Product Details

• Actors: Rene Auberjonois, Michael Dorn, Alexander Siddig
• Directors: Rene Auberjonois, Michael Dorn, Alexander Siddig, Corey Allen, Reza Badiyi
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC
• Language: English
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Paramount
• VHS Release Date: March 6, 2001
• Run Time: 46 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000003K8L
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #60,836 in Video (See Bestsellers in Video)

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4.0 out of 5 stars The Doctor has his day, March 19, 2001

By A Customer

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

By	John Joyce (Liversedge, West Yorkshire United Kingdom) - See all my reviews

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.

5.0 out of 5 stars the quickening, May 8, 2002

By A Customer

The alien-plague premise is average, but the execution is almost flawless. I'm not sure why this episode comes together so nicely, maybe it's the solid acting or the well-paced script/directing, but it all gels very admirably. The execution is quiet and steady, allowing the emotional impact of the story to come across with 100% effectiveness. This also allows us to better understand the characters suffering from the plague, and therefore care about what happens to them.

In previous incarnations of Trek it always seemed as though the doctors or engineers were all miracle workers who would somehow find a solution to every episode's problem without fail. I expected this episode to end on a predictable note, i.e. yet another Trek success story, but instead it closes in a much more believable and satisfying way, IMO. It's another example of DS9's emphasis on truth and credibility rather than rosy storytelling.

Acting/directing/writing all effective, and the scene near the end where Bashir hands the baby to Trevean is one of the doc's best moments, as well as of the series. This episode is one of my personal favs.