EPISODES 29-27
# 29. VISIONARY
 Deep Space Nine, Season 3 |
| Episode Number 63 |
| - |
| Info and General Credits |
| Directed by Reza Badiyi |
| Written by Ethan H Chalk |
| Teleplay by John Shirley |
| Aired 1995 |
| Stardate Unknown |
| Guest Cast |
| Ruwon Jack Shearer |
| Karina Annette Helde |
| Morka Rick Young |
| Bo'rak Bob Minor |
| Atul Dennis Madalone |
Premise
Due to the effects of radiation and the engine core of a
cloaked Romulan Warbird nearby O'Brien shifts back and forth through time,
where he unravels a Romulan plot to destroy the station and the wormhole, ending
the Dominion threat forever.
Comments
This was another unique time
travel adventure, with affable as ever O'Brien at the centre of things. One
wonders though how those in the Star Trek universe survive from day to day
without complete mental breakdowns or other extreme psychological side effects
from the sometimes truly bizarre happenings they experience. Granted. O'Brien
himself suffered greatly due to the effects of his 20 year incarceration in
'Hard Time', but even that was mundane compared to jumping back and forth
through time, seeing your own death, feeling your own neck for a pulse, and so
forth... O'Brien's made of some stern Irish stuff, we know that, but even for
him this must have been a testing ordeal !
We all love to see a good time travel episode, but as I said, this one's unique, mainly because O'Brien only gets to travel a few hours through time. The other example of this idea was Picard's double in 'Time Squared'. We've had every other type of time loop, time paradox etc, but this one carries itself strongly due to its fresh concept, sharp, interesting set pieces, and a storyline of compelling mystery and intrigue. This was a renaissance third season for DS9, similar to TNG's, and for a bottle show, it's darn good.
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Soundbites:
| It's not wise to upset the Major: |
| Ruwon: "Has Odo ever shown any kind of physical interest in you Major?" |
| Kira: "THAT'S IT !! YOU CAN RIP THE CLOAKING DEVICE OUT OF THE DEFIANT RIGHT NOW !! I AM NOT ANSWERING ANY MORE QUESTIONS. AND I SUGGEST YOU AVOID ASKING ODO THOSE QUESTIONS, OR YOU MAY JUST FIND YOURSELF ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THAT BULKHEAD FLOATING HOME !!" |
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| O'Brien gives Bashir the Prognosis: |
| O'Brien: "You need to run a Basilar arterial scan..." |
| Bashir: "...Why?" |
| O'Brien: "Because if you don't I'm gunna die in less than five hours...." |
| Bashir: "Who told you that?" |
| O'Brien: "....You did, in the future." |
| Bashir: "...Oh. Well who am I to argue with me?" |
# 28. FRAME OF MIND
| The Next Generation, Season 6 |
| Episode Number 147 |
| - |
| Info and General Credits |
| Directed by James L Conway |
| Written by Brannon Braga |
| Aired 1993 |
| Stardate 46778.1 |
| Guest Cast |
| Dr Syrus David Selberg |
| Suna Andrew Prine |
| Mavek Gary Werntz |
Premise
With the production of a play on
the Enterprise fresh in his mind Riker's perception of reality becomes
severely disjointed when he is abducted on Tilonus IV, where he is subjected to
some harrowing mind
probing procedures.
Comments
Out of all the weird
psychological dramas Trek has produced, particularly those by the pen of Braga,
this is surely one of the best. I've shown this to ardent non-Trek fans and
they've agreed this is an excellent psychological horror. It is a mysterious
ride in the extreme, and is as equally disturbing. There's some wonderfully
haunting vignettes that many a horror connoisseur would admire and appreciate.
It is a piece of shear genius that keeps you as much in the dark as to what's
really going on as Riker. Indeed, after a while you see the Enterprise as
a strange, unpredictable, fearful place; a place in which you don't know what, or
who is real. This is a worthy addition to an already impressive sixth season.
Watch. Enjoy. Savour......the spiny lobe fish.....
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Soundbites:
| Riker has a one-to-one with his therapist : |
| Data/ Doctor: "You're starting to sound angry again. Maybe you need another treatment." |
| Riker: "WHAT I NEED IS TO GET OUT OF THIS CELL, I'VE BEEN LOCKED UP IN HERE FOR DAYS ! You've controlled my every move. You've told me what to eat, what to think, what to say...........And when I show a glimmer of independent thought you strap me down, inject me with drugs and call it a treatment !" |
| Data/ Doctor: "You're becoming agitated." |
| Riker: "YOU BET I'M AGITATED !! I may be surrounded by insanity but I am not insane....!" |
# 27. SACRIFICE OF ANGELS
| Deep Space Nine, Season 6 |
| Episode Number 130 |
| - |
| Info and General Credits |
| Directed by Allan Kroeker |
| Written by Ira Steven Behr and Hans Beimler |
| Aired 1997 |
| Stardate Unknown |
| Guest Cast |
| Garak Andrew Robinson |
| Weyoun Jeffrey Combs |
| Gul Dukat Marc Alaimo |
| Nog Aron Eisenberg |
| Rom Max Grodenchik |
| Gen. Martok JG Hertzler |
| Damar Casey Biggs |
| Leeta Chase Masterson |
| Ziyal Melanie Smith |
| Founder Salome Jens |
Premise
The race is on for the 600 strong
Federation taskforce to break through the Dominion / Cardassian blockade and
reach Deep Space Nine before the minefield blocking the wormhole is detonated.
Waiting on the other side of the wormhole are Dominion reinforcements,
comprising of more than two and a half thousand ships.
Comments
Coming after the previous episode
'Favor the Bold', 'Sacrifice of Angels' is the crescendo of this particular
story arc of the Dominion war saga. So it has a lot to live up to, and in many
ways it doesn't disappoint. To end the arc in one 45 minute episode there's a
lot of plot details to thrash out and ends to tie up. Packed in to a tight,
pacey instalment there's Cardassian in-fighting, with Damar defying a broken
Dukat, a turncoat Odo, Ziyal being tragically killed, the Klingons racing to the
Federation's rescue, Rom awaiting imminent execution as the station resistance
cell lies in tatters, and that's just the core components. Add tension, surprise
twists, Bajoran Prophets, and the largest and most spectacular space battle seen
on Trek and you have certainly one of the most exciting and visually
enthralling of all Deep Space Nine episodes.
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Soundbites:
| Julian and Miles do their poetry piece as they go into battle : |
| O'Brien: "Cannon to the right of them, cannon to the left of them, cannon in front of them volleyed and thundered..." |
| Bashir: ".....Stormed at with shot and shell. Boldly they rode, and well into the jaws of death, into the mouth of hell, rode the six hundred....." |
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