Product Description Provides all twenty-five episodes of the fourth season of the popular Star trek television program about a Federation space station guarding a wormhol
Amazon.com The fourth series of Deep Space Nine can be summed up in one word: Klingons! The show's producers apparently felt beset from all sides. Babylon 5 was a huge hit, as was Star Trek: Voyager, the flagship of new channel UPN. Stepping up DS9's action quotient seemed to be the answer. Time would tell, however, whether doing so via Trek's tried-and-tested former bad guys was the best solution. Opening with a special two-hour extravaganza, the new year was immediately unfamiliar. Dennis McCarthy's original theme--despite winning an Emmy--had been deemed too subdued. As its upbeat new rendition kicked off, the station was seen in battle and swarming with activity. Moments later, we met old/new crewmember Worf, whose sudden appearance was the result of a brewing invasive strategy by the Klingons. This initiated the first of many loyalty shifts, as the Cardassians became the victims. With plenty of re-appearances by Gowron, Kor, and Kurn, it was clear that an ongoing space opera was being crafted. Dukat revealed a tragedy-ridden daughter; Odo's relationship with his people (and Kira) became increasingly melancholy; and even the Jem'Hadar foot soldiers were given a sympathetic angle by their drug addiction.
Adding to the layers of ambiguity about Earth's (read: the producers') position over being at war, was the "outing" of two recurring characters as rebel activists. Lest we forget the homely/spiritual side of the Captain, time was spent with a future version of Jake, with his father (Brock Peters), and on the nature of his role as "the Emissary." Avery Brooks worked behind the camera a couple of times, but this year the surprise was LeVar Burton directing five shows. There was still time for comedy: the Ferengi warped back to Roswell in 1947 and Bashir played James Bond. But the year will be remembered predominately for its violence. One of the episodes Burton directed had its fight scenes drastically cut, while the series as a whole won an Emmy for its space battle effects.--Paul Tonks
Another great DS9 seasonAugust 10, 2010 Texas Reader 1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This was a great season for DS9. Even though I have watched Star Trek since the very first episode as a kid in the mid 60s, I think I like DS9 best. I never tire of watching it. What's more, I bought this season used and so at a pretty good discount. All DVDs were in great shape well worth it.
Season 4 - When the series jumped the sharkJuly 27, 2010 Vincent(Livermore, CA) 0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Star Trek is about as notorious for its acting as the Star Wars prequels are for its dialog. Not only that, but the writing on this series is so bad, they could've taken all the decent episodes over the course of seven years and condensed this series down to a single season and saved people a lot of wasted time watching this drivel. The final halfway decent episode of the series and the only one worth watching out of all of season 4 was "Hard Time." It's the reason why I'd ever give season 4 a 1 star rating rather than 0 stars. After that one brief exception, root canal would almost be preferable to watching the rest of the series. Here is a character analysis for season 4. I found myself rooting for the Jem H'dar, rather than these twerps.
Benjamin Sisko - Take a wooden log, paint a person's face with a stoned expression on it and you get the likeness of Captain Sisko. 99% of his lines are delivered in monotone with those eyes rolled up under those heavy looking lids. He looks like he's asleep half the time, an effect he had on people who watched him.
Jadzia Dax - By far THE most irritating character in any incarnation of Star Trek, this "old man" as Sisko annoyingly calls her is an arrogant, know-it-all whore. The actress embodies the reason why they generally don't cast Star Trek fans in Star Trek roles, because they simply can't act and she proves it being one herself. Unfortunately though, her ugly mug with those bug eyes that pop out of her face are in almost every scene. Later, the actress who played her was ostracized by Hollywood because they finally came to the agreement that she's a terrible actress.
Kira Neris - A Bajoran who had a big chip on her shoulder the first three seasons has now adopted an idiotic grin for some unknown reason. It's typical however. Studio heads typically have a hand in getting involved where they don't belong, tossing aside years of story and character development just to have a character look bubbly and perky.
Worf - Imagine William Shatner with an appliance on his head, a ponytail and dark makeup and uttering his lines down one or two octaves and what does that amount to? The equivalent of Michael Dorn acting like a klingon. He has the annoying pauses down, but rather than that brief inhale after finishing a line, he does a long exhale out his nose and then his mouth before starting a new one. Every guest star, even some from the original series played much more interesting Klingons to watch. Somehow every time they made a Trek movie he magically appeared on the Enterprise with absolutely no explanation how he got there and why he wasn't helping to fight the dominion. I kept waiting to see how they'd write him in as a regular on Enterprise.
Miles O'Brien - The one redeeming character in all of DS9. It's no wonder he went on to have a successful movie career. For some reason, every episode featuring O'Brien is not only watchable, but exceptionally well written and acted by him. It's a shame that his wife didn't appear more, because she was far more interesting of a character than any of the other female leads.
Quark, Rom and Nog - Quark started out as my favorite character on the series, but became such a one-dimensional character like Worf that I started to admire Rom more. Sadly, his character is all but forgotten in later seasons. Same goes for Nog.
Odo, Bashir, Jake Sisko - These characters just moved into the background by season 4 to make room for the new Dax/Worf soap opera. It's a shame that the two most agonizing characters they could've chosen to feature prominently are apparently who all the Star Trek fans who carry around communicators and insist that you call them "commander" want to watch. It's no wonder to me, considering that the fan favorites of the original series such as "The Trouble With Tribbles" and "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield" are two of the all-time stupidest episodes of any TV series.
An Important Element To A Rather Different Star TrekJune 28, 2010 Andre S. Grindle(Brewer Maine) Star Trek Deep Space Nine's third season was generally where the show found itself as an entity seperate from it's mother show Star Trek: The Next Generation. As it entered it's fourth year the focus of the show began to change. The plotline involving the Dominion begins to take an enormous importence. Since DS9 first premired it's focus,as the Paramount PR department so often reminded us was on a "darker,edgier Star Trek" and despite that we were treated to two inaugural seasons with a heavy tone of religion and politics which I rather liked and appreciated. During this time the gritty element of DS9 began to turn more from social intrigue towards often more violent conflict. We begin the season with "The Way Of The Warrior" which not only introduces another TNG crossover character in Worf but tears asunder the Klingon/Federation alliance that defined a part of the new era of Star Trek. The remainder of the season deals with more or less the same types of issues: lack of trust,uncertainty and sometimes near total dissaffection among key characters of the show. One such example is "Hard Time" which,while very well done as a show is one of my personal least favorite DS9 episodes. The reason is that it takes a classic Trek character,Miles O'Brien from a day and age where the human race has devoted itself to self improvement having an experience that leads him to almost take a phaser to his head. I realize it was an attempt on the part of the writers to create conflict but......let's face it:to all too many people the mid 1990's had a strong nihillistic streak running through it culturally and this and episodes like it really reflect the environment during which it was created rather than the Star Trek universe itself. Now that's not to say this season has no other brilliant moments. One of them is a genuinely touching father/son time travel episode in "The Visitor" in which the popular sci fi clishe is given a unique twist. Another excellent episode this season is definately "Rejoined" which puts the Jadzia Dax character into the possition of having to engage in what winds up,to our eyes is the first same sex kiss in Star Trek and at least one of the first on TV. One hint though: it's cloaked in Star Trek's old MO:"It's happening on another planet". Also vital are "Accession" where Captain Sisko is confronted by an accidental "second emmisary" who seems to be bringing potential ruin to the Bajoran people unintentionally and of course "Little Green Men",a mildly comic Ferengi story in which we're supposed to believe it was Quark,Rom,Nog and Odo who crashed in Roswell New Mexico in 1947 and used an atom bomb explosion to return to their time. Of course depending on who you are the double story of Dominion Paranoia on Earth "Homefront" and "Paradise Lost" may introduce us to the high quality character of the late Brock Peter's Joseph Sisko but also wants to make us believe that after the events of TNG's "The Drumhead" that even in the 24'th century an organization as strong and vital as Starfleet embodies the same amount of corruption as...well again many governments of the 1990's. To those who view Star Trek as a source of hope as I do episodes like this can be a huge buzz kill but even so this is an alright season even if in parts it does rather devide different types of Star Trek fans in a manner of speaking with some of it's content.
Deep Space Nine - a 10June 27, 2010 E. Nielsen(Eau Claire WI) As a lover of all Deep Space Nine episodes, I was thrilled to get this 4th season - just as great as seasons 1-3. I am looking forward to purchasing the remaining seasons as soon as I can.
Best Star Trek Series Ever.March 15, 2010 M. E. Mitchell(California) Do not miss out on this series. Yes it is different from the normal wandering the universe, but it shows more character development. The stories are well thought out for the most part, and there is no lack of conflicy.
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