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Star Trek Deep Space Nine: Season 3

Avery Brooks (Actor), Rene Auberjonois (Actor), Avery Brooks (Director), Alexander Singer (Director) | Rated: NR (Not Rated) | Format: DVD
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Deep Space Nine's third season begins eventfully, with Sisko promoted to Captain and being given a prototype warship equipped with a cloaking device, while Odo learns where he came from. In the two-part opening tale, this clever gambit is played to hook viewers into the idea of DS9 becoming an ongoing mystery/conflict show. Why the sudden intense change in format? Mostly it was to ensure the show continued to thrive, when a really rather greedy production hierarchy fast-tracked Voyager onto the air mid-season (cue unnecessary crossover episode with Tuvok). Of greater concern was ratings thief Babylon 5, which played its counter-Trek cards at precisely the right time. Fortunately the result (initially at least) was a genuine boost for DS9.

Cast members seemed to have hit their stride and played off one another more assuredly than before. For example, Odo's character took several additional interesting twists, especially in his relationship with Kira. Rene Auberjonois had a very good year, directing two episodes to boot. Avery Brooks had begun this trend with the previous year's penultimate show. The real surprise was seeing Jonathan Frakes's name working behind the camera on three occasions, because he also appeared on screen in his alternate rogue Riker role, when Thomas dramatically steals the Defiant. Other welcome cameos that aided the feeling of casual camaraderie included the return of Lwaxana Troi, as well as first appearances by Quark's mother, the spooky Founder Leader, the lovely Leeta, and the sneaky Eddington. Clint Howard--a cult Trek figure--was briefly welcomed back, and with the many faces of Jeffrey Combs another was born. Stories advanced the complicated Bajoran/Cardassian healing process, while simultaneously brewing potential conflicts far worse than the behind-the-scenes ratings war. --Paul Tonks

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The third season of DS9 has about an hour of features fairly similar to those in previous seasons. In "The Birth of the Dominion and Beyond," Ira Steven Behr, Robert Hewitt Wolfe, and Michael Hiller discuss the development of DS9's chief set of villains. The Michael Westmore makeup featurette inspects the Ferengis and new looks for old characters, and the crew dossier focuses on Odo, including the major developments to his character in "The Search" and Rene Auberjonois's memories of his audition. The "Past Tense" and "Explorers" episodes get spotlights, and the six 1- to 3-minute "hidden files" examine visual effects and other notes for "Second Skin," "The Die Is Cast," "Family Business," "The Search," and "Visionary." --David Horiuchi
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4.7 out of 5 stars
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5.0 out of 5 stars A great view Nov 10 2003
By M. Brants
Format:DVD
Season Three is a great season, with only a few mediocre episodes (Meridian & Fascination).

My favourite episodes are (in no particular order):
- THE SEARCH 1 & 2 (Odo meet his "family")
- THE HOUSE OF QUARK (very funny)
- SECOND SKIN (Kira's worst nightmare comes true)
- CIVIL DEFENSE (The look on Dukat's face halfway through the episode is priceless)
- DEFIANT (Tom Riker (from TNG's "SECOND CHANCES") steals the Defiant)
- PAST TENSE 1 & 2 (Great drama, great acting)
- VISIONARY (I always like stories dealing with time travel)
- DISTANT VOICES (A very surreal episode)
- THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS (another mirror universe adventure. The Mirror Kira is one of my favourite characters)
- IMPROBABLE CAUSE/THE DIE IS CAST (Great acting by Andrew Robinson and René Auberjonois (Garak & Odo)
- FACETS (We "meet" all of Dax's former hosts, including Curzon)
- THE ADVERSARY (a very claustrophobic episode with a surprise ending)

The extra's are all in the same league with those of season 1 & 2, with a feature on the Dominion, ODO'S CREW DOSSIER, MICHAEL WESTMORE'S ALIENS and several hidden files.
If you are a fan, as I am, you will already have bought this. If you are not, you will soon be if you buy it.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Gotta Have ST: DS9 July 28 2012
By Skeezix aka TOP 500 REVIEWER
Format:DVD|Amazon Verified Purchase
No self-respecting sci-fi fan and certainly no self-respecting Trekker (or Trekkie*) can NOT have this series in her/his collection.
(*the amazing Season 5, Episode 6: Trial and Tribble-ations).

From the start of this season (Episode 1, Sisko wants to go find the Founders, instead of waiting for them to come to DS9), the story arcs get better and richer.

Odo find his home world.
Quark gets married.
We see the Trill home world.
Kira finds herself on Cardassia. And is told she is, in fact, a Cardassian.
Dax falls in love with a guy (Brett Cullen, from The Young Riders, season 1) whose planet is only in our dimension for a short period of time.
All this in only the first few episodes of this season.
And there's much, much more.

This season (and series) rank near the top of my sci-fi lists for entertainment, excitement, interesting storytelling, and action.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Great stuff on season 3 Feb 28 2004
By McHenry John
Format:DVD
Andrea Martin stars as "Moogie" in "Family Business", and watch for the introduction of The Founders....aka the Changelings (Odo's race)
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5.0 out of 5 stars Great Season the start of DS9's great seasons.
This is the beginning of the transcendent DS9 seasons, 1 and 2 were fun but 3 is where the show reaches new highs and we are introduced to deep stories and powerful enemies. Read more
Published on Oct 31 2010 by Douglas E. Musk
4.0 out of 5 stars Consistancy is Key here
The DS9 box set is consistant, one thing it has over the Next Generation box set. Each disk in each season is set up the same way: the introduction is the same, 4 episodes per... Read more
Published on April 4 2004 by Stephanie Martin
5.0 out of 5 stars Boldly going where no Trek had gone before
DS9 is (in my never-to-be-humble opinion) the best of Trek and season 3 is an excellent example of why.

By the third season the series had really begun to hit its stride. Read more

Published on Jan 11 2004 by Jeanne Tassotto
4.0 out of 5 stars The series undergoes a shape-shift
Although the premise behind Deep Space Nine was that of a run-down space station at the edge of nowhere, by the middle of the second season, life seemed to be getting a little too... Read more
Published on Nov 15 2003 by Andrew McCaffrey
4.0 out of 5 stars Enter, stage left Defiant and the Dominion
For the first two season, one of the critical barbs thrown at the show was this series was not living up to Roddenberry's idyllic setting of no conflict with the peoples of the... Read more
Published on Nov 14 2003 by D. O'Neill
5.0 out of 5 stars The best Trek ever... volume 3!
The series really began to stretch it's wings here. For the first time, they were the only Star Trek series on the air. Everything seemed focused on bringing this together. Read more
Published on Sep 26 2003 by Michael A. Brown
5.0 out of 5 stars Jem'Hadar, Vorta, and Founders OH MY!
Season 2 of Deep Space Nine was an exceptional season and slightly better than the first but Deep Space Nine started busting out of the television set in this season with surprises... Read more
Published on Aug 23 2003 by Will
5.0 out of 5 stars Memorable Episodes from Start to Finish
Season 3 of DS9 contains a plethora of standout episodes, with just a few weak spots (e.g., 'The Abandoned', which was too reminiscent of TNG's lone Borg story; or 'Heart of Stone'... Read more
Published on Aug 18 2003 by Alexander
5.0 out of 5 stars ???
Heck it's just the shows. If you like the shows, then here you are.
Published on Aug 10 2003 by V. Natarajan
5.0 out of 5 stars Not all goody-two-shoes
Ok, what can I say -- it's got all the episodes -- and it seems pointless to rehash them here.
Published on Aug 10 2003 by V. Natarajan
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