Customer Reviews

Star Trek - Deep Space Nine, Episode 17: The Forsaken [VHS]

Rene Auberjonois gets to demonstrate how to act annoyed, baffled and horrified through his centimeters of thick make-up. Yes, Momma Troi is looking for love, and she thinks she's found it the variable form of the station's shape-shifter. And due to some mechanical problem threatening the ship, the two of them become trapped in very close quarters. It mostly turns out to be as silly as it sounds, but it's thankfully quite entertaining. As the episode goes on, we actually learn a little bit of what makes Odo tick. Auberjonois moves from an entertainingly over-the-top, eye-rolling performance into something much more subtle and interesting. The storyline itself similarly moves from amusing to sweet.

The rest of the episode deals with the Deep Space Nine crew trying to overcome some strange occurrences taking place in the station's subsystems. It's fairly tame science-fiction stuff, but it's engaging enough. The Odo subplot is the reason to watch this story.