Star TrekDeep Space Nine
Season:
5
Production: 503
Original Airdate: 11/4/1996
Stardate: 4523.7
This was by far one of
DS9's best
episodes. Sure the
plot was a little
weird, and it did
borrow from previous
material, but it was very well done and the
melding with the
original series film was seamless.
The
Trouble With Tribbles was one of the
gems of the original series. It was certainly one of the weirdest. There was probably no better episode to try to this kind of
show with. Nothing really
earth shattering happens, and the
main characters (the
Tribbles) could be easily
duplicated to help the look of the new show. Some of the shots used were
stunning. It was nearly impossible to tell where they had done some of the
cutting. Putting
O'Brien and
Bashir into the line on the ship (where
Kirk is chewing them out) was simply
amazing work.
Besides the
technical aspects of the show, the new
writing was very well done. Probably the
highlight of this was the
discussion with
Worf about why the original series
Klingons don't look anything like Klingons. "It is not spoken of outside the
empire," (or some such
comment). Then he goes on to talk about the
glorious victory on the Tribble
home world.
Classic.
While DS9 never quite had the
consistency that
TNG showed throughout the
years, it did have some episodes that were better than most of what TNG aired during its run. This was one of those episodes.