I couldn't remember if Jadzia got killed at the end of season 6 or at the beginning of 7, but when they started talking about how she was going to have a baby with Worf I knew the time had come. And even after her being such a significant character on the show it felt a lot like Skin of Evil. Maybe that is just the offhand way she was killed by Dukat without accomplishing anything. The greats in Trek always die to save their ship or a planet or something. She just got blasted and failed to stop the wormhole from being sealed. And speaking of, this is the introduction to the not nearly as interesting as the Dominion war arc about the pah-wraiths trying to take over the wormhole or whatever. Sure, the Dominion war still has some fight in it, but I recall it getting pushed into the background a bit. One more season until Voyager...
We begin with things seeming to be going well on the station, which means bad things ahead apparently. Sisko gets an award and word has gotten out that Worf and Jadzia are trying for a baby so all the men in love with Jadzia are despairing in Quark's. Sisko also gets briefed on the new plan, the Federation feels ready to attack Cardassia to try and end the war. They bring the head of the Romulan war effort onto the station. It isn't clear if they have convinced the senator, but word comes through of the new Dominion orbital weapons platforms which will be coming online very soon so the invasion is on. Sisko though gets a vision from the prophets warning him not the leave Bajor at this time, but he is ordered to lead the invasion and goes anyway.
Back on Cardassia Dukat returns and is greeted as a failure, but convinces Weyoun and Damar to let him have access to Bajoran artifacts. He breaks a statue and released a pah-wraith into himself. On the station everybody is getting ready to go and Worf says goodbye to Jadzia who is staying behind to command the station. After he leaves she gets the news that it looks like she will be able to have a his child. The attack seems to be going well but the weapon platforms activate and they can't get through the shields. Fortunately they manage to figure out that they are all being powered from one moon and they go in for the kill. But of course its shields are too tough as well, but O'Brien figures out a way to get the weapons platforms to attack the moon and they carry the day.
Back on the station Jadzia is thanking the prophets for letting her have a child when Dukat appears in full pah-wraith mode. She goes for a phaser but he blasts her with evil red energy and she collapses. He then releases his pah-wraith into the orb kept in the temple and it turns black and the wormhole opens and then shuts in a strange way. Sisko collapses on the Defiant, the prophets are no longer with him. Jadzia is still alive when they get back, but only long enough to say goodbye to Worf. Julian managed to save her symbiote though so it is on its way back to the Trill homeworld. Sisko goes back to Earth to try and figure stuff out and ends up working at his fathers restaurant along with Jake.
Review: I know I have complained about Jadzia a bit, but her death still got me a fair bit. It is clear how much the other characters cared for her. I don't remember what happens with the wormhole and Sisko, but I think things may stay a bit dark for a while.
7 out of 10
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