Deep Space Nine Season 1 Retrospective Deep Space Nine is fundamental to the IDFC project, in the sense that it’s why the project exists...

In The Hands Of The Prophets Here’s something new. Well, new for IDFC, anyway. We arrive, at last, at our very first season finale....

Duet So, this will be interesting. I’m not dealing with a minor entry to the canon this time, or some forgotten classic in need of a...

Dramatis Personae Not to go all undergraduate essay here, but let’s start with a definition. “Dramatis Personae” translates as “the masks...

The Forsaken An introvert and an extrovert walk into an unreliable turbolift... Old Skin For The Slightly Older Ceremony I see no point...

If Wishes Were Horses The episode that claims to celebrate human imagination, but doesn’t bother displaying any itself. “It’s Easy If You...

Progress The revolutionary struggle doesn’t end the day the palace falls. Major Dilemma “Progress” is another episode that’s hard to...

The Storyteller "The people and the land are one." It was about time we returned to Bajor. The Widening Gyre I haven’t really talked all...

Battle Lines War, huh? What is it good for? Killing recurring characters in order to generate cheap drama, it turns out. The Vengeance...

Vortex At first glance, “Vortex” looks like an anomaly. With the exception of “Silent Enemy” (and we’ll get to that sinking, burning...

The Nagus "I found one day in school a boy of medium size ill-treating a smaller boy. I expostulated, but he replied: “The bigs hit me,...

Move Along Home LIQUID ASSETS, INTESTINAL BLOCKAGES, A SURFEIT OF SCATHES QUINT: GAMES, my friends. Don’t you just wish you were in them?...

The Passenger Here we run into another episode that seems to be no-one’s favourite, and for reasons which are not difficult to...

Dax Well, this certainly didn’t arrive too soon. It’s finally time for Deep Space Nine to start picking at the gloriously complicated...

Q-Less (Content warning: generalised references to abusive relationships) Jambly crisps. Reading reactions to this episode make me wonder...

Captive Pursuit We open on an employee complaining to the station commander about her working life. A brief introduction to the questions...

Babel “Babel” feels like DS9‘s first misstep. It’s not particularly a bad episode – bits of it are rather good, in fact. The issue lies...

A Man Alone Intro Once again, Deep Space Nine has to push back against TNG‘s mistakes. The appalling flood of clueless racism that swept...

Past Prologue So this is how it’s done. The Kohn-Ma Clustercuss “Past Prologue” is about as far from “The Naked Now” as one can get. Back...

Emissary Sometimes you've just got to boldly stay. Progress And Paradox Ira Steven Behr once said that the biggest problem The Next...