Shows You Should Be Watching
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Summary Major Kira and Gul Dukat form an uneasy alliance as they search for a missing Cardassian prison ship, the Ravinok, that disappeared six years earlier while carrying Bajoran prisoners. Back on DS9, Sisko is overwhelmed by the prospect of…
Summary After crash landing on a planet, Dr. Bashir tries to help members of a rogue Jem’Hadar unit free themselves of their addiction to the drug the Founders use to control them. Meanwhile, Worf tries to adjust to life aboard…
Summary When an aspiring writer turns up in the middle of the night, an elderly Jake Sisko recounts his life, which has become an endless quest to locate his father, after an accident in the engine room of the Defiant…
Summary Believing that the recent Cardasssian coup was orchestrated by the Dominion, the Klingon decision to attack Cardassia puts the Federation-Klingon alliance in jeopardy, and forces Worf to choose between his people and his oath to the Federation. Our Take…
Summary When a Klingon fleet under General Martok arrives at the station ostensibly to protect the Alpha Quadrant from the Dominion, Sisko recruits Lieutenant Commander Worf to investigate the Klingons’ true intentions. Our Take Solid, satisfying television. The season’s engine…
Summary When a destabilizing coup takes places on the Tzenkethi homeworld, a newly promoted Captain Sisko is ordered to take the Defiant on a border patrol to evaluate the situation. However, soon after departing DS9 the Defiant develops a series…
Summary While Jadzia performs the Trill zhian’tara ritual and meets with the previous Dax hosts, Nog undergoes his stress reaction test in preparation for entrance into Starfleet Academy. Our Take Very good, not the series’ peak, but an hour that…
Summary When Kai Winn is appointed Bajoran First Minister, Kira becomes concerned about Winn’s growing grip on power. However, when the Kai orders Kira to convince her old Resistance leader to return some farming equipment to the government, the situation…
Summary When Quark’s mother breaks Ferengi law by wearing clothes and earning profit, Quark and Rom are forced to return home to Ferenginar in order to convince her to confess and make restitution for her crimes. On DS9, Jake eagerly…
Summary An invigorated Sisko returns from Bajor and decides to build a replica of an eight hundred year-old Bajoran lightship, hoping to use it to prove that ancient Bajoran explorers could have made it to Cardassia before developing warp drive.…