S7.E8

The Siege of AR-558

Episode aired Nov 18, 1998
TV-PG
45m

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Armin Shimerman and Nicole de Boer in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993)

Capt. Sisko and his away team volunteer to stay with a besieged unit at an isolated outpost.Capt. Sisko and his away team volunteer to stay with a besieged unit at an isolated outpost.Capt. Sisko and his away team volunteer to stay with a besieged unit at an isolated outpost.

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8.6/10

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Trivia
The scene where Quark describes to Nog what happens when Humans' creature comforts are taken away is one of Armin Shimerman's favorite scenes he has ever performed on the show.

Goofs
Captain Sisko is informed only after he beams down to the planet that the captain and first officer of the Starfleet forces there had been killed days earlier. There is no reason this information would have been kept from Starfleet Command or Captain Sisko.

Quotes
Quark: Let me tell you something about Hew-mons, Nephew. They're a wonderful, friendly people, as long as their bellies are full and their holosuites are working. But take away their creature comforts, deprive them of food, sleep, sonic showers, put their lives in jeopardy over an extended period of time and those same friendly, intelligent, wonderful people... will become as nasty and as violent as the most bloodthirsty Klingon. You don't believe me? Look at those faces. Look in their eyes.

Connections
Featured in What We Left Behind: Looking Back at Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (2018)

Soundtracks
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Main Title
Written by Dennis McCarthy

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10/10

Probably the darkest & grittiest episode of Star Trek

This episode was both suffocating and extremely dark, almost too much. The violence itself isn't that gory or over the top, quite the opposite, It's down & dirty & pretty realistic. The fact that the director was a Vietnam Veteran puts the episode into context, because this whole episode feels like it could've been plucked right out of the war.

The episode & ending battle is almost too much, too intense, too hopeless. Which is precisely why it works. The horrors of war spares no one when you're in the fray, be it your mind, body, or soul, a least one piece of them will be left on the battlefield.