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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Valiant  Rewatch   Season 6, Ep 22

A lone Starfleet ship, cut off from all allies, faces impossible odds in the midst of war. Nothing to worry about, you say? Welllll… [more inside]
posted by CheesesOfBrazil on Sep 15, 2016 - 14 comments

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: The Reckoning  Rewatch   Season 6, Ep 21

It's too bad that DS9 has already used the titles "Armageddon Game" and "Apocalypse Rising", because that's what happens in this episode, for real this time; it starts with Sisko taking a gander at a dusty old tablet, and ends up with two ancient enemies getting it on like Donkey Kong. [more inside]
posted by Halloween Jack on Sep 12, 2016 - 14 comments

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: His Way  Rewatch   Season 6, Ep 20

I know I'll be a mess until you choose to acquiesce to holosuite-ing with me / And if we dance at Vic's then there's a chance it could malfunction catastrophic-a-lly / But if the grid still works, then we might order up from Quark's for a synthetic dram / And then I go and spoil it all by saying something stupid like "You're a holo-graaaam"[more inside]
posted by CheesesOfBrazil on Sep 8, 2016 - 22 comments

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: In the Pale Moonlight  Rewatch   Season 6, Ep 19

When you dance with the devil in the pale moonlight... the devil always leads. [more inside]
posted by Halloween Jack on Sep 5, 2016 - 32 comments

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Inquisition  Rewatch   Season 6, Ep 18

It's "Inquisition"! / What a show / Yes "Inquisition" / Here we go:[more inside]
posted by CheesesOfBrazil on Sep 1, 2016 - 9 comments

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Wrongs Darker Than Death or Night  Rewatch   Season 6, Ep 17

You might think that it wouldn't be possible to hate Dukat any more than you already do, because you already hate him with the hate of ten thousand burning suns, but ask yourself: are those suns supernovas? Well, they are now. [TW: rape] [more inside]
posted by Halloween Jack on Aug 29, 2016 - 15 comments

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Change of Heart  Rewatch   Season 6, Ep 16

On a high-stakes mission in enemy territory, a Starfleet officer's heart is about to lead him astray…but such are the dangers of tongo. Oh, also Worf faces a difficult assignment. [more inside]
posted by CheesesOfBrazil on Aug 25, 2016 - 8 comments

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Honor Among Thieves  Rewatch   Season 6, Ep 15

The FBIStarfleet Intelligence sends Donnie BrascoO'Brien to infiltrate the MafiaOrion Syndicate to find who's been leaking information to them, but is he getting in too deep? [more inside]
posted by Halloween Jack on Aug 22, 2016 - 12 comments

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: One Little Ship  Rewatch   Season 6, Ep 14

A company of Jem'Hadar invaders is about to learn why it's a bad idea...to cross the Rubicon. [more inside]
posted by CheesesOfBrazil on Aug 18, 2016 - 9 comments

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Far Beyond the Stars  Rewatch   Season 6, Ep 13

And now for something really different: for the first time anywhere, an adaptation of a long-lost work by the tragic and underappreciated African-American SF author and Afrofuturist pioneer Benny Russell, a story considered so controversial at the time of its writing that it was completely suppressed by its publisher: "Deep Space Nine"! [more inside]
posted by Halloween Jack on Aug 15, 2016 - 12 comments

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Who Mourns for Morn?  Rewatch   Season 6, Ep 12

When the station's most lovable chatterbox dies, Quark inherits his fortune…but soon learns the truth behind the ancient Vulcan proverb: "Morn money, Morn problems." [more inside]
posted by CheesesOfBrazil on Aug 11, 2016 - 7 comments

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Waltz  Rewatch   Season 6, Ep 11

Dukat is back, and he seems positively conciliatory toward Sisko, especially when they're marooned on a planet together. But is he telling the truth about their situation, and are they really alone? [more inside]
posted by Halloween Jack on Aug 8, 2016 - 13 comments

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: The Magnificent Ferengi  Rewatch   Season 6, Ep 10

In 2374, a crack commando unit was sent to Empok Nor to rescue a woman captured by the Dominion for a crime she didn't commit. These men promptly killed their only bargaining chip in their minimum-security infirmary. If you have a problem… if no one else can help… and if you can pay them… maybe you shouldn't hire… The Ferengi Team. [more inside]
posted by CheesesOfBrazil on Aug 4, 2016 - 7 comments

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Statistical Probabilities  Rewatch   Season 6, Ep 9

Bashir gets a visit from The Dream Teamthe Jack Pack, a group of genetically-enhanced savants who are capable of rapid and stunningly accurate assessments of the Dominion threat. But what does he do when they predict that the Federation will lose the war? [more inside]
posted by Halloween Jack on Aug 1, 2016 - 10 comments

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Resurrection  Rewatch   Season 6, Ep 8

It's the second coming of another Bajoran religious figure believed to have died long ago. This time, it's Vedek Bareil…except it's not, and he is actually dead. Confusing? Well, what do you expect from the MIRROR UNIVERSE… [more inside]
posted by CheesesOfBrazil on Jul 28, 2016 - 7 comments

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: You Are Cordially Invited  Rewatch   Season 6, Ep 7

ma'wIJ! ma'wIJ iS watlh b'wInghs uS tuH'e'ver to'Day! [more inside]
posted by CheesesOfBrazil on Jul 25, 2016 - 4 comments

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Sacrifice of Angels  Rewatch   Season 6, Ep 6

In the largest battle of Star Trek history, Sisko leads the attack to recapture Deep Space 9. Meanwhile, on the Dominion-occupied station, the minefield is about to come down—and the only people who can stop it have been preemptively arrested. [more inside]
posted by CheesesOfBrazil on Jul 21, 2016 - 10 comments

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Favor the Bold  Rewatch   Season 6, Ep 5

OK, you know how, when you think you've found the right person, you just can't get enough of them? And you totally lose track of time in their arms? And all your friends are like, hey, where have you been, and you try to tell them that this is the one, man, and they just don't get it? And then you realize that one of them is going to get executed because you didn't do your part to resist the invading aliens? OK, maybe not so much the last part, but that's Odo's deal. Also, Sisko & Co. prepare to retake the station. [more inside]
posted by Halloween Jack on Jul 18, 2016 - 7 comments

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Behind the Lines  Rewatch   Season 6, Ep 4

Reassigned from commanding the Defiant, Sisko copes with loss—and back on the station, Odo makes a moist new friend. Meanwhile, the Dominion discovers a way to bring down the minefield that's keeping their reinforcements on the other side of the wormhole, and only Rom can stop them. [more inside]
posted by CheesesOfBrazil on Jul 14, 2016 - 15 comments

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Sons and Daughters  Rewatch   Season 6, Ep 3

Temporarily assigned to the IKS Rotarran, Worf is shocked to discover that one of the new crew members is his son, Alexander Rozhenko; so is the rest of Trek fandom, because the kid is only about eight in Earth years. (I mean, the Jem'Hadar grow to maturity in days, and the all-time Trek precocity champ is probably the resurrected Spock, but still.) And, against all odds, Dukat manages to be even creepier. [more inside]
posted by Halloween Jack on Jul 11, 2016 - 28 comments

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Rocks and Shoals  Rewatch   Season 6, Ep 2

You think YOUR relationship with your neighbors is awkward? Try being Sisko marooned on an alien world alongside half-crazed Jem'Hadar. Or how about being Kira working alongside Dominion occupiers on Terok Nor Deep Space Nine Terok Nor? [more inside]
posted by CheesesOfBrazil on Jul 7, 2016 - 8 comments

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: A Time To Stand  Rewatch   Season 6, Ep 1

In the first episode of the six-part "Station Occupation" arc, Jake learns the limits of freedom of the press under the Dominion, Dukat creeps on Kira (big shock), Odo balances being a god and a cop, Quark looks on the bright side of life, and the exiled Federation crew (plus Garak) execute a plan that's so crazy, it's gotta work--or does it? Plus, special bonus July 4th surprise! [more inside]
posted by Halloween Jack on Jul 4, 2016 - 6 comments

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Call to Arms  Rewatch   Season 5, Ep 26

"These are the times that try men's souls." Sisko mines the entrance to the wormhole, provoking Gul Dukat to attack the station…and the Dominion War begins. Season finale. [more inside]
posted by CheesesOfBrazil on Jun 30, 2016 - 18 comments

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: In the Cards  Rewatch   Season 5, Ep 25

Sisko, J. and Nog [NFI], "The Acquisition of Unique Artifacts in a Post-Monetary Society: A Case Study", The Journal of Deep-Space Studies, Stardate 50929.4, v. 47:9, pp. 1701a-e. [more inside]
posted by Halloween Jack on Jun 27, 2016 - 8 comments

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Empok Nor  Rewatch   Season 5, Ep 24

A salvage operation on an abandoned, booby-trapped Cardassian space station? One of the most dangerous agents of the Obsidian Order in your party? What could possibly go wrong? [more inside]
posted by CheesesOfBrazil on Jun 23, 2016 - 3 comments

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Blaze of Glory  Rewatch   Season 5, Ep 23

Do you hear the people sing? Singing the song of angry men? It is the music of the people Who will not be slaves again! When the beating of your heart Echoes the beating of the drums There is a life about to start When tomorrow comes. [more inside]
posted by Halloween Jack on Jun 20, 2016 - 9 comments

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Children of Time  Rewatch   Season 5, Ep 22

O'Brien cheats on his wife, Worf starts a personality cult, Dax tries to crash the Defiant, and Odo wipes out a civilization. Well, sort of. [more inside]
posted by CheesesOfBrazil on Jun 16, 2016 - 12 comments

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Soldiers of the Empire  Rewatch   Season 5, Ep 21

Qoy qeylIs puqloD. Qoy puqbe’pu’. yoHbogh matlhbogh je SuvwI’ Say’moHchu’ may’ ’Iw. maSuv manong ’ej maHoHchu’. nI’be’ yInmaj ’ach wovqu’. batlh maHeghbej ’ej yo’ qIjDaq vavpu’ma’ DImuv. pa’ reH maSuvtaHqu’. mamevQo’. maSuvtaH. ma’ov. [more inside]
posted by Halloween Jack on Jun 13, 2016 - 2 comments

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Ferengi Love Songs  Rewatch   Season 5, Ep 20

Quark grows despondent enough to visit his mother, only to learn she's involved (in more ways than one) with Zek. Meanwhile, cross-cultural misunderstanding threatens Rom and Leeta's wedding. ♫ Love... soft as a Ferengi's lobes...[more inside]
posted by CheesesOfBrazil on Jun 9, 2016 - 4 comments

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Ties of Blood and Water  Rewatch   Season 5, Ep 19

Kira gets an offer of help from an exiled Cardassian, but finds herself challenged both by his past deeds... and by her own. Plus: Ol' Blue Eyes is back! (No, no that one. Not him, either.) [more inside]
posted by Halloween Jack on Jun 6, 2016 - 6 comments

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Business as Usual  Rewatch   Season 5, Ep 18

There are some things latinum can't buy. For everything else, there's weapons dealing. As Quark struggles with his penury, his conscience, and his brother Gaila (who owns his own moon), O'Brien must suffer the wrath of Kirayoshi. (Directorial debut of Alexander Siddig.) [more inside]
posted by CheesesOfBrazil on Jun 2, 2016 - 11 comments

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: A Simple Investigation  Rewatch   Season 5, Ep 17

Things are rarely simple when love and crime get mixed up, as a certain changeling cop who's about to get entangled in a 24th-century version of one of his crime novels is about to find out. (Spoilers for a 1952 movie below the cut.) [more inside]
posted by Halloween Jack on May 30, 2016 - 7 comments

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Doctor Bashir, I Presume?  Rewatch   Season 5, Ep 16

It's doctor versus doctor versus holo-doctor in an epic smug-off, as Voyager's Dr. Lewis Zimmerman (Robert Picardo) drops by DS9. But soon he's causing trouble for Dr. Bashir's career...and Rom's love life. [more inside]
posted by CheesesOfBrazil on May 28, 2016 - 7 comments

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: By Inferno's Light  Rewatch   Season 5, Ep 15

IT'S ON NOW. A Dominion fleet pours through the wormhole, friends and enemies change alliances, Worf is in the fight(s) of his life, Garak battles against time and his worst enemy, Dukat gets a new job, and the infiltrator aboard the station puts their second and deadlier plan into motion, with the fate of Deep Space Nine, Bajor, the Federation, and the Alpha Quadrant at stake. [more inside]
posted by Halloween Jack on May 22, 2016 - 9 comments

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: For the Uniform  Rewatch   Season 5, Ep 13

One day more, Another day, another destiny, This never ending road to Calvary; These men who seem to know my crime Will surely come a second time, One day more... [more inside]
posted by Halloween Jack on May 15, 2016 - 9 comments

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: The Darkness and the Light  Rewatch   Season 5, Ep 11

Someone's killing off the members of Kira's former resistance cell, one by one, and apparently saving her for last... but she's one mean mother(-to-be). [more inside]
posted by Halloween Jack on May 8, 2016 - 7 comments

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: The Ascent  Rewatch   Season 5, Ep 9

If Quark and Odo are to survive, they'll have to depend on each other as they climb... into thin air. [more inside]
posted by Halloween Jack on May 1, 2016 - 5 comments

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Let He Who Is Without Sin...  Rewatch   Season 5, Ep 7

Some of the crew are taking some R&R on the planet that's the Club Med of the Alpha Quadrant. What could possibly go wrong? Risa, meet Worf. [more inside]
posted by Halloween Jack on Apr 24, 2016 - 15 comments

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: The Assignment  Rewatch   Season 5, Ep 5

A new enemy appears on DS9, with a familiar face, and O'Brien has to figure out not only what they want, but why. [more inside]
posted by Halloween Jack on Apr 17, 2016 - 9 comments

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Looking for par'Mach in All the Wrong Places   Rewatch   Season 5, Ep 3

Well, I spent stardates lookin' for you/ Quark's Bar and holodeck lovers were never true/ Playin' a petaQ's game, hopin' to win/ Tellin' those dishonorable lies and losin' again... (it sounds better in the original tlhIngan) [more inside]
posted by Halloween Jack on Apr 10, 2016 - 16 comments

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Apocalypse Rising  Rewatch   Season 5, Ep 1

Awesome metal band name or daring undercover raid into the heart of the Klingon Empire? You decide! [more inside]
posted by Halloween Jack on Apr 3, 2016 - 10 comments

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Body Parts  Rewatch   Season 4, Ep 25

Quark is a dead man. No, wait, he's not. Well, then again... [more inside]
posted by Halloween Jack on Mar 27, 2016 - 17 comments

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: To the Death  Rewatch   Season 4, Ep 23

Weyoun! DS9 adds to its already-impressive list of recurring characters with yet another Jeffrey Combs portrayal. And there are also a bunch of rebel Jem'Hadar trying to activate an ancient gateway, fate of the galaxy at stake, working with the enemy, etc. The important thing is, Weyoun. [more inside]
posted by Halloween Jack on Mar 20, 2016 - 20 comments

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: The Muse  Rewatch   Season 4, Ep 21

A mysterious woman helps Jake write a novel; Lwaxana Troi, pregnant with a son, asks Odo to help her escape her husband. [more inside]
posted by Halloween Jack on Mar 13, 2016 - 4 comments

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Hard Time  Rewatch   Season 4, Ep 19

O'Brien was forced to endure a virtual-reality simulation of twenty years in prison in a matter of hours, a sentence which he insists was solitary confinement--so why does he keep seeing a hallucination of an alien? [TW: suicide] [more inside]
posted by Halloween Jack on Mar 6, 2016 - 11 comments

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Accession  Rewatch   Season 4, Ep 17

Sisko gets to quit the job he never wanted, but the new guy wants to bring back old ideas, and Sisko isn't too happy about that. Plus, Kira contemplates a change of careers, and Worf is in no hurry to be an amateur obstetrician again. [more inside]
posted by Halloween Jack on Feb 27, 2016 - 15 comments

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Sons of Mogh  Rewatch   Season 4, Ep 15

Worf's brother Kurn arrives on the station, and asks Worf to kill him. Meanwhile, Klingon ships are detected outside Bajoran space. [more inside]
posted by Halloween Jack on Feb 21, 2016 - 6 comments

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Crossfire  Rewatch   Season 4, Ep 13

What becomes of the broken-hearted... especially when they have to protect the new lover of their crush? [more inside]
posted by Halloween Jack on Feb 14, 2016 - 8 comments

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Homefront  Rewatch   Season 4, Ep 10

"I was hoping that this would never happen. But it finally has. The Changelings have reached Earth." [more inside]
posted by Halloween Jack on Feb 7, 2016 - 7 comments

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: The Sword of Kahless  Rewatch   Season 4, Ep 9

Worf is contacted by a legendary hero to help him find a long-lost weapon that was the foundation of their Empire, and an enemy from Worf's past also joins the hunt... but the two Klingons and Dax discover who the real enemy is. [more inside]
posted by Halloween Jack on Jan 31, 2016 - 8 comments

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