DS9: For the Uniform

         The episode that closes out the Eddington story line that I feel like only existed because Worf showed up to do pretty much exactly what Eddington had been doing resolves in the same episode that introduces to stupid holographic viewer. While I am not a big fan of suddenly having every one just appear on the bridge it raises some questions about the sending part. Do the Maquis raider ships really have all the tech needed to transmit a holographic signal, and if so does Sisko appear as a hologram on their ship too? Same question about the calls back to DS9. I know this episode moves the story of the Maquis forward a bit and even moves the story of Sisko becoming unhinged forward a bit as well, it still feels like a kinda bland episode.
         We begin with Sisko trying to meet with a contact inside the Maquis (which makes no sense, don't they have intelligence agents to do this kind of work?) but he instead meets with Eddington's gun. Eddington beams out and they chase in the Defiant but Eddington hid a virus inside the Defiant computer that destroys all its memory requiring a tow back to the station. As soon as Sisko gets back the captain of the ship that towed him back meets with him, Starfleet has given the other captain the job of hunting Eddington. So first Sisko starts punching his punching bag and then he ignores orders and starts hunting Eddington. Well, technically first Eddington releases a Cardassian only biogenic weapon on a former Federation colony ceded to the Cardassians. 
         So of course Sisko takes the still crippled Defiant out to hunt Eddington down before he can attack another colony. They find what they think is a ship bit it turns out to be a Maquis decoy with a message for Sisko that he is really Javert from Les Miserables. They do figure out where Eddington is headed though but arrive too late to save the colony. Despite being on almost all manual controls they manage to destroy one Maquis ship but Eddington cripples a Cardassian evacuation ship to get them to not chase him. Sisko realizes the only way to stop Eddington is to make him sacrifice himself to stop Sisko so Sisko has Worf rig up some torpedoes to make a Maquis colony uninhabitable to humans and uses it while talking to Eddington. To stop Sisko from doing it again he agrees to give himself up.

         Review: It seems like there should be some serious consequences to Sisko first totally disregarding orders and then salting an atmosphere of a Maquis colony world to make it poisonous to humans for decades. But hey, he caught the traitor so I guess all is forgiven..

5 out of 10