Jake’s crush on Kira was handled adroitly, Farrell and El Fadil showed off their comic timing and Quark rubbing himself up against Keiko was disturbing. Sisko Is unaffected (because Avery Brooks was directing? Because Sisko is still mourning Jennifer?) and susses out that Lwaxana is the source of all this. She susses out that Odo is PINING for Kira, while I noted that Visitor had to snog three guys in two consecutive episodes. But we’re not meant to linger on most of the Betazed-transmitted amours – they were mainly played for laughs (and might be written differently itoday.)
We then have two-part time travel shenanigans in ‘Past Tense’, which actually is far more serious than I’ve made it sound. Sisko, Bashir and Dax end up in Trekkian San Francisco 2024, which is much closer today than it was when this first aired. The point is that Earth is kind of awful because the Federation hasn’t yet been created.
They’re separated. Dax is rescued by a rich man (who fancies her), while the other two end up in a ‘Sanctuary’, which is obviously an ironic name for what’s essentially a ghetto for the unfortunates. Sisko the history geek knows they’re a few days away from riots that will change US history. I could see who would have to step in and play vital figure Gabriel Bell coming, while idealistic Bashir, with his drive to heal, is frustrated by what he sees and isn’t supposed to do much about.
Meanwhile, the non-Starfleet officers are up on the Defiant. They’re about to launch a rescue attempt through time, when they realise time outside the Defiant has already been altered. Colm Meaney had a lot of technobabble to deliver.
The second part is mostly about Sisko’s leadership skills. There’s a hot-headed rival leader who wants to be Errol Flynn and a recalcitrant hostage to deal with out. But it all plays out pretty tamely.
Dax is fairly hardcore, by the way.
I wan’t convinced by the decision to play the temporal rescue party for laughs
It ends on an anvilicious note about the twenty-first century, which hadn’t started yet back then.
ST: DS9 Season 3, disc 3
I liked the four episodes on this disc slightly less as they went on. We start with ‘Defiant’ - a high point is Bashir using his Chief Medical Officer voice to order Kira. Ahem.
Anyway, a stressed out Kira and the Defiant are kidnapped by a face from TNG – Tom, Riker’s transporter clone, who I’d forgotten about, see also his or the real Riker’s beef with O’Brien. Tom has joined the Maquis – as Kira rightly diagnoses, it’s mainly because he wants to out-hero Will.
This means that Sisko has to work with Gul Dukat, which is a much more interesting dynamic than Kria-Tom (as I found his charms resistible, and they didn’t do enough to emphasise the cracks of Kira’s long-distance relationship with Bareil…). Both Sisko and Dukat want to avert the looming war stirred up by the Maquis, so Sisko has to spill the Defiant’s secrets to the Cardassians and we learn more about Cardassian factions.
I was curious as to why the Cardassian class of ships was named Kelvin (too human) and why Tom never changed out of his Starfleet uniform.
‘Fascination’ felt like part of a Shakespeare play, but with bits lopped off. At the beginning, Miles is looking forward for the two-day return of Keiko and Molly that coincides with a Bajoran festival (that I don’t remember us hearing about before). Also coming to DS9 for the celebrations are the Hot Vedek (which makes Odo sad) and Lwaxana Troi (which doesn’t help much with the Sad!Odo).
Suddenly, various people are ‘in love’ with unexpected people. Jake’s crush on Kira was handled adroitly, Farrell and El Fadil showed off their comic timing and Quark rubbing himself up against Keiko was disturbing. Sisko Is unaffected (because Avery Brooks was directing? Because Sisko is still mourning Jennifer?) and susses out that Lwaxana is the source of all this. She susses out that Odo is PINING for Kira, while I noted that Visitor had to snog three guys in two consecutive episodes. But we’re not meant to linger on most of the Betazed-transmitted amours – they were mainly played for laughs (and might be written differently itoday.)
We then have two-part time travel shenanigans in ‘Past Tense’, which actually is far more serious than I’ve made it sound. Sisko, Bashir and Dax end up in Trekkian San Francisco 2024, which is much closer today than it was when this first aired. The point is that Earth is kind of awful because the Federation hasn’t yet been created.
They’re separated. Dax is rescued by a rich man (who fancies her), while the other two end up in a ‘Sanctuary’, which is obviously an ironic name for what’s essentially a ghetto for the unfortunates. Sisko the history geek knows they’re a few days away from riots that will change US history. I could see who would have to step in and play vital figure Gabriel Bell coming, while idealistic Bashir, with his drive to heal, is frustrated by what he sees and isn’t supposed to do much about.
Meanwhile, the non-Starfleet officers are up on the Defiant. They’re about to launch a rescue attempt through time, when they realise time outside the Defiant has already been altered. Colm Meaney had a lot of technobabble to deliver.
The second part is mostly about Sisko’s leadership skills. There’s a hot-headed rival leader who wants to be Errol Flynn and a recalcitrant hostage to deal with out. But it all plays out pretty tamely.
Dax is fairly hardcore, by the way.
I wan’t convinced by the decision to play the temporal rescue party for laughs
It ends on an anvilicious note about the twenty-first century, which hadn’t started yet back then.