Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993-1999)
Episode:501
Apocalypse Rising
Jack's Rating:
Starfleet assigns Sisko to expose the Changeling infiltrator in the Klingon Empire.
Features:
The Klingons
Stardate: 50015.9
Air Date: 09/30/96
Director: James L. Conway
Jack's Notes
This one has everything. Laughs, intrigue, it's all there. Great episode.
Episode:502
The Ship
Jack's Rating:
While exploring in the Gamma Quadrant| Sisko| Dax| Worf| and O'Brien see a Jem'Hadar warship crash on a planet's surface.
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Stardate: 50049.3
Air Date: 10/07/96
Director: Kim Friedman
Jack's Notes
Awesome episode! This one actually makes me excited for the impending war.
Episode:503
Looking for par'Mach in All the Wrong Places
Jack's Rating:
Worf finds himself attracted to Grilka| Quark's ex wife| when she visits the station.
Features:
The Klingons
Stardate: 50061.2
Air Date: 10/14/96
Director: Andrew J. Robinson
Jack's Notes
DS9 has some of the best comedy in the entire series of shows. Case in point, this little gem that should leave you howling with laughter.
Episode:504
...Nor the Battle to the Strong
Jack's Rating:
Dr. Bashir has been away at a conference and Jake Sisko has accompanied him to research a profile he is writing about the doctor. Returning in a runabout| they get a distress call from a Federation colony under Klingon attack.
Features:
The Klingons
Stardate: 50098.7
Air Date: 10/21/96
Director: Kim Friedman
Jack's Notes
A strange episode that I know is the catalyst for Jake becoming a reporter...but it just has a strange feel overall.
Episode:505
The Assignment
Jack's Rating:
Keiko returns from a journey and informs O'Brien that she is really an entity that has taken possession of his wife's body.
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Stardate: 50124.3
Air Date: 10/28/96
Director: Allan Kroeker
Jack's Notes
I usually don't like these kinds of episodes much, but this one is very well done.
Episode:506
Trials and Tribble-ations
Jack's Rating:
Darvin| a disgraced Klingon spy| travels back in time. The DS9 crew must prevent him from altering the timeline.
Features:
The Klingons Time Travel
Stardate: 4523.7
Air Date: 11/04/96
Director: Jonathan West
Jack's Notes
without question one of Star Trek's best episodes ever. Love how they were able to splice DS9 actors into the original episode.
Episode:507
Let He Who Is Without Sin...
Jack's Rating:
Worf and Dax vacation on the pleasure planet| Risa| and encounter unexpected dangers.
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Stardate: 50136.7
Air Date: 11/11/96
Director: Rene Auberjonois
Jack's Notes
This one is fun with lots of laughs. I can't believe that Worf would be so stodgy....but he is not a typical Klingon, I guess.
Episode:508
Things Past
Jack's Rating:
Sisko| Odo| Dax and Garak are found unconscious. While Bashir attempts to revive their bodies| the four wake up during the Cardassian occupation of Bajor several years earlier.
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Stardate: 50144.6
Air Date: 11/18/96
Director: LeVar Burton
Jack's Notes
While DS9 has been one of the best series I have watched, this episode was a real stinker. Unexplained cuts, issues with unseen happenings...just not good. Only the acting keeps it aloft.
Episode:509
The Ascent
Jack's Rating:
Forced to crash land on a desolate planet| Odo and Quark learn they lost their communications system| replicator| and most rations in an explosion.
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Stardate: 50245.2
Air Date: 11/25/96
Director: Allan Kroeker
Jack's Notes
More than makes up for the crummy prior episode. Honestly, I have only one gripe...Odo's hair....when it gets messed up he looks stranger than usual...and that is saying something.
Episode:510
Rapture
Jack's Rating:
An accident causes Sisko to have prophetic visions.
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Stardate: 50387.9
Air Date: 12/30/96
Director: Jonathan West
Jack's Notes
Beautifully acted and well told. Love they are adding more to the emissary story line.
Episode:511
The Darkness and the Light
Jack's Rating:
Someone is killing Kira's friends off and she might be next.
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Stardate: 50416.2
Air Date: 01/06/97
Director: Mike Vejar
Jack's Notes
Hated to see Kira's friends die...but the overall story was frightening and well done.
Episode:512
The Begotten
Jack's Rating:
When Quark discovers an infant Changeling| it has a profound effect on Odo. Meanwhile| Kira goes into labor.
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Stardate: 50430.1
Air Date: 01/27/97
Director: Jesus Salvador Treviao
Jack's Notes
Great episode with some really good comedy bits tucked into a rather heartwarming tale.
Episode:513
For the Uniform
Jack's Rating:
Michael Eddington returns and Sisko becomes obsessed with catching him.
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Stardate: 50485.2
Air Date: 02/03/97
Director: Victor Lobl
Jack's Notes
This one shows just how far Sisko will go to get a job done. And on that note, I can't wait for the war to start....
Episode:514
In Purgatory's Shadow
Jack's Rating:
Worf and Garak journey to the Gamma Quadrant to investigate a coded Cardassian message.
Features:
The Klingons
Stardate: 50560.1
Air Date: 02/10/97
Director: Gabrielle Beaumont
Jack's Notes
Here we go! This series has so many two-part stories!
Episode:515
By Inferno's Light
Jack's Rating:
Gul Dukat aligns the Cardassians with the Dominion. The station must deal with a Changeling infiltrator.
Features:
The Klingons
Stardate: 50564.2
Air Date: 02/17/97
Director: Les Landau
Jack's Notes
At so it begins! War is on the horizon.
Episode:516
Doctor Bashir, I Presume?
Jack's Rating:
Julian Bashir is selected to become the model for a Long-term Medical Hologram| until a family secret is revealed.
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Stardate: 50590.1
Air Date: 02/24/97
Director: David Livingston
Jack's Notes
Great episode with some terrific comedy and great drama.
Episode:517
A Simple Investigation
Jack's Rating:
Odo falls in love with a woman| Arissa| involved in the Orion Syndicate.
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Stardate: 50606.6
Air Date: 03/31/97
Director: John T. Kretchmer
Jack's Notes
Cool episode but a tad off the wall for Odo.
Episode:518
Business as Usual
Jack's Rating:
Quark becomes involved with a group of arms dealers| led by his cousin Gaila.
Features:
The Ferengi
Stardate: 50675.5
Air Date: 04/07/97
Director: Siddig El Fadil
Jack's Notes
Another hilarious episode that adds even more depth to Quark.
Episode:519
Ties of Blood and Water
Jack's Rating:
Tekeny Ghemor arrives on Deep Space Nine and reveals that he is dying.
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Stardate: 50712.5
Air Date: 04/14/97
Director: Avery Brooks
Jack's Notes
Great episode but a sad end for Ghemor. Nana Visitor's acting in this one is superb (as always).
Episode:520
Ferengi Love Songs
Jack's Rating:
At the end of his rope| Quark returns home and discovers Moogie has a secret lover.
Features:
The Ferengi
Stardate: 50701.2
Air Date: 04/21/97
Director: Rene Auberjonois
Jack's Notes
This one had me in stitches. I never expected Quark to be my favorite character but he certainly is.
Episode:521
Soldiers of the Empire
Jack's Rating:
Martok| Worf| and Dax go on a mission aboard a Klingon ship to search for the B'moth.
Features:
The Klingons
Stardate: 50839.2
Air Date: 04/28/97
Director: LeVar Burton
Jack's Notes
Easily one of the best Klingon episodes in all of Trek. DS9 really delivers in terms of Klingon story lines.
Episode:522
Children of Time
Jack's Rating:
An accident causes the crew to meet their own descendants - and presents them with an ethical dilemma.
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Time Travel
Stardate: 50814.2
Air Date: 05/05/97
Director: Allan Kroeker
Jack's Notes
A real tear jerker that was darker than I thought it would be.
Episode:523
Blaze of Glory
Jack's Rating:
An act of desperation by the Maquis could plunge the Federation into war. The Maquis have 30 cloaked missiles headed to Cardassia which will cause an outbreak of war in the alpha quadrant.
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Stardate: 50862.4
Air Date: 05/12/97
Director: Kim Friedman
Jack's Notes
I wish Eddington had stuck around. Ken Marshall is simply perfect in that role and the interplay between his character and Sisko is simply terrific.
Episode:524
Empok Nor
Jack's Rating:
O'Brien| Garak| Nog and an engineering team go to Deep Space Nine's abandoned sister space station| Empok Nor| to salvage components. The away team soon discover that all is not as it seems.
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Stardate: 50901.7
Air Date: 05/19/97
Director: Mike Vejar
Jack's Notes
This one really shows off Andy Robinson's acting skills. I saw flashes of Scorpio in there....
Episode:525
In the Cards
Jack's Rating:
Jake wants to give his father a present to cheer him up| a 1951 Willie Mays baseball card| but runs into complications with a mysterious geneticist| Dr. Giger| and a Dominion ambassador group.
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Stardate: 50929.4
Air Date: 06/09/97
Director: Michael Dorn
Jack's Notes
A simply magnificent episode with a comedic tone throughout.
Episode:526
Call to Arms
Jack's Rating:
Faced with the realization that the Dominion are taking over the Alpha Quadrant| Sisko decides to mine the entrance to the wormhole with self-replicating cloaked mines| thus beginning the Dominion War.
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Stardate: 50975.2
Air Date: 06/16/97
Director: Allan Kroeker
Jack's Notes
BOOM! Here we go. The war begins....and WHAT a beginning!