Series Six gets off to a downbeat start with the Federation doing badly in the war against the Dominion and Deep Space Nine is still occupied by the Cardassians and Dominion forces. Sisko and his crew get an opportunity to strike back when ordered to take a captured Jem'Hadar ship deep into Cardassian territory and destroy the source of the Jen'Hadar's Ketrasel White. Once there they beam a bomb down to the surface. Unfortunately for them it detonates while they are still too close leaving them stranded deep in enemy territory with no warp drive. Back on DS9 Kira is pressing Weyoun to allow the Bajorans to run station security again. At first he bows to Gul Dukat's suggestion that having armed Bajorans on the station would be dangerous, however when Odo asks he he can't refuse... he does have a request of his own however.
This was a cracking start to the new series, I can't think of another which started with things looking so badly for the Federation. It was a nice surprise to find that those left behind on the station were all well and hadn't been harmed, even Jake Sisko was being treated well even though he was upset that Weyoun wouldn't let him send his 'biased' reports back to his Federation newspaper. There was a little bit of humour to lighten the tone such as when the crew discuss the problems with the Jem'Hadar ship; no chairs, no view screen, no food replicators and no sick bay. If the rest of the season approaches the quality of this episode we are in for some great entertainment.
This was a cracking start to the new series, I can't think of another which started with things looking so badly for the Federation. It was a nice surprise to find that those left behind on the station were all well and hadn't been harmed, even Jake Sisko was being treated well even though he was upset that Weyoun wouldn't let him send his 'biased' reports back to his Federation newspaper. There was a little bit of humour to lighten the tone such as when the crew discuss the problems with the Jem'Hadar ship; no chairs, no view screen, no food replicators and no sick bay. If the rest of the season approaches the quality of this episode we are in for some great entertainment.
