Star Trek: DS9 Season 5, Episodes 1-

5x1 Apocalypse Rising September 30,1996

Where we left off, the Founders have made Odo human. Odo believes Gowron, the head of the Klingon Empire to be one of the Changelings.  Sisko,Odo,OBrien and Worf go undercover to try to expose Gowron. This is a great episode, well written,creative and very enjoyable.

5x2 The Ship October 7,1996 (100th Episode of the series)

A Jem'Hadar ship has crashed and Sisko tries to stop The Dominion from salvaging. A Great Federation vs. The Dominion episode. I loved the The Dominion commander in this. Another very good episode.

5x3 Looking for par'Mach in All the Wrong Places October 14,1996

I think this is the longest title in any of the series to date. It is a heavy Vulcan episode with Grilka, the Klingon that Quark married last season.Worf helps Quark try to win her affections. The episode ends up Worf and Jadzia hooking up.

5x4 ...Nor the Battle to the Strong October 21,1996

Great start to the season, 3 strong episodes. This one was not very memorable.

5x5 The Assignment October 28,1996 

This was an interesting episode Wraith took over Keiko's body and has O'Brien do all sorts of things or Keiko's live is in danger, the unborn baby and all sorts of stuff. It doesn't deal with my favorite characters so I didn't totally enjoy it, but it was pretty good.

5x6 Trials and Tribble-ations November 4,1996

I think this may be one of my favorite episodes of the series and Top 10 in the history of the franchise. The Defiant gets stuck in a time thing and ends up in the time of The Enterprise, more specifically The Trouble with Tribbles episode. Sisko,Jadzia,Bashir,O'Brien and Worf get to dress up in the old uniforms and interaction with the characters from the original series. It is a sweet homage.  Jadzia in the mini skirt is worth the price of admission. The Evolution of Klingon's over a short period of time is not explained.

The episode was done to commemorate the 30th Anniversary of the series.


5x7 Let He Who Is Without Sin  November 11,1996

The episode takes place on Risa, the pleasure planet. Bashir,Jadzia and Worf are the featured players. I enjoyed the episode a lot. This season has not full of powerful episodes but quietly effective.

5x8 Things Past November 18,1996

Garaks first episode of the season.


Authors note: I took a break for a year and half from watching anything Star Trek related. I finished season 5 but just couldn't write about it. In January of 2016 I resumed watched watching with Season 6 and I do not wish to backtrack.

Star Trek:Deep Space Nine Season 6

So I took about a year off and on January 1,2016 it seemed appropriate to continue my journey. So I began watching. I finished the last two seasons of Deep Space Nine in about 3 months. These are the best seasons and I am going to break format to talk about them.

DS9 is under Dominion control. The main characters are scattered through the plot line. Sisko commands the USS Defiant. Gul Dakat,Cardassian bad guy runs DS9,now called Terok Nor.The early part of the season involves taking back Deep Space Nine. The best moment of the early episodes was when Sisko bets The Klingon Geneal Martok , the last one to DS9 owes a bottle of Blood Ale. It is really one of the best moments in any series. The first six episodes involve the fight to take over the Station. It makes a neat little continuing story line,one that viewers of TV shows consider essential today. The plot line in the fall of 1997 is ahead of it's time.

The season settles into to being a Star Trek season, too many episodes, some episodes that are really good. The acting of the main characters is really good, they know their parts so well by this time. Occasionally hooky,bad makeup shows up. Some episodes feature great writing,some do not.

-Worf and Jadiza Dax get married and deal with married life
-The Mirror Universe returns
- a couple of Ferengi centered stories
-a Runabout gets shrunk
-OBrien becomes a part time spy
-after years of hinting around Odo and Kira become an item.

Stand Outs
6x12 Who Mourns for Morn ? The Big Alien Guy who sits at the end of the bar and has said nothing. He Dies and leaves his fortune to Quark.

6x13 Far Beyond the Stars. Is the whole show a story idea from a 40's Pulp Fiction Magazine. Some great out of make up acting as the main cast play characters from the 1940's.

6x19 In the Pale Moonlight. Garak was under used in the series, or maybe he was used just enough.The Character was so well written, a combination of it seems like several characters in Casablanca.

6x20 His Way. Bashir has a holo program of Vegas in the 50's/60's. A salute to the rat pack. The singer is Vic Fontaine. He knows he is a holo program and thinks. He is a great character that would used through the end of series.I am so glad Pulp Culture survived the Eugenics Wars,etc,etc.


The season ends with the death of one of my favorite characters Jadzia Dax. How will Worf take this ?

One and half years later, I am back

When last I did this, I was going through season 5 of Deep Space Nine, Summer 2014. I was getting tired of all things Star Trek. The next movie was First Contact, It disappeared from Netflix, I couldn't get around to seeing it. The season, a very good season took me 3 months to watch, a little off my Binge a season a month schedule. So  I just flat out stopped.

Fall of 2015: Star Wars mania, meeting a Borg at a Comic Con and strangely enough going through 3 or 4 episodes of The West Wing a night, I realized I need to go back. New Years is the wonderful and magical time of renewal and starting new things, I put off beginning Season 6 until New Years Morning. I just finished 5;14 in which the Defiant is taken over by Jem Hadar, the shuttle crew has been shrunk, the episode is a blast. I will write about it in due time.

I think I will have time to finish the season in the month,if not I think I will be close to finish. I am back and need to write. I will start doing recaps soon.

26 episodes a season is still too much in our world but when it this good, I will learn to deal

Star Trek: DS9 (Season 4, Episodes 21-25)

4x21 The Muse April 29,1996

Two stories here and they both work. I am finally coming around to Lwaxana Troi's annual visits, here she is pregnant and the father's home views require male children to be raised by the males,away from the mother. She would have that and ends up marrying Odo. The Title refers to a Muse who appears on the ship and beings to influence Jake Sisko in his writing abilities. This is a really good episode.

4x22 For the Cause May 6,1996

There has been a minor Character Micheal Eddington who has been around since the beginning of season 3. In the brief recap and mostly opinions of the episodes, there has been little reason to talk about him until now. Odo comes to believe Kassidy Yates, Sisko's girlfriend might be a smuggler they set her up. Sisko takes The Defiant to follow and it is a trap, Lt Commander Eddington tries to take over the ship in the name of the Marquis, which the writers seem to have forgotten about this season. Nice episode.

4x23 To the Death May 13,1996

Renegade Jem Hadar attack the station  and the crew of  The Defiant end up teaming up Jem Hadar to stop them. The Jem Hadar leader promises next time we shall meet as enemies. Great Sweeps type episode.

4x24 The Quickening May 20,1996

Alexander Siddig really shines as Bashir in this episode where he,Kira and Dax are attacked by Jem Hadar, glad to see they are backed, I have missed them this season. Bashir ends up trying to cure a plague. It is a really touching episode and easily the best Bashir episode of the series.

4x25 Body Parts June 10,1996 

first plot line is a run about is attacked and Bashir has to move the O'Briens baby from Keiko to Major Kira, so she is now pregnant with a human baby. Nice plot device for Nana Visitors real life pregnancy. The episode is named for Quark fearing is dying and puts is body up on some sort of Ferengi exchange and people bidding on it. The end of the episode is really touching as Quark realized his true self worth to others.


4x26 Broken Link June 17,1996

I was beginning to wonder if this was a 2 part episode or not and if anything truly dramatic was going to happen. Kira/O'Brien's pregnancy was a subplot. The main plot revolved around Odo was not able to maintain solid form so they had to take into Dominion space and find The Founders. This is one of the better Garak episodes to date, first he tries to set Odo up on a date, then he comes along on the journey to keep Odo company. Garak spins yarns of assassination and intrigue as only Garak can. It is a marvelous episode.


Overview of Season 4:

The episodes at the end of the season really saved it, I liked the 2 parter about Changelings on Earth. It was very heavy on stand alone episodes. I have notice any Star Trek season seems to lose it's mojo around episodes 12-15 and the season becomes a grind. The Character development is very good, It took TNG 5 or 6 seasons to reach this point. This was about as strong as a finish as any Star Trek season. You can see I was slow to get through the season.  I will probably wait until August 1 to start in on 5.I really can't wait for the Wars to break out.

Viewed May 30,2014 to July 12,2014

Season 5 and the First Contact movie coming up

Star Trek DS9 : Season 4, Episodes 11-20

4x11 Homefront  January 1,1996

1996 gets off to a great start in the Trek Universe. Sisko,Odo,OBrien and Jake go to Earth where trouble is afoot. We find out before the episode is over that 4 members of The Dominion are on Earth. Threats of Martial Law, extereme measures for testing are imposed. This is a great decent into Martial Law and a little Cold War fear as well. TO BE CONTINUED .....

4x12 Paradise Lost January 8,1996

A nice continuation of the story line.I love everything, framing Sisko, the final showdown. Usually the guest stars are terrible and wooden, Robert Foxworthy is great. Susan Gibney who was the scientist Georgi fell for the holodeck and was married to in the series finale plays a Starfleet officer and is in the episode, she joins a small list of Actors.

4x13 Crossfire January 29,1996

Odo is in love Kira. A Bajorian diplomat arrives on the station and quickly develops a Romantic with Kira,crushing Odo's heart (if he has one). We get to see Odo and Quark interplay for what seems like the first in a while. We find out Odo lives above Quark. Quark files official noise complaints.

4x14 Return to Grace February 5,1996

Going back to the story line with Dukat's not totally Cardassian Daughter earlier in the season. We have Kira and Dukat on a freighter, he has been stripped of his rank. A Good episode, this show has done so good at making three dimensional characters.

4x15 Sons of Mogh February 12,1996

As always, any episode featuring Klingons are good. Honor,Battle everything the Klingons love at work here.

4x16 Bar Association February 19,1996

Quark has to deal with striking employees and fight off Unionization. Fun episode.


4x17 Accession February 26,1996

We find out, I think for the first time that Sisko performs a lot of weddings of Bajorian couples in his role as Emissary. A ship comes through the worm hole with a Bajorian man who claims to have been called as the Emissary, he brings back the long dead Caste System and takes Bajor backwards. Subplot: O'Brien  is about to become a Daddy again. First appearance of his wife in ages.

4x18 Rules of Engagement April 8,1996

This is one of the best of the season. Worf has made the commander of the Defiant and in a fog of war type situation fired on a civilian transport. Worf faces extradition to the Klingon Homeworld, which I don't think has ever been given a name. Anyway this one of the best trail episodes I have seen in the whole series to date. Ron Canada is the Klingon prosecutor a dones an incredible job. If you have read this far, you know I rarely guest stars, so this is a great role. This is a 5 Star episode.

4x19 Hard Time April 15,1996

One of the more touching episodes of the series. Miles O'Brien has been released from servicing a 20 year Prison  Sentence. Oh, wait, it was only 20 years in his mind, in reality it was 3 hours. O'Brien felt every minute of the 20 years, it was  very,very real to him. Just a great science fiction plot. I am not really going to get into the hows and why, other the alien race who sentenced him has an interesting view of justice. Stunningly great episode.

4x20 Shattered Mirror April 22,1996

Mirror universe, yawn

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (Season 4 Episode 1-10)

4x1/4x2 The Way of the Warrior October 2,1995

I was so excited that I took a couple of days from and dived right into Season 4 a few days before the start of the month.

The Big Casting News is Worf from The Enterprise joins the cast. Remember is this the post Generations world as Worf has been thinking of resigning from Starfleet.

Plot: A Klingon task force has arrived at the station to assist in fighting The Dominion. The Klingons are planning to attack Cardassia because they are convinced The Founders have taken over the Cardassia. Sisko arranges for Garak to inform Dukat of the pending invasion. Chancellor Gorwon tries to recruit Worf to the cause, Worf chooses his duty to Starfleet. The episode becomes of the best war/actions episode of the series to date. There is a ton of action.

4x3 The Visitor October 9, 1995

This is an odd episode in a lot of ways.First of all, it is a wonderful, thoughtful,very well written.The episode is just of place. It is set in the future and Jake is a well known writer who is visited by a writing student. The demise of Captain Benjamin Sisko is related by Jake. Benjamin appears to Jake at various points through out his life. It becomes a Doctor Who Timey,Whimey type episode. I won't get into spoilers. I like the episode, It just is a such a departure and I more interested in the adventures of Worf on the Station.


4x4 Hippocratic Oath October 16,1995 

The one where Bashir and O'Brien are in a shuttle and crash on a planet in the Gamma Quadrant. I really had a hard time getting into this one.

4x5 Indiscretion October 23,1995

A Dukat and Kira adventure. It was a good,not great episode.The last two episodes fall into my theory 26 episodes is too many.

4x6 Rejoined October 30,1995

November sweeps gives a break from a string of so-so episode. Jadzia meets the spouse of one of Dax former Hosts, who is also a Host. Okay, got that ? Dax Host at the was male. Love sparks fly between Jadzia and Lenara, two women,on television in 1995, Wow !!!! The rules of Trill society forbid joined individuals rekindling relationships from past lives. They face expulsion and the symbant dying. The episode comes down to is love worth it. A Beautiful episode. The Lesbian relationship is ahead of it's time.

4x7 Starship Down November 6,1995

This episode just did not register with me, I don't think I watched it all in one sitting. Before I write I look up the episode on Wiki or Memory Alpha just to check details or get a line of dialogue correct. I looked for this one and really couldn't remember anything about it, other than I thought James Cromwell's makeup was horrible.

4x8 Little Green Man November 13,1995

This was a good one Quark and Rom are taking Nog to Earth and Starfleet Academy. They end up in 1947. This is a great episode because we see the Universal translator malfunctioning. There was an episode in the first season where the translator had not figured out the language yet. Odo joins them on the trip. An amusing and entertaining episode.

4x9 The Sword of Kahless November 20,1995

I have been waiting a true Worf/Klingon episode all season. I was not disappointed.

4x10 Our Man Bashir November 27,1995

A wonderful not too serious episode. One of the little things I love about the series is the pulp novels that are discussed here and there, I think I mentioned Odo reading I,The Jury. Bashir and Garak discussion murder mysteries. It is not really surprised that Bashir has a 60's Cool,hip man of mystery holo program and suddenly in a tux Garak enters the program.

Meanwhile a transporter accident brings several members of the crew into the simulation and they have to keep them alive or they will die in real life. This is really the first episode where Holodecks have played a big part.They have been mentioned, a minor piece here and there. Our Man Bashir is really the first Holodeck DS9 episode, my reading tells me the writers thought the Holodeck was over used in TNG (I agree).