Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 3 created by Rick Berman and Michael Piller (1994-1995)
19 August 2006This season starts well and ends very well, though it did get a bit bogged down in the middle and a little boring. The stories are better when dealing with the Dominion, and the Maquis, and aren’t quite as interesting when they are the more original trek episodes. This season is good because things do get more intense against the dominion, and with Odo, and we do start really getting an idea of the enemy, and the problems it will cause to the Alpha Quadrant. Still good, but not as good as the previous seasons.
REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS…
The season starts with a bang with The Search Part 1 and 2, when Sisko (Avery Brooks) returns to the station with a new ship, the Defiant, which was created to battle the Borg and is overpowered and overarmed and much smaller than a normal star fleet starship, and even more he has brought a Romulan Subcommander T’Rul (Martha Hackett) who is charge of the cloaking device, which is a first for a starfleet vessel. The crew takes the Defiant into the wormhole and end up getting ambushed by the Jemhaddar and almost destroyed, but Odo (Rene Auberhonois) escapes with Kira (Nan Visitor) as he can’t fight his urge to go to his people, and he finds them. Odo finds his race led by a woman (Salome Jens) who want him to join them, and start to show him his nature, but Kira seeks out a local power source, and gets into it with Odo’s help and discover Sisko and the rest of the DS9 crew unconscious and in a holosimulation of what would happen if the dominion made a huge presence in the Alpha quadrant, and start a war with Romulans and going against everything the Federation stands for. Odo finds out his race are the Dominion and he turns his back on them, and returns with his friends and the Defiant.
THe House of Quark sees Quark (Armin Shimerman) accidentally killing a drunken Klingon, but boasting he did it in combat and ending up in a power struggle as the head of a Klingon household and almost dieing.
In Equilibrium and Facets we learn more about Jadzia Dax (Terry Farrell), first learning about a hidden host that means that many more can be joined than was every though possible, and we meet all of her previous hosts.
In Second Skin, we see Kira kidnapped by Cardassians and made into a one, and with her supposed father Gul Benil (Christopher Carroll). Finally she realizes it was not about her, but the Gul was a resistance leader who had his own daughter who was sent in as an agent in the underground. And Sisko must get Garak’s (Andrew Robinson) help to save her.
Defiant sees the return of Lt. Thomas William Riker (Jonathan Frakes) who posing as his clone WIliam Thomas Riker steals the Defiant for a Maquis mission inside Cardassian space. When Gul DUkat (Marc Alaimo) with Sisko’s help realizes the Obsidian Order illegally has his own fleet, he makes a bargain to trade the Defiant, Major Kira and it’s Maquis crew for it’s sensor logs in return for Riker going into a Cardassian prison with a life sentence.
In Past Tense we have the obligatory Star Trek Time travel episode, this one on earth with a transporter accident where Sisco, Bashir and Dax are transported back in time to a dark period in the early 21st Century where people without jobs are caged in run down districts and led to riots that changed the history of the US. Dax is missed, but Sisco and Bashir end up in a homeless prison, at this time, and the man who saved hostages during a prison riot is killed, so Sisco must pose as the man who died in the riots, and try to keep his future from changing.
In Life Support the Bajorans are in negotiations for a peace treaty with Cardassia, but their is an accident and Vedek Bareil (Philip Anglim) is badly hurt and Kai Winn (Louise Feltcher) wants his help, but refuses to help him, and he must even have half of his brain replaced with a computer, so they finish the negotiations but Kira’s lover and the best hope for the future Vedek Bareil dies.
Improbable Cause and The Die is Cast are an episode arc about Garak and the Cardassians, and Garak gets Odo to go with him in a runabout, and they find Garak’s old boss form the Obsidian Order Enabran Tain (Paul Dooley). The Cardassians have joined with the Romulans to destroy the Dominion in all out attack. Garak must torture Odo, and finds out that Odo wants to rejoin his race, but Garak doesn’t give the information to anyone. The attack is a trap, and the fleet is destroyed and Odo and Garak in the runabout are saved by Sisko and the Defiant.
Explorers is a fun one with Sisko and his son Jake (Cirroc Lofton) have an adventure when Sisko finds plans for an 800 year old Bajoran solar sail craft that might prove that Bajorians contacted Cardassians first way in the past. They have trouble, but they prove it and force the Cardassians to admit that they have some of the Bajorans ships on their world.
In the Adversary one of Odo’s people tricks the crew of Ds9 to take the Defiant into a war, and they lose control of the ship, they must try and blow the ship up to stop a war from happening, and Odo must kill one of his own, but hears the message that the Dominion has infiltrated everywhere already, and that ends the season.
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More good episodes than I recall actually, maybe it was a good season after all. And of course it has it’s full course of documentaries on the end that are as good as the other discs, and well worth checking out, including one on Odo and Rene Auberhonois who played him.
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