Deep Space Nine Episode Reviews

Episode 60: Heart of Stone
Original air date: February 6, 1995
Podcast date:
August 1, 2010

Synopsis:
Searching for a Maquis raider on an unstable moon, Kira is trapped in an expanding crystal formation that threatens to engulf her if Odo cannot set her free. Meanwhile, Nog attempts to persuade a skeptical Commander Benjamin Sisko to write him a letter of recommendation to join Starfleet Academy.

Ratings:
Seth: ☆☆☆☆☆
Valerie: ☆☆☆☆☆
Ryan: ☆☆☆



Episode 59: Life Support
Original air date: January 31, 1995
Podcast date: July 25, 2010

Synopsis:
After a serious accident, Bashir struggles to save the life of Vedek Bareil while Kai Winn concludes a peace treaty with Cardassia. Jake and Nog reluctantly explore the differences between Federation and Ferengi cultures.

Ratings:
Seth: ☆☆☆
Valerie: ☆☆
Ryan: ☆☆☆☆



Episode 58: Past Tense Part 2
Original air date: January 8, 1995
Podcast date: July 18, 2010

Synopsis:
With history itself at stake, Sisko must risk all to see that the Bell Riots reach their inevitable conclusion, even if it means sacrificing his life...

Ratings:
Seth: ☆☆☆
Valerie: ☆☆☆
Ryan: ☆☆☆☆



Episode 57: Past Tense Part 1
Original air date: January 8, 1995
Podcast date: July 11, 2010

Synopsis:
Trapped three hundred years in the past, Sisko, Bashir and Dax find themselves confronting one of the darkest hours in Earth's history...

Ratings:
Seth: ☆☆
Valerie: ☆☆☆
Ryan: ☆☆☆☆



Episode 56: Fascination
Original air date: November 28, 1994
Podcast date: July 4, 2010

Synopsis:
Ambassador Lwaxana Troi visits the station to attend the Bajoran Gratitude Festival, resulting in an outbreak of passion throughout the station as people admit their secret feelings for others.

Ratings:
Seth: ☆☆
Valerie: ☆
Ryan: ☆☆



Episode 55: Defiant
Original air date: November 21, 1994
Podcast date: June 26, 2010

Synopsis:
When Commander William T. Riker from the Enterprise arrives on Deep Space 9, he takes a liking to Kira, who gives him a tour of the Defiant. But Riker is revealed to be not who he claims to be when he attacks Kira and steals the ship.

Ratings:
Seth: ☆☆☆☆
Valerie: ☆☆☆
Ryan: ☆☆☆



Episode 54: Meridian
Original air date: November 14, 1994
Podcast date:
June 19, 2010

Synopsis:
Jadzia falls in love with a scientist on a planet called Meridian by its inhabitants. The catch is that his planet and its inhabitants shift between this universe and a plane of pure energy, re-emerging into our universe for only a brief period at 60 year intervals. Back on DS9, Quark tries to obtain a holo-image of Major Kira for an erotic holosuite program.

Ratings:
Seth: ☆☆
Valerie: ☆☆
Ryan: ☆☆



Episode 53: Civil Defense
Original air date: November 7, 1994
Podcast date: June 13, 2010

Synopsis:
Sisko, Jake, and O'Brien accidentally trigger an old Cardassian security system which believes that the Occupation is still going on and the station has been taken in a Bajoran workers' rebellion.

Ratings:
Seth: ☆☆☆☆
Valerie: ☆☆☆☆
Ryan: ☆☆☆☆



Episode 52: The Abandoned
Original air date: October 31, 1994
Podcast date: June 6, 2010


Synopsis:
Quark finds an abandoned Jem'Hadar child, and Odo is the only person who can control him.

Ratings:
Seth: ☆☆
Valerie: ☆☆
Ryan: ☆☆☆



Episode 51: Second Skin
Original air date: October 24, 1994
Podcast date: May 30, 2010

Synopsis:
Kira is kidnapped by the Cardassians, who try to convince her that she is really one of them.

Ratings:
Seth: ☆☆☆☆
Valerie: ☆☆☆☆
Ryan: ☆☆☆☆



Episode 50: Equilibrium
Original air date: October 17, 1994
Podcast date: May 23, 2010

Synopsis:
Jadzia Dax is plagued by disturbing hallucinations that allude to the dark past of the Dax symbiont.

Ratings:
Seth: ☆
Valerie: ☆
Ryan: ☆☆



Episode 49: The House of Quark
Original air date: October 10, 1994
Podcast date: May 16, 2010

Synopsis: After Quark lies about killing a Klingon in his bar, the dead man's widow abducts Quark to the Klingon homeworld to marry him.

Ratings:
Seth: ☆☆☆
Valerie: ☆☆
Ryan: ☆☆☆☆


Episode 48: The Search, part 2
Original air date: October 3, 1994
Podcast date: May 9, 2010

Synopsis: On his homeworld, Odo learns about his people; Sisko discovers that the price of peace with the Dominion may be too high; The Founders learn that the only way they are going to take over the Alpha Quadrant is by eventually fighting a war.

Ratings:
Seth: ☆☆☆☆
Valerie: ☆☆☆☆
Ryan: ☆☆☆☆


Episode 47: The Search, part 1
Original air date: September 26, 1994
Podcast date: May 2, 2010

Synopsis: Sisko takes an untested Starfleet warship into the Gamma Quadrant in an attempt to find the Founders of the Dominion.

Ratings:
Seth: ☆☆☆☆☆
Valerie: ☆☆☆☆☆
Ryan: ☆☆☆☆☆


Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season Two
Original air date: September 26, 1993- June 12, 1994
Podcast date: April 25, 2010

Synopsis: The crew reviews Deep Space Nine season two.

Ratings:
Seth: ☆☆☆☆
Valerie: ☆☆☆☆
Ryan: ☆☆☆☆


Episode 46: The Jem'Hadar
Original air date: June 12, 1994
Podcast date: April 18, 2010

Synopsis: On a camping trip in the Gamma Quadrant, Sisko, Jake, Nog, and Quark encounter the ruthless soldiers of the Dominion, the Jem'Hadar.

Ratings:
Seth: ☆☆☆☆☆
Valerie: ☆☆☆☆
Ryan: ☆☆☆☆☆


Episode 45: Tribunal
Original air date: June 5, 1994
Podcast date: April 11, 2010

Synopsis: When Cardassians arrest Miles O'Brien for working with the Maquis, he's put on a Cardassian trial, where the verdict is already decided, and is always guilty.

Ratings:
Seth: ☆☆☆☆☆
Valerie: ☆☆☆☆
Ryan: ☆☆☆☆


Episode 44: The Collaborator
Original air date: May 22, 1994
Podcast date: April 4, 2010

Synopsis: Kira's lover is accused of collaborating with the Cardassians during the Occupation.

Ratings:
Seth: ☆☆
Valerie: ☆☆☆☆☆
Ryan: ☆☆☆☆☆


Episode 43: Crossover
Original air date: May 15, 1994
Podcast date: March 28, 2010

Synopsis: An accident inside the wormhole sends Kira and Bashir into the "mirror universe," where Bajorans rule over their human slaves

Ratings:
Seth: ☆☆☆
Valerie: ☆☆☆☆☆
Ryan: ☆☆


Episode 42: The Wire
Original air date: May 8, 1994
Podcast date: March 21, 2010

Synopsis: Bashir tries to help when Garak suffers painful headaches from an implant in his brain.

Ratings:
Seth: ☆☆☆☆
Valerie: ☆☆☆☆☆
Ryan: ☆☆☆☆☆


Episode 41: The Maquis Part 2
Original air date: May 1, 1994
Podcast date: March 14, 2010

Synopsis: Sisko tries to rescue Gul Dukat, stop the Maquis terrorists, and prevent a new war with the Cardassians.

Ratings:
Seth: ☆☆☆☆
Valerie: ☆☆☆☆
Ryan: ☆☆☆☆


Episode 40: The Maquis Part 1
Original air date: April 24, 1994
Podcast date: March 7, 2010

Synopsis: When a Cardassian freighter explodes at Deep Space 9, the Cardassians blame Federation colonists in the new Demilitarized Zone

Ratings:
Seth: ☆☆☆☆
Valerie: ☆☆☆☆
Ryan: ☆☆☆☆


Episode 39: Blood Oath
Original air date: March 27, 1994
Podcast date: February 28, 2010

Synopsis: Three old Klingon warriors reunite on Deep Space 9, seeking Curzon Dax, with whom they entered into a blood oath to one day exact revenge on an enemy for killing one of the warrior's sons. Finding Jadzia as worthy a warrior as they felt Curzon to be, she joins the Klingons in completing their vendetta.

Ratings:
Seth: ☆☆☆☆
Valerie: ☆☆☆☆
Ryan: ☆☆☆☆☆


Episode 38: Profit and Loss
Original air date: March 20, 1994
Podcast date: February 21, 2010

Synopsis: Quark is reunited with his lost Cardassian love, but he learns that she is a member of the Cardassian underground.

Ratings:
Seth: ☆☆☆
Valerie: ☆☆☆☆☆
Ryan: ☆☆☆


Episode 37: Playing God
Original air date: February 27, 1994
Podcast date: February 14, 2010

Synopsis: While hosting her first Trill "initiate," Dax discovers a tiny, expanding protouniverse that threatens to destroy the Bajoran system.

Ratings:
Seth: ☆☆☆
Valerie: ☆☆
Ryan: ☆☆☆


Episode 36: Shadowplay
Original air date: February 20, 1994
Podcast date: February 7, 2010

Synopsis: At a colony in the Gamma Quadrant, Dax and Odo investigate the mysterious disappearance of several colonists.

Ratings:
Seth: ☆☆☆☆
Valerie: ☆☆
Ryan: ☆☆☆


Episode 35: Paradise
Original air date: February 13, 1994
Podcast date: January 31, 2010

Synopsis: Sisko and O'Brien are trapped on a world with primitive technology, and the human colonists living there are determined to keep them from leaving.

Ratings:
Seth: ☆☆☆☆
Valerie: ☆☆☆☆
Ryan: ☆☆☆☆


Episode 34: Whispers
Original air date: February 6, 1994
Podcast date: January 24, 2010

Synopsis: After O'Brien returns from a mission in the Gamma Quadrant, it seems that everyone on the station has turned against him.

Ratings:
Seth: ☆☆☆☆
Valerie: ☆☆☆☆☆
Ryan: ☆☆☆☆☆


Episode 33: Armageddon Game
Original air date: January 30, 1994
Podcast date: January 17, 2010

Synopsis: O'Brien and Bashir help to rid two races of their biological weapons, however both governments want to make sure no technical knowledge of the weapons can survive.

Ratings:
Seth: ☆☆☆
Valerie: ☆☆☆
Ryan: ☆☆☆☆


Episode 32: The Alternate
Original air date: January 9, 1994
Podcast date: January 10, 2010

Synopsis: The Bajoran scientist who used to be Odo's teacher arrives with evidence of others of Odo's kind.

Ratings:
Seth: ☆☆☆
Valerie: ☆☆☆☆
Ryan: ☆☆☆☆


Episode 31: Rivals
Original air date: January 2, 1994
Podcast date: January 3, 2010

Synopsis: Quark feels threatened when a con artist opens a competing bar.

Ratings:
Seth: ☆☆☆☆
Valerie: ☆☆☆☆
Ryan: ☆


Episode 30: Sanctuary
Original air date: November 28, 1993
Podcast date: December 27, 2009

Synopsis: A group of refugees come through the wormhole in search of Kentanna, their fabled homeworld.

Ratings:
Seth: ☆☆
Valerie: ☆
Ryan: ☆☆


Episode 29: Second Sight
Original air date: November 20, 1993
Podcast date: December 20, 2009

Synopsis: Sisko falls in love with a woman visiting the station, but she is not what she appears to be.

Ratings:
Seth: ☆☆
Valerie: ☆☆☆
Ryan: ☆☆☆


Episode 28: Necessary Evil
Original air date: November 14, 1993
Podcast date: December 13, 2009

Synopsis: An attempt on Quark's life re-opens a five-year-old murder investigation.

Ratings:
Seth: ☆☆☆
Valerie: ☆☆☆☆☆
Ryan: ☆☆☆


Episode 27: Rules of Acquisition
Original air date: November 6, 1993
Podcast date: December 6, 2009

Synopsis: Grand Nagus Zek assigns Quark to initiate negotiations with a planet in the Gamma Quadrant, but Quark's new associate is not what he seems.

Ratings:
Seth: ☆☆☆
Valerie: ☆☆☆
Ryan: ☆☆☆


Episode 26: Melora
Original air date: October 31, 1993
Podcast date: November 29, 2009

Synopsis: An officer who normally lives in a low-gravity environment is temporarily assigned to the station; Dr. Bashir devises a cure that could rid her of her chair forever.

Ratings:
Seth: ☆☆
Valerie: ☆☆☆
Ryan: ☆☆


Episode 25: Cardassians
Original air date: October 24, 1993
Podcast date: November 22, 2009

Synopsis: Garak and Doctor Bashir investigate abandoned Cardassian war orphans on Bajor.

Ratings:
Seth: ☆☆☆☆
Valerie: ☆☆☆
Ryan: ☆☆



Episode 24: Invasive Procedures
Original air date: October 17, 1993
Podcast date: November 15, 2009

Synopsis: A desperate Trill tries to steal the Dax symbiont.

Ratings:
Seth: ☆☆☆☆
Valerie: ☆☆☆☆
Ryan: ☆☆☆☆


Episode 23: The Siege
Original air date: October 10, 1993
Podcast date: November 8, 2009

Synopsis: Sisko tries to prevent the Circle from taking the station; Kira and Dax take proof that the Cardassians are the real force that is arming the Circle to the Bajoran government. (Part 3 of 3)

Ratings:
Seth: ☆☆☆☆
Valerie: ☆☆☆
Ryan: ☆☆☆


Episode 22: The Circle
Original air date: October 3, 1993
Podcast date: November 1, 2009

Synopsis: Sisko and Odo work to reveal the real force behind the Circle's coup. (Part 2 of 3)

Ratings:
Seth: ☆☆☆
Valerie: ☆☆☆☆
Ryan: ☆☆☆☆


Episode 21: The Homecoming
Original air date: September 26, 1993
Podcast date: October 25, 2009

Synopsis: Kira rescues a Bajoran Resistance hero from a Cardassian labor camp; an extremist group calls for all non-Bajorans to leave Bajor. (Part 1 of 3)

Ratings:
Seth: ☆☆☆
Valerie: ☆☆☆☆
Ryan: ☆☆☆☆


Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season One
Original air date: January 3 - June 20, 1993
Podcast date: October 18, 2009

Synopsis: The crew reviews Deep Space Nine season one.

Ratings:
Seth: ☆☆☆
Valerie: ☆☆☆☆
Ryan: ☆☆☆


Episode 20: In the Hands of the Prophets
Original air date: June 20, 1993
Podcast date: October 11, 2009

Synopsis: Orthodox Bajorans object to secular teachings about the wormhole in the station's school, causing tensions between fundamentalists and the Starfleet crew.

Ratings:
Seth: ☆☆☆
Valerie: ☆☆☆☆
Ryan: ☆☆☆☆


Episode 19: Duet
Original air date: June 13, 1993
Podcast date: October 4, 2009

Synopsis: After a Cardassian man arrives on the station suffering from an illness that he could only have contracted at a Bajoran labor camp during the Occupation, Major Kira leads an investigation to determine whether he is actually a notorious war criminal.

Ratings:
Seth: ☆☆☆☆☆
Valerie: ☆☆☆☆☆
Ryan: ☆☆☆☆☆


Episode 18: Dramatis Personae
Original air date: May 30, 1993
Podcast date: September 27, 2009

Synopsis: The crew becomes infected by a telepathic imprint of a culture that destroyed itself.

Ratings:
Seth: ☆☆☆
Valerie: ☆☆☆
Ryan: ☆☆☆☆


Episode 17: The Forsaken
Original air date: May 23, 1993
Podcast date: September 20, 2009

Synopsis: An alien computer program wreaks havoc with the station's systems.

Ratings:
Seth: ☆☆☆
Valerie: ☆☆☆☆
Ryan: ☆☆


Episode 16: If Wishes Were Horses
Original air date: May 16, 1993
Podcast date: September 13, 2009

Synopsis: Station residents suddenly find their imaginations are manifested in physical form; a spatial rift threatens to destroy the Bajoran system.

Ratings:
Seth: ☆☆
Valerie: ☆☆
Ryan: ☆☆


Episode 15: Progress
Original air date: May 9, 1993
Podcast date: September 6, 2009

Synopsis: An old farmer refuses to leave the moon where he lives, even though it is about to be made uninhabitable by toxic gases. Meanwhile, Jake and Nog set out to turn an inordinate amount of seemingly worthless condiments into profit.

Ratings:
Seth: ☆☆☆
Valerie: ☆☆☆
Ryan: ☆☆☆


Episode 14: The Storyteller
Original air date: May 2, 1993
Podcast date: August 30, 2009

Synopsis: Chief O'Brien is appointed spiritual leader of a Bajoran village. Meanwhile, Nog and Jake try to help their new friend settle a struggle between two Bajoran villages.

Ratings:
Seth: ☆☆☆☆
Valerie: ☆☆☆☆
Ryan: ☆☆☆☆☆


Episode 13: Battle Lines
Original air date: April 25, 1993
Podcast date: August 23, 2009

Synopsis: A runabout carrying Kai Opaka crashes on a planet of eternal war, where it is impossible for the combatants to die.

Ratings:
Seth: ☆☆☆☆
Valerie: ☆☆☆
Ryan: ☆☆☆


Episode 12: Vortex
Original air date: April 18, 1993
Podcast date: August 16, 2009

Synopsis: A fugitive attempts to trade evidence about Odo's people for freedom.

Ratings:
Seth: ☆☆
Valerie: ☆☆☆☆
Ryan: ☆☆☆


Episode 11: The Nagus
Original air date: March 21, 1993
Podcast date: August 9, 2009

Synopsis: With the sudden death of Grand Nagus Zek, Quark becomes the new leader of the Ferengi Alliance, but he also becomes a target for murder.

Ratings:
Seth: ☆☆☆
Valerie: ☆☆
Ryan: ☆☆☆☆


Episode 10: Move Along Home
Original air date: March 14, 1993
Podcast date: August 2, 2009

Synopsis: A visiting delegation from the Gamma Quadrant turns four crew members into "pieces" for a bizarre game.

Ratings:
Seth: ☆
Valerie: ☆
Ryan: ☆


Episode 9: The Passenger
Original air date: February 20, 1993
Podcast date: July 26, 2009

Synopsis: An alien criminal, attempting to prolong his life, hides his consciousness inside the mind of a station crew member.

Ratings:
Seth: ☆☆
Valerie: ☆☆☆☆
Ryan: ☆☆


Episode 8: Dax
Original air date: February 13, 1993
Podcast date: July 19, 2009

Synopsis: New evidence reopens a thirty-year-old murder case, and Dax's previous host Curzon is now the prime suspect.

Ratings:
Seth: ☆☆☆☆
Valerie: ☆☆☆
Ryan: ☆☆☆


Episode 7: Q-Less
Original air date: February 6, 1993
Podcast date: July 12, 2009

Synopsis: Archaeologist Vash arrives from the Gamma Quadrant as Q plagues the station and an unknown force threatens to destroy it.

Ratings:
Seth: ☆☆☆
Valerie: ☆☆☆☆
Ryan: ☆☆☆


Episode 6: Captive Pursuit
Original air date: January 30, 1993
Podcast date: July 5, 2009

Synopsis: O'Brien helps an alien from the Gamma Quadrant as hunters descend on the station searching for their humanoid prey.

Ratings:
Seth: ☆
Valerie: ☆☆
Ryan: ☆☆☆


Episode 5: Babel
Original air date: January 24, 1993
Podcast date: June 28, 2009

Synopsis: A virus infects the station's residents, making everyone unable to speak coherently.

Ratings:
Seth: ☆☆☆
Valerie: ☆☆☆☆☆
Ryan: ☆☆☆☆


Episode 4: A Man Alone
Original air date: January 17, 1993
Podcast date: June 21, 2009

Synopsis: After a man is murdered behind locked doors, investigation reveals that the only person who could have committed the crime is Odo, station Chief of Security.

Ratings:
Seth: ☆☆☆
Valerie: ☆☆
Ryan: ☆☆



Episode 3: Past Prologue
Original air date: January 9, 1993
Podcast date: June 14, 2009

Synopsis: A Bajoran terrorist tests Kira's loyalties to the Federation when he attempts to rid Bajor of the Federation for good.

Ratings:
Seth: ☆☆
Valerie: ☆☆☆
Ryan: ☆☆☆


Episode 1/2: Emissary
Original air date: January 3, 1993
Podcast date: June 7, 2009

Synopsis: On the edge of explored space, a new crew takes command of an abandoned space station and makes an incredible discovery that will change the galaxy.

Ratings:
Seth: ☆☆☆☆
Valerie: ☆☆☆☆
Ryan: ☆☆☆

About us




Seth Barker doesn't keep music on his ipod, only podcasts. He prefers going to the movies instead of watching DVDs. He likes reading modern classics, graphic novels, playing chess, and American Revolutionary history. He is passonate about Anime and attends Otakon every year. He is a regular at church. His podcast-editing sessions are fueled by Diet Dr. Pepper and honey roasted peanuts.

Valerie Loveland is a poet and her first collection Reanimated, Somehow has been published by Scrambler books in 2009 (http://scramblerbooks.com/). She enjoys crossword puzzles, word games, board games. She is an outdoorswoman and spends a lot of time running, working out, bike riding, and hiking. She is a fan of rollerderby and likes listening to audio poetry, kiln glass arts, and visiting museums. She sews her own clothes, and has a vintage clothing collection. She maintains a blog (http://valerieloveland.blogspot.com/) and a website (http://valerieloveland.com/).

Ryan Reinert works at the New Jersey Civil Service Commission as a test developer. He likes history and collects of Chinese and Soviet communist propaganda art. He plays bass trombone in the South Jersey Area Wind Ensemble (http://sjawe.com/) and enjoys classical music, especially Shostakovich, Holst, Vaughn-Williams, and Glass. Some of his interests compete against each other: running and working out vs. eating out and ice cream. He enjoys reading (history, fantasy and scifi) and gaming (video, pen and paper, and board).