Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Season 4 [1995]

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The fourth series of Deep Space Nine can be summed up in one word: Klingons! The show's producers apparently felt beset from all sides. Babylon 5 was a huge hit, as was Star Trek: Voyager, the flagship of new channel UPN. Stepping up DS9's action quotient seemed to be the answer. Time would tell, however, whether doing so via Trek's tried-and-tested former bad guys was the best solution. Opening with a special two-hour extravaganza, the new year was immediately unfamiliar. Dennis McCarthy's original theme--despite winning an Emmy--was deemed too subdued. As its upbeat new rendition kicked off, the station was seen in battle and swarming with activity. Moments later, we met old/new crewmember Worf, whose sudden appearance was the result of a brewing invasive strategy by the Klingons. This initiated the first of many loyalty shifts, as the Cardassians became the victims. With plenty of re-appearances by Gowron, Kor and Kurn, it was clear that an ongoing space opera was being crafted. Dukat revealed a tragedy-ridden daughter; Odo's relationship with his people (and Kira) became increasingly melancholy; and even the Jem'Hadar foot soldiers were given a sympathetic angle by their drug addiction.

Adding to the layers of ambiguity about Earth's (read: the Producers') position over being at war, was the "outing" of Eddington and Sisko's girlfriend as rebel activists. Lest we forget the homely/spiritual side of the Captain, time was spent with a future version of Jake, with his father (Brock Peters), and on the nature of his role as "The Emissary". Avery Brooks worked behind the camera a couple of times, but this year the surprise was LeVar Burton directing five shows. There was still time for comedy: the Ferengi warped back to Roswell in 1947 and Bashir played at James Bond. But the year will be recalled predominately for its violence. One of the episodes Burton directed had its fight scenes drastically cut, while the series as a whole won an Emmy for its space battle effects.

On the DVD: Deep Space Nine, Series 4 contains more than two hours of extra features. Although they might all have been better compiled into one long documentary, the sections devoted to Aliens, Production Design and Artwork are, nevertheless, nicely contained. "Charting New Territory" is a 20-minute featurette on all the big changes attempted this year: Worf's introduction, arming the station and being daring with stand-alone episodes. There's also a terrific and candid dossier on Michael Dorn (Worf), ten mini-cameo cast tales, four seasons' worth of episode introductions, and a well-stocked Photo Gallery. All this can be found on the set's seventh disc; there's also the fourth CD-ROM disc, which allows you to build your own station at home. --Paul Tonks END

Customer Reviews:

Watch this space.......2006-05-02

This has to be the best season of DS9, with it's strong scripts and ever dark feeling this paved the way for the other seasons more darker tone; the best episode being Hard Time where the character of the chief goes through torment and shows the level of acting in the cast; one to watch

Outstanding achievement.......2005-12-03

This season sees the cast of DS9 becoming really grounded in what they do, as well as excellent scripting, storylines, action/battle scenes etc. This has to be the best season of DS9 there is. Although some of the episodes are very political, the pleasing acting performances of each character sustains enjoyment.

Best episodes:
The Way of a Warrior 1 & 2
Starship Down
Paradise Lost 1 & 2
Shattered Mirror
Hard Time

Excellent special features make this is a 100% must have.

One ground breaking season.......2005-07-25

This is where it all begins to come clear the Cardassians have closed their borders the Fedreation is aiming itself to the teeth and the Klingons are preparing to invade Cardassian space.

The season begins where everyone are starting to panick about the iminant Dominian invasion starfleet are about to go back to war with the Klingons as the station has now got its own weapons array with the re-introduction of everyones favourite Klingon Lt Cmdr Worf in the season premire Way of the warrior this is on great season there is a great emmy award apperence of Tony(Kurn)Todd in the episode the visitor in which we see an age old Jake Sisko trying to save his father from a time warp Todd would reprise his role as Kurn later on in the season in the episode Sons of Morgh and the great two parter Homefront/Paradise Lost in which we see that the changlings have even stretched their presence as far as Earth and of course a return to the mirror universe in Shattered Mirror one great season.

It all starts coming together........2005-03-02

This season is one of the best star trek seasons there are, and considering there have been 28 seasons in 5 series's thats quite an achievement. It includes very memorable episodes including Way of a Warrior when a certain klingon officer joins the series and the very funny Little Green Men. And at the end Odo gets... well you'll have to buy it and find out.

The Best So Far.......2004-08-09

Having been a big fan of the next gen and only having caught a few episodes of DS9 on sky i was never a fan. But last christmas my wife bought me season 1 after running out of Next Gen box sets and all i can say, what good job she did.

If your going to buy just one season though, make it this one, season 4 is the best so far and i cant think of a better series even next gen seems a little flat after this.

Great show, great packaging, great dvd's.

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Fishing for beginners? Where's the useful info.

Fishing For Beginners - Coarse Fishing
Fishing for Beginners
Manufacturer: Pegasus Entertainment
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Release Date: 2006-06-12

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Fishing for beginners? Where's the useful info........2007-08-17

I recently rented this DVD, I'd have been seriously annoyed had I bought it!
This seems to have been very poorly put together. It consists of three segments of different anglers, but there is very little instruction. It shows none of the things a beginner would expect to see. One of the things that annoyed me the most with this was the suggestion that most beginners start with pole fishing. I am not a complete novice angler, I learnt, as many of us do, from my father. I recently came to realise he knows less than I thought so have been filling gaps in my knowledge. In my years of basic angling I've never come across anyone who started with pole fishing! Only one of the segments on this DVD covered rod & reel fishing. Not only did I not learn anything, I found this difficult to watch. It wasn't interesting!

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One of the greatest ever premiership players!!.......2003-11-21

Di Canio will always be remembered at West Ham for being a brilliant footballer. The most entertaining ever to play for West Ham and this dvd shows why he will always be a hammers legend.The goal against wimbledon is a good enough reason to buy this dvd alone.

The West Ham God is available on DVD.......2001-09-09

Paolo Di Canio-the saviour of West Ham United. Never has a DVD contained so much skill on one disc.A must disc for all supporters of West Ham and Paolo Di Canio.The disc that everyone has been waiting for as been delivered excellently on this one disc set.It has interviews, match incidents and all the highlights of a footballing genius' career.

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