Jack's Star Trek Reviews & Stuff 

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.

Features:
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: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.

Features:
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:522
Children of Time

Jack's Rating:

An accident causes the crew to meet their own descendants - and presents them with an ethical dilemma.

Features: 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: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.

Features:
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!

Episode:601
A Time to Stand

Jack's Rating:

Three months into the war| DS9 is still under Dominion control. Sisko and his crew are given a mission to destroy a vital Ketracel White facility deep in Dominion space using a captured Jem'Hadar ship. Jake is working for the Federation News Service. Odo is head of Terok Nor's security supported by the Vorta Weyoun.

Features:
Stardate: Unknown
Air Date: 09/29/97
Director: Allan Kroeker

Jack's Notes
Terrific insight into behind the war. Can't wait to see Sisko get his office back.

Episode:606
Sacrifice of Angels

Jack's Rating:

Sisko commands the Defiant and 600 Federation ships against a Dominion/Cardassian armada to retake Deep Space Nine. Damar has Kira| Jake| and Leeta arrested.

Features:
Stardate: Unknown
Air Date: 11/03/97
Director: Allan Kroeker

Jack's Notes
Great story with some great action and acting. Sad ending too. Dukat is off the deep end now.

Episode:614
One Little Ship

Jack's Rating:

Dax| O'Brien| and Bashir board a Runabout| which is shrunken to four inches long as they investigate a rare subspace compression phenomenon.

Features:
Stardate: 51474.2
Air Date: 02/18/98
Director: Allan Kroeker

Jack's Notes
This was a really fun episode. It reminds me of something they would have done on Voyager with the Delta Flyer.

Episode:620
His Way

Jack's Rating:

Bashir shows off a new Holosuite program of a martini lounge with a 1960s Vegas singer named Vic Fontaine who is very perceptive; and gives advice to Odo when Kira visits her ex-lover Shakaar.

Features: The Holodeck
Stardate: Unknown
Air Date: 04/22/98
Director: Allan Kroeker

Jack's Notes
A simply beautiful episode that does a great job of firing up the most heartwarming love story in the series and introducing a terrific new character. Plus, I love James Darren, so this one was a no-brainer.

Episode:624
Time's Orphan

Jack's Rating:

Molly O'Brien disappears in a vortex and reappears as an 18-year-old woman| but she is now feral| bringing great difficulty for her parents.

Features: Time Travel
Stardate: Unknown
Air Date: 05/20/98
Director: Allan Kroeker

Jack's Notes
While the ending is cute this one feels like the writers realized that they had neglected torturing Miles....

Episode:626
Tears of the Prophets

Jack's Rating:

Starfleet Command begins an offensive against the Dominion| and Sisko is chosen to lead the invasion of Cardassia| but the Cardassian/Dominion Alliance has secretly reinforced their borders with unmanned orbital weapons platforms.

Features:
Stardate: Unknown
Air Date: 06/17/98
Director: Allan Kroeker

Jack's Notes
Terrific return to the war at hand. Sad ending to one of the main characters....

Episode:702
Shadows and Symbols

Jack's Rating:

Sisko's quest leads him to the truth about his existence as Kira sets up a blockade of the Bajoran Moon| Derna| against the Romulans.

Features:
Stardate: 52152.6
Air Date: 10/07/98
Director: Allan Kroeker

Jack's Notes
And yet again....these main story arc episodes are knocking it out of the park.

Episode:707
Once More Unto the Breach

Jack's Rating:

Worf finds a battle assignment for Kor| an aging Klingon hero.

Features: The Klingons
Stardate: Unknown
Air Date: 11/11/98
Director: Allan Kroeker

Jack's Notes
Terrific Klingon episode - which is par for the course for DS9, actually.

Episode:725
What You Leave Behind

Jack's Rating:

Sisko leads the Federation/Klingon/Romulan alliance in the offensive on the Cardassian homeworld. Dukat and Winn journey to the fire caves to release the Pah'Wraiths| and Damar leads his people in a revolution in an attempt to overthrow their Dominion oppressors.

Features:
Stardate: Unknown
Air Date: 06/02/99
Director: Allan Kroeker