{"id":1540,"date":"2016-04-28T01:54:22","date_gmt":"2016-04-28T01:54:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/?p=1540"},"modified":"2016-04-28T01:54:22","modified_gmt":"2016-04-28T01:54:22","slug":"ds9-the-power-of-adversaries-season-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/2016\/04\/28\/ds9-the-power-of-adversaries-season-4\/","title":{"rendered":"DS9: The Power of Adversaries, Season 4"},"content":{"rendered":"

Continuing our adversaries series<\/a>, we’re looking at DS9 season four. We’ve seen a number of different patterns season to season, with season one being ‘Q and Prime Directive’, season two being ‘Cardassians and Introspection’, and season three being ‘Dominion, Time\/Planar travel, and Introspection’.<\/p>\n

Let’s see what’s out there…<\/p>\n

S4: <\/p>\n

High: 7 (3 Dominion)
\nEqual: 4 (Klingons, Klingons, mirror, and Jem’Hadar)
\nLow: 3
\nSelf: 11<\/p>\n

The standout this season was internal conflict, whether it’s Bashir vs. O’Brien, or Worf vs. his brother, season four was a study in character stories and internal dilemmas. The writers continued to use the Dominion for the plurality of the high-powered adversary plots, while eschewing almost entirely low-powered external adversaries.<\/p>\n

Almost like the calm before the storm, the self introspection before the galaxy erupts into war.<\/p>\n

1 (Klingons)
\n2 (frozen in time)
\n-1 (Bashir vs. O’Brien)
\n-1 (Kira vs. Dukat vs. Dukat)
\n-1 (Dax vs. Dax)
\n2 (Time Travel)
\n2 (Two Jem’Hadar ships and a gas giant)
\n-1 (Worf vs. Kor vs. Worf vs. Kor)
\n2 (Holodeck)
\n-1 (Earth and fear)
\n-1 (Earth and fear, part II)
\n-1 (Odo & Kira)
\n2 (freighter vs. Klingon ship)
\n-1 (Worf & Kurn)
\n-1 (Quark and the union)
\n0 (Bajoran politics)
\n1 (Klingon courtroom drama)
\n-1 (O’Brien suffers)
\n1 (Defiant vs. Mirror)
\n0 (alien & Lwaxana’s lover)
\n-1 (Sisko)
\n1 (crew + Jem’Hadar vs. Jem’Hadar)
\n2 (Dominion disease)
\n0 (one Ferengi)
\n2 (The Great Link)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Continuing our adversaries series, we’re looking at DS9 season four. We’ve seen a number of different patterns season to season, with season one being ‘Q and Prime Directive’, season two being ‘Cardassians and Introspection’, and season three being ‘Dominion, Time\/Planar travel, and Introspection’. Let’s see what’s out there… S4: High: 7 (3 Dominion) Equal: 4 … Continue reading DS9: The Power of Adversaries, Season 4<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,7,25,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1540"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1540"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1541,"href":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1540\/revisions\/1541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}