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List Price: $69.98 | | Label: Paramount
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Released: October 7, 2003 |
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MPAA Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Episodes: Apocalypse Rising, The Ship, Looking for par'Mach in All the Wrong Places, ...Nor the Battle to the Strong, The Assignment, Trials and Tribble-ations, Let He Who Is Without Sin..., Things Past, The Ascent, Rapture, The Darkness and the Light, The Begotten, For the Uniform, In Purgatory's Shadow, By Inferno's Light, Doctor Bashir I Presume?, A Simple Investigation, Business as Usual, Ties of Blood and Water, Ferengi Love Songs, Soldiers of the Empire, Children of Time, Blaze of Glory, Empok Nor, In the Cards, Call to Arms.
Description of Star Trek Deep Space Nine - The Complete Fifth Season:
Deep Space Nine's fifth season was a turning point from which there was no going back. Character and information overload took over, and the complicated twists and turns in the build up to war either hooked viewers securely, or sent them away with a headache. The Klingon faction instigated by Worf's arrival was occasionally played for laughs, but mostly their hardheaded personalities made all efforts at diplomacy moot. In the opening episode a chilling possibility is proposed as to what might be: have the Changelings infiltrated already and replaced key personnel? Some fans saw this as a flawed X-Files-style development. Nevertheless it sowed a seed of insidious suspicion, affecting all the principal casts' relationships with one another, even allowing Odo and Quark an opportunity to confess a degree of friendship. Expanding on the new theme of duplication, the crew also made numerous trips to their mirror-universe counterparts.
As well as new uniforms and the milestone 100th episode, Nana Visitor and Alexander Siddig got to comically disguise the arrival of their child during filming. More laughs came from the fan favorite "Trials and Tribble-ations," with CG allowing Sisko and crew to interact with Kirk and a cameo from Leonard Nimoy. Avery Brooks began taking a backseat, partly a result of the now-overcrowded cast. Although Sisko's destiny would be foreshadowed by his first vision and the introduction of the Pah-wraiths, the Captain was in an increasingly sulky mood. Brooks only directed one episode, allowing room for regulars LeVar Burton and Rene Auberjonois to do more behind the camera. Joining them were Alexander Siddig, Michael Dorn and even Andrew Robinson. Available space started to seem hardly deep enough. --Paul Tonks
Star Trek Deep Space Nine - The Complete Fifth Season Reviews:
Another superb season of my favorite ST series 
2009-12-13 - There is a good reason that STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE is my favorite series in the STAR TREK franchise: it comes closest to embracing a serial rather than an episodic format. No STAR TREK series was completely a serial, but this came closest by far. This was always something of a mystery to me, because clearly STAR TREK: VOYAGER should have had this distinction. That series was completely structured to be a serial, with the show having a natural beginning (Voyager's being stranded in the Delta quadrant), a middle (the journey across the bulk of the quadrant), and an end (Voyager's return to the Alpha quadrant and therefore to home). But by focusing on perpetually meeting new races and challenges, Voyager short circuited what could have been its most positive asset. DS9, however, made the greatest use of any of the ST series on the political relations between the various Alpha quadrant empires, and made it all the more richer by introducing the Dominion and the Founders who arrived from the Gamma quadrant. My one regret with DS9 was that it never became a full blown serial like FARSCAPE or BATTLESTAR GALACTICA, but if it had, it would have been an absolutely spectacular show.
Another reason DS9 was stronger than TNG or VOYAGER was that it employed fewer gimmicks involving Magic Science, either using some bizarrely speculative scientific solution to a problem (a device that sometimes crippled both series, though not nearly as much as some other series, like STARGATE SG-1, on which the scientific solutions got so silly at times as to render the show a comedy -- how many times did we see alternative reality versions of the main characters?). For the most part, DS9 departed from this, maintaining a relative realism. The show focused very little on science, but instead on interstellar global politics and interpersonal relations. I actually think other ST series had stronger natural casts, but the writing and format was so much stronger that it more than made up for it.
There were some nice developments in Season Five. Kira had the O'Brien's baby. Nog returned to serve as something of an intern while away from Star Fleet Academy (they never really explained how that was possible, but Nog was a lot of fun as an Ensign -- more fun than as a scamp -- so that is OK). Odo once again became a changling. The only major arc that really bugged me was Dax and Worf. Few couples that I've ever seen on TV had less chemistry than these two, not just as lovers, but as friends. I found it utterly impossible to buy the two of them even as buddies. They simply did not feel right together, had little in the way of fun interplay, and weren't fun to watch. At least I had no fun watching them.
One thing that amazed me about DS9 is how consistent it was from beginning to end. People love to debate about which seasons of what shows are best. People debate endlessly whether Season Two, Three, or Five of BUFFY was the best, and since those really were better than the other seasons, the debate makes some sense. With other shows, there is very little debate. Season Three of FARSCAPE was so good that just about no series ever made had a season that could compete. But one could make a good case for just about any season of DS9 as the best, though in my opinion each season was a tiny bit better than the last. But that was only because the series benefited form the accumulating storylines. All in all, a very good show indeed.
Star Trek Keeps On Rocking
2009-05-23 - Star Trek: DS9 continues to delight and entertain in season V. Story plots and characters are becoming more multi-dimensional. The moral dilemmas that are explored are interesting and force one to think outside the box--this is the one of the many reasons I have loved Star Trek from the very beginning with Spock, Captain Kirk, Scotty, and Bones. The packaging is top quality...ENJOY!!!
Awesome viewing!!
2008-12-23 - Star Trek Deep Space Nine is always awesome viewing! A must have in your Star Trek fans viewing collection.
Deep Trek - The Dominion Invasion and Terok Nor
2008-12-06 - The Star Trek Collection is a worthy hobby and certainly the largest of the television series DVD Collections (The Original Series, The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager and Enterprise). At around 880 minutes, it is 4 episodes (1 Disc) less than TNG, and at least 2 Discs less than TOS. However in total, for the definitive, Star Trek collection, we are still looking at approx 30 boxes with 700 hours of viewing. That is 1 month of non-stop Star Trek. No DVD series comes remotely close to that. Get going collecting right now and build up on each succession over the years. By the end you will have a very serious anthology that defines the word awe. This is the kind of item that requires 1 hour a day of your time for the next few years. It is a cherished memory that served your fathers and will serve your children also. Our very planet, Earth, has advanced because of Gene Roddenberry's admirable concept. Roddenberry nailed the premise of the series when he said that he wanted to create a show with characters that we could look up too. They are like our family. Watch what they do. Then go and spend your life striving for the same on Earth. What engineer, medic, scientist, teacher, worker cannot say that Star Trek has not influenced them? The show is this significant in the development of our species. Parents respect and quote its authority and it is not hard to see why. The DVD case may be the best of the lot. The shadowy design is foreboding of a darker trek inside. The case opens to reveal the 6 discs and a collectors' DVD-ROM of a section of a model graphic of DS9 (collect all complete the computer model). The discs are held in an open (no cardboard covering) plastic flip holder like in the TOS seasons. However these collectors' boxes are being replaced by the new slim line boxes that are cheaper. These are simply a cardboard holder with four to five slim DVD case holders with 1 to 2 discs in each holder (The slim line boxes do not contain the special collectors' DVD-ROM). There are 4 episodes per disc. However the last disc, disc 6 is devoted to Star Trek interviews and trailers with the usual expected extras...and then some more. Often the bonus disc may contain the last episode or two of the season, so watch out for those. Sometimes the episodes are ordered not in the sequence they were filmed, but in the sequence that they aired, however each episode has been numbered according to the order they were filmed in. This means on one disc you have shows 4, 2, 12 and 1, in that order. The sound has also been remastered to 5:1 Dolby Digital! Since the show was shot in full frame, these dimensions are retained.
Star Trek, Deep Space Nine (DS9), Season five is mostly about the coming invasion of the dominion, alliances, divisions and relationships.
The same crew is back. DS9 is commanded by Benjamin Sisko. Jake Sisko is his son. Odo is the station's metamorphosing police constable and a Bajoran operative. Doctor Bashir is the Starfleet doctor and Chief O'Brien is chief engineer. Quark is a Ferengi host who owns a casino and bar. Major Kira is Sisko's first in command, and a Bajoran. Lt. Commander Jadzia Dax is a Trill woman (and a long term friend of Sisko) assigned by Starfleet as technical advisor. Gul Dukat is a leading Cardassian. The Cardassian Garak has a permanent role since season four, as do Quarks brother Rom and his nephew Nog who are now part of Starfleet.
Season Five of DS9 is mostly about impersonations, stand offs, honour, horrors of war, wraiths, time travel, Worf and Dax, Terok Nor, cooperation, visions, revenge, changelings, traitors, Jem'Hadar prisons, holograms, mysterious women, debt, dissidents, The Grand Nagus, Klingon crews, drugs, baseball cards and the Dominion Invasion.
Best episodes are The Ascent, The Begotten, In Purgatory's Shadow (By Inferno's Light), Blaze of Glory and Call to Arms.
DS9 Season five is not quite as good as season four but a few seasons make up for it, however there are a few dodgy episodes that are real misses and almost knock it back a star. Aside from these the series has a definite mature direction almost building up to an end and the characters are fully fleshed out. Since season four introduced the Defiant at least half of the shows have a Star Trek ship besides the DS9 station. It has worked wonders to be able to trek again. Bringing Worf in from season four was also a winner. This season though is darker than four, it has less humour and is heading towards a depressing time as the Dominion slowly flood through the wormhole preparing their attack. Also DS9 is transforming into its former Terok Nor. This is a very interesting dimension and maybe more fascinating than the war itself. The CGI in this season stands out, lots of improvements, lots of space battles and lots of fighting. So it is all about the Dominions plans to conquer the Federation but it plays out slowly and has a bit of a stark ending for the federation but the final images suggest that the biggest battles have yet to come. So with season six we are expecting the real war. Bring on the revenge of the federation.
DS9 - Season Five
2008-09-11 - I've been enjoying DS9 from when it was aired on television and again on DVD beginning with "The Emissary". Each season has gotten progressively better and Season Five is one of the most FUN! Currently, I am re-watching the episode: "Looking for Par'Mach in All The Wrong Places", and enjoying it again! I can't wait to see the remainder of the episodes in this season!
