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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine reviews — season 5

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine — 5x25 — In the Cards

SpaceOpera.com rating:8

Average reader rating:6.81
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Synopsis

Jake tries to cheer up his father, who is overly stressed by the Dominion threat.

Filler rating: not filler

Weyoun's offer of peace to Bajor is a major plot event which sets up events in the next episode and beyond.

Remarkable scenes

  • Sisko's "party."
  • Jake being outbid at the auction.
  • Sisko being nasty with Weyoun.
  • Jake and Nog meeting with Dr. Giger.
  • Bashir lamenting about Leeta having his teddy bear.
  • Nog sneaking into Leeta's quarters and taking the teddy bear as she slept.
  • Weyoun and the Jem'Hadar investigating what is going on in the quarters below them... where Dr. Giger lives.
  • Nog listening to Worf's Klingon opera extremely loud.
  • Nog: "Maybe the soulless minions of orthodoxy finally caught up with him." Odo: "The who?" Jake: "We don't know who they are, but they were after Dr. Giger's cellular regeneration and entertainment chamber." Odo: "His what?"
  • Kai Winn rejecting Weyoun's pleasantries, just like Sisko.
  • Nog and Jake beamed to the Dominion ship.
  • Weyoun confronting Nog and Jake.
  • Jake's time travel story.
  • Weyoun and Dr. Giger hitting it off on the immortality topic.
  • Sisko: "Even in the darkest moments, you can always find something that will make you smile."
  • Morn Appearances; 1. Quarks bar behind Jake and Nog. 2. At the auction. 3. After the auction, walking out with a painting.

Review

This episode is an unexpected bout of brilliance with regards to the writing. Jake and Nog's quest to acquire a baseball card to cheer up Sisko has the unintended effect of cheering up everyone on the station. I love the part when Sisko makes his log and the camera pans by all the major characters Nog and Jake have helped in their quest to get the baseball card. I don't quite know how else to put it, but this is one of those quirky kind of episodes that works really well. The writers managed to make a humor episode that wasn't silly, even when they included Weyoun and the Jem'Hadar directly into the humorous plot! I'm impressed, I must say.