"Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" Chimera (1999)

User Rating:

7.0/10   

Director:

Stephen L. Posey

Writers:

Gene Roddenberry (creator: "Star Trek")
Rick Berman (creator) ...

TV Series:

"Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" (1993)

Original Air Date:

17 February 1999 (Season 7, Episode 14)

Genre:

Action | Sci-Fi | Thriller

Plot:

After searching out and finding Odo, another changeling asks him to leave DS9 with him, even though the rest of the crew aren't convinced the new changeling is not part of the Founders. |

Plot Keywords:

Fire | Stabbed In The Chest | Fog | Wormhole | Klingon

Cast

Avery Brooks	...	Captain Sisko
Rene Auberjonois	...	Odo
Nicole de Boer	...	Lieutenant Ezri Dax (as Nicole deBoer)
Michael Dorn	...	Lt. Commander Worf
Cirroc Lofton	...	Jake Sisko (credit only)
Colm Meaney	...	Chief O'Brien
Armin Shimerman	...	Quark
Alexander Siddig	...	Doctor Bashir
Nana Visitor	...	Colonel Kira
J.G. Hertzler	...	Laas (as Garman Hertzler)
John Eric Bentley	...	Klingon
Joel Goodness	...	Deputy

Trivia:

Hertzler based his performance on William Shatner. He wanted Laas to be annoyingly judgmental, as if humanoids are beneath him, and that all they do is upset the natural balance of things. Shatner has that way of taking extended pauses and over enunciation. That could work for Laas. He described it as "Laas doing William Shatner doing Kirk!"

Quotes:

Odo: Laas, humanoids are not the petty, limited creatures you perceive them to be. What Nerys did should prove that even to you.
Laas: Love conquers all, is that it?
Odo: I'm sorry you can't understand. You've done many things, been many things. But you've never known love.
Laas: Compared to the link, it is a pale shadow, a feeble attempt to compensate for the isolation that mono-forms feel because they are trapped within themselves.
Odo: Perhaps the fact that it's not easy is what makes it worthwhile.