After forming an attack plan on the Dominion, Sisko relinquishes command of the Defiant to Dax after accepting a promotion. On DS9, the resistance faces discovery when Odo links with another... Read allAfter forming an attack plan on the Dominion, Sisko relinquishes command of the Defiant to Dax after accepting a promotion. On DS9, the resistance faces discovery when Odo links with another changeling.After forming an attack plan on the Dominion, Sisko relinquishes command of the Defiant to Dax after accepting a promotion. On DS9, the resistance faces discovery when Odo links with another changeling.
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- Various Aliens
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Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaArmin Shimerman considers this to be an important episode in the development of Quark.
- GoofsWhen O'Brien delivers the depleted power cell from the phaser array to the gathering of the crew he struggles with its weight. But when he passes it to Dax and she gives her speech, she doesn't struggle, but handles it as if it had hardly any weight at all. Also, when Dax puts the cell on the rack with the others, one of the cells it touches moves too much for something that is supposed to be quite heavy.
- Quotes
Quark: [an intoxicated Quark is lamenting to Kira, Rom, Jake and Odo] I tried. I tried my best to run my establishment under this occupation. But you know what, it's no fun. I don't like Cardassians. They're mean and arrogant. And I can't stand the Jem'Hadar. They're creepy. They just stand there like statues, staring at you. That's it. I don't want to spend the rest of my life doing business with these people. I want the Federation back. I want to sell root beer again!
- ConnectionsReferences Cheers (1982)
- SoundtracksStar Trek: Deep Space Nine - Main Title
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Written by Dennis McCarthy
Performed by Dennis McCarthy
Without spoiling it, it's simply inconceivable that a character that devoted his life to justice and, by extension, peaceful resolution to disputes (remember, he refused to carry weapons on him as the Security chief), who has an unwavering attitude of rejecting a vast array of temptations offered to himself, a character that developped more than friendly relationships with the "solids" and who holds one's responsibility and accountability - including his own - in the highest regard ... to do what he did at the end of this episode, not to mention THE WAY in which he did it. More specifically, I'm not talking about siding with a Founder once in a while (because that's understandable, after all, they belong to the same race), I'm talking about doing that irresponsibly and without caring for the repercussions of his actions. It's like having an episode where Odo looks away and doesn't bother to investigate and find the murderer of another individual that happened under his watch ... because he just doesn't give a f.... about it. Especially when the same (dumb) writers emphasized his responsibility and professionalism with every occasion throughout the series.
Lastly, Odo doing such things after just two "sessions"/meetings with another character is absurd, considering he had at least two of such encounters in the past with the said character and was clearly unfazed at this level before.
Bottom line, the writers (again) chose to suit the story after the desired result instead of modelating the result based on the story. Apparently, for such amateur writers, it's the effect that determines the cause, and not the cause that leads to a certain effect. And, of course, the whole plot is not only overly simplistic and ridiculous, but utterly not believable. The resolve is insulting the intelligence of the viewers, plain and simple. This could have been done in a million of better, more intelligent and more believeble ways than foolishly playing Odo out of character, really.
- yincognyto-91718
- Aug 27, 2019