While this episode might not have the best story in the series I think it is the most fun. While transporting the 'Orb of Time' and a passenger from Cardassia to the station it is activated and the Defiant finds itself back in time near a space station which is being visited by the USS Enterprise... the one captained by the one and only James Tiberius Kirk. It soon becomes apparent that the passenger who looked human was in fact a Klingon agent called Darvin and he has beamed off the Defiant. After changing into the uniforms of the time Sisko, Dax, Bashir and O'Brien beam over to the Enterprise and Odo and Worf head to the station to search for him. While looking for him they must be careful to keep any interaction with the crew of the Enterprise to a minimum to avoid contaminating the time line. This goes fairly well until after Bashir and O'Brien go to the station and along with Odo and Worf end up in a bar brawl between the crew of the Enterprise and a group of visiting Klingons. When they catch Darvin they learn that he has plans to kill Kirk in revenge for Kirk ruining his younger self all those years ago. This means the DS9 crew have a race against time to find the bomb that has been hidden in a Tribble before it can kill Kirk and change time forever. The story is told in flashback as Sisko tells investigators from the Department of Temporal Investigations, as it ends they clear the crew of any wrong doing... although there is one thing that Sisko omitted to tell them which I won't spoil.
This episode was a lot of fun as it seamlessly integrated the DS9 crew into the original 1967 episode 'The Trouble with Tribbles', it even featured Charlie Brill as the older Darvin, reprising the roll he played in the original episode. There are several scenes showing the DS9 crew interacting with the original cast so well that if I didn't know could have believed the actors were really interacting. The episode nicely dealt with the fact that the appearance of the Klingons had changed. It was fun to see the DS9 crew in the old uniforms... particularly Dax; as she observed "Women wore less" back then; she even appears to catch Kirk's eye although given his reputation that isn't a surprise. All in all this episode is a must see for all 'Star Trek' fans.
This episode was a lot of fun as it seamlessly integrated the DS9 crew into the original 1967 episode 'The Trouble with Tribbles', it even featured Charlie Brill as the older Darvin, reprising the roll he played in the original episode. There are several scenes showing the DS9 crew interacting with the original cast so well that if I didn't know could have believed the actors were really interacting. The episode nicely dealt with the fact that the appearance of the Klingons had changed. It was fun to see the DS9 crew in the old uniforms... particularly Dax; as she observed "Women wore less" back then; she even appears to catch Kirk's eye although given his reputation that isn't a surprise. All in all this episode is a must see for all 'Star Trek' fans.