Star Trek: Deep Space Nine — 5x08 — Things Past
Synopsis
Sisko, Odo, Dax, and Garak find themselves on Terok Nor during the Cardassian occupation of Bajor.
Filler rating: bad filler
Bashir implies in this episode that Odo is still a Changeling but locked in form somehow. This exposition actually foreshadows events in a later episode, but is a completely inessential detail and not worth the snooze-fest that this episode largely is.
Remarkable scenes
- Quark gently making fun of Sisko, Garak, and Odo when he offered them jobs.
- Thrax laying into Quark just like Odo would.
- Odo cross examining Thrax pointing out numerous flaws in his investigation.
- Dukat: "Bad manners are the fault of the parent, not the child."
- Bashir revealing that Odo still has biological Changeling qualities.
Review
Manufactured danger and generic sci fi lend badly to creating original plots. The bulk of the plot is Bajoran nostalgia in the form of a flashback, which we've seen a few too many times already. It seems Garak is finally out of jail for is attempt to commit genocide though. ;)