[DS9] Shadowplay

[DS9] Season 2, Episode 16 (Netflix: S2 E16): Shadowplay

Rating: 2

There are some interesting themes if you have the patience for them. There’s very little draw to keep you watching in Shadowplay. Jake goes to work for O’Brien, Kira hangs out with Bareil, and Odo and Dax have to solve a mystery of missing people that we’ve never met. This episode should be watched for the character arcs it sets up though.
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Notes:

Dax likes to gossip and Odo sees “romantic coupling” as foolish

Odo and Dax beam to a planet and are brought in for questioning by this guy

Jake is 15 and Ben thinks it’s time for him to get a job. Why is it so dark in their quarters?

The town has had over 20 missing people, and Odo offers to help figure out what happened

Bareil comes to the station

Odo questions a child. She doesn't believe he's a changeling. She says if she was a changeling she would change shapes all the time and everyone would be her friend. Odo says people would always ask him to change forms but they weren't actually his friends

Odo questions a child and then she questions him. She doesn’t believe he’s a changeling. She says if she was a changeling she would make a lot of friends. Odo says people would always ask him to change forms but they weren’t actually his friends

Jake says he doesn't want to be in Starfleet. O'Brien tells him about how his dad wanted him to play Chello

Jake says he doesn’t want to be in Starfleet. O’Brien tells him about how his dad wanted him to play Cello

She starts to disappear when she gets too far away from the town

They go back to town and tell everyone they’re a bunch of holograms

Kira and Bareil play spring-ball

They turn off the town to fix the problem with the holograms, and all that’s left is one man. He made the town after the Dominion ruined his home world. The Dominion!