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Conference 7.286::star_trek

Title:STAR TREK
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Created:Mon Feb 10 1986
Last Modified:Thu Jun 05 1997
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1097.0. "ST:DS9 - Empok Nor" by DECCXL::WIBECAN (That's the way it is, in Engineering!) Thu Mar 27 1997 13:15

This note is for discussion of the STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE episode entitled
"Empok Nor."

[Season 5, episode 24]

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1097.1DECCXL::WIBECANThat's the way it is, in Engineering!Thu Mar 27 1997 13:191
Garak/O'Brien episode, I believe.
1097.2skylab.zko.dec.com::FISHERGravity: Not just a good idea. It's the law!Thu Mar 27 1997 15:314
I wonder what Empok Nor means.  It sounds Cardassian (DS9 was Tarek Nor, wasn't
it?)

Burns
1097.3DECCXL::WIBECANThat's the way it is, in Engineering!Thu Mar 27 1997 17:316
>> DS9 was Tarek Nor, wasn't it?

Close.  I would have thought "Tarok Nor" or "Tarek Nor" myself, but Robert H.
Wolfe recently answered the spelling question, and it's "Terok Nor".

						Brian
1097.4UFP::LARUEJeff LaRue: Regional Network ConsultantThu Apr 10 1997 22:213
    Empok Nor is another Cardassian space station......(imho)
    
    -Jeff
1097.5Press info, from VidiotDECCXL::WIBECANThat's the way it is, in Engineering!Mon Apr 28 1997 15:3253
Empok Nor

Episode #122

Production #522

                                 SPELLINGS
              [none]

                                    CAST
              Captain Benjamin Sisko        Avery Brooks
              Odo                           Rene Auberjonois
              Lieutenant Commander Worf     Michael Dorn
              Lieutenant Commander Jadzia
              Dax                           Terry Farrell
              Jake Sisko                    Cirroc Lofton
              Chief Operations Officer Miles
              O'Brien                       Colm Meaney
              Quark                         Armin Shimerman
              Dr. Julian Bashir             Alexander Siddig
              Major Kira Nerys              Nana Visitor

                                GUEST STARS

                                     as
              Garak                         Andrew J. Robinson
              Nog                           Aron Eisenberg
              Pechetti                      Tom Hodges
              Boq'ta                        Andy Milder
              Stolzoff                      Marjean Holden
              Amaeo                         Jeffrey King

              Teleplay by:                  Hans Beimler

              Story by:                     Bryan Fuller

              Directed by:                  Michael Vejar

PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS

     STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE: "Empok Nor" - O'Brien, Garak, Nog and a
     salvage team are stranded on a supposidly abandoned Cardassian space
     station.

TV GUIDE AD

     STRANDED WITH THE ENEMY
     Garak becomes a killer...
     And O'Brien becomes his prey.

TV LOG LISTING

     O'Brien stalked by a killer Garak on STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE.
1097.6DECCXL::WIBECANThat's the way it is, in Engineering!Wed May 28 1997 13:4531
I'm on the fence about this one.  I thought the suspense was well done, but I
also felt there were few surprises (except one, which I'll discuss under a
spoiler).  Excellent acting jobs by Garak and O'Brien; I really like those
characters.

Spoilers...


The one surprise was at the end of the fight with O'Brien re-asserting he
wasn't a soldier, he was an engineer, and then showing what an engineer can do. 
Good one!

I also liked the conversation at the end between Garak and O'Brien; really well
done.

But, as soon as I saw four new crew members with speaking roles, I knew they
were history.  I was kind of rooting for the blue guy and the woman, they
appealed to me, but no such luck.  And perhaps the previews or press info gave
it away, but I knew Garak was going to turn on them; I think the whole business
about the psychotropic drug and Garak's weird demeanor (plus the yucky stuff he
put his hand onto) made that obvious anyway.  The pursuit scenes were staged
well, but the whole episode was one big pursuit scene; the plot could have been
summarized in ten minutes.

I did like seeing how O'Brien faced his past as a soldier, and how he handled a
dire situation, and how Nog worked under pressure.  Garak was wonderful; I
loved his scene where he was trying to get into the computer system and talking
to himself.  (I thought he would babble on for five minutes or more, and then
someone would claim it was a Babylon 5 tie-in.)

						Brian