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- From: bbs-hrick@jwt.UUCP (Rick Harrison)
- Subject: DS9 review & synopsis (SPOILERS)
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- Organization: The Matrix
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 14:45:06 GMT
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- I went to a local TV station where a friend works Wednesday night
- to watch the DS9 premiere via their giant satellite dish and
- 50-inch monitor screen.
-
- Here's how I'd grade the show:
- story line: A
- acting & directing: B
- special effects: A
- music: F
-
- There were about ten people in the room, we all pretty much agreed
- on the above assessment. The theme music and incidental music
- were extremely lame; everything else was between okey-dokey and
- excellent.
-
- SPOILERS BELOW (altho I don't give away the ending)
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- synopsis: Commander Sisko is assigned to DS9 which orbits Bejor (sp?).
- He is a single parent raising his son alone; his wife was killed by
- the Borg at Wolf 359. After arriving on the station and looking around,
- he has a meeting with Picard which reminds them both of the awful
- Locutus days. The Cardassians have just withdrawn from Bejor after
- robbing the Bejorans of all their valuable resources, or so they
- think. Sisko goes down to the planet and meets the Bejoran spiritual
- leader, named Kai Opaka or some such. She shows him a mysterious
- device, one of several which appeared in Bejoran skies over the
- course of many centuries. She tells Sisko it is his destiny to
- find "the celestial temple" before the Cardassians do. He asks her
- what she's talking about, but rather than explaining, she gives
- him the mysterious device and sends him on his way.
-
- After further research, Sisko and his pal Dax (a member of the
- symbiotic Trill species) discover that something odd must be
- going on in a nearby section of space. There is a cardassian
- ship at the space station, so a crew-mate of Sisko's sneaks onto
- the cardassian ship to disable its sensors so that Sisko can
- take a small scout ship into that part of space. They discover
- a very unusual wormhole leading to the gamma quadrant. Before
- long, a Cardassian ship discovers it too, but gets trapped on the
- other side.
-
- Three angry Cardassian warships come to DS9 wanting to know what
- happened to the other ship. Sisko is trapped in the wormhole
- while mysterious life-forms attempt to communicate with him, and
- consider destroying him. The Cardassians attack the nearly
- defenseless space station. Drama! Excitement! Will they survive?
- Tune in and find out.
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