Star Trek Deep Space Nine – The Complete Third Season
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Episodes: The Search Parts I and II, The House of Quark, Equilibrium, Second Skin, The Abandoned, Civil Defense, Meridian, Defiant, Fascination, Past Tense Parts I and II, Life Support, Heart of Stone, Destiny, Prophet Motive, Visionary, Distant Voices, Through the Looking Glass, Improbable Cause, The Die Is Cast, Explorers, Family Business, Shakaar, Facets, The Adversary. Amazon.com
Deep Space Nine’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 the air mid-season (cue unnecessary crossover episode with Tuvok). Of greater concern was ratings thief Babylon 5, which played its counter-Trek cards at precisely the right time. Fortunately the result (initially at least) was a genuine boost for DS9.
Cast members seemed to have hit their stride and played off one another more assuredly than before. For example, Odo’s character took several additional interesting twists, especially in his relationship with Kira. Rene Auberjonois had a very good year, directing two episodes to boot. Avery Brooks had begun this trend with the previous year’s penultimate show. The real surprise was seeing Jonathan Frakes’s name working behind the camera on three occasions, because he also appeared on screen in his alternate rogue Riker role, when Thomas dramatically steals the Defiant. Other welcome cameos that aided the feeling of casual camaraderie included the return of Lwaxana Troi, as well as first appearances by Quark’s mother, the spooky Founder Leader, the lovely Leeta, and the sneaky Eddington. Clint Howard–a cult Trek figure–was briefly welcomed back, and with the many faces of Jeffrey Combs another was born. Stories advanced the complicated Bajoran/Cardassian healing process, while simultaneously brewing potential conflicts far worse than the behind-the-scenes ratings war. –Paul Tonks
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11:01 pm on October 23rd, 2009
The bad news is that after the shows third season ended I got the impression that series writer Ira Steven Behr had started to loose it.On this season Deep Space Nine dealt in it’s
own genuine way with the issues of homelessness in ‘Past Tence” the Sisko father/son relationship in “Explorers” the the loss of a loved one in “Life Support” all without being syrupy-the whole point of the show in the first place.This could also be described as the Jadzia Dax season since she had two major episode story lines.Because of her complex,tom boyish ways she was my favorite DS9 character and in “Equilibrium” and “Facets” we get to delve into the many,many,MANY aspects of her psyce and the Trill culture from whitch she came in general.What went wrong after this?Well well into season four (starting with the
Paradise Lost episode” DS9 just got too edgy and dark-it became negative for negative’s sake and gradually evolved into basically a old fashioned World War II serial later on,culminating in the death of Jadzia Dax at the end of the sixth
season.It went quickly downhill from their so if anyone out here
wants to know what the Deep Space Nine hubbubb was all about,the
first three seasons are the only ones you’ll really need.
Rating: 5 / 5
11:22 pm on October 23rd, 2009
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Only reason i gave him a 4 star is because the DVDs skip in a few places, but i know this is not the venders fault.
Rating: 4 / 5
11:59 pm on October 23rd, 2009
Deep Space Nine just gets better with each season. The characters become more developed, and the story lines are more exciting. I love the spirtuality of the Bajorans, and the alternate universe stories are some of the best Sci-Fi ever written. Buy these DVD’s, and prepare for a great adventure!
Rating: 5 / 5
1:42 am on October 24th, 2009
This series wouldn’t be half as interesting if Odo were still looking for his people seven seasons later. He finds them, and in the tradition of all good storytelling, the fulfillment of his lifelong desire creates personal complications as well as unleashing an interstellar war that provided some of the best TV moments.
Let’s see…we had angst over Odo and Kira. No Bashir romance this season until Leeta at the end. No Worf yet. “Distant Voices” added depth to Dr. Bashir. In case no one has picked up, Dr. Bashir is my hero. I also adore Garak, the Q of the series, and his “Improbable Cause” and “The Die Is Cast” added increasing fascination with this morally ambiguous character to whom jillions of Web pages are devoted.
Sisko became more comfortable with his Emissary role and Kira kicked Cardassian butt as well as putting the ever-marvelous Kai Winn’s nose even more out of joint. However, “Life Support” has to be one of the all-time worst episodes in any “Star Trek” series. Even then, the Kira scene at the end confessing her love for Bareil because “you were at peace with your confusion,” Bashir’s confrontation with Kai Winn (”And Doctor, I won’t forget what you’ve said here today.” “Neither will I.”) and his essential devotion to Bareil’s humanity even at the cost of his physical life sums up what DS9 is all about.
Rating: 4 / 5
3:17 am on October 24th, 2009
I love this series and the DVD’s are great ….except for one major issue… Series 3, the first episode.. the sound and video are not in sync. The whole first episode is messed up. I also found one small same issue on series 2.
It deserves 5 stars if there were no problems. These problems are major and better be fixed. and replaced!!!!
Rating: 3 / 5