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2.0 out of 5 stars
Not good, but not a complete waist of time, May 5, 2001
This review is from: Star Trek - Deep Space Nine, Episode 29: Second Sight [VHS] (VHS Tape)
The main plot of the story is that this terafromer guy comes to the station to bring a nearby sun back to life. Along with him is his wife a mysterious alien with telepathic powers. Shortly after, Capt. Sisko in one of his insomniatic phases, goes for a walk around his station, and meets a mysterious woman (what a coincidence). Well it ends up turning out that the two mysterious women are one and the same. But the one Sisko met is actually a telepathic projection of the other. The wife chick is unhappy in her marrage to the terrafromer. So in a bold gesture he flies the probe type ship into the dead sun bringing it to life, and ending his. Thereby freeing this wife from their marrige. (Actually the coolest part of the episode, and one of the best death scenes in Trek). I may be wrong on some parts, and my symmary is kinda haizy, but thats because this is all from memmory, I would not actually buy the episode, but I'm sure it's in my library somewhere.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
the lady in red plays Sisko's heart like a guitar, November 7, 2004
This review is from: Star Trek - Deep Space Nine, Episode 29: Second Sight [VHS] (VHS Tape)
A melancholy Sisko is introspective on the fourth anniversary of his wife's death at the hands of Locutus (Jean-Luc Picard) and the Borg at Wolf-359. He is restless and walks along the promenade and stares out the window to look at empty space. While stargazing, he encounters an attractive woman in red, named Fenna. He is instantly taken with her and feels really connected to a woman for the first time in 4 years. He turns around to gaze back out the window while talking to her and when he glances back, she is gone. Now, he's not only taken with her, he's intrigued.
Sisko & Dax meet with Professor Gideon Seyetik, a renowned terraformer who wishes to reignite a dead sun and start life for an entire solar system. He is charming and witty, but seems over-involved with telling his own platitudes and after the charm wears off, he bores everyone he is around, including his beautiful wife Nidell, a Halanan, who looks like the woman who Sisko has been pining for, Fenna.
She looks just like Fenna, sounds just like her, but behaves differently and says she doesn't recall ever meeting Sisko before. Sisko had asked Odo to find Fenna for him but Odo had no luck... when Sisko tells Odo that he found her on the docked ship, Prometheus, Odo tells him that this can't be the same woman, because the professor has been the only occupant of the Prometheus to disembark from the ship.
When Sisko encounters Fenna again, he calls for Dax - this is when we know that Sisko isn't just insane, because Dax sees her, too. When she scans her with her tricorder, Dax announces that this woman isn't a woman, but pure energy... which would beg the question as to how Sisko can take her by the hand and drag her to the professor.
They find Seyetik crying over the dying body of Nidell and when he looks up, he yells at Fenna for killing Nidell. Now, Dax and Sisko are definitely tripping. What in the heck is going on? Nidell is the professor's 4th wife - his previous wives left him because he could only talk about himself in grandiose terms and his constant topic of conversation was always his work and his accomplishments. The only reason Nidell has stayed with him, he explains, is that Halanans mate for life. She is miserable, but will never leave him. Fenna is a figment of Nidell's psyche - her race are projecting telepaths and Fenna is an anomoly that affects som Halanans under great stress. He knows Nidell is unhappy with him, but he loves her deeply and decides to make the biggest sacrifice he can to set her free.
When Fenna fades back into Nidell, she has no memory of her romantic encounters with Sisko and he is resigned to now pine for the woman that was (his wife) and the woman that could have been (Fenna). This bittersweet drama of star-crossed lovers is just that - bittersweet, not too sappy. There are some holes here and there, but some interesting concepts. The performance of Richard Kiley (Dr. Seyetik) is the most memorable.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Commander Sisko and the Mysterious Lady wearing red, July 15, 2001
This review is from: Star Trek - Deep Space Nine, Episode 29: Second Sight [VHS] (VHS Tape)
Feeling a bit low following the anniversary of the death of his wife, Sisko encounters a mysterious woman named Fenna, who is dressed in a red catsuit. He is attracted to Fenna and the feeling seems mutual, but then she has this strange habit of disappearing just as things are progressing nicely. Meanwhile, the famous Gideon Seyetik has arrived at DS9 to make the final preparations for his greatest scientific achievement, to bring the dead star Epsilon 119 back to life. When Seyetik invites Sisko and his staff to dinner, the Commander discovers that Seyetik's wife Nidell looks exactly like Fenna. However, Nidell claims she has never met Sisko.
Given that Sisko is still mourning for his beloved Jennifer, "Second Sight" is a bit cruel because the Commander finally finds a woman he is interested in only to discover he is caught in an impossible situation. I do find the idea that Halanans create other individuals from their unconscious during times of emotional stress to be interesting, although certainly problematic in terms of having a career, trying to maintain a relationship or raising children. But there is something about Sisko in love that just makes you want to smile every time Avery Brooks' face lights up. "Second Sight" ends up being an average DS9 episode.
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