Month: April 2012

Dax falls in love with a man from a planet soon to disappear for 60 years. Oh this is bad. The romantic dialog is clunky. It’s almost George Lucas levels of bad, that’s how bad it is. It’s hard to imagine that this seemed like a good idea at any point. But as bad as…

The station’s computer system triggers a security lockdown against all non-Cardassians on the station. It’s not exactly a great work of fiction, but it’s a good fun action episode, with some nicely done light moments. And for a change from the past few episodes I had no problems with the logical plausibility. And finally, Gul…

Odo raises his very own Jem’Hadar. There’a a lot of nice character development from Odo in this episode. He’s moving on from being a passive victim, just angry at his circumstances, on to being someone who is now trying to change and grow. But the relationship with the Jem’Hadar was undermined by the fact that…

Kira wakes up on Cardassia. As a Cardassian. I had a bit of a bumpy time with the suspension of disbelief early in the episode. Once I got past my problems with the idea of being transformed into a Cardassian being something remotely plausible the episode picked up. In fact, my main objection was that…

Dax discovers a dark past. So, at your workplace, everyone heads off on a road trip when someone’s sick, right? Just makes sense. After all, I’m sure no one else had very much else to do this week. Oh, and your boss is willing to blackmail a whole planet in order to save your life?…

Oh goody, a comedic episode with Klingons and Ferengi. Hooray… Two mediocre tastes that taste mediocre together. With great lines such as “We Are Klingons” and “Quark” “Quirk?” “Quark!”, how could this go right? To be honest, I didn’t hate this episode. The concepts were pretty silly, and the implementation ham handed. But it kept…

Odo learns about his people. So, first of all – the ‘reset button’ simulation that most of the crew are in for the majority of the episode didn’t bother me too much. It was a nice chance to do something a bit more extreme, and the reset at least made sense and contributed to its…

Sisko gets a new toy, and heads off to the Gamma quadrant with it. There’s a lot of ‘course adjustment’ in the show format early on. Giving the station a ship to use changes the stories that can be told, and overall seems like a very interesting idea. There’s also a new character, along with…

In contrast to TNG, DS9 had a pretty good year. They managed to avoid ‘awful’ entirely, and only three ‘bad’ episodes (*Melora*’, *Rules of Acquisition* and *Profit and Loss* – two out of three Ferengi heavy too). The other side of the spectrum was even better, with 9 good or very good, and 7 excellent…

A science project turns into a war. This episode develops in a very careful sequence. For the first 10 minutes it looks like its going to be an annoying comedy episode, with Quark and Sisko trapped on a camping trip. Then it looks like it’s going to slightly advance the ‘Dominion’ plot with a simple…