PATRON TAKES - DS9 S1E18

Pretty decent episode where everyone’s acting nuts

Sisko CLOCKS Kira TOCKing to Dax to convince Sisko to HAND the station to her but HOUR man O'brien gets TICKed off and FACEs her head on which of course ALARMs Odo who GRANDFATHER's Bashir into helping him. It's a B for me, not boring, great clock, wish this was done in a later season. Fun to rewatch.

Good fun was had making everyone except Odo play out another race's conspiracy from long, long ago. I get a kick out of Sisko's 'clock' not getting explained and being left as a weird part of the experience.

A mildly entertaining thriller, mainly for René Auberjonois & Avery Brooks’s performances. Surprisingly straightforward for Joe Menosky.

Fun episode. Watching the characters take sides, while Odo plays them both is entertaining.

This episode has the advantage of not being, "Move along home." Neat Clock.

Star Trek: Deep Shit 9 strikes again!

I always enjoyed this one for what it is. It's nothing really special, but decent. This time I do feel like this is a variation of the Naked Now/Time, only they're re-enacting an ancient power struggle instead of getting drunk off of contaminated water.

A CLOCK!

Attack of another Energy Space Cloud!

I still remember that this episode impressed me as much as 'progress' did. But I can't explain why.

Imagine if TNG's Naked Now was at the end of the season instead of at the very beginning of the friggin' show... and also remove all of the cringe sex shiet. That's this episode. But that doesn't make it all that much better. Still, it's pretty fun, in my opinion, and they made a good choice making Odo the anchor protagonist~

To me this episode makes the same mistake that TNG's "The Naked Now" did -- we just don't know the characters well enough yet, and the characters haven't interacted with each other enough that the odder behavior doesn't really hit home.

Eh...I don't hate it, but jeez, everyone hams it up in this episode as I recall. It does highlight the fact that folks on DS9 do not always have the same agenda though, and that's not a bad thing.

Meh. It’s okay I guess. Not one I rewatch.

if they escape could you imagine starfleet reaction to "i need a fleet to conquer ds9 and take out major Kira, honestly make you wonder why any of officers in starfleet or Bajor would obey such insane orders

Pretty sure this is the episode contemporary watchers checked out of DS9 and decided the whole spinoff thing was a huge mistake, forever cementing their opinions before they never watched again. What fools.

A fairly mid episode as far as it goes. The double crossing is fun, but because we don't know the characters well enough yet, it's hard to really enjoy their personality changes as much as we could have in a later season.

I re-read the episode’s synopsis three times before commenting and I still can’t remember a single frame of it. It’s either so crummy or dull that my brain has completely tossed it. I guess I’ll experience a new episode of DS9 tonight for the first time in 25 years, so that’s going to be fun!

Can you imagine if this was the first episode you ever saw and you thought this was how the characters actually were? That's kind of what happened to me. I was very confused.

Weird episode that I never cared for.

I love seeing Avery Brooks ham it up for his role within a role. I guess this episode is cementing Odo as the Data-ex-machina role for Deep Space 9. Very goofy but entertaining. A tier.

And they say Shatner is over the top. Avery Brooks says hold my hammy beer.

Yet another TOS/early TNG episode crammed into DS9. It's a trend that by this time in DS9 season 1 I find especially tiresome.

An episode with nothing interesting to talk about so I want to highlight how the pacing is improved by having the transporter be at the ops (which is what the bridge here is called) instead of running to another room every time someone is transported

This is the most TNG episode ever, can’t wait till you get to DS nin… wait…

I kinda enjoy this episode just for how Odo, the literal changeling, has trouble with being dishonest

Poor Julian, possessed an alien twice in one season. And poor Chief O’Brien, possessed by an alien about a year after being possessed by an alien on TNG (“Power Play”).

Say it with me, "This would have been a great season six episode, but it's too early for a possession episode because we hardly know the characters."

My favorite episode of the season. Every castmember gets to show what they're really capable of. Odo springing the cargo bay trap must be one of the most satisfying endings in all of Trek.

Easily one of the more memorable episodes of season 1, but let's face it, 80% of that is down to Brooks dialing the unhinged acting up to 11. Kira, Dax and Bashir are entertaining in their way, but that signature Sisko crazy was the main event. At least he got a clock out of it.

It’s a season one standout for sure, and it’s fun to watch Avery stretch his acting legs a little. That said, I can’t help but feel this ep suffers from poor timing. We really don’t know our DS9 crew yet and to see them playing alternative roles would have more of an impact if the show was a little more developed. I’ll give this one a B for “Bring me a phaser! I’ll get rid of KIRAAAAA!”

A lot of people complain about this episode but, having seen the entire series multiple times I can't help but watch it with that knowledge in my head. I do like this episode.

Fun one. Not much else to say.

Avery Brooks plays crazy very well.

Definitely one of those plots that would work better in TOS or TNG it’s fine and competently made but nothing special

Didn't TNG already do this with Power Play? Although now I think of it, not to this scale. Rating: C-ould have been better

Pretty fun episode. I especially love Sisko getting portrayed as this absolute madman

DS9's version of "The Naked Time/Now." Where the TNG crew mostly all just wanted to screw each other, the DS9 crew wants to murder each other. I like the way the 'possession' becomes a way of making actual underlying tensions come to a boil, and it's a great opportunity to see Avery Brooks devour the scenery with gusto, but I wish they gave Dax something to do and that the ostensible conflict wasn't centered around such a dull MacGuffin. Enjoyable ep but also feels like a bit of a missed opportunity.

I have a weird soft spot for "the crew is not themselves" episodes. The actors get to have fun, and I enjoy the chaos. I think this one works because we've had a season to get to know the characters, and the initial stages of their "not themselvesness" are plausibly built out from established dynamics before going off the wall. Any later in the series where these people have potentially worked together for years and this distrust angle would not be plausible. And man, I just want a replica of that clock thing Sisko built.

This one is the worst of the season for me. It's a massive waste of time. If this explored our characters somehow, or gave them growth, that would be different. But we're not even watching our characters here. We're watching random people from a dead planet nobody cares about control our characters, and nothing comes from it. All so everyone can act extremely out of character and stage a mutiny, which is a plot I don't typically enjoy.

Plot forced Character conflict, I think would have worked better with the TNG crew. The clock is neat though.

This is an episode