Deep Space Nine - Seeason Four Reviews - II

    
10) Paradise Lost Rating ** Part II Sisko tries to prevent a rogue Admiral from declaring martial law on Earth to subdue the Shape-shifter menace. Basically “Seven Days in May” meets DS9. Damn, I’ve seen this plot in about 50 TV shows. Do liberals producers ever get tired of this Trope? Further, Avery Brooks doesn’t have the acting chops make the overly familiar story interesting. .

11) Homefront Rating **Sisko and Odo return to Earth to prevent another shape-shifter Dominion terrorist attack. Painful episode with way too much Nog, Sisko, and the dull Sisko family. The Guest stars are a mixed lot. Earth’s President has terrible makeup and few acting skills. The Admiral is suitably charismatic but has little chemistry with Sisko - his supposed “Old friend”. Odo keeps this from having a lower rating. The worst thing was “Daddy Sisko” refusing to take a shape shifter Blood test because “Goll dern it, I aint no alien, just look at me, I’m a Chef, Dabnabit”

12) Rejoined Rating **Dax is reunited with a spouse lost several hosts before, and considers breaking a fundamental Trill taboo. Terry Farrell and the Guest Star are quite lovely to look at, but it’s an episode that spins its wheels and goes nowhere. The producers symbolic “Gay Rights” episode.

13) Hard Time Rating **After an alien government punishes O'Brien with memories of 20 years of incarceration, he must return to reality and begin the struggle of rebuilding his life. Well acted, character study. But ultimately just O’Brien torture porn with pointless suffering and emoting. Nice to see Keiko but she needs better chemistry with O’Brien.

14) To the Death Rating ** After Jem'Hadar renegades attack DS9. Sisko must team up with Weyong and his Jem'Hadar squadron to stop them. Surprisingly dull episode. Little plot movement or drama. It’s a missed opportunity. The story contrasts our free-wheeling crew with the Jem’Hadar soldiers. The problem is the JH are quite one-dimensional. They don’t eat or sleep and do nothing but fight. And there’s something off about the DS9 cast. Maybe everyone was tired.

15) The Quickening Rating **Doctor Bashir is pulled into the plight of a society with a disease that was designed by the Dominion—a disease without a cure which everyone is born with and everyone dies with. Sluggish, pretentious Soap Opera Thinly veiled push for assisted suicide.

16) Body Parts Rating ** When Quark mistakenly thinks he’s going to die, he sells his remains to pay off his debts. Unfortunately, the buyer demands Quark deliver his body parts or do the unthinkable - break his Ferengi contract. Better than usual Quark episode, but a one joke comedy spun out far too long. Quark is the best of the Ferengi but he can’t carry a whole episode