Of DS9's 6 season finales, this may be the weakest - it's a good story, but doesn't quite capture the "holy cow, can't wait for next season" element that the others do. It's the kind of episode that might have earned consideration as a classic a few seasons earlier but here just meets very high expectations.
Despite some good bits for other characters (particularly short periods of banter), the episode is very much about Odo and Garak. Rene Auberjonois gives the kind of stoic performance we'd expect of him; Andy Robinson is a great sidekick (?) as we saw in "Improbable Cause"/"The Die Is Cast".moreless
Stardate: 49962.4
When Odo contracts a mysterious illness, the Defiant crew bring him to the Gamma Quadrant to find the Founders. There, Odo learns that this illness was the Founders' way of forcing him home to the Great Link to stand trial for killing another Changeling.moreless
When Odo contracts a mysterious illness, the Defiant crew bring him to the Gamma Quadrant to find the Founders. There, Odo learns that this illness was the Founders' way of forcing him home to the Great Link to stand trial for killing another Changeling.moreless
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 Armin Shimerman |
Quark |
Terry Farrell |
Lt./Lt. Commander Jadzia Dax (Season 1-6) |
 Michael Dorn |
Lt. Commander Worf (Season 4-7) |
 Rene Auberjonois |
Constable Odo |
 Nana Visitor |
Major/Colonel/Commander Kira Nerys |
Avery Brooks |
Commander/Captain Benjamin Sisko |
Leslie Bevis |
Freighter Captain |
Guest Star |
Jill Jacobson |
Chalon Aroya |
Guest Star |
Andrew Hawkes |
Amat'igan |
Guest Star |
Andrew Robinson |
Garak |
Recurring Role |
Salome Jens |
Female Shapeshifter |
Recurring Role |
Robert O'Reilly |
Gowron |
Recurring Role |
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TRIVIA (6)
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It is later revealed that Odo was used as a carrier for the morphogenic virus affecting the changelings in the Great Link during the seventh season of Deep Space Nine. It is highly probable that he transmitted the virus into the link during this episode, while he was being judged.
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What's oddly left out of Odo's defense is the fact that if he hadn't killed that Changeling, he would have probably died. His people has pointed out before that Odo isn't as skilled as they are with his abilities. So in one manner he was protecting his own life.
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When Odo collapses in Garak's shop his hair messes up, despite the fact that its not really 'hair'.
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It was out of character for the female Founder to tell Odo to "give me your hand;" as she would consider that a "Solid" way of talking; and that she had stated before that Odo "link" with her, specifically.
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As Worf and Garak are fighting in the Jeffries tubes, a door to a Jeffries tube is knocked open and an unused area of the set can be seen behind it.
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In season 3's two-parter "The Search" Odo finds the Founders' home planet, which looks like a very pleasant place, with a nice landscape, vegetation, etc. It's a little odd that their new home is such an empty, foreboding planet, on which we see nothing but the Great Link, and a tiny island in the middle.
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QUOTES (9)
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Odo: During the link, I sensed the other Changelings were trying to hide things from me. Faces, names. One of them was him.
Kira: What are you saying?
Odo: I'm saying he's one of them. Gowron, the head of the Klingon Empire, is a Changeling. -
Gowron: We find the Federation's demands that we return the captured Cardassian colonies insulting and provocative. Klingon blood was spilled to conquer those worlds. They are now part of the Klingon Empire and we will never give them up. Furthermore, if the Federation still harbors any hope of peaceful coexistence with the Klingon Empire, it must abandon all starbases and military installations in the Archanis sector. Our claim to Archanis IV and the surrounding territory is ancient and indisputable. We advise the Federation to leave Archanis, or prepare to face the consequences. Long live the Empire.
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Jadzia: Benjamin, somebody has requested to come on board.
Sisko: Who is it?
Jadzia: It's... Garak.
Worf: Tell him the ship is off limits to Cardassian spies! -
(talking to Garak)
Worf: You fight well, for a tailor. -
Worf: We are not here to wage war.
Garak: I'm not talking about war! What I'm proposing is wiping out every Founder on that planet, obliterating the Great Link. Come now, Mr. Worf, you're a Klingon. Don't tell me you'd object to a little genocide in the name of self-defiance!
Worf: I am a warrior, not a murderer.
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Female Shapeshifter: Cardassian survivors?
Garak: Yes.
Female Shapeshifter: There were no Cardassian survivors.
Garak: You mean, they're all dead?
Female Shapeshifter: They're dead. You're dead. Cardassia is dead. Your people were doomed the moment they attacked us. I believe that answers your question. -
Garak: Ah, yes, the assassination of Proconsul Merrok of Romulus. Such a tragedy. I met him once, a few weeks before he died. I was working as a gardener at the Cardassian embassy.
Odo: You were a gardener on Romulus?
Garak: My specialty was Edosian orchids. Beautiful, yet highly toxic.
Odo: As I recall, Proconsul Merrok was poisoned.
Garak: Funny, I don't remember that. -
Garak: Personally I think Starfleet should allow their officers more latitude in accessorizing their uniforms. You'd be suprised what a nice scarf can do.
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Odo: I think you did this to me. You caused my illness so that I'd be forced to come home.
Female Shapeshifter: As I said, I wish the circumstances of this meeting were different. You killed a Changeling, Odo.
Odo: He was trying to kill my friends. I had no choice.
Female Shapeshifter: Of course you had a choice. And you chose to side with the solids. To protect them, you were willing to violate the most sacred law of our people.
Odo: No Changeling has ever harmed another.
Female Shapeshifter: Until you. That is why we forced you to return home...to enter the Great Link and be judged.
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NOTES (8)
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Leslie Bevis (Freighter Captain) would reprise that role in the DS9 episode "The Homecoming (Part 1)." In addition, he played the Boslic Captain in the DS9 episode "The Abandoned."
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Jill Jacobson (Chalon Aroya) also played the role of Vanessa on The Next Generation episode "The Royale."
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Salome Jens (Female Shapeshifter) also played the role of Humanoid Progenitor on The Next Generation episode "The Chase."
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Robert O'Reilly, best known for playing Gowron on DS9 and TNG, also played Countman on the DS9 episode "Badda-Bing, Badda-Bang" and Kago-Darr on the Enterprise episode "Bounty."
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Worf enters a Jefferies tube by hitting a button on a control panel. One of the other buttons is labeled "47." Writer Joe Menosky began including references to the number 47 in almost every episode of Star Trek since season four of The Next Generation. It is an in-joke, referring to The 47 Society at Pomona College in California, a college which Menosky attended.
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Odo joins the "outcast club" of DS9, along with Worf, Garak and Quark, as none of them are accepted in their respective homeworlds.
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Odo loses his shape shifting ability and becomes a solid.
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Cirroc Lofton (Jake Sisko) does not appear in this episode.
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ALLUSIONS (1)
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Garak, to Chalon Aroya: "A thing of beauty is a joy forever..."
This is a title of a poem by John Keats.
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