Topic: Tom's Random Star Trek Reviews

[Tom]

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
3.12 Past Tense, Part II
Writer: Ira Steven Behr (Screenwriter), René Echevarria (Screenwriter), Ira Steven Behr (Original Material By), Robert Hewitt Wolfe (Original Material By)
Director: Jonathan Frakes
Cast: Avery Brooks (Commander Sisko), Rene Auberjonois (Odo), Siddig El Fadil (Doctor Bashir), Terry Farrell (Lieutenant Dax), Cirroc Lofton (Jake Sisko), Colm Meaney (Chief O'Brien), Armin Shimerman (Quark), Nana Visitor (Major Kira), Jim Metzler (Chris Brynner), Frank Military (B.C.), Dick Miller (Vin), Deborah Van Valkenburgh (Detective Preston), Al Rodrigo (Bernardo), Clint Howard (Grady), Richard Lee Jackson (Danny), Tina Lifford (Lee), Bill Smitrovich (Webb), Mitch David Carter (Swat Leader), Daniel Zacapa (Henry Garcia)

An okay conclusion to this two-parter. Better than the first part.

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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
3.17 Visionary
Writer: John Shirley (Screenwriter), Ethan H. Calk (Original Material By)
Director: Reza Badiyi
Cast: Avery Brooks (Commander Sisko), Rene Auberjonois (Odo), Siddig El Fadil (Doctor Bashir), Terry Farrell (Lieutenant Dax), Cirroc Lofton (Jake Sisko), Colm Meaney (Chief O'Brien), Armin Shimerman (Quark), Nana Visitor (Major Kira), Jack Shearer (Ruwon), Annette Helde (Karina), Ray Young (Morka), Bob Minor (Bo'rak), Dennis Madalone (Atul)

O'Brien jumps multiple times a few hours into the future for a short time each, and sees a new disaster happen each time after preventing the previous one after his trip back.
A fun episodes with an interesting ending.

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[Tom]

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
4.03 The Visitor
Writer: Michael Taylor (Writer)
Director: David Livingston
Cast: Avery Brooks (Captain Sisko), Rene Auberjonois (Odo), Michael Dorn (Lt. Commander Worf), Terry Farrell (Lt. Commander Dax), Cirroc Lofton (Jake Sisko), Colm Meaney (Chief O'Brien), Armin Shimerman (Quark), Alexander Siddig (Doctor Bashir), Nana Visitor (Major Kira), Tony Todd (Adult Jake), Galyn Görg (Korena), Aron Eisenberg (Nog), Rachel Robinson (Melanie), Majel Barrett (Computer Voice)

One of the best Star Trek episodes ever. And also the one which probably moves me the most. Highly recommended even to non-Star Trek fans.
In the future, an old Jake Sisko tells his life story of how he lost his father and how he spent his whole life trying to get him back.

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[Tom]

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
4.07 Little Green Men
Writer: David Mack (Writer), John J. Ordover (Writer)
Director: Alexander Singer
Cast: Avery Brooks (Captain Sisko), Rene Auberjonois (Odo), Michael Dorn (Lt. Commander Worf), Terry Farrell (Lt. Commander Dax), Cirroc Lofton (Jake Sisko), Colm Meaney (Chief O'Brien), Armin Shimerman (Quark), Alexander Siddig (Doctor Bashir), Nana Visitor (Major Kira), Megan Gallagher (Nurse Garland), Charles Napier (General Denning), Max Grodénchik (Rom), Aron Eisenberg (Nog), Conor O'Farrell (Professor Jeffrey Carlson), James G. MacDonald (Captain Wainwright)

This is a fun episode, not meant to be taken seriously. It's a Ferengi episode after all. DS9's main Ferengis Quark, Rom and Nog are transported back in time to 1947 and crashland on Earth and are taken in by the US military.

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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
5.06 Trials and Tribble-ations
Writer: Ronald D. Moore (Screenwriter), René Echevarria (Screenwriter), Ira Steven Behr (Original Material By), Hans Beimler (Original Material By), Robert Hewitt Wolfe (Original Material By), David Gerrold (Original Material By)
Director: Jonathan West
Cast: Avery Brooks (Captain Sisko), Rene Auberjonois (Odo), Michael Dorn (Lt. Commander Worf), Terry Farrell (Lt. Commander Dax), Cirroc Lofton (Jake Sisko), Colm Meaney (Chief O'Brien), Armin Shimerman (Quark), Alexander Siddig (Doctor Bashir), Nana Visitor (Major Kira), Jack Blessing (Dulmur), James W. Jansen (Lucsly), Charlie Brill (Arne Darvin), Leslie Ackerman (Waitress), Charles S. Chun (Engineer), Deirdre L. Imershein (Lieutenant Watley), Actors Appearing in the original Star Trek episode), * William Shatner (Captain James T. Kirk), * Leonard Nimoy (Mr. Spock), * DeForest Kelley (Dr. McCoy), * James Doohan (Scott), * Nichelle Nichols (Uhura), * Walter Koenig (Chekov), * Stanley Adams (Cyrano Jones), * Paul Baxley (Ensign Freeman), * Whit Bissell (Lurry), * Charlie Brill (Arne Darvin), * Michael Pataki (Korax), * Guy Raymond (Trader), * David Ross (Guard), * William Schallert (Nilz Baris)

A really fun episode. It doesn't take itself seriously and just uses the premise of the DS9 crew meeting up with Kirk's Enterprise to great effect. A great way celebrating the 30th anniversary of Star Trek.

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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
5.08 Things Past
Writer: Michael Taylor (Writer)
Director: LeVar Burton
Cast: Avery Brooks (Captain Sisko), Rene Auberjonois (Odo), Michael Dorn (Lt. Commander Worf), Terry Farrell (Lt. Commander Dax), Cirroc Lofton (Jake Sisko), Colm Meaney (Chief O'Brien), Armin Shimerman (Quark), Alexander Siddig (Doctor Bashir), Nana Visitor (Major Kira), Marc Alaimo (Gul Dukat), Victor Bevine (Belar), Andrew J. Robinson (Garak), Kurtwood Smith (Thrax), Brenan Baird (Soldier), Louahn Lowe (Okala), Judi Durand (Station Computer Voice (voice))

The DS9 crew relives parts of the past when DS9 was under the rule of the Cardassians. An interesting plot but somehow not that captivating for me.

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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
5.22 Children of Time
Writer: René Echevarria (Screenwriter), Gary Holland (Original Material By), Ethan H. Calk (Original Material By)
Director: Allan Kroeker
Cast: Avery Brooks (Captain Sisko), Rene Auberjonois (Odo), Michael Dorn (Lt. Commander Worf), Terry Farrell (Lt. Commander Dax), Cirroc Lofton (Jake Sisko), Colm Meaney (Chief O'Brien), Armin Shimerman (Quark), Alexander Siddig (Doctor Bashir), Nana Visitor (Major Kira), Gary Frank (Yedrin Dax), Jennifer S. Parsons (Miranda), Davida Williams (Lisa), Doren Fein (Molly), Brian Evaret Chandler (Brota), Marybeth Massett (Parell), Jesse Littlejohn (Gabriel)

The Defiant crew land on a planet, where they meet descendents of themselves. As it turns out, they will catapulted back two hundred years when trying to leave the planet and crashland there.
Now they have deal with the dilemna that avoiding the accident which brings them back in time would result that the colony of 8000 people will never have existed.
A well executed episode which I always enjoyed.

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[Tom]

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
6.13 Far Beyond the Stars
Writer: Ira Steven Behr (Screenwriter), Hans Beimler (Screenwriter), Marc Scott Zicree (Original Material By)
Director: Avery Brooks
Cast: Avery Brooks (Captain Sisko / Benny Russell), Rene Auberjonois (Odo / Douglas Pabst), Michael Dorn (Lt. Commander Worf / Willie Hawkins), Terry Farrell (Lt. Commander Dax / Darlene Kursky), Cirroc Lofton (Jake Sisko / Jimmy), Colm Meaney (Chief O'Brien / Albert Macklin), Armin Shimerman (Quark / Herbert Rossoff), Alexander Siddig (Doctor Bashir / Julius Eaton), Nana Visitor (Major Kira / Kay Eaton), Brock Peters (Joseph Sisko / Preacher), Jeffrey Combs (Officer Mulkahey), Marc Alaimo (Officer Ryan), J. G. Hertzler (Roy Ritterhouse), Aron Eisenberg (Vendor), Penny Johnson (Kasidy Yates / Cassie)

Not exactly time-travel but it qualifies for me nonetheless. Sisko has visions about being a black science-fiction writer in the fifties. I always really enjoyed this episode. It's also nice to see the cast without their alien make-up.

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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
6.24 Time's Orphan
Writer: Bradley Thompson (Screenwriter), David Weddle (Screenwriter), Joe Menosky (Original Material By)
Director: Allan Kroeker
Cast: Avery Brooks (Captain Sisko), Rene Auberjonois (Odo), Michael Dorn (Lt. Commander Worf), Terry Farrell (Lt. Commander Dax), Cirroc Lofton (Jake Sisko), Colm Meaney (Chief O'Brien), Armin Shimerman (Quark), Alexander Siddig (Doctor Bashir), Nana Visitor (Major Kira), Rosalind Chao (Keiko), Michelle Krusiec (Older Molly), Hana Hatae (Molly), Shaun Bieniek (Deputy), Randy James (Security)

O'Brien's daughter Molly falls through a time portal and lands hundreds of years in the past. When they are able to retrieve her, ten years have passed for her, living and surviving alone in the wilderness. Which of course causes her problems adjusting again to her live on DS9.
It is a good episode. Even though the ending is a little cop out.

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Star Trek: Voyager
1.03 Time and Again
Writer: David Kemper (Screenwriter), Michael Piller (Screenwriter), David Kemper (Original Material By)
Director: Les Landau
Cast: Kate Mulgrew (Captain Kathryn Janeway), Robert Beltran (Commander Chakotay), Roxann Biggs-Dawson (Lieutenant B'Elanna Torres), Jennifer Lien (Kes), Robert Duncan McNeill (Lieutenant Tom Paris), Ethan Phillips (Neelix), Robert Picardo (The Doctor), Tim Russ (Lieutenant Tuvok), Garrett Wang (Ensign Harry Kim), Nicolas Surovy (Pe'Nar Makull), Joel Polis (Ny Terla), Brady Bluhm (Latika), Ryan MacDonald (Shopkeeper), Steve Vaught (Officer), Jerry Spicer (Guard)

Voyager investigates a planet which was annihilated by an accident. Janeway and Paris are transported back in time the day before that accident and they have to find a way to prevent it.
This episode is okay. The best bit is the scene with the doctor. And after knowing how the character of Janeway develops/acts throughout this series, the scene where Janeway gets smacked in the face is somehow funny, I must admit.

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[Tom]

I have added additional episodes to the list. I found out three more DS9 time-travel episodes and I have added time-travel episodes from Enterprise and also the one from The Animated Series. I will get to these after I have watched the Voyager ones.

[Tom]

Star Trek: Voyager
1.06 Eye of the Needle
Writer: Bill Dial (Screenwriter), Jeri Taylor (Screenwriter), Hilary J. Bader (Original Material By)
Director: Winrich Kolbe
Cast: Kate Mulgrew (Captain Kathryn Janeway), Robert Beltran (Commander Chakotay), Roxann Biggs-Dawson (Lieutenant B'Elanna Torres), Jennifer Lien (Kes), Robert Duncan McNeill (Lieutenant Tom Paris), Ethan Phillips (Neelix), Robert Picardo (The Doctor), Tim Russ (Lieutenant Tuvok), Garrett Wang (Ensign Harry Kim), Vaughn Armstrong (Telek R'Mor), Tom Virtue (Lt. Walter Baxter)

I always enjoyed this episode. Although because it came early in the series, the ending is no surprise. There is no doubt that the wormhole they have found will have catch and that the crew will not have found a way home just yet.

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[Tom]

Star Trek: Voyager
2.01 The 37's
Writer: Jeri Taylor (Writer), Brannon Braga (Writer)
Director: James L. Conway
Cast: Kate Mulgrew (Captain Kathryn Janeway), Robert Beltran (Commander Chakotay), Roxann Biggs-Dawson (Lieutenant B'Elanna Torres), Jennifer Lien (Kes), Robert Duncan McNeill (Lieutenant Tom Paris), Ethan Phillips (Neelix), Robert Picardo (The Doctor), Tim Russ (Lieutenant Tuvok), Garrett Wang (Ensign Harry Kim), John Rubinstein (John Evansville), David Graf (Fred Noonan), Mel Winkler (Jack Hayes), James Saito (Nogami), Sharon Lawrence (Amelia Earhart)

I have to admit, that I like this episode, even though it is not really good. sfdebris had a field day with it. But I always liked stories about characters confronted with the future.
What I don't like about this episode is the ending. The crew is given the choice to stay back on the planet and make a new life there or continue with Voyager. Many are thinking about it, but none actually stay behind. I find it hard to believe. It would have been more realistic if at least a handful of people decided to stay on the planet.

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[Tom]

Star Trek: Voyager
2.05 Non Sequitur
Writer: Brannon Braga (Writer)
Director: David Livingston
Cast: Kate Mulgrew (Captain Kathryn Janeway), Robert Beltran (Commander Chakotay), Roxann Biggs-Dawson (Lieutenant B'Elanna Torres), Jennifer Lien (Kes), Robert Duncan McNeill (Lieutenant Tom Paris), Ethan Phillips (Neelix), Robert Picardo (The Doctor), Tim Russ (Lieutenant Tuvok), Garrett Wang (Ensign Harry Kim), Louis Giambalvo (Cosimo), Jennifer Gatti (Libby), Jack Shearer (Admiral Strickler), Mark Kiely (Lieutenant Lasca), Majel Barrett (Computer Voice (voice))

This episode could have been more. The main problem is the wooden acting by Garrett Wang. Even worse is the actress playing his fiancé. She was not good at all and they have zero chemistry.
In this episode Harry Kim travels to an alternate reality where he didn't get on Voyager. It's nice to see what would have happened to him without Voyager.

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Star Trek: Voyager
3.02 Flashback
Writer: Brannon Braga (Writer)
Director: David Livingston
Cast: Kate Mulgrew (Captain Kathryn Janeway), Robert Beltran (Commander Chakotay), Roxann Biggs-Dawson (Lieutenant B'Elanna Torres), Jennifer Lien (Kes), Robert Duncan McNeill (Lieutenant Tom Paris), Ethan Phillips (Neelix), Robert Picardo (The Doctor), Tim Russ (Lieutenant Tuvok), Garrett Wang (Ensign Harry Kim), Grace Lee Whitney (Commander Janice Rand), Jeremy Roberts (Lieutenant Dimitri Valtane), Boris Krutonog (Helmsman Lojur), Michael Ansara (Kang), George Takei (Captain Sulu)

Voyager's episode to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Star Trek. It cannot hold a candle to DS9's.
It is nice to have a crossover to classic Trek by revisiting Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country. But I don't like the story about the Flashback surrounding it. They used the fact that Tim Russ played a character on Sulu's ship in Star Trek VI. Too bad that it wasn't Tuvok but a human character.

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