DS9 Season Five (And Part of Six)

[meddow]

Best season yet. By a long way. Season five is amazing. All out with the Dominion becomes an inevitability, Cardassia becomes a threat again, and there seems to be huge emphasis on families, both conventional and unconventional. This post also covers the first six episodes of series six because I got to Call to Arms and I just had to see the arc

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[erinpuff]

I wish Doctor Who would consider doing that one day.

OMG THAT WOULD BE BRILLIANT.

[meddow]

It would. Oh, I can just imagine it - the Doctor running about trying to find something along his own timeline - it would be fantastic (and a great way to bring back all those companions I love).

[eponymous_rose]

Yay, season five! I've fallen behind on my rewatch because I got distracted by BSG, so now I'm all excited to watch this season again.

there seems to be huge emphasis on families, both conventional and unconventional.

I've got a picspam going on this! It's one of my favourite motifs throughout the series.

I wish Doctor Who would consider doing that one day.

...I think I would die of happy right then and there.

You know, Sisko's quite scary.

Definitely. It's hard to believe it at the start of season one, and then just gradually he gets put in more and more impossible situations and all of the sudden the shift seems inevitable. It's really believable that he buys into "the needs of the many" and "the ends justify the means" to that extent. I have a whole meta about how that ties in with having to justify Jennifer's death to himself, but that definitely needs more thought before posting. ;)

Okay, I can't not compare this to the New Caprica arc on BSG. Now that I've seen said arc? Agreed! Definitely. Also, what you said about

[meddow]

I've got a picspam going on this!

Yay! I'll look forward to that.

I have a whole meta about how that ties in with having to justify Jennifer's death to himself

Oooh, yes. There's all these little people who die and cannon fodder spacecraft in DS9's massive space battles. I totally forgot that Sisko was one of the little people in one of TNG's massive space battles.

and then there's that conversation with Sisko about missing his son's birthday

That speech was amazing. Chilling and humanising at the same time.

[calapine]

I wish Doctor Who would consider doing that one day.

*dies a little*

I remember watching the station occupation arc a ridiculous amount of times back in the day and it's also responsible for me finding fandom since I wanted Moar Story and there was the Internets all shiny and new at home.

[meddow]

I would have gone nuts if I had watched Call to Arms back in the day and being left with that cliffhanger. And there those three months we don't see, with the Federation having their butt kicked and Dominion on the station in which there could be so many stories. They could have gotten half a season out of it if they really wanted.

[selenak]

re: Klingons, I forgot to ask the last time whether you didn't like House Of Quark, with its Klingon/Ferengi culture clash which I thought was both very funny and a great character episode for Quark. And of course Grilka is back in Looking for Par'mach. Now, on to the s5 and early s6 goodness.

Trials and Tribble-ations: there is nothing left but to adore, basically. *g*

Rapture: this is where Sisko chooses Bajor over the Federation and really becomes the Emissary. Mind you, this is also where he becomes extra scary, as with being a visionary comes the extra double conviction of knowing best.

Darkness and the Light: quite, and I thought Siluren was an excellent antagonist; if they had made him a soldier, or a sadist who doesn't have the mercy to give Kira a sedative, it would have been so much less of an episode.

I loved the occupation arc to bits as well, and yes, obvious rip-off homage in BSG

[meddow]

I enjoyed House of Quark tremendously, which was surprising because initially when I found out it would be a joint Klingon-Ferengi episode (I do enjoy many of the Ferengi episodes, but they're a bit hit and miss), I thought I would hate it.

with being a visionary comes the extra double conviction of knowing best.

I didn't think about that adding into his scariness, but you're right. He does have that added factor of not doubting his actions.

Thank you so much for the links!

if you're expecting follow-up on this, forget it.

That Kira/Odo closet thing was the biggest cop-out. I read somewhere that in one of the relaunch novels there's flashbacks to that conversation, which is I suppose good, but it should have been covered in an episode.

[selenak]

That Kira/Odo closet thing was the biggest cop-out. I read somewhere that in one of the relaunch novels there's flashbacks to that conversation, which is I suppose good, but it should have been covered in an episode.

Make that several episodes; I would have let them reconcile in a subplot over the next few eps, with them getting short scenes in between everyone else's big plots. The show was already heavily serialized at this point, and it would have felt far truer to the characters than the closet thing. Like I said, it's one of my few enduring beefs with the show.

Glad you liked House of Quark! That scene where Quark shames Klingon machismo by kneeling in front of D'Gor and declaring that having him fight a duel with a Klingon would just be an execution, so that's what they're going to get is one of my favourite Quark moments of the entire show. But I also love the Quark and Rom sibling interaction at the end when Rom asks him to tell the story again just because.