Release Date:July 7, 1998 Availability:Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com Oddly enough, the one DS9 character who seemed to get lost a bit in the series' first two seasons was Commander Sisko (Avery Brooks). Sisko-oriented stories were infrequent, but "Paradise" places the Deep Space Nine station leader in a battle of wills with a strong opponent, always a good scenario for the tough, implacable Starfleet boss (as well as for actor Brooks). The story finds Sisko and chief engineer O'Brien (Colm Meaney) trapped on a planet with a duonetic field that renders all their technology (their Runabout shuttle, communicators, weapons) inoperable. Worse, the locals comprise an anti-tech cult ruled with an iron fist by Alixus (Gail Strickland), a 24th-century version of a Luddite who means to assimilate Sisko and O'Brien into the fold.
The episode looks great--most of the exteriors personify the permanently pre-industrial, agrarian-community look of the place. (For some reason, DS9 always did better with designs for exteriors than either Next Generation or Voyager.) But the big draw here is the head-butting relationship between Sisko and Alixus in the context of her cult's duplicity, i.e., its façade of warm acceptance masking brutality and exploitation. Julia Nickson is very good as Cassandra, a colonist sent by Alixus to seduce Sisko in hopes of turning him. --Tom Keogh
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