Retro Review: Honor Among Thieves

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O’Brien is sent to infiltrate the criminal Orion Syndicate, but becomes too close to one of his informants. Plot Summary: A compromised Starfleet sends Miles O’Brien undercover to infiltrate the Orion Syndicate and befriends a mid-level operative named Bilby, who watches O’Brien seemingly save the life of one of his henchmen and believes O’Brien’s story […]

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[Danny99]

This would have been a good pre-war episode, but plunked down this late in the series run and then to have a follow-up shoehorned into Ezri's back story in Season 7 didn't endear it to me.

That being said, still a good episode.

 

[JirinPanthosa]

I like the emotional themes of the episode but it never quite made sense to me that O'Brien was the one chosen for this assignment.

And I would agree with the assessment that the crime syndicate we see is not believable. Then again our standards for believable crime syndicates on television changed quite a bit when Sopranos came along so maybe it was easier to believe back when it aired.