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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
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The Abandoned

  • Episode aired Oct 31, 1994
  • TV-PGTV-PG
  • 46m
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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993)
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Odo tries to change the nature of a rapidly maturing Jem'Hadar infant, Quark finds, whilst Sisko tries to break his son's relationship with a 20 year old Dabo girl.Odo tries to change the nature of a rapidly maturing Jem'Hadar infant, Quark finds, whilst Sisko tries to break his son's relationship with a 20 year old Dabo girl.Odo tries to change the nature of a rapidly maturing Jem'Hadar infant, Quark finds, whilst Sisko tries to break his son's relationship with a 20 year old Dabo girl.
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    • Director
      • Avery Brooks
    • Writers
      • Gene Roddenberry(based upon "Star Trek" created by)
      • Rick Berman
      • Michael Piller(showrunner)
    • Stars
      • Avery Brooks
      • Rene Auberjonois
      • Alexander Siddig
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    • Director
      • Avery Brooks
    • Writers
      • Gene Roddenberry(based upon "Star Trek" created by)
      • Rick Berman
      • Michael Piller(showrunner)
    • Stars
      • Avery Brooks
      • Rene Auberjonois
      • Alexander Siddig
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    • 8User reviews
    • 4Critic reviews
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    Avery Brooks
    Avery Brooks
    • Cmdr. Benjamin Sisko
    Rene Auberjonois
    Rene Auberjonois
    • Odo
    Alexander Siddig
    Alexander Siddig
    • Doctor Bashir
    • (as Siddig El Fadil)
    Terry Farrell
    Terry Farrell
    • Lt. Jadzia Dax
    Cirroc Lofton
    Cirroc Lofton
    • Jake Sisko
    Colm Meaney
    Colm Meaney
    • Chief Miles O'Brien
    Armin Shimerman
    Armin Shimerman
    • Quark
    Nana Visitor
    Nana Visitor
    • Major Kira
    Bumper Robinson
    Bumper Robinson
    • Jem'Hadar Teenager
    Jill Sayre
    Jill Sayre
    • Mardah
    Leslie Bevis
    Leslie Bevis
    • Rionoj
    Matthew Kimbrough
    Matthew Kimbrough
    • Alien High Roller
    Hassan Nicholas
    • Jem'Hadar Boy
    Robert Ford
    • Star Fleet Crew Member
    • (uncredited)
    Randy James
    Randy James
    • Jones
    • (uncredited)
    Mary D. Mascari
    • Bajoran Woman
    • (uncredited)
    Tom Morga
    Tom Morga
    • Holographic Warrior
    • (uncredited)
    • Director
      • Avery Brooks
    • Writers
      • Gene Roddenberry(based upon "Star Trek" created by)
      • Rick Berman
      • Michael Piller(showrunner)
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    • Trivia
      The infant Jem'Hadar appears quite human, and only develops the traditional scaly appearance as he matures. In an interview, make-up artist Michael Westmore explained that was because there were restrictions that forbid applying glue or makeup to an infant. A small prosthetic was applied to the infant actor's forehead with KY jelly, which was easily removed after filming.
    • Goofs
      In the infirmary, when Bashier is administering the ketracel white, he first says he will start with 2 milligrams and then bumps it up to 3 cc's. These are not the same measurements. Milligram is a mass and a cc is a volume. Assuming the density of the white is the same as water, a cc would equal 1 gram of white or 1000 milligrams.
    • Quotes

      Mardah: First rule of dabo is, "Watch the wheel, not the girl".

    • Connections
      Featured in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: What You Leave Behind (1999)
    • Soundtracks
      Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Main Title
      (uncredited)

      Written by Dennis McCarthy

      Performed by Dennis McCarthy

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    5/10
    A Jem'Hadar In The Midst......
    Quick Review:

    Story line #1 - Quark pays an interesting looking alien lady 3 bars of pressed latinum for the wreckage of a ship she found in the Gamma Quadrant. He normally looks through stuff before buying it but because she licks his ear, he buys it sight unseen. Inside the wreckage - a Jem'Hadar baby!

    The baby, a boy, grows up faster than anything does normally.

    Odo convinces Sisko to let him mentor the Jem'Hadar guy. The guy is pre-programmed to be addicted to a substance and pre-programmed to want to fight and kill and hate everyone but the Founder-guy Odo - whom he respects in a worshipful way - at least at first.

    Story line #2 - Sisko invites Jake's 20-year-old Dabo girlfriend, Mardah, over for dinner. Jake is 16. She is a very well endowed (ahem) and mature - like all the Dabo girls who work for Quark.

    Sisko wants them broken up.

    It's too bad she is only in this episode - she is a compelling character. I'm not sure why the writers decided against having Mardah be a semi-regular.

    Also: Odo announces to Kira (who brought him a housewarming gift for his new quarters) he doesn't need his bucket to regenerate any longer. Since hanging out with his own kind he just returns to his gelatinous self and lays around his quarters. To hear him describe it to Kira is hilarious. Kira's giddiness while being with Odo is so over the top it is disconcerting.

    Odo's make-up is weirdly different in this episode. Maybe in relation to him returning from the Founders???

    Avery Brooks apparently said the story of the Jem'Hadar boy is a metaphor for young men of color growing up in the inner cities of America. Addicted, hateful and purposeless in a society they don't feel a part of. As you watch this episode ask yourself if Brooks is right.
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    • Release date
      • October 31, 1994 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Official site
      • Official site
    • Language
      • English
    • Filming locations
      • Paramount Studios - 5555 Melrose Avenue, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA
    • Production company
      • Paramount Television
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    • Runtime
      46 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.33 : 1

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