onsdag 1 juni 2022

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

That's no moon, it's a space station.

Continued watching through the next Star Trek-series, Deep Space Nine. Never seen this one beside clips I watched like "IT IS REAL" and "It's a FAKE!". It makes sense in context. It had a crossover episode with The Next Generation so some of the things was known. And that Chief O'Brian and later on Worf joined the show. 

Basically after the treaty with the Cardassians that developed a new neutral zone between the Federation and Cardassia the planet Bajor enters the protection of the Federation, although not a full member. Star Fleet takes over an old Cardassian mining station in Bajor orbit and sends Captain Benjamin Sisko to keep watch on this new frontier. He has to keep track on Cardassians trying to get back their station and the control of Bajor, the Maquis terrorist that harass Cardassians and forces the Federation to reign them in the best they can. Bajor meanwhile is trying to ascend from an occupational world to a democracy and later a member of the federation. But the political intrigues with former terrorist, religious extremist and Cardassian collaborators keeps getting in the way. And if that wasn't enough, the first episode establish that there exist a worm hole to the Gamma Quadrant meaning new alien life and threats. And that the Bajorans gods live in there and have chosen Sisko as their messenger.

To his help from Starfleet he has Chief O'Brian from the Enterprise, Jadicia Dax a thrill with a symbiote that have lived through 6 lives, Julian Bashir a genius doctor that later turns out to be a genetically engineered human, like Khan. From Bajor he has Major Kira, a former resistance fighter and the envoy from the Bajoran government and Odo, the chief of Security that is a changeling and have worked for the Cardassians before. On the stations there is also Quark and his brother and nephew, Ferengians that run the holodecks and bar, and other schemes to get rich that Odo has to keep in check. There's also O'Brians wife Keiko, Siskos son Jake and the Cardassian tailor Garak that used to be a spy from the Cardassian Obsidian Order.

The early seasons is just fixing up the station, establishing the main characters and putting out the different fractions and later it blows up to a full blown war. From the Gamma Quadrant the Dominion appears, a collective of changelings that is the same race as Odo, that is intent on conquering the Alpha Quadrant. They join forces with the Cardassians that feels humiliated by losing Bajor and as they try to keep the social unrest in their home planet under control. The Federation in the beginning stands alone since the changeling has infiltrated several planets and spreads fear and distrust among all. Then they get back the support of the Klingons and with deception even enlist the Romulans to fight with them against the Dominion. 

It was really good.  And all explodes in an epic final where they invade Cardassia where the Dominion started eradicate the Cardassians. Meanwhile Gul Dakat, the Cardassian leader of the station before leaving it has started a process where he will release wraits, the enemy of the Bajoran gods, but Sisko gives his life to stop it and with that keep the peace of the Alpha Quadrant. This is such a good show that I even sympathise with the Ferengi. I hated them in TNG, but here I actually cares how it's going for them. The only episodes I recall I didn't like that much was the mirror world episodes, mostly since it doesn't lead anywhere to the story and the gimmick faded after the first time even though it was a call back to the original series. Or the fact that they changed costumes yet again to those grey looking ones meaning I have to look at their necks to see if they are blue, red or gold. Why change to something making it harder to see what station you have? 

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