Apocalypse RisingOminous title!
They recognise O'Brien and Sisko, but not Worf?
I love Gowron's eyes, crazy looking strawberry floater.
A very good one! Klingons are always great and it was amusing to see Sisko & co trying to fit in. Sisko in particular seemed to enjoy it way too much.
In hindsight it was too obvious that the changeling would be Gowron. A nice twist! The ShipMuniz dying was obvious from the second he opened his mouth. Brand new character, being overly friendly with the chief? Yep, there was no chance he'd live. The Jem'Hadar really aren't very good at aiming. Not that the Federation is much better. At one point it was so bad that I had to laugh.
Overall though, a good one! I liked the Vorta (sp?) woman and her attempts to negotiate with Sisko. The distrust on both sides was great.
I think the Dominion was right though. It's not ok to take a space shop under "salvage rights" when the owners are right there.
Looking for Par'Mach in All the Wrong PlacesMeh. This was poor and wasn't helped by following the previous run of excellent episodes.
Was nice to see Quark and Worf
getting lucky and O'Brien really needs to get divorced. ...Nor the Battle to the StrongWhen did Jake turn into a giant?
A pretty damn good one! Putting a more realistic depiction of war in a Trek story just shows that no matter how advanced the weaponry, war is always hell.
Jake isn't part of Starfleet and has zero training in medicine or combat. He handled it well, it's way too harsh for him to think of himself as a coward, plenty of hardened soldiers would have ran (as shown!).
The AssignmentPeople should have instantly spotted there was something wrong with Keiko, she has never been happy before and has never been affectionate towards O'Brien either.
Something I've noticed in Trek is every single time somebody says how long something will take, another character will demand it quicker. "It'll take 36 hours" "no, you have 12!". In this case it might be an
evil energy being (again), but it happens a lot with captains, Starfleet command, the chief etc etc. I'm surprised that their ships and bases aren't completely falling apart seeing as every repair job is rushed.
Also, they seem to forgive absolutely anything anybody does wrong. How many times did Data go haywire or have his programming taken over, but it's all forgotten by the next episode.
O'Brien turns the whole space station into a weapon, sabotages systems and risks a genocide of the prophets and.....oh it's fine, he was just looking after his wife. Rom was great in this episode. O'Brien was an absolute banana split for setting him up, even if he got rewarded at the end.
Despite my nitpicking and moaning, it was a good episode!