The Siege of AR-558
- El episodio se emitió el 18 nov 1998
- TV-PG
- 45min
Añade un argumento en tu idiomaCapt. Sisko and his away team volunteer to stay with a besieged unit at an isolated outpost.Capt. Sisko and his away team volunteer to stay with a besieged unit at an isolated outpost.Capt. Sisko and his away team volunteer to stay with a besieged unit at an isolated outpost.
- Lieutenant Ezri Dax
- (as Nicole deBoer)
- Jake Sisko
- (crédito solo)
- M'Pella
- (sin acreditar)
- Bajoran Pah-wraith Follower
- (sin acreditar)
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¿Sabías que...?
- CuriosidadesThe scene where Quark describes to Nog what happens when Humans' creature comforts are taken away is one of Armin Shimerman's favorite scenes he has ever performed on the show.
- PifiasCaptain Sisko is informed only after he beams down to the planet that the captain and first officer of the Starfleet forces there had been killed days earlier. There is no reason this information would have been kept from Starfleet Command or Captain Sisko.
- Citas
Quark: Let me tell you something about Hew-mons, Nephew. They're a wonderful, friendly people, as long as their bellies are full and their holosuites are working. But take away their creature comforts, deprive them of food, sleep, sonic showers, put their lives in jeopardy over an extended period of time and those same friendly, intelligent, wonderful people... will become as nasty and as violent as the most bloodthirsty Klingon. You don't believe me? Look at those faces. Look in their eyes.
- ConexionesFeatured in What We Left Behind: Looking Back at Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (2018)
- Banda sonoraStar Trek: Deep Space Nine - Main Title
Written by Dennis McCarthy
After a trip on the Defiant, Captain Sisko and some of the regulars beam down to a rock set and discover that Vietnam is currently going on there. An all important Dominion communications array has been captured from the enemy, and if only Starfleet can hold it long enough, they'll be able to listen in to all enemy transmissions. Woohoo!
Unfortunately of the 150 Starfleet space ship scientists sent to protect the place, only about 40 remain. Wow, a whole platoon to hold this important planet? This must be a really important planet to send a whole 150 navy officers to defend it. Why am I making fun of this? Why did DS9 writers try to do an ultra-serious war episode and yet make it so easy for me to make fun of?
I get fans like this sort of pushing the boundaries with their favorite adolescent-friendly franchises: what if Star Trek showed the gritty side to war? What if Star Wars showed the gritty side of war? Well in the latter case you'd get Rogue One and realize what a bad idea that is, and in the former case you get this episode and also realize what a bad idea this is.
Here's a writing 101 lesson: episodes like this aren't challenging the premise, they're stepping on it. If you make a fantasy series like Game of Thrones, nobody wants to see a character halfway through it go, "Hey wait a minute, dragons are too dense and heavy to fly. Why they can't fly at all!" And then all the dragons fall out of the sky like Looney Tunes characters who have only just now realized they've run off a cliff.
And you shouldn't want a idealistic sci-fi show about an evolved society to feature an episode where somebody goes, "Hey wait a minute, what if this advanced society is surrounded by belligerent powers and we're totally unprepared for it? All our advanced ethics and rationalism are completely contrived and fall apart outside of highly artificial conditions!" And then all of the Starfleet officers become Bill Paxton from Aliens and start screaming "GAME OVER MAN, GAME OVER!" like Looney Tunes characters who have only just now realized they've run off a cliff.
If you want Platoon, watch Platoon. If you want an embarrassing, self-serious bit of nerd television with a platoon of unprepared future people, watch this. But try not to let any non-fans watch it with you, they'll find it pretty cringe.
- frankelee
- 19 jun 2022
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