Star Trek - Deep Space Nine, Episode 75: Hippocratic Oath [VHS] Review
In this episode directed by series costar Rene Auberjonois (Odo), Dr. Bashir and Chief O'Brien, en route from a survey, investigate an energy reading on an uninhabited planet and are shot down by an AWOL Jem'Hadar patrol. The foot soldiers of the Founders threaten to kill the two immediately, but when they discover that Bashir is a doctor, their commander has a better use for him: help them break their addiction to the drug that makes them slaves to the Dominion. Meanwhile Worf, the station's newest officer, has trouble adjusting to the loose sense of procedure on DS9 and clashes with Odo over what he assumes is lax security when he stumbles across a smuggling operation in Quark's bar. Worf's story is a fairly cardboard attempt to contrast his stiff by-the-book Starfleet training with the frontier-marshal-like enforcement of Odo, but the clash between Bashir and O'Brien while held by the Jem'Hadar puts their odd-couple friendship to the test. As Bashir dedicates himself to freeing the soldiers from their genetically engineered addiction, O'Brien treats them as the deadly enemies they have always been to the Federation. --Sean Axmaker
No comments:
Post a Comment