last episodes still missing- 24
My favs: eps 22 and 5, then 18, 13 , 14.
1 - The homecoming - 421 on my dvd.
Quark helped Odo so now Odo is totally puzzled: does it mean truce? friends? Of course Odo doesn’t believe it.
76th rule of acquisition: every once in a while, declare peace. It confuses the enemies”
Rom is puzzled too, but then he always is. A sexy woman with purple hair has something to take to Bajor: a Cardassian on Cardassia IV gave her a Bajoran earring. Quark goes to Kira and gives it to her. She goes straight to Sisko to ask for a runabout to go to Cardassia IV to rescue a Bajoran war prisoner. The earring is apparently the insignia of Li Nalas, the resistance leader, a sort of hero. On the station there are emblems of the Alliance for Global Unity painted here and there (well, I saw one but I guess there must be more in such a big station), called “The Circle”, they want Bajor for Bajorans, and all foreigners out... just change the name of the place and we’ve heard this too many times :-/
Since the Cardassians swore they had released all Bajoran prisoners, Sisko accepts, sending O’Brian with her.
I like the friendship between Dax and Kira :-)
They go but find multiple readings of Bajoran life forms, there is still one labour-camp! They land and what do they do? They enter with a pretence: Kira as a prostitute and O’Brian... well I’m not sure how the Cardassian justified in his mind the presence of a human there, it was all a bit pathetic if you ask me. They enter the force-field this way, and attack the guards. Three guards down and they rescue ten or eleven people, but more guards arrive so four Bajorans volunteer to stay behind to guarantee Li Nalas’ rescue. Gul Dukat calls Sisko to say that “the Cardassian High Command has issued a formal apology to the people of Bajor. We had no idea that Bajoran prisoners were still being held on Cardassia IV. Such detentions are a direct violation of Supreme Directive 2645 and I assure you the camp prefect will be chastised accordingly” and the prisoners that stayed there? “they are already en route to Bajor”. Wow, that was easy, wasn’t it?
Li Nalas is cured and washed, but is not thrilled to talk about past battles. Minister Jaro comes to meet him. The Bajorans are all excited, much more than he is. Well, I don’t know what will be of him, but for now I like this minister Jaro, his calm and his voice.
Quark is attacked by masked figure: the Circle. Jake had a date with a Bajoran girl but her father didn’t let her go because he’s not Bajoran :-/
Li Nalas is discovered on a ship trying to run away, so the truth comes out. Li was a member of a resistance cell, and totally by chance he killed a Cardassian, a Gul, and all his men declared him a hero “and I had done nothing but shoot an unarmed Cardassian in his underwear. I’ll never forget the look in his face when he died. He was so... embarrassed” and “I am not the man they think I am” but Sisko tells him people don’t need a man but a symbol. Now the Government puts Li Nalas on Kira’s post! I guess he didn’t expect that, now, did he?
2 - The circle - 422
I never understand why they so often say “you need to come here and see this”, even now, Jake called Sisko, he went to their quarters and there was a Circle-symbol on their door= why couldn’t he just say it when he called him?? Sisko knows what they are, or maybe Jake didn’t? Well, he knew it was important though, so... and this happens a lot, in Star Trek as well as in other movies. I hate all those “can’t tell you on the phone, you’d better come here”-why? Just say it!!
Odo, Dax, Julian, Miles, even Quark are all in Kira’s quarters to say goodbye when Vedek Bareil comes. He invites her to come and stay at his monastery for a while. She goes, but it’s not the place or the time that can give her peace. Bareil takes her to see the Orb of prophecy and change. I don’t know the meaning of what she saw, other than her having a story with Bareil :-) Maybe it meant that she should enter politics?
Winn is unpleasant as always. Odo hides in a Kressari ship to find out who gives the rebels their weapons, and discovers it’s the Cardassians! Kira is abducted and finds out that Jaro is the leader of the Circle.
Sisko, Li, Bashir and Miles go to her rescue and bring her back to DS9. It’s no surprise to see that Winn and Jaro are... supporting each other..
An admiral orders Sisko to evacuate, but he plans on staying behind and fight.
3 - The siege - 423
Sisko makes a speech to his Federation people, and I thought: there are not many of them here, did he make several speeches for lots of groups or is it simply that they could not include more people in one scene in Ops? A speech in a cargo bay would have been better maybe? Or maybe these were only the superior officers and the others are not important? Anyway, not a lot of them huh?
All non-Bajoran leave the station, the evacuation is under process. Nog and Jake are sorry to leave each other, Keiko and Molly leave angry that Miles is staying. Kira needs to go to Bajor to present proof of the Cardassian involvement, and Dax goes with her because her second host Tobin knew how to repair a ship - the seat-of-the-pants-technology was funny :-)
Quark sold fake tickets to Bajorans, but Li Nalas calms them down with a great speech, and Quark has to stay because Rom gave his ticket to a Dabo girl. Good one Rom.
The army arrives to find no resistance, but Sisko has left his baseball in his office.
O’Brian calls the doctor “Julian” now.
Rule of acquisition n. 31 “never make fun of a Ferengi’s mother” :-)
Kira and Dax get to the Chamber of Ministers with Bareil’s help, and Winn is quick in turning against Jaro, as the wind changes. I’m very sorry Jaro is on the wrong side, I still like his manner and his voice.
General Krim is convinced by Li Nalas, but his colonel won’t accept it and tries to shoot Sisko, but Li comes between them and dies : “off the hook, after all”. He was ready to die for Bajor, living was more difficult for him. Still, they were not fair towards him, he was neither a coward or a bad man or someone who doesn’t care, he simply didn’t ‘want’ to be a hero, to lead people, to be responsible for other lives, but he was brave after all. He acted instinctively when he saved Sisko’s life.
Everyone’s back to DS9, Kira mourns Li Nalas. I’m sorry, I liked him.
4 - Invasive procedure - 424
47182.1 DS9 is evacuated due to a plasma disruption, only a few people are in.
Miles has two brothers, I never knew this. As always Odo is very boring.
A ship arrives and attacks them: there are a Klingon, T’Kar (Tim Russ), another Klingon, Yeto, a woman, Mareel, and a Trill, Verad (John Glover), who wants the symbiont: “I want Dax”, as simple as that. Only one Trill in ten is chosen to be joined, and he was found ‘unsuitable’.
Dax has a sister, I didn’t remember that either.
Bashir performs the operation.
What kind of a Klingon is that if Sisko wins so easily! :-/ On the other hand, Mareel beats Kira: well, never challenge a woman in love, I guess.
Jadzia wakes up, so scared and feeling so alone. Verad Dax talks to Sisko: eight lifetimes of memories. Verad lies to Mareel, he’s changed too much, but he was never meant to be joined, he could die or go crazy so Mareel surrenders to help him. They put Dax back into Jadzia, and now she remembers Verad’s life too.
5 - Cardassians - 425
Garak! Yeah! Bashir keeps playing spies with him.
Cardassian boy Rugal comes to the station with a Bajoran man, but he’s scared of other Cardassians, he’s been brought up to hate them, and he bites Garak’s hand. It might be a war orphan abandoned when they left. Dukat about him “poor Garak, an amiable fellow as ever there was one” :lol: Now Dukat wants to bring all the orphans home. A man tells Bashir: “Rugal is their revenge, their revenge against all Cardassian”. At the mention of Dukat’s friendship for him Garak laughs sarcastically and says that Cardassians have a big attention to details: “do you think we forgot about those poor little orphans when we left Bajor? Who was in charge of the Cardassian withdrawal from Bajor?” so Bashir asks Dukat : “I did not choose to leave them behind, I was ordered to”.
Dukat says that Rugal is the son of a politician and thought to be dead. Garak wakes Bashir up at night to go to Bajor, they go to a resettlement center. Garak is adorable, in a certain twisted way, given the circumstances :lol: The woman there: “I was in the Underground, eight years ago” and Garak: “really? Perhaps we ‘have’ met!” :lol:
The computers don’t work, so Garak repairs them. There are other Cardassian children there, and Garak is sweet, in his own way, calling a girl ‘child’ and the woman ‘madam’, but it’s sad when they have to go leaving the kids there. What a sweet voice that girl had when she said “excuse me sir, have you come to take us back to Cardassia?”; what a moment, when both Garak and Bashir feel compassion for those Cardassian children, but can do nothing for them. “Children with no parents have no status on Cardassia” :-/
Garak: “I believe in coincidences. Coincidences happen every day. But I don’t trust coincidences”.
This civilian leader says “on Cardassia, family is everything”. He comes for Rugal, but Rugal doesn’t want him, doesn’t want to go back to Cardassia. This thing will end Pa’Dar’s career.
Gul Dukat and Pa’Dar are political enemies. Garak and Bashir find that Rugal was not found, he was brought in by a military woman stationed at Terok Nor. Terok Nor was DS9’s Cardassian name.
47178.3 Sisko allows Pa’Dar to take Rugal to Cardassia.
Garak: “I never tell the truth because I don’t believe there’s such a thing”
6 - Melora - 426
47229.1 A cartographer arrives, ensign Melora Pazlar, the first Elaysian to join Starfleet. She needs anti-grav units and a wheelchair. She’s very strong-minded. She will go to the gamma quadrant with Dax. First, Julian takes her to the new Klingon restaurant on the promenade. She knows Klingon food and language: “there’s nothing worse than half-dead racht”.. ok, I’d never eat Klingon food :-/ (probably better than ferengi though :-// )
Julian’s father was a Federation diplomat. Before medicine Julian tried tennis.
In the morning, Melora doesn’t leave because she had a ‘minor accident’, she didn’t see a step and fell. She invites Julian into her quarters, turns down the gravity and gracefully flies around the room. He tries too, and they kiss while floating :) then she goes with Dax. She puts on Delvok’s vulcan music, very pretty. Dax tries to be optimistic about love “I knew a hydrogen-breathing Lothra who fell hopelessly in love wit an Oxygene” then how could they even be in the same room? “40 minutes a day without their breathing apparatus. 57 years they were together” (well, of course they could see and talk to each other more often, staying alternately in room where one could breath and the other would wear a breathing apparatus, those 40 minutes were probably just the time they needed when any device would have made things uncomfortable....)
Back on DS9, Bashir tells her of a new process to adapt her body to this gravity once and for all. Problem is, she can’t use the low-grav and fly anymore.. she’s confused, she wants it, the independence it can give her, but she misses her old self, the idea of never going back to her own world saddens her (of course). Dax thinks of the little mermaid’s fairytale “did she live happily ever after?” and Jadzia doesn’t answer because of course it didn’t, I know the ending was horribly sad..
Fallit Kot visits Quark after eight years in prison saying that he’s come to kill him.
Rule of acquisition n. 16 “a deal is a deal”. Quark offers Fallit Kot payment to save his life. They close a deal and get 199 bars of gold-pressed latinum, but Fallit Kot is not satisfied. He kills the guy and takes Quark prisoner, and also Melora and Dax and their runabout Orinoco. He shoots Melora to convince Sisko he’s serious. Because of the treatment, Melora is not dead: she turns off the gravity and beats Fallit Kot. Melora must give up the treatment now, or more clearly, she doesn’t want to start it again, because she wouldn’t be herself anymore. Bashir and Melora say goodbye listening to a Klingon serenade..
7 - Rules of acquisition - 427
Morn is sleeping on the promenade :-p The ferengis are playing together with Dax, the Tongo game when they say “confront, evade, acquire and retreat”. Ferengi women don’t wear clothes, don’t talk back, don’t play games :-/
There’s a new waiter, Pel, who is very good.
56th rule of acquisition “free advice is seldom cheap” and 22nd “a wise man can hear profit in the wind” and 33 “it never hurts to suck up to the boss” . There are 285 rules total.
Zek gives Quark a job, to negotiate a deal for him with the Dosi. Zek gives Kira some nitrate to fertilize Bajor. 48th rule: “the bigger the knife, the sharper the knife”. Pel helps him but Quark doesn’t know she’s a female...
Quark wants to buy 10.000 vats of tulaberries, but the Dosi offer 5.000, then the Nagus Zek wants 100.000 vats!
Zek gives Kira a latinum earring as a gift but she returns it.
Pel is very nice and loyal to Quark, and Jadzia is suspicious, being a woman she understood at once that Pel was in love with Quark, although she didn’t know Pel was a woman, having never met one.
The Dosi leave DS9, Zek is furious and Pel proposes to travel to the gamma quadrant with Zek’s ship. Quark and Pel travel together.
Jealous, Rom searches Pel’s room and finds her fake ears (women have smaller ears). She had two pairs apparently, since she already had one pair on...
Quark insists on his contract, but the Dosi don’t have the quantity he wants, only 10.000.
21 Rule “never place friendship above profit” - 103 “sleep can interfere..” either that’s the whole of it or Pel didn’t finish it. 62: “the riskier the road the greater the profit”
Pel kisses Quark and he’s quite shocked! A Dosi tells Quark to see the Karemma, an important part of the Dominion. That’s what Zek wanted, to learn about the Dominion.
Fortunately Rom tells Quark alone about Pel, not Zek. Females cannot earn profit or quote the sacred rules :-/ Quark doesn’t want anyone to know about Pel. Wearing clothes is a crime for female ferengis, so Quark sends her away but she comes back to see the Nagus and unmasks herself in front of him. Zek wants her in prison, Quark defends her and Zek takes him out of all the gamma quadrant profits..
Jadzia knows Quark enough to know that he’s suffering for losing Pel.
As Ferengi stories go, this one was not too bad after all. Still, I’m not too fond of ferengi stories.
8 - Necessary evil - 428
A Bajoran woman wants Quark to retrieve something for her, and Rom helps him, revealing himself to be good at something after all. The someone that she sends to retrieve it from him, shoots Quark.
Bashir saves him, but it takes time. It’s always a wonder to me how they can save some people and not even try with others... in real life it’s a matter of treatable wounds vs fatal wounds, but in St it’s a bit more complicated.
rule 139 “wives serve, brothers inherit” Ferengi are so much like humans, they like to have slaves :-/
We see Odo during the occupation, before he was chief of security, when he first met Gul Dukat and was given a task to investigate a murder. It was the husband of Mrs Vaatrik, the woman that hired and then betrayed Quark. She said the murderer was her husband’s lover: Kira, with long long hair, cute :)
47284.1 it was five years ago. She started then calling him Constable.
Odo does the ‘Columbo trick’ :lol: coming back when he’s already at the door saying “there is one other thing” :-p
Odo also met Quark investigating. The list of names was of collaborators, and she’s been blackmailing them for money. Kira said she didn’t kill him, of course, she was there to sabotage the station. Only now Odo knows the truth. Someone else sabotaged it while she killed him looking for the list of collaborators. “what you think of me matters a lot” so she never told him the truth.
9 - Second sight - 429
47329.4 It’s been four years since Wolf 359. Sisko can’t sleep and takes a walk and meets beautiful Fenna in a red dress. They talk when she mysteriously disappears. In the morning he orders something different from his usual raktajino (chiraltan tea) .
There’s a terraformer on the station: Gideon Seyetik. Sisko meets her again, and shows her around the station. They seem to hit it off greatly, but when he asks her about herself she runs away. He likes her a lot, so he asks Odo to find her. He only knows her name, though, and all he can say is: “I’d say she’s about 16. metres tall “ metres? no feet? Thanks, that’s easier for me, although unexpected :)
Dax saw them together, and wants to talk about her with him :p
Seyetik wants to ignite a dead sun, and by his own admission he’s a “raging egomaniac”. He introduces them to his wife, and what do you know? Nidell appears to be Fenna! Nidell acts like she doesn’t know Sisko, so he approaches her alone “it would have been a lot easier if you’d told me you were married” - “commander, I’ve never met you before tonight” and Odo tells him “with the exception of professor Seyetik, no one has left the Prometheus during the entire time it’s been at the station”. Out of nowhere Fenna reappears, they kiss then she literally disappears into thin air in front of him! When Seyetik and Dax leave, he goes too.
The poem “The fall of Kang” by Klingon poet G’Trok is required reading at the Academy : “so honour the valiant who die ‘neath your sword, but pity the warrior who slays all his foes” - pretty.
Seyetik met Nidell at New Halana, daughter of a local dignitary. Sisko meets Fenna again on board, and Dax analyses her: she’s pure energy. Nidell can’t wake up, and Seyetik knows Fenna: “she’s an illusion created by my wife’s unconscious mind. Nidell is a psychoprojective telepath. Fenna’s just another one of her projections”. Nidell doesn’t know, when she’s emotionally distressed she loses control of it. Seyetik is hard to live with, all his previous wives left him but Halanas mate for life, so she can’t leave. Sisko talks to Fenna, she loves him. Seyetik takes a ship and leaves alone. “this is the only way I can set her free. I owe her that”. He launches himself towards the dead sun making it live again. Fenna sees him die then disappears and Nidell doesn’t remember anything about her. She wants to go back to her world. “I can remember for both of us” says Sisko. Nidell: “what was she like?” - “she was just like you” and then she leaves..
10 - Sanctuary - 430
A Bajoran musician, Varani, works at Quark’s because Kira asked him to hire him to play. They both want Bajor to rebuild the “jalanda forum”. A ship comes through and they save them and repair their ship. Four people with a strange language, so strange the universal translator has difficulty in translating it. The boy makes a strange face and is aggressive. The only woman of the group leads the way. Odo shakes his head. When they finally understand each other, Hareek (the woman) explains that her people need saving, that their leaders are all women and that they’re looking for Kentanna, where the Skreean want to go. Her people was under the T’rogans power for centuries until they were conquered by a member of the Dominion. Hareel and Kira like each other, then more Skreeans come. That same boy is very prone to fighting. :-/ Sisko and Kira find them a place to go, a planet, but Hareek has found Kentanna: Bajor. 47391.2 They request to immigrate there but Bajor refuses, they can’t take care of three million Skreeans, with all the trouble they have of their own now. The boy, Hareek’s son, steals a ship and heads towards Bajor with his friends, and opens fire on Bajor ships trying to stop them, but their still broken ship explodes.
The Skreeans all leave for Draylon II. Kira goes to say goodbye. Hareek tells her: “you still believe we would have been a burden to your people? I think you’ve made a terrible mistake. Maybe we could have helped you. The Skreeans are farmers, Kira. You have a famine on your planet. Perhaps we could have made that peninsula bloom again. 50 years of Cardassian rule have made you all frightened and suspicious. I feel sorry for you”. Which is a nice speech and indeed possible, yes, but what if it didn’t work out? Once Bajor accepted them, it would have been stuck with them, and look at those troublemaking boys, and just imagine millions of them. It’s not that simple, is it?
11 - Rivals - 431
Martus Mazur, refugee from the El-Aurian system, a people of listeners. He’s a con-man and Odo puts him in jail. In jail a prisoner dies and Martus takes a toy he had. With that toy Martus finds his luck. Martus opens a gambling place, making bigger copies of his toy. He’s having lots of luck, and the station is now full of bad-luck episodes. All Martus’ customers win, meanwhile. When Martus’ luck changes, he invests all his money in the project of a woman he wanted to trick, but this is her own trick! Martus’ machines were distorting the laws of probability, so Sisko and Dax destroy them.
47th rule of acquisition “don’t trust a man wearing a better suit than your own”
109 “dignity and an empty sack is worth the sack”
Julian plays raquetball with Miles, who still calls him ‘doctor’, by the way. Miles is angry because Bashir beat him badly and Bashir is worried for his health.
Miles plays again but Bashir loses on purpose, upsetting him even more. Quark organizes a match between Bashir and O’Brian. Everyone’s betting on Bashir, so Quark wanted to drug him to make him lose.
12 - The alternate - 432
Dr Mora Pol comes to DS9, the Bajoran scientist assigned to Odo when he was found. Along with Dax, the two of them go to the gamma quadrant to investigate a planet. That might be Odo’s origin. They come back with something to study. A life-form sample escapes loose on the station, and when they find it it’s dead. Incidents don’t stop, however. Dr Mora knows it’s Odo, and tells him, and scares him and wants him to go back to the lab with him, and Odo transforms again and becomes dangerous, out of his own control. He goes after Mora again and they trap him. When he regains control, he talks to Dr Mora. He had not understood how terrible he felt about this lab thing, and neither had Dr Mora. Only now he understands that Odo will never go back to the lab, that he hates it deeply, and asks only one favour, that they might keep in touch, at least, and Odo agrees.
13 - Armageddon game - 433
Bashir and O’Brian help the T’Lani and the Kelleruns eliminate their biochemical weapons - that they call ‘harvesters’ - now that their war is over after centuries. They’ve been there for a week and tried everything, when they finally succeed in finding a way to destroy it. They still call each other ‘doctor’ and ‘chief’.
When they are completing their work, they are attacked. All the scientists are killed, but Bashir and O’Brian make it and run away, but Miles has been contaminated.
How stupid to attack before ‘everything’ has been destroyed! The job was not finished!
The ambassadors of T’Lani and Kelleruns tell Sisko that they both died, because O’Brian activated something that killed everyone. They bring a video that shows what happened, but Keiko can’t accept it. She watches the video and says that it’s a fake because it shows Miles drinking coffee at 3pm and she says that “Miles never drinks coffee late in the afternoon. It keeps him up all night” and “I know my husband, he never drinks coffee late in the day”, she’s very sure of that and says the video was altered, so Sisko and Dax leave immediately.
Bashir tells O’Brian he doesn’t think that marriage is a good thing for career officers because their lives are too dangerous, and Miles “you career officers don’t know what you’re missing” :)
Miles shows signs of fever, and Julian understands he’s sick, he’s been infected. All the officers mourn for them.
57th rule of acquisition “good customers are as rare as latinum, treasure them”
Miles and Bashir talk a lot, he remembers the only time he was in love, truly, with Palis Delon, a ballerina, then he graduated, but he wouldn’t give up his Starfleet career; “listen to me Julian, you were wrong about marriage, you’re the one who’s always talking about adventure. Marriage is the greatest adventure of them all, it’s filled with pitfalls and setbacks and mistakes, but it’s a journey worth taking because you take it together” ...
they repair a machine and send a distress signal, thinking the Kelleruns betrayed the T’Lani - I think, or maybe the other way around - anyway, he was wrong, they both felt the need to kill everyone who knew how to recreate the harvesters, including them. Miles is very sick, but he stands up “I want to die on my feet” but right before being killed Dax and Sisko beam them up on the runabout. Since the sensors are useless, after all communications have been jammed, they trick them. Sisko makes them believe they killed them destroying the runabout, while actually they were on the other one, and ran away before anyone could understand the trick. Miles is cured, and then he asks Keiko for a cup of coffee “Miles, you never drink coffee in the afternoon” - “sure I do” - “you do?” :lol: still, she was right about the video alteration :p
14 - Whispers - 434
47581.2 Miles’ log about the last 52 hours. He talks about some strange conspiracy, and that he’s going to warn the Paradas. Then the flashback: one morning he wakes up to a puzzling situation: Keiko seems to avoid him, Molly won’t kiss him, repairs are done without consulting him first, Keiko secretly talking to Sisko, Julian insisting he has his annual physical now and saying strange things, like not remembering that his mother died and his father remarried last spring.
(Miles birthday is in September). When Miles asks him, Sisko tells him that Keiko told him Jake has problems with his grades, then Jake told him his grades are actually great: so Sisko didn’t warn his son :-/
O’Brian keeps noticing they’re lying to him, all of them. He even starts thinking Keiko might have been trying to poison him and thinks “this was not my Keiko”.
Miles had been to the gamma quadrant and had to arrange secutiry for the Paradas to arrive, for some peace talks with their rebels. Miles talks to Odo about his suspicions.
Miles thinks “they’ve got to Odo too” and when Sisko Kira and Bashir come to take him he runs away, steals a runabout and heads for the Parada system, where we’ve seen him at the start, chased by another runabout, now firing on him. Miles thinks someone might have infiltrated not only DS9 but all Starfleet. They lose him and beam down on Parada II, and he follows them, where we see he was actually just a replicant. The real Miles had been abducted by someone wanting to sabotage the peace talks. The replicant is killed and real Miles saved.
Rule of acquisition “one of the high numbers, 194 I think” is “it’s always good business to know about customers before they walk in your door” it’s not good that Quark doesn’t remember his rules perfectly!
15 - Paradise - 435
47573.1 O’Brian and Sisko survey a star system near the wormhone after questions about setting up colonies there. Sisko wants Jake to work with O’Brian, to see what Starfleeet work is. Miles wasn’t good at mechanical engineer until he was at the front against the Cardassians and he had to make things work quickly, and that’s how he got the ‘gold suit’. They find a suitable planet, but there are already people there. They go down to meet them. Once down nothing works anymore and they can’t go back up. They are greeted by a man with bow and arrows. They are humans, stranded there ten years ago. Even if nothing works, they’ve made there their home. Alixus is the leader of the community. She is sure they’re to stay there, now, with no hope to go back. They’ve created a world without technology. Admiral Mitsuya is coming to DS9, Jadzia knows him as a good poker player, like her; because of this Kira tries to call Sisko but can’t reach him. A woman in the community is sick: she’s the fourth already, three have already died because of this disease brought by a local insect. Miles and Sisko want a way to go to the runabout to get the medical kit, but Alixus opposes the idea. She doesn’t even want him to talk about it. They’re put to work in the field. Miles thinks about Keiko, as he always does :) the punishment for every rule broken is a day inside a metal box, in the heat of the day. This is Alixus’ paradise, she never liked technology, never used it.
Kira and Dax go to the runabout. The sick woman dies. O’Brian is found trying to activate his technology devices, so Alixus puts Sisko, as his commanding officer and therefore responsible for him, in the box. Miles makes a sort of compass and finds what he’s looking for. A device that blocks technology, controlled by Alixus. She caused their ship to crash there. She says she did it all for their ideal community, and now she must respond for her actions. They took away her and her son, but the others chose to stay - still, I guess now they can use technology, so nobody else will need to die in vain, right?
16 - Shadowplay - 436
47603.3 Odo and Dax are together in the gamma quadrant, and she likes to talk “intimate questions” :p they investigate a strange place, which seems to be a village where people are disappearing: 22 already. Odo and Dax try to help, and then they find out that the villagers are all holograms. Dax repairs the holoprojector, seen that the older man is the only real person there. He created it all thirty years ago.
Sisko convinces Jake to take the job with O’Brian, because it’ll look good at his Starfleet application... Jake is not excited, but what can he do? Miles tries to teach him what each color of isolinear rods is for, but Jake confesses that he doesn’t want to join the Academy. Miles was supposed to join a music academy as a cello player :p Jake finally confesses to his father too, and he understands of course.
Vedek Bareil comes to DS9 :) Kira and Bareil play springball together, and she wins. After dinner they kiss and she realizes Quark is behind his visit to DS9, to keep her occupied and run his ‘business’ without her and Odo, but he fails and she stops his traffic.
17 - Playing God - 437
A Trill candidate, Arjin, comes to DS9, assigned to Dax; he finds her at Quark’s :) and she likes to drink Ferengi’s Black Hole, and starts her days wrestling...
O’Brian is hunting down Cardassian voles throughout the station :p
Jadzia takes Arjin to the Klingon restaurant where she sings with the owner. She soon thinks that he’s not preparing himself the right way and Quark comforts him.
rule of Acquisition 111 “never have sex with the boss’ sister” , that’s how Quark blew his brilliant career ... (well, that is if you hurt her; if you two fall in love that’s different, being the boss’ brother-in-law might be useful)
During a flight, Dax and Arjin’s runabout has something from the subspace pocket stuck to it. It turns out to be a growing universe.. a protouniverse, and they can’t destroy it. “it’s like stepping on ants” but Odo says “I don’t step on ants, major. Just because we don’t understand a life form, it doesn’t mean we can destroy it” He’s right of course. They try therefore to bring it back where they got it. Dax and Arjin take it to the gamma quadrant in a runabout; he goes too even if it’s dangerous because he’s a better pilot (level 5, she’s only level 3). They are now at peace. He was very hurt when she told him she was concerned, she had doubts that he was preparing well for the joining, but now she explains how she was before, how Curzon’s rejections lead her to try harder, with new passion, how important it is that the host has its own goals and dreams, and a strong mind so not to be overwhelmed. Only thing is: they go to put back the protouniverse and next scene they’re saying goodbye already. Does this mean he only stayed here two days, or simply that they did not show us all the other days? Didn’t Jadzia say she spent two weeks with Curzon, back then?
When they parted, it felt like they just had that conversation, it certainly didn’t feel like ten days we know nothing about had passed. Well, it wouldn’t be the first detail out of place in Star Trek anyway. They tend to overlook little things like these sometimes..
18 - Profit and loss - 438
Cardassian Natima comes to the station with two students, leader of a rebel movement against the military power. Quark loves her very much, and is ready to help them escape for free if she stays behind, with him. Unfortunately Bajor makes a deal with Cardassia. They are to be delivered to the Cardassians in exchange for Bajoran prisoners, apparently (wasn’t it said in the Li Nalas episode that there were no more Bajoran prisoners at all, officially???). Garak was the one informing Cardassia of their presense, suggesting a prisoner-exchange solution, but now Gul Toran tells him to kill them. Garak hopes to be rewarded with the permission to go back home. I like Garak, how he talks and how he moves his arms and hands smoothly.
Odo arrests the three of them; Quark begs him to let them go, and Odo accepts “in the name of justice”. Garak was about to stop them, to kill them, when Toran came to tell him his reputation would not be restored by this simple act, so instead Garak shoots him, because he loves Cardassia, he says. Quark says goodbye to Natima and lets her go with her students. Poor Quark, they were truly in love :(
This episode showed how Garak is not at all comfortable here, he’s in exile and he misses his home world.
19 - Blood oath - 439
Three Klingon arrive at DS9: Kor (John Colicos) drunk as a skunk; Kang (Michael Ansara) and Koloth (William Campbell), all three Da’har Masters, or something like that.
Hearing Kor and Koloth’s names, Dax goes to them immediately. As Curzon Dax had made a blood oath that she intends to keep. After 81 years Kang has found the Albino. Kang releases her from Curzon’s oath, but she talks to KirA. Back then the Klingon captured some predators, and when the Albino escaped he swore revenge and later on he infected their three children with a lethal virus: one of them was Kang’s son, Curzon’s Godson, and along with the three fathers Curzon took a blood oath to avenge their death. Kira “when you take a life, you lose part of yours as well”. She insists with the Klingons, she wants to go too. Kor is easily convinced, Koloth comes around but Kang won’t let her. She insists harder, and only when they’re all on their way she learns the truth about why he didn’t want her to go. The Albino knows they’re coming, Kang expects to die. Jadzia is of a different opinion. She turns their chances when she proposes to disable all weapons. Now it’s different, they can battle with bathlets, and with her help they succeed. Still, Koloth dies first, then Kang too. Kor is wounded, I think, but the last time we see him he’s still singing, so maybe he didn’t die. I’m not sure, though.
Next scene, she’s back on the station. I liked Kor, if he didn’t die we might see him again.
20 - The Maquis part 1 - 440
Dax has a dinner date with captain Boday, the Galamite with a transparent skull: “he happens to be brilliant, his brain is twice the size of yours and mine”; Kira “I know, I’ve seen it”
A Cardassian ship explodes right after leaving DS9. Sisko and Dax’s old friend Calvin Hudson comes to DS9.
Gul Dukat comes to Sisko to make him see what’s going on. Colonies in the demilitarized zone, Cardassians and Bajorans, are not at peace. A Vulcan woman wants to buy weapons from Quark, and it’s a fun pair to watch :) “I do find you intriguing Quark”.
People on DS9 abduct Dukat “they call themselves the Maquis” and the Badlands are their hideout. Sisko goes after them and sees that Hudson is one of them, he’s with the Maquis.
There are 285 rules of acquisition. Dukat has seven children. Did they say all this already?
21 - The Maquis part 2
Hudson and Sisko were at the academy together, and wanted to be captain by the time they were 30 and admirals by 40. They walk in a circle while talking: Calvin says that the Cardassians are smuggling weapons to their colonies, Sisko says there are better ways to prove it, and that the treaty is important, which is of course true, and that Calvin only wants revenge, which Calvin himself calls "retaliation". Back on the station, he doesn't tell the admiral there about Hudson's betrayal.
The admiral said "we never should have allowed those colonies to remain on the Cardassian side of the demilitarised zone" and that's one thing, then she goes on, "talk to the Maquis, they're still federation citizens, I'm sure they'll listen to reason" .... is she for real or what?
I didn't like Sisko's speech to Kira, kind of in favour of the Maquis' situation.
He's troubled because he understands his friend's reasons, but doesn't approve of his methods.
Odo arrests Quark who confesses to having sold weapons to the terrorist group. "how long do I keep him here?" - "forever" and Odo walks out smiling. Quark: "this isn't funny, Odo!". A Cardassian legate now says that Dukat doesn't need saving because he was smuggling weapons into the demilitarised zone, and that Cardassia has no desire to go to war again against the Federation. When he goes away he says "I'm afraid this place has lost its charm since the last time I was here" ...
Sisko takes it to mean that Calvin was right and Central Command is smuggling weapons! Sisko goes to rescue Dukat, against Kira's will, because if Central Command wants him dead it's reason enough for them to want him alive. The Vulcan woman fails to establish a mind meld with Dukat "it would appear he has the ability to shield his thoughts" - "it's simply a matter of discipline"...
Sisko arrives to free Dukat and takes him back to DS9. He arrests the Maquis there but one, sent to tell Hudson he can still come back. Dukat finds our justice system "barbaric", he says "in Cardassia, the verdict is always known before the trial begins, and it's always the same" - "in that case, why bother with a trial at all?" - "because the people demand it, they enjoy watching justice triumph over evil, everytime, they find it comforting" and he adds "Cardassians don't make mistakes".
Dukat wonders why it was him and not his people who rescued him : "why wasn't the station surrounded by Cardassian ships demanding my release?" and so Sisko tells him he'd been blamed with the smuggling and that either the Maquis executed him or they would, "after a comforting trial, I'm sure", which was brilliant :-p Dukat is uncharacteristically speechless for a few seconds :p Dukat really didn't know about the smuggling: "they never bothered to tell me" and "if I help you stop the smuggling, will you help me stop the Maquis?" - "you have a deal". Dukat:"thank you for coming to my rescue" - "I'm sure you would have done the same for me.." :p Dukat tells the which species is smuggling weapons, and when they contact one he steps forward to demand they surrender and confess: "I don't understand, you're a Cardassian!" - "I'm not just any Cardassian, I'm Gul Dukat, Commander of the second order" and when He starts a countdown, the other gets scared: "stop counting stop counting!" and surrenders :p Cardassian threats are not to be taken lightly :p
Quark speaks to the Vulcan woman in jail, and I liked that conversation on logic and the price of peace :-) brilliant :)
Sisko gives Hudson his uniform back but he listens to no reason, he wants to win his war at all costs. Calvin won't stop his attack. Sisko: "I can't let you start a war". Both sides open fire; the Maquis eventually retreat and to Dukat's anger Sisko lets them go: "you're a fool, a sentimental fool".
Kira tells him "you prevented a war " - "did I? or did I just delay the inevitable?" which is useless speculation, for he avoided one right now, which is what matters, and in the future whatever will be will be...
Third rule of Acquisition "never spend more for an acquisition than you have to".
22 - The wire
Bashir is tired because he was "reading the last few chapters of the Neverending sacrifice". Garak "isn't it superb? without a doubt the finest Cardassian novel ever written" but Bashir found it redundant, meaning very boring: it's about seven generations of the same family "but it tells the same story over and over again, all of its characters live selfless lives in duty to the State, grow old and die, then the next generation comes along and does it all over again" - "but that's exactly the point doctor!" he thinks that repetition makes for the most elegant "form in Cardassian literature"...
Garak becomes impatient when there's a queue at the restaurant, then he looks obviously in pain and Bashir wants to take him to the infirmary, but Garak keeps saying that he's perfectly fine and goes away.
Garak and Bashir "have been having lunch together once a week for more than a year now, you'd think he had come to trust me a little" he says, but Dax: "why should he? it's not like the two of you are really friends". Garak asks Quark to procure something for him, but later Quark calls Bashir because Garak is getting drunk and he still refuses to go to the infirmary but then he collapses and says "make it stop!". Bashir finds "some kind of implant" in his head, and it's been there for years. Quark contacts someone on Cardassia and gives him the code of what Garak wants, and the man gets upset "Quark you idiot!" and "I'm ruined, my career is over" and he says that it's classified biotechnology. "Maybe they won't trace the request back to me" - "who?" - "The Obsidian order" and at the name Quark too gets scared. It's a sort of secret service in Cardassia.
Odo: "even the Romulan Tal'Shiar can't compete with them when it comes to intelligence gathering and covert operations". Bashir finds Garak in his quarters, taking some kind of anaesthetic drug. "there's nothing you can do for me" and he wants more drugs after Bashir tells him that Quark won't get him what he wanted. Bashir and Odo think that the implant might be a punishment device, but Garak laughs at this "I suppose in a way that's what it's become" and "it can't be removed" and "that's the whole point, if it could be easily removed it would be useless; you see, on Cardassia I was entrusted with certain information, information that needed to be kept safe regardless of the situation. My implant was given to me by Enabran Tane himself, the head of the Obsidian Order. If I was tortured it was designed to stimulate the pleasure centers of my brain, to trigger the production of vast amount of natural endorphines; I do hope you appreciate the irony doctor, the whole purpose of the implant was to make me immune to pain" but "it was never meant for continuous use" and "living on this station is torture for me doctor, the temperature is always too cold, the lights always too bright, every Bajoran on this station looks at me with loathing and contempt, so one day I decided I couldn't live with it anymore, and I took the pain away" and "I created a device which allowed me to trigger the implant whenever I wanted it. At first I only used it a few minutes a day, and then I began relying on it more and more until finally I just turned it on and never shut it off". It's been two years since, but it's breaking now but his body has become dependent on it. Bashir yells that he's just giving up, letting "them" win. "Doctor, did anyone ever tell you that you are an infuriating pest" - "chief O'Brian, all the time, and I don't pay any attention to him either" which may very well be Bashir's best moment :lol:
"Has it ever occurred to you that I might be getting exactly what I deserve?" and "you couldn't even begin to fathom what I'm capable of" and he tells him that during the occupation he was a Gul, and shortly before withdrawal a group of prisoners escaped. "My aid, a man named Elim, tracked them" but couldn't stop the ship because it was under Dukat's orders, so he destroyed the ship, killing the prisoners, Elim and 97 Cardassian civilians. He followed orders but the daughter of someone important died too so he was stripped of his rank and exiled. Bashir still wants to save his life, shutting the thing off. Bashir never leaves him but he has no information on Cardassian physiology. Garak suffers terribly when he wakes up, and he's angry "I've been calm long enough, look at this place, it's pathetic" and "this is what my life has been reduced to" and "there was a time when I was in power, the protegée of Enabran Tane himself, you have any idea what that means?" - and "you don't know much of anything. Tane 'was' the Obsidian order, not even the Central Command dared challenge him and I was his right hand, my future was limitless, until I threw it away" and they talk again of that shuttle-incident. "I only wish that I had stopped them" and "my disgrace is worse than that" and "I let them go, it was the eve of the Cardassian withdrawal, Elim and I were interrogating five Bajorans, they were children doctor, none of them were older than 14 years old, they knew nothing" and "all I wanted was a hot bath and a good meal, so I let them go, I gave them whatever latinum I had in my pockets, opened the door.." but "Elim looked at me as if I were insane" and "I was a fool, I should have completed my interrogation and turn them over to the troops for execution, but because I was chilly and my stomach was growling I failed in my duty and destroyed everything I had worked for" so he was exiled and they "left me to live out my days with nothing to look forward to but having lunch with you" - "I'm sorry you feel that way, I thought you enjoyed my company" - "Oh I did, and that's the worst part" and "I hate this place and I hate you" then they fight until Garak has another seizure, but Bashir has trouble helping him, it would take weeks to synthesise what he needs but Garak only has a few days like this. A nurse suggests turning the implant back on to gain time, but Garak refuses "no, I won't allow it, I never want that thing turned on again" and "you've done enough doctor, more than I deserve" and tells him 'the truth' :p "I've about given up on learning the truth from you Garak" - "oh don't give up on me now doctor, patience has its rewards" :p He says that Elim was his friend, closer than brothers, they were called "the sons of Tane", even the Guls feared them, then the scandal of someone letting prisoners escape, Tane had retired already and couldn't protect him, but Elim had betrayed him first and so he was exiled, and he deserved it for what he had tried to do to his best friend, and he's saying that now so Bashir can forgive him "I need to know that someone can forgive me" and Bashir takes his hand "I forgive you for whatever it is you did", then Bashir leaves to find Tane, who of course knew about him coming, and even knows that he always drinks Tarkaelian tea :p extra sweet.
Bashir gives him the name of the Cardassian who was talking to Quark, and I thought that was not nice of him; I mean, Tane knows of course, but in the off-chance he didn't or pretended he didn't, giving him the name out loud was cruel. "How sick is Garak?" - "he's dying" and Tane says that as a friend he should let him die because for him a life in exile is no life at all. Bashir asks information on Cardassian physiology, Tane says what made Garak special was that he never had to order him anything, meaning he volunteered and understood. Tane gives him all the data he needs to save Garak because "he doesn't deserve a quick death" and "I want him to live a long miserable life". Bashir asks about Elim and it turns out that's Garak's first name :p
"Tell Garak that I miss him". Later, Garak feels fine, it's been ten days. He denied to Odo that he was in the Obsidian order of course, and he tells Bashir "I've given you all the answers I'm capable of" but all answers were different "which ones were true and which ones weren't?" - "they were all true" - "even the lies?" - "especially the lies" ..
23 - Crossover
Bashir and Kira are on a runabout together. He talks a lot, she'd like to meditate as she does every day but he won't stop talking :p so she prefers some music :) Bashir tries hitting on her but she's like "forget it!" :p they have problems crossing the wormhole and immediately see something's wrong. The station is not where it should be, it's orbiting Bajor now. Two Klingons board her ship but seeing her they're apologetic. On the station they meet the 'other Kira'. They are at the Terok Nor station, "the center of authority for the Bajoran sector"; whose authority? "The Alliance, of course". Humans are called Terrans. The other Kira is the leader, the Intendent. The other Odo is the Supervisor, humans are slaves in the mine. The other Kira knows the story of Kirk: he had an effect on the other Spock who became commander in chief of the Empire, preaching peace, and thus he soon was no longer able to defend it against them, the Alliance of Klingons and Cardassians, and after the occupation Bajor requested to join it and became a strong part of it. Garak is the first officer there. When our Kira names Kirk to Bashir of course he understands immediately. There's an O'Brian there and Bashir tries to have him help them, using a transporter; Kira tries to enlist Quark's help but he's arrested. Sisko works for the other Kira because she likes him; he calls O'Brian Smiley and he is sort of her pet. The other Kira wants Kira's love: "if you can't love me, who can?". She sentenced Quark to death right before joking about a party and "what shall we wear?". Garak wants our Kira's help to become himself the new intendent, but she tries instead to get to Sisko. Bashir shoots Odo killing him and escapes by chance, and Miles helps him and wants to go too. The other Kira is upset over Odo's death and orders that Bashir and Miles be killed , but Sisko takes up weapons against them and escapes with his crew, our Kira following. Kira and Bashir leave, the others and Miles stay there to change things.
When they get back through the wormhole, Bashir is all dirty and Kira is wearing a hot purple dress, and she says that they've been "through the looking glass".
I never liked much the stories in the mirror universe :-/
24 - The collaborator
25 - Tribunal
O'Brian goes on vacation and is worried about leaving; Kira: "we are perfectly capable of running this place by ourselves for a week". Sisko has to say "you're on leave, please disembark the station" or he wouldn't let go :p
Before he can do that, he meets an old friend, someone he served together with on the Ruthledge, Boone, who now lives on the Cardassian side of the demilitarised zone. It's his first vacation with Keiko in five years and he brought technical update manuals :p Molly stayed behind with 'the Petersons', so it's just the two of them. A Cardassian patrol ship approaches and they search the ship and then arrest Miles. They don't explain anything, he has no idea what he's being accused of. Keiko is returned to DS9 and is desperate for him. Even to Sisko they say nothing, only that the charges will be presented as the trial begins and that the verdict is already out: guilty. "The trial will reveal how this guilt was proven". The trial will be in two days, but Sisko won't be allowed there, only the spouse. Odo volunteers as his Nestor, 'advisor to the offender', and since he is "an officer of the court" the Cardassian judge has no choice but to allow it.
O'Brian's execution "is scheduled for next week" because "we believe in swift justice". Even his lawyer won't tell him anything, saying that "it doesn't matter". Sisko and the others work on the station to find out what happened: two dozen photon warheads have been transferred off the station.
Odo asks Miles who knows nothing about weapons and Maquis. He makes a good speech to make Odo understand that he'd never do anything like that.
Dax discovers that the voice used to steal the weapons was indeed O'Brian's, but it was recorded and constructed, and Kira finds the man who talked to him last, Raymond Boone. The trial is shown on big screens all over Cardassia, but the lawyer only thinks of the last year of his career.
Boon denies knowing anything. A Maquis tells Bashir that Boone is not one of them and they know nothing about those weapons. They discover that Boone left his wife, his parents and the Federation eight years ago, so now Bashir examines him and Sisko brings him to the trial (how they got in is a minor detail that they don't reveal to us..)
As the archon sees them, she declares that the trial was successful but she saw "potential for rehabilitation" and to strengthen Cardassia-Federation relations she sets aside the verdict and releases him "to the custody of his commander".
Boone was a Cardassian, surgically altered to replace the real Boone eight years ago, who had been killed in detention. He was spying for them, and this whole thing was to discredit the Federation.
Sisko will drop Miles and Keiko at their vacation destination before reaching DS9 :)
26 - The Jem’Hadar
Sisko takes Jake to the Gamma Quadrant for a working-vacation, so he'll be able to work on a science project there. Sisko wants to spend some time alone with Jake, but Jake invited Nog too to work on the project together. They are friends and Jake wants to help him with his grades. When Nog tells Quark, he sees the opportunity to get closer to Sisko because he wants to sell merchandise using the station monitors, and he joins them too... they explore a planet with on predators and no animals, but lots and lots of flora, ideal for their science-project, not so much for Quark who can only see "exploitable resources". He's allergic to nature :p and he has to put a green cream on his ears.
As night comes, Quark loses it and lets out how miserable he is, embarrassing Nog.
(I don't like Nog, so loud and screamy and panicky, but still, poor kid).
A woman comes out of the woods, Quark says it's just the two of them because the kids are not present at the moment, and she speaks of the jem'hadar, and all of a sudden a group of them appears out of thin air and takes them prisoner. Sisko thinks she's a scared prisoner too and tells her about the Federation and the wormhole. He says the Jem'hadar are overconfident, putting only four guards on duty, but honestly this sounds a bit silly, four armed soldiers against three unarmed prisoners doesn't seem so careless....
A Jem'hadar talks about the Founders who created the Dominion. They already know all about our quadrant's races and politics. A Jem'hadar appears on the station to inform them that Sisko is being detained, indefinitely, wanting them to stop "invading their territory', and says that they destroyed the Bajoran colony on their quadrant... A rescue party leaves DS9, the big starship Odissey and a couple of runabouts, the Orinoco and the Mekong. They meet and rescue Jake and Nog, but are then attacked by Jem'hadar ships.
The woman has a collar that inhibits her powers, and they take it off and try to escape. Once in the woods, they are beamed aboard the Riogrande, and they all head home (Sisko's runabout). They were leaving when a Jem'hadar ship did a kamikaze attack crashing on the Odissey, destroying it. Quark picked up the collar before escaping, and analysing it he discovers that there's nothing in it, only a complicated lock, and it was all a plan to make them think that she was on their side, take her here so she could spy on them. Sisko thinks she might be one of the Founders: "you think the Founders would waste their time with you?" and "you have no idea what's began here" and simply touching something on her wrist she teleports herself out of there... but they'll be back, so Sisko and the others better be ready for them :)
Rule of Acquisition 102 - "nature decays but latinum lasts forever"
Garak-Andrew Robinson
Winn-Louise Fletcher
Molly-Hana Hatae
Weyoun-Brunt-Tiron - Jeffrey Combs
Damar - Casey Biggs
Bareil - Philip Anglim
Zek - Wallace Shawn
