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