This episode has it all – A returning enemy with personal stakes, technical difficulties, Sisko screaming at the top of his lungs, literary references, and new communication tech that is definitively worse than the view screen. It’s fun to see the big showdown between Sisko and Eddington, and the episode goes all out to up the stakes. The way the crew has to rebound from a crippled ship makes pursuit scenes that would have been fairly routine a lot more exciting. The heart of the episode is Sisko’s troubling willingness to do some bad stuff in order to capture his prey. It’s perhaps treated a little too lightly in spots, but otherwise I think the way Sisko acts when he’s in these extreme wartime situations is really interesting within the context of Star Trek.
Sisko is bested by EddingtonEddington plants a crippling virus on the Defiant, and to make things even worse, starts referencing French literature.Starfleet tells Sisko “we get it, he’s annoying, but you’re too wound up please go away”Sisko takes it really wellEven the comm badges don’t work so they need Nog to relay all the orders to engineering via a slightly bigger comm badgeI like when everyone is talking. Makes it seem cool or somethingThrough lots of strenuous effort they managed to avoid crashing into their own station. This seems like it’s going to go well.But then Eddington out maneuvers them again!Eddington beats the other guy too, so now Sisko is off leashBut then something about Les Misérables makes Sisko want to poison all the Maquis planetsKiras like r u seriousdang he actually did itBut it forces Eddington to turn himself inDax thinks wrecking the planets was hilarious.
