Star Trek Deep Space Nine - The Complete Fifth Season Review
DS9 is my favorite in the Star Trek universe. This is the pivotal season where many threads start their path to the series finale. Seeing it on the DVD is both clarifying and engrossing. The special features are entertaining and enlightening. I fully admit to being prejudiced in favor of anything Star Trek. Even so, this is a superior facet that engages and provokes thoughtful consideration. Episodes: Apocalypse Rising, The Ship, Looking for par'Mach in All the Wrong Places, ...Nor the Battle to the Strong, The Assignment, Trials and Tribble-ations, Let He Who Is Without Sin..., Things Past, The Ascent, Rapture, The Darkness and the Light, The Begotten, For the Uniform, In Purgatory's Shadow, By Inferno's Light, Doctor Bashir I Presume?, A Simple Investigation, Business as Usual, Ties of Blood and Water, Ferengi Love Songs, Soldiers of the Empire, Children of Time, Blaze of Glory, Empok Nor, In the Cards, Call to Arms.
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To my eyes Deep Space Nine's late fourth season saw the show began to turn from dark and gritty to just plain solom and dreary. That spirit is what follows the series into it's fifth season. There are many people who believe that TNG's fifth season was among it's weakest but,despite some weaker episodes here and there that series never really had a "weak" season as a whole. One of main reasons during this season for all the gloom had to do with character atmospherics. The enthusiastic if occasionally mistrustful banter if these characters that added a humor to this often edgy series is replaced by this dry,resigned meloncaughly attitude when the characters are interacting collectively and such moments result in a lot of noticably low engery episodes. Also again DS9 is slowly morphing (much as Odo might *laugh*) into more and more of a war melodrama revolving around themes such as honor among soldiers and survival. Again personally it's just not my kind of Star Trek and again this doesn't take away from the strong moments in this season,most of which have a comedic bent. The most famous episode this season is "Trials And Tribble-Ations" in which the DS9 crew gain an opportunity to interact with their counterparts from TOS during the events of one of their classic episodes. Sisko even gets a chance to speak to the legendary James T Kirk before departing to his own time. During this season amongst all the conflict two things come out of this: the Cardassians joining with the Dominion against the Federation as well as the related subsequent inihilation of the Maquis,the rebel faction DS9 once spawned. In this season we also have an excellent character study in "Doctor Bashir,I Presume" where not only do we meet Julian Bashir's parents but learn his medical brilliance is the result of illegal genetic enhancement. It's a key moment in development for the long underutilized character and effects everything that happens to him through the remainder of the series. By the end of the series it finally happens: war officially breaks out between the Dominion and the Federation and culiminates in the wonderously evil Gul Dukat and his new Dominion hench men,including the repellent butt-kissing clone Weyoun take over the station forcing the Federation crew to abandon it leaving people like Kira,Odo and...even Jake Sisko to fend for themselves under Dominion occupation. What happens next....that's another story.
Jul 04, 2010 05:53:08
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