Book #117 of 2023: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: A Stitch in Time by Andrew J. Robinson (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine #27) This Star Trek novel was originally published back in the year 2000, soon after the series Deep Space Nine had come to an end. In it, author Andrew J. Robinson writes from …
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Movie #16 of 2022: What We Left Behind: Looking Back at Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (2018) An interesting but somewhat scattered retrospective of Star Trek’s DS9 series, almost two decades after it went off the air. The actors are older (and for some, out of their familiar alien makeup), but they and the writers …
TV #36 of 2022: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, season 7 A curiously bifurcated run. The first half of this last year almost seems to sputter, with some episodes that are absolutely up to the usual high dramatic standards of the series and others that represent some of the laziest, most self-indulgent writing ever. (I’m …
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TV #17 of 2022: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, season 6 Overall I would call this the strongest run yet of DS9 — and the Star Trek saga at large, for that matter — although that designation does come with a few glaring exceptions. First is the episode “Profit and Lace,” a thankfully standalone / …
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TV #87 of 2021: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, season 5 Another strong year of life aboard this space station, where an ongoing plot provides important background context for the episodic concerns, where the characters and their relationships change over long-term arcs, and where the local geopolitics likewise continues to develop with a history and …
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TV #69 of 2021: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, season 4 Worf is here! And so is the Klingon Empire, muscling in on the local sector of space now that Cardassia and Bajor have reached a tentative peace. Both the transfer officer from the now-ended Star Trek: The Next Generation and the warrior civilization that …
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TV #51 of 2021: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, season 3 Although the larger plot is still not quite as serialized as I think it could be, there’s promising movement here with the true nature of the Dominion founders, whose threat is best exemplified in the tense riff on John Carpenter’s The Thing that constitutes …
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TV #30 of 2021: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, season 2 I’m somewhat less impressed by this second outing of Deep Space Nine than I was by its debut year. The elements are all there for this show to tell a deeper, more serialized narrative than any previous Star Trek iteration — which jetsetted around …
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