So there's this guy, Martus. He's a visitor on Deep Space Nine with several key characteristics: charisma, charm, a chiseled jawline, and a smile you could see from the other side of the wormhole. This of course requires that he be a slimy con artist, and Odo wastes no time sending him to the slammer. Odo's been on a bit of a hot streak, 'cuz the jail overpopulation means Martus has a cellmate! His cellmate is that guy from "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead," marvelling at how often he's losing this coin flip machine. But then he wins, and his prize appears to be "Becoming Dead." In a galaxy filled with sci-fi death-gizmos, Martus wastes no time pushing what appears to be the "Maybe Die" button, but comes out unscathed. In fact, things seem to be looking up as he is released from jail.

Meanwhile, following Starfleet Procedure, Dr. Bashir is called in to investigate the mysterious death of that inmate on DS9... oh, wait, actually he's off the clock right now. Eh, we probably don't need to worry about that guy. Anyway, Bashir's calendar is flipped to "Wipe O'Brien into a pile of space mush," as the two are engaged in match after match of Hyper-4-Dimensional Racquetball. It plays just like regular racquetball, but with bullseye's and angles, and maybe lasers or something. It plays exactly like the Dodgeball movie - O'Brien in his college sweatshirt getting dumpstered by Bashir in his Globo-Gym Underarmor. Bashir prescribes 40 cc's of "Getting Served," and O'Brien is Pissed! Bashir's a twerp, he shouldn't be better than him! It's just 'cuz he's rusty, and definitely not 'cuz he's old, dammit!

O'Brien may be out of sorts, but Martus is hitting it big! He's courting a widow to swindle a bunch of space money, he opened a "Marty's" right across the hall from "Quark's", and all the rage seems to be this light up push the button win or lose gizmo. Satisfied that it isn't going to kill his clients, he's gone all in on the flashy light technology, and it's a bet that is paying off BIG. (Even though this is an objectively awful game - it's a slot machine without the thrill of getting close, or even seeing nice-looking fruit. Just Bright Light = Win, "Wump Wump" sound = lose. Heck, at least in Dabo you get to shout out "Dabo" every so often, which seems kinda fun. It must be super duper boring out on DS9.)

Quark's business is in trouble, luckily in times of trouble the Rules of Acquisition are ever true. He cites chapter and verse in the "Exploit your associates" parable, and gets the Racquetball boys to appear in a charity gambling match. They suit up (Bashir by iron'pressing his form-fitting onsie, and O'Brien by dousing his sweatshirt with Febreeze, to seal in the years of "Lucky Sweat") and head to the court, where O'Brien. Starts. DOMINATING! EVERY shot's landing! He's always in the right spot. The universe is finally coming up O'Brien!

...Which of course means a galactic anomaly is underfoot, because even O'Brien recognizes the impossibility of catching a single goddamn break, much less a dozen in a row. It turns out that the Flashy Light Gizmo's that Martus installed created some quantum probability fields or something, and unlikely stuff just started happening. Nothing, like, all that bad, just some minor injuries, and lower variance in day to day life.

This may be the lowest stakes episode of DS9 so far. Anyway, life goes back to normal, Sisko is happy that Odo found a crime to charge Martus with, so he gets thrown back in jail, where the dead guy has been removed, no questions asked I guess.

Decided to make this to pay homage to a real Klingon.

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Not sure if it’s ever clarified or if I’m overthinking it, but when Sisko says starfleet had approved his plan, did he mean the whole lot, ie, did they know the meeting was fake or did they think he had some genuine evidence and approved him giving it the Romulan?

Thanks.

I woke up and couldn't stop thinking of this

At the end of DS:9 the House of Mogh is no more.

Worf, son of Mogh, has joined the house of Martok.

Kurn, Worf's brother, could not live with his dishonor. They wiped his memory and he joined another house.

Alexander Rozhenko, son of Worf, was invited to the House of Martok and accepted there.

Ezri Dax, by extension was invited to the House of Mogh as being the next host after Jadzia was killed. I don't think she accepted.

Nikolai Rozhenko, half brother to Worf, is on another planet helping a primitive culture he cares deeply about.

The only other heir to the House of Mogh I know of is Jeremy Aster, who Worf invited as part of a ritual in ST:TNG.

Are there any other heirs to the House of Mogh?

I often think about this story line and ways they could resurrect the House of Mogh.

If there is a better subreddit to post this on please let me know. I appreciate all comments and feedback. Thank you.

And I just finished TNG three weeks ago 😂

how many of you own all the deep space nine video games?

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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Harbinger

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: The Fallen

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Dominion Wars

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine – Crossroads of Time

do you still play them?

did you find these games hard to beat?

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Throughout the show, we get glimpses of the actual game of Dabo. It pretty much looks like Roulette, a game of chance. But there are multiple references to players' skills at the game, implying that there is some element of skill. What makes someone good at Dabo? (Besides the Kenny Rogers-style wisdom of knowing when to walk away, run, etc.) Canon and Head-Cannon answers accepted.

After finishing DS9 and TNG, I am now starting Enterprise for the first time and we get to see an episode with Odo! Well obviously not his character but the one who played him. It was still nice to see him again, ever since finishing ds9, I find myself missing them. I'm told Brent Spiner makes an appearance towards the end of Enterprise as well, so I'm looking forward to that as well.

I'm trying to find a familiar show to watch that has Spanish dubs (specifically Latin American Spanish, not "Spain"/Castilian), and supposedly the dub exists for DS9. I'm trying to learn how to "hear" the language.

I don't mind subscribing to Paramount if they have the desired language access, but I would rather not hand over my contact info for yet another subscription if it will turn out to be English only.

I also tried watching on Pluto and saw no options other than English.

I could check out the discs at the library, but that seems like a gamble as well, since the catalog lists it as English only.

If anyone has Paramount+ and has successfully switched the audio to Latin American Spanish, or is willing to take a moment to see if it's listed there, please let me know what you found.

Currently watching season 2 episode 12, The Alternate, after seeing Dr Mora unconscious in the infirmary, Odo leaves in silence and Sisko follows elaborating that he understands the feeling of seeing your father be ill, stating “in the end there was nothing he could do”

Now I don’t think this literally ropes the store into establishing concretely that Sisko’s dad did end up passing on, but it seems clear in this episode they alluded to an already dead father and later revised this approach to give Ben some family back on Earth, and thank goodness they did, his dad is a compelling character

Edit: I appreciate people who attempt to rectify this in canon with lore explanations, but I think the most important take away is that this was before sisko’s family needed to be fleshed out definitively and the writers didn’t have everything planned out, just a fun Easter egg of a time before the story was laid out

Holy 🤬 I had forgotten what an amazing episode this was. This episode was an absolute masterclass in building tension and the right way to do action. The right way to do a TNG character on DS9 (looking at you Q & Vash). This is quite honestly a truly underrated episode. One that I don't recall seeing on top episodes lists for the series.

They pack so much into this episode! The world building is brilliant! Sisko and Dukat are forced to work together (in a "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" kinda way) to bring the rebel crew to justice.

The idea of the Obsidian Order building an entire fleet of ships behind the Central Command's back in order to take over the government is DEEPLY fascinating to me. I don't ever recall this kind of civil war on Cardassia. What a freaking gold mine of an idea! why did they never follow through on this!?

Sisko bonding with Dukat over their kids!? Like what!? 😮

They wrote a whole freaking arc for Thomas Riker a character on TNG that I never found all that interesting. But they make him deeply fascinating in this episode. Kira schooling Riker on how to be a terrorist and reading right through him to his real motivations.

Super excellent performances in this episode from all major players. Sisko, Kira, Dukat and Riker. One of the best things about this show is how they were able to have a show about war and most of the action is through dialogue. They didn't need to have epic space battles to show dramatic tension and still feel like your in the middle of war! 🙆🏻‍♀️ This episode did an excellent job of building tension right up until the finale battle. Tension between each faction at play this episode.

This episode has now entered my top episodes for the series. It's truly an amazing piece of action. Like I can't believe I was sleeping on this masterpiece of an episode.

My lovely wife sewed this patch on a nice New Era cap for me.

If you're someone who edits videos and makes compilations and is looking to put something objectively good into the world, I think a compilation of all the Odo chuckling moments would be perfect. If you made a compilation of clips that gradually go from Odo hurumphing and transition into chuckles, you could probably get a grant to study if it has an effect on drug-resistant depression.

I would do this if I had the skills or time. You'd have my eternal thanks.

Garak tried so faithfully to get Bashir and the rest of those Federation types to wise up.

What is the greatest wisdom Garak ever dispensed?

I've watched the series twice over and I don't recall the crimson red on the upper and lower pylons and the yellow on the outer ring.

Is this "accurate" ?I know screen models to the show are different.

I'm planning on spending 40+ hours on this and want it to look brilliant, im honestly not against taking artistic liberties lie idid with my previous 2 models, l. See me history for my Vyager and 1701, I plan on lighting it as well. And help, opinions, reference artwork would be incredible!