Star Trek - Deep Space Nine, Episode 13: Battle Lines [VHS] Review
Original airdate: 4-25-93. Stardate: Unknown. With thematic echoes from the original series episodes "The Alternative Factor" and "Day of the Dove," this DS9 adventure begins when Kira's Bajoran spiritual leader, Kai Opaka, pays a surprise visit to DS9 and eagerly accepts Sisko's offer of a runabout tour of the wormhole. A signal from a small moon in the Gamma Quadrant leads to an attack on the runabout, and the Kai is killed in a crash landing survived by Sisko, Dr. Bashir, and the grief-stricken Kira. They soon find themselves enmeshed in a perpetual war between two opposing groups of humanoids, whose horrible fate is to be repeatedly killed and revived, forced to endure eternal battle due to the presence of biomechanical microbes that curse them--and anyone else killed in battle--to everlasting life. A vivid study of the folly of hatred, with a suspenseful subplot and a revealing glimpse of Kira's spiritual convictions, "Battle Lines" is superior Star Trek in the Roddenberry mold, intelligently crafted and ethically compelling. --Jeff Shannon
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