[DS9] Season 4, Episode 11: Homefront
Rating: 3
It’s great to see some progress in the ongoing conflict with the Dominion, but this episode can be pretty slow. A lot of the story is about Sisko’s stubborn father, and the reluctance of earth to go along with mild security measures. It is nice to see a little more of the internal workings of The Federation when it concerns something like the Dominion threat.
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Notes:
a changeling was behind a bombing on earth
Odo is really mad because Dax moved his stuff a few inches, because changelings love order and stuff
O’Brien and Bashir play out the Battle of Britain, and even when they’re done with the holo-program, they still really like talking in the accents because they’re total nerds.
Sisko and Odo go to San Fransisco, and Sisko is made into the Main Security Dude For Earth
Sisko and Jake see their father at his restaurant and apparently Nog goes there all the time.
Sisko proposes security measures to the president, who reluctantly agrees.
Nog wants Sisko to help him get into “Red Squad,” an elite group of cadets that we’ve totally heard about before!
Sisko’s dad has health issues
Odo finds a changeling!
The real admiral wants to increase security even more
Sisko’s dad doesn’t want blood screenings. He brings up the point that it wouldn’t be a very hard thing for changelings to get around, but I wished they addressed more holes, like if the changeling replaced Odo. There are ways they could’ve answered this, but they don’t even try.
Then the power is turned off on… all of earth.
For the big cliffhanger we see some federation security on the streets!
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