After a long delay, finally getting back to Deep Space Nine. I'm going to try to stay away from describing the plot and just write snarky comments...
- More Ferengi wackiness in "Rules of Acquisition". Quark can be an interesting character on his own, but get a group of Ferengis together and--blechh! There's also a whole Yentl thing going on--a female Ferengi poses as a male (their society is completely controlled by the males). Finally, we get the first mention of "The Dominion", who will become a major player on the show.
- It's DS9 noir in "Necessary Evil". Odo's the private eye, Quark is the flunky--there's even a macguffin (a list of names associated with a five-year old murder) and a femme fatale (a glamourous Bajoran "widow", played by Katherine Moffat). We also learn how Odo became a "constable" and when he first met Kira and Quark--all via Odo's Raymond Chandler-esque narration.
- After cameo roles for a while, our supposed star--Sisko--gets an episode in "Second Sight". On the fourth anniversary of his wife's death, he finds a new love (Eureka's Salli Richardson-Whitfield). Or--is she--a GHOOOST?? Nope--just a garden variety "psycho-projective telepath" (technobabble at it's finest). Needless to say, the romance doesn't end well.
- Refugees arrive from the Gamma Quadrant and demand "Sanctuary"--and I have some questions. Question 1: when the refugees' ship is in peril, and they are beamed onto DS9--why beam them directly to the bridge? Seems like a terrible security posture. Question 2: initially, the universal translator has problems with the new language of the refugees. How exactly does the translator work when there's no equipment involved? Does it somehow alter the sounds waves in the air? Question 3: Doesn't veteran TV actor William Schallert have something better to do?
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (and all the Trek series) is available on Netflix.