"Shakaar" is an example of the schizophrenic nature of Deep Space Nine, and exactly the reason I find my interest in the series rapidly waning.
We're coming to the end of Season 3 and there are too many disjointed story lines and tones going in the series. Is this show about Quark, his bar, and the Ferengi obsession with profit? Is it a lighthearted family show about a single father and his son? Is it devoted to the Bajoran/Cardassian conflict? Odo's identity search? Is it even about the space station anymore? Unfortunately the writers and producers don't seem to know. Week to week is a crap shoot: sometimes you get tense political drama and other weeks it's Deep Space 90210.
This outing features the otherwise-solid character of Kira leaving her job on the station to help Kai Winn retrieve farming equipment for the Bajoran provisional government. Huh? This is the moral and science-fiction morass which sunk the Star Trek franchise post-TNG. There are too many shades of gray plaguing this series: everybody's right while being simultaneously wrong. Who are we as an audience rooting for and why?
So Kira takes a week off to rejoin her former freedom-fighting comrades, unseat Kai Winn as head of the provisional government and somehow manages to return to work on DS9 before her coffee gets cold. Without any penalty or repercussion. Give me a break.
We're coming to the end of Season 3 and there are too many disjointed story lines and tones going in the series. Is this show about Quark, his bar, and the Ferengi obsession with profit? Is it a lighthearted family show about a single father and his son? Is it devoted to the Bajoran/Cardassian conflict? Odo's identity search? Is it even about the space station anymore? Unfortunately the writers and producers don't seem to know. Week to week is a crap shoot: sometimes you get tense political drama and other weeks it's Deep Space 90210.
This outing features the otherwise-solid character of Kira leaving her job on the station to help Kai Winn retrieve farming equipment for the Bajoran provisional government. Huh? This is the moral and science-fiction morass which sunk the Star Trek franchise post-TNG. There are too many shades of gray plaguing this series: everybody's right while being simultaneously wrong. Who are we as an audience rooting for and why?
So Kira takes a week off to rejoin her former freedom-fighting comrades, unseat Kai Winn as head of the provisional government and somehow manages to return to work on DS9 before her coffee gets cold. Without any penalty or repercussion. Give me a break.