I'm back! I don't miss very many days, but I spent a long weekend in Tahoe and was away from a computer to watch/write up my thoughts on Star Trek. However I did listen to some episodes of my favorite Trek podcasts: The Greatest Generation and Mission Logs. Greatest Gen is TNG only and I am still in the TOS section of Mission Logs so it is fun to see how far things have come in terms of story telling. Neither of those shows has anything quite like the episode I watched today in terms of building up and paying off something that has been set up over seasons. The closest either TNG or TOS came to a serious war like this is The Best of Both Worlds which featured a large confrontation, but even that pales in comparison to the Dominion war. The Borg only sent one cube as opposed to the combined Cardassian/Dominion fleet of 1200 ships going against a Federation Fleet of 600, and I kinda suspect the Klingons are going to make a last minute appearance to balance things out a bit.
We begin on the Defiant which appears to be in trouble, but it is all a ruse to lure out some Dominion ships which, along with the Rotarran, are no problem for the actually undamaged Defiant. They are called back to Starbase 375 instead of staying on the front. Dax is upset about this and confronts Sisko about not winning by retreating. Luckily he has good news, he is proposing a plan to retake DS9. Sisko takes his plans to the brass, but the admirals are dubious, they fear leaving Earth open to attack, but as Sisko points out Earth isn't the key to the war, the wormhole is. Back on Terok Nor Kira tries to see Odo about Rom, but he is too busy having crazy changeling sex with the female changeling to see her. In his quarters Odo is shocked to learn he has spent three days with the other changeling, he has missed a meeting with Weyoun and Dukat, but she tells him not to worry about it.
Kira tries next to talk Weyoun into releasing Rom, but he isn't interested either. She has a little better luck with Ziyal, but Ziyal fails to convince Dukat and refuses to see her father because of it. In Quark's Damar lets slip that the minefield is coming down in just a few days. Quark tells Kira and along with Jake they convince Morn to smuggle a message to Sisko with the news about the minefield. Sisko isn't having the best luck convincing the Klingons to support his attack so he sends Worf with Martok to try and convince Gowron. Soon after the klingons leave to try and gather support Sisko gets the message about the minefield and gets orders from the admiralty to immediately carry out his plan to retake the station. On Terok Nor news comes through about the movement of the Federation fleet and Dukat pulls a large group of ships off the frontlines to defeat them. Odo tries to apologize to Kira, but she tells him it is way past that point and refuses to talk to him. Sisko and his fleet encounter the massive Dominion fleet and we cut to credits.
Review: Still a bit of a set up episode, but one that works very well and makes me think maybe today will be a multi-episode day...
7 out of 10
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