Deep Space Nine, Season 3: The Abandoned

Deep Space Nine, Season 3
"The Abandoned"
Airdate: October 31, 1994
51 of 173 produced
51 of 173 aired

Introduction

Quark buys some salvage found in the Gamma Quadrant from a friend and makes an unusual discovery in the wreckage: a baby. The child grows very fast, to adulthood in a matter of days when it becomes clear what he is: a Jem'Hadar. Starfleet wants to take advantage of the opportunity to study him, but Odo, remembering his own experience in a lab objects and tries to help the Jem'Hadar be more than a soldier of the Dominion.

Hey, buddy, are you watching the table, or the girl?

Resistance is Futile

As part the release of season 3 of TNG on Bluray, they are showing Best of Both Worlds in theaters tonight. I am going with some friends and I highly recommend you do the same.

Here's the website to find a theater near you that is playing it.

I am so excited I can barely contain myself. The promos on the season 2 disc looked great, so I imagine the whole episode must be pretty awesome. I'll have a full report in the next couple of days.

Deep Space Nine, Season 3: Second Skin

 Deep Space Nine, Season 3
"Second Skin"
Airdate: October 24, 1994
50 of 173 produced
50 of 173 aired

Introduction

After she is lured onto the surface of Bajor by a mysterious claim that she was interned at a prison camp, which she does not remember, Major Kira wakes up on Cardassia to find that she is someone entirely different - a Cardassian double agent named Iliana Ghemor. Now she must determine whether her life as she thought she knew it is an elaborate lie.

 Major Kira is absolutely beside herself...

Deep Space Nine, Season 3: Equilibrium

Deep Space Nine, Season 3
"Equilibrium"
Airdate: October 17, 1994
49 of 173 produced
49 of 173 aired

Introduction

Tinkering at a piano, Jadzia stumbles onto a melody that she is certain she has heard before but can't remember where. The next day, she begins to manifest personality changes and suffers a terrifying hallucination on the Promenade. Whatever is causing this is also harming her symbiont. She now must return to the Trill homeworld to find out what is going on.

Oh, who am I kidding? The boat house was the time!

Deep Space Nine, Season 3: The House of Quark

Deep Space Nine, Season 3
"The House of Quark"
Airdate: October 10, 1994
48 of 173 produced
48 of 173 aired

Introduction

Quark is pulled into an intrigue involving Klingon society and politics when a drunken warrior falls on his own blade at his bar.

How do you solve a problem like Grilka?

Deep Space Nine, Season 3: The Search, Part II

Deep Space Nine, Season 3
"The Search, Part II"
Airdate: October 3, 1994
47 of 173 produced
47 of 173 aired

Introduction

The crew of the Defiant is brought back to the Alpha Quadrant, where treaty negotiations with the Dominion are already well underway. At first the crew is pleased at the success of their mission, but soon it seems the Federation is willing to give up too much in the name of peace. Meanwhile, Odo is exploring his home world, where Kira discovers that not everything is as it seems.

The Nechayev in your mind has an answer for everything.

Deep Space Nine, Season 3: The Search, Part I

Deep Space Nine, Season 3
"The Search, Part I"
Airdate: September 26, 1994
46 of 173 produced
46 of 173 aired

Introduction

Several months have passed since Sisko's first encounter with the Jem'Hadar, and he has returned to DS9 with some battle reinforcements in tow - the USS Defiant. Now he and his crew must ventuure back into the Gamma Quadrant in search of the mysterious Founders of the Dominion.

On Romulus we have a saying: He who smelt it dealt it, Commander.

Thank you, Ron Moore...

for saying what Matt and I have been saying for years, but far more diplomatically and without screaming.

http://www.giantfreakinrobot.com/scifi/ron-moore-tv-star-trek-movie-star-trek.html

Truth be told, his point about Star Trek being better suited to a TV show than a movie and the movies ultimately being more action heavy and focused on one character apply to even the good TOS and TNG movies, including the one RDM wrote, but still. Matt makes a similar argument in his post about why Star Trek is better than Star Wars (sorry, Andrew), but it applies here as well. I do miss the weekly morality play/character exploration you get in the TV show. I like that he cites Data's Day and Lower Decks, as those are episodes we loved, but just would never be the movie version of a franchise.

So, yes, do more Star Trek on TV. I know television shows starting or getting new life directly to Netflix seems to be in the experimental stages, and the costs of an hour long sci-fi drama might kick it out of that realm, but I can't think of a better way to hit your target audience without the stress and pressure of a television network.

Also, while I'm wishing upon a star, hire Matt and me to write it. We would be awesome at it. Just saying.

DS9 Season 2 Recap

Introduction

Season 1 is mercifully a thing of the past. Season 2 bursts into full swing with an action extravaganza three-part episode. Can it sustain its momentum?

No! Don't make me watch Season 1 again! Anything but that!

Deep Space Nine, Season 2: The Jem'Hadar

Deep Space Nine, Season 2
"The Jem'Hadar"
Airdate: June 12, 1994
45 of 173 produced
45 of 173 aired

Introduction

Commander Sisko has taken Jake and Nog to Gamma Quadrant to do a planetary survey for a school project. Much to his chagrin, Quark has tagged along. However, the trip is cut short when Quark and Sisko are captured by the Jem'Hadar, fearsome soliders of the Dominion. Now Jake and Nog are left to find a way to help them, and the station is left preparing to face a new and powerful threat.

This one totally wasn't Counselor Troi's fault.