Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

Summary

I thinkStar Trek : Deep Space Nineactually get under one’s skin good before Lt . Commander Worf ( Michael Dorn ) shows up inDS9season 4 . Challenges likeStar Trek : Deep Space Nine ’s inevitable comparison toStar Trek : The Next Generationand uncertainty aboutDS9 ’s blank space place lay out meanit take sentence beforeDeep Space Ninefigures out the type of show that it want to be . Besides successes like Commander Benjamin Sisko ( Avery Brooks ) meeting Bajor ’s Prophets inDS9 ’s pilot installment , " Emissary " , andDS9season 1 , episode 19 , " Duet " , which examine Major Kira Nerys ' ( Nana Visitor ) prejudices against Cardassians , the first season ofDeep Space Ninecan be forgettable .

rough-cut advice to new viewers is that the first three seasons ofStar Trek : Deep Space Nineare deserving vamoose or tramp through , becauseDS9doesn’t really get good untilDeep Space Nineseason 4 . Lt . Commander Worf ’s arrival inDS9season 4 , installment 1 , " The Way of the Warrior " , drastically changes the dynamics ofStar Trek : Deep Space Nine ’s casting , andDeep Space Nineseason 4 represents the escalation of the Dominion War , which dominates the remainder ofDS9 ’s run . There ’s no doubt thatDS9season 4 is excellent , but there are earlier signs thatStar Trek : Deep Space Nineis some of the bestStar Trekthere is .

Star Trek : Deep Space Nine had an staggering run of episode across seven season , but which of its 173 episodes best stand for each season ?

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Character Arcs In DS9 Season 3 Prove Continuity Works In Star Trek

Star Trek: DS9 Season 3 Zeroes In On Character Relationships To Build Great Stories

Star Trek : Deep Space Nineseason 3 slowly builds its own persistence with smaller character arc that try serialized storytelling in reality works in occasional television , and inStar Trekin particular . episode that seem like filler on the surface contain important beats that tell stories across instalment , like Odo ’s ( Rene Auberjonois ) grow feeling for Major Kira inDS9season 3 , instalment 10 , " Fascination " , and episode 14 , " Heart of Stone " ; or the slow unraveling mystery of Garak ’s ( Andrew Robinson ) Obsidian Order history inDS9season 3 , sequence 7 , " Civil Defense " , instalment 20 , " Improbable Cause " , and episode 21 , " The Die is Cast " .

family relationship and friendship set forth mattering more inDS9season 3 .

While the characters inStar Trek : Deep Space Ninehave never been particularly static , DS9season 3 doubles down on the concept of character maturation by keep persistence . Relationships and friendships startle matter more inDS9season 3 , like the way Kira still sorrow Vedek Bareil ( Phillip Anglim ) throughout the season , Chief Miles O’Brien ( Colm Meaney ) and Dr. Julian Bashir ( Alexander Siddig ) form one ofStar Trek ’s best friendly relationship , and Jake Sisko ’s ( Cirroc Lofton ) influence on Nog ( Aron Eisenberg ) attain the young Ferengi set to get together Starfleet . All these small , private story lines act as a test scat for epic on-going plotsthat have become a authentication ofDS9 ’s excellence .

Collage of Commander Worf in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and the Defiant

Star Trek : Deep Space Ninetakes a memorable turning point inDS9season 3 , episodes 11 & 12 , " Past Tense " , a clip - change of location story that could be considered makeweight , but grows terrifyingly more prescient with the systemic disparity that lead to the Bell Riots inStar Trek ’s version of 2024 .

Star Trek: DS9 Season 3 Sets Up Multiple Important Storylines

The Alpha Quadrant Response To The Dominion Matters To Later DS9 Seasons

The Dominion Warramps into gamy gear inStar Trek : Deep Space Nineseason 4 because of key setup inStar Trek : Deep Space Nineseason 3 . After encountering the Dominion deep inStar Trek : Deep Space Nineseason 2,DS9season 3 establishes how different Alpha Quadrant powers respond to the tower menace . Starfleet takes a wait - and - see approach while arming Sisko with the fully - armed USS Defiant , and sends Lt . Michael Eddington ( Ken Marshall ) as a confide protection ship’s officer to foresee Constable Odo ’s authority . The Cardassians and Romulans shape an alinement to pursue the Founders . After a Cardassian public security treaty , Kai Winn ( Lousie Fletcher ) destabilise Bajor with power grabs .

As tension looms with the Dominion , the lineament and galactic powers onStar Trek : Deep Space Nineunravel mysteries and become more tight - knit in hard alliances . apparently disparate political plots are woven together throughoutStar Trek : Deep Space Nineseason 3 , with these different ribbon pulling tight on each other to work the conformation of the overall story . The serialization , complex character dynamics , and intricate political plots that elevateStar Trek : Deep Space Nineare all present long before Lt . Commander Worf ’s arrival inDS9season 4 , and that ’s why I thinkDS9actually gets good inStar Trek : Deep Space Nineseason 3 .

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Cast

Avery Brooks as Benny, Nana Visitor as Kira, Michael Dorn as Worf

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