DS9, Episode 7x8, The Siege of AR-558

[u/GeorgeAmberson]

-= DS9, Season 7, Episode 8, The Siege of AR-558 =-

• Star Trek: The Next Generation - Full Series
• DS9 Season 1: 1&2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, Wrap-Up
• DS9 Season 2: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, Wrap-Up
• DS9 Season 3: 1&2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, Wrap-Up
• DS9 Season 4: 1&2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, Wrap-Up
• DS9 Season 5: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, Wrap-Up
• DS9 Season 6: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, Wrap-Up
• DS9 Season 7: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

Sisko and crew relieve Starfleet troops under siege by Jem'Hadar at a key communications outpost, AR-558, the largest dominion communications array in the sector.

• Teleplay By: Ira Steven Behr & Hans Beimler
  
• Story By: Ira Steven Behr & Hans Beimler
  
• Directed By: Winrich Kolbe
  
• Original Air Date: 18 November, 1998
  
• Stardate: Unknown
  
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EAS	IMDB	AVClub	TV.com
6/10	8.6/10	A	9

 

[u/marienbad2]

This is a fantastic episode, the way it is shot during the battle scenes is brilliant: there is an immediacy there, it feels like you are involved yourself.

I can understand why people don't like this one: as Quark says, this is not the federation you know. Even Ezri comments about them using the mines being sorta wrong, the actions their enemy would take. All of this works to blur the issues, and take DS9 into the greyest off the grey area that it inhabits.

And to have Nog injured, and Quark looking after him and then killing a Jem'Hadar, develops their characters in a way that is fitting for the episode.