Retro Review: Starship Down

[TrekToday]

A battle with the Jem’Hadar strands the Defiant in the atmosphere of a planet, leaving several crewmembers near death. Plot Summary: While en route to a Gamma Quadrant system to discuss trade with the Karemma, whose representative Hanok is already skeptical because Quark tried to rip him off, the crew of the Defiant is attacked [...]

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[DS9forever]

I love "Starship Down"- great early CGI effects, the scenes between Armin Shimerman and James Cromwell, Kira treating Sisko, Bashir and Dax reflecting on their past and Worf's first time commanding. Very well done.

 

[James T. Vader]

We finally have an episode in which Worf plays a major part and he’s a jerk. We did find something in this episode that we hadn’t seen before. The rest of the enlisted men in Starfleet. Miles must be hoarding them.

I laughed out loud when Sisko, lying on the verge of a coma basically said, “nerys, can you stop praying over me? Finish your dumb story about three brothers selling their kava root instead.” Although I did like the end with Sisko taking her to a baseball game. These two have come a long way since Emissary.

 

[hayesc0]

my favorite part of this episode is when kira suggest the three shift rotation later on in the show sisko suggest the three shift rotation to kira

 

[LobsterAfternoon]

I really like this episode. The Worf/O'Brien scenes are great, as are the Quark scenes.