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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Season 4 [1995]


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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--was 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 Eddington and Sisko's girlfriend 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 at James Bond. But the year will be recalled 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.

On the DVD: Deep Space Nine, Series 4 contains more than two hours of extra features. Although they might all have been better compiled into one long documentary, the sections devoted to Aliens, Production Design and Artwork are, nevertheless, nicely contained. "Charting New Territory" is a 20-minute featurette on all the big changes attempted this year: Worf's introduction, arming the station and being daring with stand-alone episodes. There's also a terrific and candid dossier on Michael Dorn (Worf), ten mini-cameo cast tales, four seasons' worth of episode introductions, and a well-stocked Photo Gallery. All this can be found on the set's seventh disc; there's also the fourth CD-ROM disc, which allows you to build your own station at home. --Paul Tonks END

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English
Region 2

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Synopsis

The third STAR TREK series concerns Benjamin Sisko (Avery Brooks), commander of the starship Deep Space Nine, who discovers the first known stable wormhole--a virtual shortcut through space that leads from the Alpha Quadrant to the Gamma Quadrant on the other side of the galaxy. The Gamma Quadrant is governed by the Dominion, a group led by the Changelings--a race of shapeshifters which counts DS9 crew member Odo (Rene Auberjonois) among its numbers. The Dominion has become a violent force in the galaxy, and the Deep Space Nine and its crew has become the only hope in upholding the way of life established by the Federation. This 7-Disc set includes all twenty-five episodes from the fourth season.
Comprises the episodes:
73 & 74 The Way of the Warrior
75 Hippocratic Oath
76 The Visitor
77 Indiscretion
78 Rejoined
79 Starship Down
80 Little Green Men
81 The Sword of Kahless
82 Our Man Bashir
83 Homefront
84 Paradise Lost
85 Crossfire
86 Return from Grace
87 Sons of Mogh
88 Bar Association
89 Accession
90 Rules of Engagement
91 Hard Time
92 Shattered Mirror
93 The Muse
94 For the Cause
95 The Quickening
96 To the Death
97 Body Parts
98 Broken Links

Watch this space
Review date: 2006-05-02 Rating: 10 out of 10

This has to be the best season of DS9, with it's strong scripts and ever dark feeling this paved the way for the other seasons more darker tone; the best episode being Hard Time where the character of the chief goes through torment and shows the level of acting in the cast; one to watch

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Outstanding achievement
Review date: 2005-12-03 Rating: 10 out of 10

This season sees the cast of DS9 becoming really grounded in what they do, as well as excellent scripting, storylines, action/battle scenes etc. This has to be the best season of DS9 there is. Although some of the episodes are very political, the pleasing acting performances of each character sustains enjoyment.

Best episodes:
The Way of a Warrior 1 & 2
Starship Down
Paradise Lost 1 & 2
Shattered Mirror
Hard Time

Excellent special features make this is a 100% must have.

One ground breaking season
Review date: 2005-07-25 Rating: 10 out of 10

This is where it all begins to come clear the Cardassians have closed their borders the Fedreation is aiming itself to the teeth and the Klingons are preparing to invade Cardassian space.

The season begins where everyone are starting to panick about the iminant Dominian invasion starfleet are about to go back to war with the Klingons as the station has now got its own weapons array with the re-introduction of everyones favourite Klingon Lt Cmdr Worf in the season premire Way of the warrior this is on great season there is a great emmy award apperence of Tony(Kurn)Todd in the episode the visitor in which we see an age old Jake Sisko trying to save his father from a time warp Todd would reprise his role as Kurn later on in the season in the episode Sons of Morgh and the great two parter Homefront/Paradise Lost in which we see that the changlings have even stretched their presence as far as Earth and of course a return to the mirror universe in Shattered Mirror one great season.

It all starts coming together.
Review date: 2005-03-02 Rating: 10 out of 10

This season is one of the best star trek seasons there are, and considering there have been 28 seasons in 5 series's thats quite an achievement. It includes very memorable episodes including Way of a Warrior when a certain klingon officer joins the series and the very funny Little Green Men. And at the end Odo gets... well you'll have to buy it and find out.

The Best So Far
Review date: 2004-08-09 Rating: 10 out of 10

Having been a big fan of the next gen and only having caught a few episodes of DS9 on sky i was never a fan. But last christmas my wife bought me season 1 after running out of Next Gen box sets and all i can say, what good job she did.

If your going to buy just one season though, make it this one, season 4 is the best so far and i cant think of a better series even next gen seems a little flat after this.

Great show, great packaging, great dvd's.

Product Details/Specifications


Artist(s):
Star Trek Deep Space Nine

Recording label: Paramount Home Entertainment
Manufacturer: Paramount Home Entertainment
EAN: 5014437830234
Binding: DVD
Number of items: 7
Format: Box set, PAL,
Release date: 2003-08-25
Number of discs: 6
Audience rating: Parental Guidance
Region code: 2
Running time: 999 minutes
Theatrical release date: 1993-01-04
Language: English (Original Language)

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