Star Trek Deep Space Nine - The Complete Fifth Season | 
 enlarge | Directors: Avery Brooks, Alexander Siddig, Allan Kroeker, Andrew Robinson, David Livingston
Actors: Avery Brooks, Rene Auberjonois, Michael Dorn, Terry Farrell, Cirroc Lofton
Studio: Paramount
Category: DVD
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Rating:  36 reviews
Sales Rank: 11246
Format: Box Set, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dvd-video, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number Of Discs: 7
Running Time: 1181 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.5 x 1.1
MPN: PARD058964D
ISBN: 0792189264
UPC: 097360589641
EAN: 9780792189268
ASIN: B00008KA59
Theatrical Release Date: January 4, 1993
Release Date: October 7, 2003
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Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 05/23/2006
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Deep Space Nine's fifth season was a turning point from which there was no going back. Character and information overload took over, and the complicated twists and turns in the build up to war either hooked viewers securely, or sent them away with a headache. The Klingon faction instigated by Worf's arrival was occasionally played for laughs, but mostly their hardheaded personalities made all efforts at diplomacy moot. In the opening episode a chilling possibility is proposed as to what might be: have the Changelings infiltrated already and replaced key personnel? Some fans saw this as a flawed X-Files-style development. Nevertheless it sowed a seed of insidious suspicion, affecting all the principal casts' relationships with one another, even allowing Odo and Quark an opportunity to confess a degree of friendship. Expanding on the new theme of duplication, the crew also made numerous trips to their mirror-universe counterparts. As well as new uniforms and the milestone 100th episode, Nana Visitor and Alexander Siddig got to comically disguise the arrival of their child during filming. More laughs came from the fan favorite "Trials and Tribble-ations," with CG allowing Sisko and crew to interact with Kirk and a cameo from Leonard Nimoy. Avery Brooks began taking a backseat, partly a result of the now-overcrowded cast. Although Sisko's destiny would be foreshadowed by his first vision and the introduction of the Pah-wraiths, the Captain was in an increasingly sulky mood. Brooks only directed one episode, allowing room for regulars LeVar Burton and Rene Auberjonois to do more behind the camera. Joining them were Alexander Siddig, Michael Dorn and even Andrew Robinson. Available space started to seem hardly deep enough. --Paul Tonks
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 Awesome viewing!! December 23, 2008
Fly (US of America)
Star Trek Deep Space Nine is always awesome viewing! A must have in your Star Trek fans viewing collection.
Deep Trek - The Dominion Invasion and Terok Nor December 6, 2008
OverTheMoon (overthemoonreview@hotmail.com)
The Star Trek Collection is a worthy hobby and certainly the largest of the television series DVD Collections (The Original Series, The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager and Enterprise). At around 880 minutes, it is 4 episodes (1 Disc) less than TNG, and at least 2 Discs less than TOS. However in total, for the definitive, Star Trek collection, we are still looking at approx 30 boxes with 700 hours of viewing. That is 1 month of non-stop Star Trek. No DVD series comes remotely close to that. Get going collecting right now and build up on each succession over the years. By the end you will have a very serious anthology that defines the word awe. This is the kind of item that requires 1 hour a day of your time for the next few years. It is a cherished memory that served your fathers and will serve your children also. Our very planet, Earth, has advanced because of Gene Roddenberry's admirable concept. Roddenberry nailed the premise of the series when he said that he wanted to create a show with characters that we could look up too. They are like our family. Watch what they do. Then go and spend your life striving for the same on Earth. What engineer, medic, scientist, teacher, worker cannot say that Star Trek has not influenced them? The show is this significant in the development of our species. Parents respect and quote its authority and it is not hard to see why. The DVD case may be the best of the lot. The shadowy design is foreboding of a darker trek inside. The case opens to reveal the 6 discs and a collectors' DVD-ROM of a section of a model graphic of DS9 (collect all complete the computer model). The discs are held in an open (no cardboard covering) plastic flip holder like in the TOS seasons. However these collectors' boxes are being replaced by the new slim line boxes that are cheaper. These are simply a cardboard holder with four to five slim DVD case holders with 1 to 2 discs in each holder (The slim line boxes do not contain the special collectors' DVD-ROM). There are 4 episodes per disc. However the last disc, disc 6 is devoted to Star Trek interviews and trailers with the usual expected extras...and then some more. Often the bonus disc may contain the last episode or two of the season, so watch out for those. Sometimes the episodes are ordered not in the sequence they were filmed, but in the sequence that they aired, however each episode has been numbered according to the order they were filmed in. This means on one disc you have shows 4, 2, 12 and 1, in that order. The sound has also been remastered to 5:1 Dolby Digital! Since the show was shot in full frame, these dimensions are retained.
Star Trek, Deep Space Nine (DS9), Season five is mostly about the coming invasion of the dominion, alliances, divisions and relationships.
The same crew is back. DS9 is commanded by Benjamin Sisko. Jake Sisko is his son. Odo is the station's metamorphosing police constable and a Bajoran operative. Doctor Bashir is the Starfleet doctor and Chief O'Brien is chief engineer. Quark is a Ferengi host who owns a casino and bar. Major Kira is Sisko's first in command, and a Bajoran. Lt. Commander Jadzia Dax is a Trill woman (and a long term friend of Sisko) assigned by Starfleet as technical advisor. Gul Dukat is a leading Cardassian. The Cardassian Garak has a permanent role since season four, as do Quarks brother Rom and his nephew Nog who are now part of Starfleet.
Season Five of DS9 is mostly about impersonations, stand offs, honour, horrors of war, wraiths, time travel, Worf and Dax, Terok Nor, cooperation, visions, revenge, changelings, traitors, Jem'Hadar prisons, holograms, mysterious women, debt, dissidents, The Grand Nagus, Klingon crews, drugs, baseball cards and the Dominion Invasion.
Best episodes are The Ascent, The Begotten, In Purgatory's Shadow (By Inferno's Light), Blaze of Glory and Call to Arms.
DS9 Season five is not quite as good as season four but a few seasons make up for it, however there are a few dodgy episodes that are real misses and almost knock it back a star. Aside from these the series has a definite mature direction almost building up to an end and the characters are fully fleshed out. Since season four introduced the Defiant at least half of the shows have a Star Trek ship besides the DS9 station. It has worked wonders to be able to trek again. Bringing Worf in from season four was also a winner. This season though is darker than four, it has less humour and is heading towards a depressing time as the Dominion slowly flood through the wormhole preparing their attack. Also DS9 is transforming into its former Terok Nor. This is a very interesting dimension and maybe more fascinating than the war itself. The CGI in this season stands out, lots of improvements, lots of space battles and lots of fighting. So it is all about the Dominions plans to conquer the Federation but it plays out slowly and has a bit of a stark ending for the federation but the final images suggest that the biggest battles have yet to come. So with season six we are expecting the real war. Bring on the revenge of the federation.
DS9 - Season Five September 11, 2008
P. McCoy (Greenbelt, MD United States)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I've been enjoying DS9 from when it was aired on television and again on DVD beginning with "The Emissary". Each season has gotten progressively better and Season Five is one of the most FUN! Currently, I am re-watching the episode: "Looking for Par'Mach in All The Wrong Places", and enjoying it again! I can't wait to see the remainder of the episodes in this season!
One Of The Few Seasons I Truly Liked June 25, 2008
Rich (CA)
I've just finished my collection of the Deep Space Nine seasons sets about five months ago and I personally feel this is one of the best seasons of the show. This season big opener of course was when Odo lost his shape-shifting abilities and became a solid and for a few episodes you saw how he had to try and adjust to this new way of living. Of course you still had the war between Starfleet and the Klingon Empire for half the season before the Dominion signs a pact with the Cardassians which in turn forces the Klingons to retreat from Dominion/Cardassian Space. Babylon 5 will still be my favorite of the two but this season was for the most part pretty good. The video format is fullscreen but very clear much better than any Vhs tape the sound is also very clear hearinf much more detail than when I first saw it on t.v. So seeing as the price of these season sets has dropped more I say try some of these out and see if you like getting the rest of the season sets.
Another great season August 24, 2007
M. Herzog (chicago)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
My reviews have been a little different, as each one is after watching all episodes back to back for the first time. As such, I've been able to see so much more than having to have waited for a year to enjoy them all. This show has had so many little things that added up from previous seasons. The characters have grown and changed, the cast has grown with it. The stories have gotten better, and more interesting. All of which led to the last episode...the begining of the dominion war. I was thrilled. Sisko has come into his own as captain. All the characters are now more and more interesting. The supporting characters are great, and frankly this show is one of the best science fiction shows around. I regret treating this show like the middle child it seemed to be. Left after the next generation, but not allowed to become the flagship show (that was left to voyager), constantly having to fight off other sci-fi competitors (babylon 5), this show was always given the raw end of the stick. But the show didn't seem to care. Every season has improved, and rather than copy what others had done, this show stayed the course it always intended. Having watched this show from the begining, you can tell the intent for the dominion war from as soon as season 2. This show could have played off old star trek cliche's, but instead chose to be its own, for better or worse. Try this show. I ignored it for far to long and missed out on some of the best science fiction had to offer.
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