{"id":20037,"date":"2022-12-20T18:30:39","date_gmt":"2022-12-20T23:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=20037"},"modified":"2022-12-20T18:30:39","modified_gmt":"2022-12-20T23:30:39","slug":"star-trek-deep-space-nine-season-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/star-trek-deep-space-nine-season-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (season 5)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{5\/5} &#8220;&#8216;This is the fourth assassination attempt I&#8217;ve survived.&#8217; &#8216;You should find another job.'&#8221; &#8212; Dukat &amp; Dax, in the past<\/p>\n<p><strong>Star Trek: Deep Space Nine<\/strong> season 5, aired in 1996-97<\/p>\n<p>Odo has been punished by the Founders because he killed one of them &#8212; he&#8217;s now a solid. The Klingons have declared war on the Federation. But when Odo was in the Great Link he learned something &#8212; 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&#8217;Brien, and Odo look like Klingons so they can accompany Worf to complete the mission &#8212; they&#8217;ll also need Dukat&#8217;s help.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s another stellar season, with some serious episodes and some funny, focusing on all your favourite characters.<\/p>\n<p>The biggest change in the ongoing story is Cardassia aligning itself with the Dominion.<\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;s dismay. We also find out that Enabran Tain was Garak&#8217;s father.<\/p>\n<p>In &#8220;Looking for Par&#8217;Mach in All the Wrong Places&#8221; Quark pursues the Klingon woman Grilka, who he was technically married to. In &#8220;Nor the Battle to the Strong&#8221; Jake goes with Dr. Bashir to a hospital where wounded from the war with the Klingons are being cared for. In &#8220;The Assignment&#8221; O&#8217;Brien is forced to work on something that will destroy the wormhole by a being who has taken over Keiko&#8217;s body. In &#8220;Things Past&#8221; Odo is investigating a murder when the Cardassians are in charge of the station.<\/p>\n<p>As for &#8220;Trials and Tribble-ations,&#8221; it is a singular treasure &#8212; it gloriously revisits the &#8220;Trouble with Tribbles&#8221; episode from <strong>TOS<\/strong> with a <strong>Forrest Gump<\/strong>-style insertion of Sisko and crew into the old footage.<\/p>\n<p>Guest star Robert Picardo reprises his role of Dr. Lewis Zimmerman, and briefly the EMH, from <strong>Voyager<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Kenneth Marshall plays Eddington, Chase Masterson plays Leeta, and Penny Johnson Jerald plays Kasidy Yates.<\/p>\n<p>This is the 2nd time I&#8217;ve seen it.<\/p>\n<p>I previously reviewed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/star-trek-deep-space-nine-season-4\/\">season 4<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{5\/5} &#8220;&#8216;This is the fourth assassination attempt I&#8217;ve survived.&#8217; &#8216;You should find another job.&#8217;&#8221; &#8212; Dukat &amp; 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 &#8212; he&#8217;s now a solid. 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