Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (season 5)
{5/5} “‘This is the fourth assassination attempt I’ve survived.’ ‘You should find another job.'” — Dukat & Dax, in the past
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine season 5, aired in 1996-97
Odo has been punished by the Founders because he killed one of them — he’s now a solid. The Klingons have declared war on the Federation. But when Odo was in the Great Link he learned something — Chancellor Gowron is being impersonated by a Changeling. Starfleet sends Captain Sisko to Klingon space to try to do something about Gowron. Dr. Bashir makes Sisko, O’Brien, and Odo look like Klingons so they can accompany Worf to complete the mission — they’ll also need Dukat’s help.
It’s another stellar season, with some serious episodes and some funny, focusing on all your favourite characters.
The biggest change in the ongoing story is Cardassia aligning itself with the Dominion.
Dax and Worf get together, Rom and Leeta get together, Grand Nagus Zek and Ishka get together, and a version of Odo who lived 200 more years reveals his feelings to Kira. Garak and Ziyal get together, much to Dukat’s dismay. We also find out that Enabran Tain was Garak’s father.
In “Looking for Par’Mach in All the Wrong Places” Quark pursues the Klingon woman Grilka, who he was technically married to. In “Nor the Battle to the Strong” Jake goes with Dr. Bashir to a hospital where wounded from the war with the Klingons are being cared for. In “The Assignment” O’Brien is forced to work on something that will destroy the wormhole by a being who has taken over Keiko’s body. In “Things Past” Odo is investigating a murder when the Cardassians are in charge of the station.
As for “Trials and Tribble-ations,” it is a singular treasure — it gloriously revisits the “Trouble with Tribbles” episode from TOS with a Forrest Gump-style insertion of Sisko and crew into the old footage.
Guest star Robert Picardo reprises his role of Dr. Lewis Zimmerman, and briefly the EMH, from Voyager.
Kenneth Marshall plays Eddington, Chase Masterson plays Leeta, and Penny Johnson Jerald plays Kasidy Yates.
This is the 2nd time I’ve seen it.
I previously reviewed season 4.