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The Doctor has his day, March 19, 2001
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This review is from: Star Trek - Deep Space Nine, Episode 95: The Quickening [VHS] (VHS Tape)
Imagine a world, where your only crime was to be "solid" and to have your own free will. Because of this, you're stricken with a disease that causes you increasing pain as you age, kills you in the prime of your life "quickly" in the most painful way possible as you reach your prime, and is passed on from generation to generation. Thats what Doctor Bashir finds on a routine trip to the Gamma Quadrant. A planet where everyone waits to die, and suicide is the only way out. Convinced that he can help these poor souls, he dedicates his life to try and find the cure. But what can one man do, when death is more appealing than hope? The story conveys what one man can do, and what hope can bring to people in need.
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2.0 out of 5 stars
Bashir better be quickening... I'm... QUICK!, August 20, 2000
This review is from: Star Trek - Deep Space Nine, Episode 95: The Quickening [VHS] (VHS Tape)
Bashir and Dax find a planet whose inhabitents have annoyed the Founders and suffered the consequences, the whole race is infected with a disease called 'the Blight'. Bashir is desperate to find a cure to this hideous disease, but his electronic equipment makes 'the Blight' worse. With no equipment can the Doctor save a whole race? A strange episode that concentrates on Bashir's relationship with a patient, Ekoria, who is heavily pregnant and trusts Bashir.
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3.0 out of 5 stars
An enormous logical hole and somewhat predictable, December 3, 2011
This review is from: Star Trek - Deep Space Nine, Episode 95: The Quickening [VHS] (VHS Tape)
This episode has an interesting premise, but it is also quite predictable in certain key plot points. Moving through the Gamma quadrant in a runabout, Dax, Julian and Kira encounter a distress beacon. When Dax and Julian land they discover a planet devastated by a plague virus unleashed by the Jem'Hadar. Children are born with it; they are marked with blue splotch marks. The virus lays dormant until it becomes active at random times. When it becomes active, the blue marks become red and the victim dies a very painful death. The "healer" on the planet is called Trevean and he gives the victim poison so that their death is as quick and painless as possible.
Dr. Bashir tries to help, but this is a society where the suffering and quick death have resigned the people to their fate. Yet, he does find a few allies and works desperately to save them. Bashir suffers from a crisis of confidence until he finally discovers that while he cannot cure all of them; it is possible to sure some so that eventually the people will be free of the virus.
The problem with this episode is that it has two large logical holes. The first is that a Federation runabout could be at a planet populated by humanoids and not be discovered by the Jem'Hadar. But the really large one has to do with the tactics of the Jem'Hadar. They infected the population with the virus to serve as an example. Therefore, the defeat of the virus would be discovered by the Jem'Hadar, after all the planet is in the Gamma Quadrant, so they would come back and devastate the planet even more. Therefore, what Bashir did will be of no long-term benefit for the population.
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