Dax gets captured by some aliens and Bashir attempts to fend them off but fails in the cold opening.
D.C. Fontana wrote the teleplay, interesting. She wrote some of the original series and Next Generation, though a teleplay credit means she converted someone else’s story to a television script.
The station crew is trying to prevent the kidnappers kidnappers escape, but unsurprisingly failed. Neat looking ship the kidnappers have, I think it was used in a few Next Generation episodes. I know it’s in the CCG. Wow, the tractor beam worked to reel the kidnappers back in, that did surprise me.
Somehow this is supposed to be a legit extradition?? You don’t just kidnap someone, that’s not how extradition works.
I’d have thrown them off the station for that, and not even considered their extradition, forcing them to send a new request. There’s no way the Federation would allow arbitrary kidnapping.
Good, Bajoran authority seems to be prevailing here, denying the kidnapping. I say good because it gets the audience what we want, but it’s legally the right move anyway.
“Which not only compromised Bajoran security, but also … annoys us.” says Kira in a very good Kirk style. Not just the words and the inflection, but the cadence, too.
So they’re going to have an extradition hearing, fair enough except for the whole kidnapping thing! But we’d still be here anyway once a proper request was made.
For whatever reason they’re planning on having the hearing in the Prommenade. It’s a small station (by my perception) and they’re being cheap on sets.
In order to use the Prommenade and there are some sort of weird building regulations governing the station which is very weird. I would think no one would be able to “construct” anything on a station of this size without a station authority approving it in the first place. That’s not how it would work. At all. I guess they could have used some sort of sanitation codes or something. Whatever, it’s stupid, moving on.
After Quark relents to government strong-arming we can proceed. I’ll admit that I probably enjoyed the smack down Odo puts on Quark when I watched this the first time, and it gets us where we need to be plot wise, but my desires for limited government are screaming inside, despite my opinion that any “building” on the station should be centrally controlled.
The case hinges on whether Jadzia is the same person as Kurzon. I think she clearly Isn’t, but also that legality should have been Established on Trill a long time ago.
Odo was sent to Klystron IV [1] to spy… err, Investigate.
So the prosecution has evidence that the defense isn’t privy to? I know this isn’t the US here but someone hasn’t seen My Cousin Vinny, which came out in 1992, so they totally could have.
The general’s wife was surprised to learn of Kurzon’s passing.
Getting a lot of good exposition from our expert witness. some interesting arguments that I might have argued differently. Not sure if I really want to go into the minutia of it, though.
Kira’s a sir, heh.
Kirzon was having an affair with the general’s wife.
For someone who wanted to wrap things up
quickly she’s ordering a lot of recesses.
So, the general’s wife vindicates Dax. The End.
Final Grade: C+
This episode was kind of slow and boring, but the drama was good. We got some more philosophical stuff with the Trill existence, which is fascinating. I’m not sure if we had any real conclusion or not with regard to the philosophical issues, but at least it wasn’t too preachy.
1. Incorrect spelling but I like it better my way.