Star Trek: Deep Space Nine on Virgin1 ending?

[rulerandrubber]

I am watching series 6 of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine for the first time now it is on Virgin1 through Freeview and am a little confused about the ending of episode 2...

At the end we saw Sisko and his crew crash stuck on a planet with a smashed up ship way inside Dominion space, so I was expecting to see how they got out of that situation in episode 3 but it was about something completely different, did I miss something or will we get to see what happens in another episode soon?

 

[Too Much Fun]

The fact that they're able to defeat the Jem'Hadar soldiers at the end of episode two of season six implies that they'll be getting off that planet, even though they're not actually shown escaping in the episode following. Yes, "Sons and Daughters" deals with other characters, but the first six episodes of this season (or series, for you Brits) are all connected, so while other plot lines may be explored as some characters and their arcs are temporarily set aside, all the loose ends set up in the first episode will be tied up by the end of episode six.

 

[Odo You Didn't!]

At the end of A Time to Stand, which is the first ep. of season 6, they've just realised that they have no warp drive so it'll take them 17 years, three months and however many days to get to the nearest Federation outpost, and Dr. Bashir does his computer brain thingo '...give or take an hour'. Then it shows them drifting, right? They crash on the planet at the beginning of Rocks and Shoals, which is ep. 2. You did see them on the planet, right? Hauling themselves out of the water? And then the whole bit with the Jem'Hadar? If not you must have missed the rest of the episode maybe...?

 

[DS9forever]

There was a scene scripted at the end of "Rocks and Shoals" where Worf arrives on the planet to rescue them. It was never filmed.

 

[TheGodBen]

At the beginning of Sons and Daughters the crew is onboard Martok's ship after being rescued and they were dropped off at a starbase. It wasn't a perfect way of wrapping things up but that episode wasn't so good anyway.

 

[SoM]

There was a scene scripted at the end of "Rocks and Shoals" where Worf arrives on the planet to rescue them. It was never filmed.

Yeah, they ran out of light to shoot it, and then decided in the editing room that they didn't need it anyway, and ended the episode on Sisko barely holding himself back from shooting the Vorta as he comes over with the comm system.

They then dropped a line in at the beginning of the next episode with Sisko saying "thanks for rescuing us".

 

[DS9forever]

Its fun to read those scripts. You see scenes that were never filmed like Worf's arrival in "Rocks and Shoals". There are also bits of scenes that were cut/never filmed like Sisko and Gowron's further debate in "Tacking Into the Wind". My favorite has to be the fact that Sisko's entire argument with the unseen admiral in "The Maquis, Part II" was actually scripted, even though you don't hear it in the episode. Now THAT attention to detail is a good example of what set DS9 apart and higher up than the other series.

 

[RyuRoots]

I didn't think it was that hard to connect the dots. In "Rocks and Shoals", the tradeoff in Keevan's deal was a communications device. Our heroes used it to contact their allies and get rescued.