Star Trek - Deep Space Nine - Series 3 (Slimline Edition) [DVD]

The Deep Space Nine crew get a brand new ship the Defiant to help them search for the leaders of The Dominion. The series comes into its own now and goes in a completely different direction from all other Trek series. Starting with the 2 part episode The Search where Odo finally finds his people while searching for The Dominion, other highlights include The House Of Quark where Quark ends up running a Klingon house after accidentally killing a Klingon, the 2 part Past Tense seeing Sisko, Bashir and Dax trapped in the year 2024, Improbable Cause and The Die Is Cast seeing Odo investigate a bombing leading to the discovery of an attack on The Dominion, and the season finale The Adversary sees Sisko finally promoted to Captain as a Dominion agent infiltrates the station. a gripping series with the secondary characters starting to stand out becoming one of the best casts on TV and the serialized Dominion plot really takes off.

The first 2 seasons of DS9 are especially typical of early seasons of a Trek show, just like TNG you can tell they're still finding their feet. There are a handful of standout episodes (and even some of the poorer ones aren't completely without merit), but on season 3 they start turning it on more: and on DS9 when they turn it on, they turn it on. Wasting no time by getting into the action with The Dominion on the dramatic 2 parter "The Search", this is a classic episode that belongs among the best of the series. Other 2 parters included are the excellent time travel based social commentary "Past Tense" in which Sisko has to fulfill a historic role, and "Improbable Cause/ The Die Is Cast" featuring one of Garak's (potentially the best character on the whole show) best performances and a chilling realization that The Dominion are one step ahead of everyone else. The Bashir episode "Distant Voices" is fantastic, a personal favourite of mine, an interesting idea executed very well."Civil Defense" is up there too with my favourites, Gul Dukat was always one of the best Trek villains ever (and deserved better than the character he became in season 7, though his descent into madness was interesting they just had to go there with the whole Bajoran religion thing...something I was never 100% sure on) and in this episode he is forced to work with the DS9 crew in order to survive. The mirror universe makes its second appearance in "Through The Looking Glass", where all characters are bizarre variations on their prime universe selves. There are some light hearted Ferengi moments in "The House of Quark" and "Family Business", and a great "O'Brien has a bad day" episode in "Visionary". In the great final episode "The Adversary", Sisko is promoted to captain, and a deadly chase begins on the Defiant when it is realized a Changeling has infiltrated the ship. Odo commits the unforgivable crime of killing one of his own species, and the episode ends on a brilliantly creepy note."You're too late. We're everywhere."

Finally I have all 7 parts at home, but right now I'm watching this series (not the first time though). Story arc is getting more and more serious (and this is the constant trend towards the end of the show in season 7), but there are still episodes that make it a bit more lighter (you guess, mostly with Ferengis :-)). DS9 is/was/will be about people - much more than any older Star Trek - and more about politics, and also about one really big conflict out there. With DS9 sitting right on top of it.About DVDs itself, they are OK, quality is as expected for TV with 4:3 picture ratio. I don't like some funny behaviour, mostly related to stupid legal stuff screen (what else ;-)) - when I insert disk into the player, it shows, then I can go on. When I turn my player on later with disk inside, it continues to play - however if I'm in menu, it first let me choose the episode, confirm it and then shows the legal screen for no reason - and I have to wait while it goes through the animation to the menu again. Not sure what is players fault really (as this is unique behaviour, consistent on all disks and all seasons). Bonuses are nice, different for every season. In overall I'm very happy with this set - and I love the show itself.

Season 3 is when this good series starts to become great. Seasons 1 and 2 have some great episodes and lay the foundations, this season begins layering the arcs and the actors are all fully established in their roles. It has a smattering of extras, the menu system is easy enough to use and it has the options I required, namely English subtitles.I make no bones that DS9 is my favourite Trek series and I love the DVD set, but I'd gladly upgrade to blu ray, which is sadly know a slim hope at best.

These were bought as a present and I have had no complaints as to the condition or the actual series, I was happy with Amazon, my relative was happy with me so 5 Stars.

Cardboard case that holds the DVD cases was ripped. Used a bit of Sellotape on it.

Badly scratched, some discs won't play, very disappointed

I'm not going to write a lot here, because I'm saving the review for entire collection once I buy it, but since I bought this for a friend, it would be fair to recommend this season, especially since the story of the show begins its true development here, and stronger than before engulfs the viewer in a rather dark world of DS9. It shouldn't disappoint, particularly if you've already bought S1 and 2, and you're wondering whether you should buy this as well.