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Deep Space Nine: The Final Chapter 3: Strange Bedfellows Weyoun has Worf and Ezri put in the same cell on the Dominion ship for the trip back to Cardassia.  After struggling to maintain her form the female Founder enters and addresses the Breen leader Thot Gor about the alliance and a formal treaty which will allow them to eliminate the Federation alliance.  Reading the treaty Damar is outraged that the Dominion is handing over Cardassian planets to the Breen without his knowledge.  Weyoun shuts him down, ordering him to sign the treaty without reading the fine print, saying that the big picture, wiping out the Federation is more important.  Seething, Damar wants reinforcements sent to Septimus III, currently under siege by Klingons.  Weyoun promises that Septimus III will be dealt with.  On DS9 Martok and Sisko finish talking about war plans and turn to talking about Sisko's new marriage to Kasidy.  Martok likens marriage to a "long, grueling, intoxic...

Dark Secrets: A Fan Story The Year 2488 Stardate 165422.7 USS Pike.  NCC-118929.  Eclipse Class long range deep space explorer. During a deep space long range exploration of the Beta Quadrant the USS Pike discovered a colony of humans on a planet called Terralysium approximately 51000 lightyears from Earth.  The crew began investigating, their away teams discovered that these humans ancestors were brought to this planet during WWIII in the 21st century.  They also discovered evidence of a previous visit to this planet by a Starfleet ship in the 23rd century, specifically a USS Discovery and Captain Christopher Pike visiting in 2258.  Being totally unable to reconcile this with historical records Captain Martin contacted Starfleet with this information.   In a nondescript office three people looked at the central holographic display showing the data sent back by the USS Pike regarding their discovery.  A dark skinned human with grey hair shook his ...

Thoughts on Fan Reaction to Starfleet Academy WARNING: Strong, Frank Language I need to talk about this.  The fan reaction to Starfleet Academy is totally ridiculous.  Not liking a show is fine.  Don't watch it.  Way too often of late so-called fans post online on social media, Youtube videos, etc. their disdain for the series, the direction the franchise is going, Alex Kurtzman and so on.  Guess what: NO ONE IS FORCING YOU TO WATCH THE SHOW.  If you really don't like it, do what I did: don't watch it and wait for the fourth season of SNW.  In the meantime shut up about the show, it's "wokeness" (when has Star Trek ever not been "woke' or had a progressive, so-called "woke" agenda?), its teens in school storyline and characters (what were you expecting from a Starfleet Academy show?) and its LGBT, unconventional characters.  So what if the Klingon character is gay?  Garak the Cardassian was obviously gay, Lura Thok, the half Jem'hadar ha...

Deep Space Nine: The Final Chapter 2: 'Til Death Do Us Part While explaining his Prophet vision to Jake, Sisko gets a surprise visit from Kai Winn, who offers to perform the wedding ceremony.  Sisko tells Winn about his vision, except for the Prophets warning him not to wed.  Before going to her guest quarters Winn has what she believes is her first ever Prophet vision, the Prophets say that the Emissary has faltered and she must bring about "the Restoration of Bajor".  They also tell her to wait for a guide who will carry the "wisdom of the land".  While Worf and Dax remain imprisoned on the Breen ship, on Cardassia Weyoun tells a heavily hung over Damar to prepare to leave but does not tell him where they are going.  He also tells Damar that he knows about Dukat's visit.  Damar later meets with Dukat to give him forged ID documents.  Dukat points out how Weyoun is controlling Damar and says that Damar needs to be a strong leader for Cardassia.  ...

JC's Guide to the Final Frontier Volume II  More glib, blunt and possibly politically incorrect musings on the final frontier: Unluckiest in Love Possibly the unluckily man in the Galaxy when it comes to women is a certain eternally mono-piped ops officer on the intrepid starship Voyager.  Out of politeness I won't say his name, but it rhymes with "Harry Kim".  Among his failed exploits: a holodeck character puppeted by an alien, an ex-Borg, the wrong Delaney twin, a women from a xenophobic species (including sex without medical clearance, he got reprimanded for that one) a resurrected dead crewmember, and a group of life-sucking Taresian bridezillas.  This guy has even less luck with the opposite sex than Geordi LaForge.  Stranger Things Sir Arthur Eddington (no relation to Maquis leader Michael-we hope) once said: "Not only is the Universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine".  True.  Look at the time women from Sigma Draconi...

Timeline Update I have updated the  32nd Century Timeline  post to reflect Starfleet Academy season 1 episode 10, which established that the main characters are part of the class of 3196.  Assuming a four-year program, this places season 1 in 3192-3193.

Deep Space Nine: The Final Chapter 1: Penumbra On a calm evening Sisko shows Kasidy images of the land he just purchased on Bajor and tells her of his plans to build a house there once the war is over.  They also discuss the revelation that Sisko's mother was inhabited by a Prophet who arranged his birth.  In the replimat Kira informs O'Brien, Bashir and Ezri that Worf is missing in combat, the Klingon ship he was commanding near the badlands was ambushed and destroyed by Jem'Hadar.  Worf was not aboard any of the six recovered escape pods.  After a fruitless three day search the Defiant is forced to return to DS9, Dominion ships have been detected in the area.  Ezri, still haunted and confused by Dax's (Jadzia's) feelings for Worf, steals the runabout USS Gander to search for Worf on her own.  Sisko orders her to return to the station, but takes no direct action to bring her back, knowing that if anyone can find Worf, it's Dax.  Arriving at the badlan...

Episode Spotlight DS9's Duet On a seemingly run of the mill day on Deep Space Nine (at least as much as a day on Deep Space Nine can be run of the mill...) a freighter contacts Ops to dock and reports that they have passenger aboard needing medical attention for Kalla-Nohra syndrome.  The passenger is beamed to the infirmary and Kira asks to go see them, saying that the only known cases of the condition are from victims of a mining accident at Gallitep, a forced labor that she helped liberate in the resistance.  Arriving at the infirmary she is shocked to see that the patient is a Cardassian.  She calls security and orders Odo to lock him up in a security cell.  In Sisko's office Odo reports that despite Kira's claim of the Cardassian Aamin Marritza being a war criminal he cannot find his name on any official list.  Kira says that she doesn't care whether or not Marritza's listed, and emotionally describes the horrific brutal conditions at Gallitep.  Sisko ...

Coming Soon Episode by episode break downs and analyses of Deep Space Nine's 10 episode Final Chapter arc (Penumbra through What You Leave Behind)