Star Trek: Deep Space Nine — 7x18 — 'Til Death Do Us Part
Synopsis
Sisko and Kasidy plan to marry, but circumstances are not in their favor. Meanwhile, Dukat returns posing as a simple farmer.
Filler rating: not filler
Numerous major long term plot threads are serviced here.
Remarkable scenes
- Kai Winn's vision from the "prophets."
- Ezri: "I wonder what the Breen look like under those helmets." Worf: "They say no one has ever seen one and lived to speak of it." Ezri: "Maybe they're all furry. It's supposed to be very cold on Breen."
- Worf regarding the Breen: "They do not tolerate incursions into their space. During the second empire, Chancellor Mow'ga sent a fleet of Klingon ships to conquer their homeworld and were never heard from again."
- Weyoun waking up a hung over Damar.
- The Breen beaming to the Jem'Hadar ship bearing "gifts."
Review
This episode is most slow in its pacing. A lot of time is spent on Dukat seducing Winn, Sisko wrestling with whether or not to marry Kassidy and ignore his mother's advice or be a good little Emisssary, and the general buildup with the Jem'Hadar ship and the Breen ship traveling to meet one another for the cliffhanger. The slow pacing lends poorly to the episode's overall quality, but it works well as a transitional episode in the growing arc. Now we know what Dukat was up to in the previous episode. He is working for the Pah-wraiths still, up to some evil scheme again. We also know what the big Dominion secret is and what the Breen are doing... the Breen have formed an alliance with the Dominion!