Sanctuary
- Episode aired Nov 28, 1993
- TV-PG
- 46m
IMDb RATING
6.4/10
2.2K
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A race that has been conquered twice over, one of the conquerors being the mysterious Dominion, comes to the station seeking aid and a new home.A race that has been conquered twice over, one of the conquerors being the mysterious Dominion, comes to the station seeking aid and a new home.A race that has been conquered twice over, one of the conquerors being the mysterious Dominion, comes to the station seeking aid and a new home.
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Alexander Siddig
- Doctor Julian Bashir
- (as Siddig El Fadil)
Robert Curtis Brown
- Vedek Sorad
- (as Robert Curtis-Brown)
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Did you know
- TriviaKitty Swink, who plays Minister Rozahn, is Armin Shimerman's wife.
- GoofsHaneek walks through an airlock and supposedly on to her ship. You can see the actor's reflection in the door, trying to get off-camera.
- ConnectionsFeatured in What We Left Behind: Looking Back at Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (2018)
- SoundtracksStar Trek: Deep Space Nine - Main Title
(uncredited)
Written by Dennis McCarthy
Performed by Dennis McCarthy
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Such wasted potential. Episode portrays refugee alien race as arrogant
This episode has a good concept and good intentions but suffer from a truly unlikeable and abhorrent alien race. So often in Star Trek do we have aliens in need or in emergencies being arrogant and refusing all help or solutions. And then they have the audacity to spit in the face of the people helping them and act high and mighty. This is fine if that is your intention, but clearly the writer's want the audience to support and sympathise with the alien 'Skreeans' here. All of the major character relationships between the Skreeans and DS9 crew are supposed to make us sympathise with the Skreeans but in the end they just come off as the bad guys. Kira's determined help and support to Neela is ignored by the latter, as she apparently blames Kira for everything and hates her. This plot also uses the very bland cliche of the aliens looking for some holy land or prophecy. Instead of taking the amazing offer of a planet ripe for harvest, they burden a space station and demand that they be placed on a world with a fragile political system and government. They act as if the Bajor's are at fault and stupid for rejecting their offer but that again comes off as arrogant, especially when Bajor has hundreds of reasons to reject these volatile and selfish aliens.
I wish this episode worked better and i wish I didn't dislike the Skreeans as much as I do here. Because clearly the political allegories are positively intended here, especially when 7 million Skreeans crowd the promenade. With all the political significance of the Refugee Crisis in Europe that became rampant in 2015, and especially with the recent evacuation in Afghanistan, a good story about refugees in sci-fi is really important to have. It's been a shame to see people on Facebook from my country acting like children, whining that there's 'not enough room' and 'stay out' (even though we have plenty room). These ideas play a role in the episode but the writer's messed up somewhere or other because the Skreeans only end up in a negative light.
And I wish I felt empathetic for them while they wander the station but the episode only gives me reasons to dislike them. Even their cultural differences, like the matriarchy don't provide much new or interesting, instead it gives us more reason to dislike them when they make fun of other species or when the male Skreeans act like high school bullies. I don't know what else to say about this episode, the plot is rather bland and the performances by Kira is good, as well as Quark, but the Skreean performances are not much to write home about. You hate the kid from the beginning and the episode never gives a reason why we should feel sympathetic for him, even when Nog pesters him, he overreacts wildly by assaulting Nog. I don't know what else to say but it's an okay episode with its few positive qualities being the foreshadowing of the Dominion and Kira's wholehearted intentions.
The best scene is in the beginning is her getting frustrated with Bajor and her discussion with a Bajor musician. It gives us some more information about the happenings on Bajor, how everything is still underfunded and the Bajor musician is trying to get funding for this opera hall. Especially funny is when Quark gets annoyed because the musician captivates his customers so much that they don't gamble as much when they're listening to the music.
I wish this episode worked better and i wish I didn't dislike the Skreeans as much as I do here. Because clearly the political allegories are positively intended here, especially when 7 million Skreeans crowd the promenade. With all the political significance of the Refugee Crisis in Europe that became rampant in 2015, and especially with the recent evacuation in Afghanistan, a good story about refugees in sci-fi is really important to have. It's been a shame to see people on Facebook from my country acting like children, whining that there's 'not enough room' and 'stay out' (even though we have plenty room). These ideas play a role in the episode but the writer's messed up somewhere or other because the Skreeans only end up in a negative light.
And I wish I felt empathetic for them while they wander the station but the episode only gives me reasons to dislike them. Even their cultural differences, like the matriarchy don't provide much new or interesting, instead it gives us more reason to dislike them when they make fun of other species or when the male Skreeans act like high school bullies. I don't know what else to say about this episode, the plot is rather bland and the performances by Kira is good, as well as Quark, but the Skreean performances are not much to write home about. You hate the kid from the beginning and the episode never gives a reason why we should feel sympathetic for him, even when Nog pesters him, he overreacts wildly by assaulting Nog. I don't know what else to say but it's an okay episode with its few positive qualities being the foreshadowing of the Dominion and Kira's wholehearted intentions.
The best scene is in the beginning is her getting frustrated with Bajor and her discussion with a Bajor musician. It gives us some more information about the happenings on Bajor, how everything is still underfunded and the Bajor musician is trying to get funding for this opera hall. Especially funny is when Quark gets annoyed because the musician captivates his customers so much that they don't gamble as much when they're listening to the music.
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- romkevdv17
- Nov 7, 2021
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