Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: The Complete Series (Seasons 1-7) (1993)
Jul/0910
Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 01/24/2006
Star Trek Deep Space Nine – The Complete Seventh Season (1993)
Jun/0910
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Deep Space Nine DVD’s seventh and final season came down to loose ends, tying some existing ones together while allowing others to unravel. Symptomatic of the unwillingness to let DS9 go was the immediate arrival of a replacement Dax, though poor Nichole deBoer as Ezri Dax had to have known she’d already missed the boat. Her appearance encouraged last-minute romances to blossom, with Bashir finally getting some action, Odo finally getting together with Kira, and Sisko finally pr (more…)
Star Trek Deep Space Nine – The Complete Sixth Season (1993)
Jun/0910
Deep Space Nine’s sixth season began ambitiously with a six-part story arc devoted to the Dominion War. This was a brave move in many ways, but a sensible one too. Whereas other sci-fi shows wouldn’t commit to showing the impact of war (e.g., Babylon 5), here there were numerous visible sacrifices. Characters were frequently kidnapped and held prisoner, allowing screen time for other members of the ever-growing cast (at its peak there were as many as 18 individuals with speaking roles (more…)
Star Trek Deep Space Nine – The Complete Fifth Season (1993)
Jun/0910
Amazon.comDeep Space Nine DVD’s fifth season was a turning point from which there was no going back. Character and information overload took over, and the complicated twists and turns in the build up to war either hooked viewers securely, or sent them away with a headache. The Klingon faction instigated by Worf’s arrival was occasionally played for laughs, but mostly their hardheaded personalities made all efforts at diplomacy moot. In the opening episode a chilling possibility is propose (more…)
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Star Trek Deep Space Nine – The Complete Fourth Season (1993)
Jun/0910
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The fourth series of Deep Space Nine DVD can be summed up in one word: Klingons! The show’s producers apparently felt beset from all sides. Babylon 5 was a huge hit, as was Star Trek: Voyager, the flagship of new channel UPN. Stepping up DS9’s action quotient seemed to be the answer. Time would tell, however, whether doing so via Trek’s tried-and-tested former bad guys was the best solution. Opening with a special two-hour extravaganza, the new year was immediately unfamiliar (more…)
Star Trek Deep Space Nine – The Complete Third Season (1993)
Jun/0910
Deep Space Nine DVD’s third season begins eventfully, with Sisko promoted to Captain and being given a prototype warship equipped with a cloaking device, while Odo learns where he came from. In the two-part opening tale, this clever gambit is played to hook viewers into the idea of DS9 becoming an ongoing mystery/conflict show. Why the sudden intense change in format? Mostly it was to ensure the show continued to thrive, when a rather greedy production hierarchy fast-tracked Voyager onto (more…)
Star Trek Deep Space Nine – The Complete Second Season (1993)
Jun/0910
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Only Kira Nerys would risk going to war over an earring. With the witty and wise second-season opener “The Homecoming,” the writers started taking chances with the direction of Deep Space Nine DVD–and the payoffs are immediate and far-reaching. It’s the first episode in a complex trilogy involving the fate of the tenuous Bajoran Provisional Government, an extremist group called the Circle, and a legendary member of the resistance whom Sisko believes might be able to unite Ba (more…)
Star Trek Deep Space Nine – The Complete First Season (1993)
Jun/0910
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Of all the spinoff TV incarnations of Star Trek, Deep Space Nine DVD had the hardest job persuading an audience to watch. By all accounts, Gene Roddenberry had concerns about the idea before his death in 1991. It took two more years to develop, and when it finally aired in 1993 reasons for that concern were evident right away. The show was dark (literally), characters argued a lot, no one went anywhere, and the neighboring natives were hardly ever friendly. Yet for all that t (more…)