Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Season 3, Episode 12Past Tense: Part 2 (9 Jan. 1995)Sisko is forced to take the place of a key historical figure on Earth in 2024 in order to preserve the timeline. Director:Jonathan Frakes |
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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Season 3, Episode 12Past Tense: Part 2 (9 Jan. 1995)Sisko is forced to take the place of a key historical figure on Earth in 2024 in order to preserve the timeline. Director:Jonathan Frakes |
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| Avery Brooks | ... | ||
| Rene Auberjonois | ... | ||
| Alexander Siddig | ... |
Doctor Bashir
(as Siddig El Fadil)
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| Terry Farrell | ... | ||
| Cirroc Lofton | ... |
Jake Sisko
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| Colm Meaney | ... | ||
| Armin Shimerman | ... |
Quark
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| Nana Visitor | ... | ||
| Jim Metzler | ... | ||
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Frank Military | ... | |
| Dick Miller | ... |
Vin
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| Deborah Van Valkenburgh | ... |
Preston
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| Al Rodrigo | ... |
Bernardo
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| Clint Howard | ... |
Grady
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| Richard Lee Jackson | ... | ||
Sisko has taken the place of revolutionary Gabriel Bell to ensure the hostages are kept safe. Not an easy task as he needs to keep both trigger-happy Biddle Coleridge and police officer Vin at bay. Bashir has another concern. He fears for the captain's life as the original Bell died in the riots. When Michael Webb manages to reach the processing center, Sisko asks to look for more sensible gimmes to guard the hostages. Meanwhile Dax watches the news about the riots. She thinks it's time for action and tries to find a way into the Sanctuary District. On the Defiant the crew decides their only option is to send people back into the past. There's just one problem, O'Brien has limited the options to 10, but there are not enough chroniton particles to do them all. Written by Arnoud Tiele (imdb@tiele.nl)
The second part if this story starts there the previous episode left off; Sisko and Bashir are still in the Sanctuary processing centre where Sisko is calling himself Bell and trying to make sure none of the hostages get harmed so the time line won't be damaged. Back in the Defiant Kira and O'Brien have decided that since Star Fleet no longer exists they aren't bound by its orders not to return to Earth's past to search for the missing crew members. They only have enough chronoton do check a handful of possible times and when they are down to their last attempt they must make an educated guess as to which it the most likely time to find them.
This episode was a decent conclusion to the story with plenty of tense moments and rather more deaths than I'd come to expect in the later series of Star Trek, these were justified as the event had to be significant enough for us to believe it could change the policy of the day. It wasn't all gloom and doom; the scene where Kira and O'Brien beam up in front of a couple of hippies was pretty funny.