Time’s Orphan
Episode 142
Friday 7 February 2025
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Series 6, Episode 24
Stardate: Unknown (2374)
First broadcast on Wednesday 20 May 1998
This week, Miles and Keiko struggle to work out how to react when their daughter ruins a perfectly pleasant family picnic by plummeting accidentally into an high-concept science fiction premise. Meanwhile, back on the station, their son falls foul of a sudden sitcom outbreak, banging his head on a table in what seems, in context, to be a comparatively sensible and comprehensible accident. It’s all a lot of nonsense, of course, but the people are nice, and everything turns out for the best.