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"Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" (1993)Original Air Date:
24 January 1993 (Season 1, Episode 4)Plot:
A strange plague occurs on the station making everyone infected speak gibberish. full summary | add synopsisUser Comments:
Experimental Episode with some Decent Character Development moreCast
(Episode Cast overview, first billed only) | Avery Brooks | ... | Commander Sisko |
 | Rene Auberjonois | ... | Odo |
 | Alexander Siddig | ... | Doctor Bashir (as Siddig El Fadil) |
 | Terry Farrell | ... | Lieutenant Jadzia Dax |
 | Cirroc Lofton | ... | Jake Sisko |
 | Colm Meaney | ... | Chief O'Brien |
 | Armin Shimerman | ... | Quark |
| Nana Visitor | ... | Major Kira |
 | Jack Kehler | ... | Jaheel |
| Matthew Faison | ... | Surmak Ren |
| Ann Gillespie | ... | Nurse Jabara |
| Geraldine Farrell | ... | Galis Blin |
| Bo Zenga | ... | Asoth |
| Kathleen Wirt | ... | Aphasia Victim |
 | Lee Brooks | ... | Aphasia Victim |
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Odo: Unauthorized entry into crew quarters is a crime, Quark. You could have simply asked to use the replicators.Quark: There is an old Ferengi saying, 'Never ask when you can take.' So how did you figure it out?
Odo: You claimed Rom fixed your replicators?
Quark: Yes, so?
Odo: Rom's an idiot; he couldn't fix a straw if it were bent.
Quark: You're right, Rom is an idiot. Remind me to fire him.
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This unusual episode takes a very different look at a standard Star Trek plot - the ship-wide seemingly insurmountable threat story.
In fact, it starts out as a comedic episode following Miles O'Brien around as he tries to repair chronically failing Cardassian technology all over DS9. Shortly after, however, the story takes a very sinister turn as O Brien becomes heavily aphasic and is followed very quickly by many others on the station. Eventually, Sisko quarantines the station, and Kira is sent on a mission of mercy to try to locate the one person who may be able to save the crew.
Brooks and Visitor turn in excellent performances in this episode, and the episode is important in the development of O'brien, Jake and Ben and Kira's characters. And there is a good amount of conservative exposition about the Bajoran underground.
A solid, if not entirely original, episode.