Episode 96
Friday 2 February 2024
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Series 4, Episode 21
Stardate: Unknown (2372)
First broadcast on Monday 29 April 1996
This week, we discover to our surprise that there’s a lot to enjoy in a flawed and ultimately unsuccessful episode episode of Deep Space Nine — two wonderful guest actresses, some (largely) cringe-free sexiness, and a mature and gentle romance. Meanwhile, some TV writers imagine a just reward for their life of constant backbreaking labour.
Episode 33
Friday 17 June 2022
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Series 5, Episode 3
Stardate: Unknown (2373)
First broadcast on Monday 14 October 1996
This week, on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Quark wants Grilka, Dax wants Worf, Nerys wants Miles, Worf wants Grilka, Miles wants Nerys, Worf wants Dax, Odo wants Nerys (probably), and Julian wants not to know any details about any of this. Meanwhile, Joe wants more of this sort of thing, while Nathan just wants some special effects and reflective surfaces, but will settle for a turbolift that goes up and down without jerking.
Episode 67
Friday 2 June 2023
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Series 5, Episodes 14–15
Stardate: 50564.2
First broadcast on Monday 10 February 1997
and Monday 17 February 1997
It’s a soap-opera extravaganza on Deep Space Nine this week, as Garak reconciles with his long-lost father, Dukat abandons his long-lost daughter, and Julian discovers a scheming lookalike that he never knew he had. Meanwhile, there is a shift in the balance of power in the Quadrant, as the show rewrites its own premise in the way that we have come to admire and enjoy.
Episode 135
Friday 29 November 2024
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Series 5, Episode 20
Stardate: Unknown (2373)
First broadcast on Monday 21 April 1997
Again, the story doesn’t really have a legitimate theme, it’s just More Ferengi Farce, but without any solid laughs. In fact, I’d put “Ferengi Love Songs” on or near the bottom of the Ferengi episode list.
Jamahl Epsicokhan, Jammer’s Reviews
It’s all pretty trivial and unamusing. The only reason this is watchable at all is that Armin Shimerman is so accomplished. Moogie is right – leave your action figures in their original packaging.
Tom Salinksy, Trekaday
It was a show that worked well in dailies, in little snippets, but put it all together and you’re saying ‘Enough already!’"
Ira Steven Behr, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Companion
– I don’t think that that episode was as good as either A Night in Sickbay or Genesis, but I do think it was pretty fun, and I’m glad that Deep Space Nine does it.
– Yeah, I don’t think that was an amazing episode, but pretty fun, I’ll take.
Nathan and Joe, Untitled Star Trek Project
Episode 23
Friday 8 April 2022
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Series 5, Episode 23
Stardate: Unknown (2373)
First broadcast on Monday 12 May 1997
Previously, on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Tired of being a supporting character in a thankless role, Michael Eddington leaves DS9 to star heroically in a TV show which we never see and which exists entirely in his own imagination. After most of the cast and crew are killed by Cardassians — which can happen — and he himself is imprisoned for treason, he is recruited by Sisko for one final mission — to stop a deadly attack on Cardassia that is also entirely imaginary. Hero, traitor, or just some asshole with bad hair and a penchant for lavish Broadway musicals? Let’s find out.
Episode 123
Friday 30 August 2024
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Series 5, Episode 24
Stardate: 50901.7
First broadcast on Monday 19 May 1997
This week, Deep Space Nine does the best that it can with a slasher horror premise involving four redshirts and some murderous Cardassians, including beloved secondary character, plain, simple Garak. Fortunately, no one suffers any long-term ill-effects — except for the people who are no longer around to complain, I suppose.
Episode 81
Friday 15 September 2023
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Series 6, Episode 2
Stardate: Unknown (2374)
First broadcast on Monday 6 October 1997
Star Trek goes outside this week, for a top-tier episode in which Sisko and Kira are both confronted by radical integrity and self-sacrifice in the face of overwhelming opposition. Solid and memorable.
Episode 16
Friday 18 February 2022
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Series 6, Episode 19
Stardate: 51721.3
First broadcast on Wednesday 15 April 1998
This week, we discuss one of Star Trek’s most sacred texts — a forty-five minute Ben Sisko soliloquy, in which he saves the galaxy in a trolley problem of Garak’s devising, killing in the process a Romulan Senator, an obnoxious blue guy and at least one really hot Romulan bodyguard. Is this a great episode, a truly great episode, or something else altogether?
Episode 129
Friday 18 October 2024
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Series 6, Episode 20
Stardate: Unknown (2374)
First broadcast on Wednesday 22 April 1998
Fly me to the moon
Let me trek among the stars
Let me taste the cocktails
In some holographic bars
In other words, please be true
In other words, I love you
Episode 45
Friday 16 September 2022
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Series 7, Episodes 1–2
Stardate: 52152.6
First broadcast on Wednesday 30 September 1998
and Wednesday 7 October 1998
It’s an epic start to Deep Space Nine’s final season. Miles, Julian and Quark join Worf on a mission to honour Jadzia by blowing up a cartoon shipyard. Ben and Jake meet a (completly adorable) new Dax, drag Brock Peters through the desert for some reason, and then dig up a box. And Kira sits in a tiny spaceship waiting steadfastly for something to come along and resolve her part of the plot. And all the time, Joe and Nathan are cheering from the sidelines, enjoying a solid 90 minutes of getting to know these people again, and watching them set things up for a glorious final year.