First Minister Shakaar visits the station, despite a threat of assassination. He falls in love with Kira much to Odo's dismay.First Minister Shakaar visits the station, despite a threat of assassination. He falls in love with Kira much to Odo's dismay.First Minister Shakaar visits the station, despite a threat of assassination. He falls in love with Kira much to Odo's dismay.
- Jake Sisko
- (credit only)
- Bajoran Officer
- (uncredited)
- Cardassian Computer
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
- Jones
- (uncredited)
- Bajoran Woman
- (uncredited)
- Bajoran Officer
- (uncredited)
- Bajoran Civilian
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThe platter Quark uses to serve hasperat on is shaped like the Starfleet insignia.
- GoofsBoth Odo and Worf talk about having established routines, such as Odo mentioning his patrol of the station as being so predictable that shopkeepers could set their watches by it.
This is NOT what good security personnel would do. A predictable routine would allow criminals and such to know where the officer would be - and not be - to plan their activities.
- Quotes
[Quark is complaining about the noise Odo makes at night in his quarters]
Quark: Do you know what it's like to hear someone practice shape-shifting? Last night, it sounded like a Takaran wildebeest was tromping around up there.
Odo: That was for all of five minutes. Once you complained, I took the form of a Rafalian mouse.
Quark: Yeah. Little tiny feet, skittering across the floor, back and forth, back and forth.
Major Kira: You could hear that?
Quark: [pointing at his ears] Hello?
- ConnectionsReferences Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987)
- SoundtracksStar Trek: Deep Space Nine - Main Title
(uncredited)
Written by Dennis McCarthy
Performed by Dennis McCarthy
This is a reasonably good episode with some decent character development for Odo.
It depends on how much you care for the Odo/Kira arc for how much interest you can take in this story. Rene Auberjonois does a great job of portraying a character tortured by his feelings for someone.
Another good aspect is how Quark's enemy/best mate relationship with Odo plays into the problem and it further develops the bond between the two characters.
Where it slightly falls down for me (as usual in the writing Star Trek episodes) is the romance between Kira and Shakaar. He was portrayed as quite an interesting character in the previous appearance in the episode 'Shakaar', but unfortunately this time he is reduced being a simple love interest. Duncan Regehr is a great actor but he cannot save the bland characterisation and lack of effort made by the writers to make it a plausible coupling.
Personally I think it would have been better to have sent the three characters on a cool mission somewhere and let the love between Shakaar and Kira develop from that, with Odo observing. Crossfire depicts a typical Trek romance where characters are in love because they just are.
Overall though there are more positives than negatives, particularly the performances and continuity of on going character arcs.
For me it's a 6.5/10 but I round upwards.
- snoozejonc
- Sep 7, 2022