The Storyteller

This DS9 story has the action shift to Bajor as Commander Sisko is brought in as a mediator to settle a dispute between two Bajoran communities. Back during Cardassian occupation the river that was the boundary line was diverted and one community was left with a lot less turf. "

Avery Brooks's problem is that the new head of one faction is a 14 earth years Bajoran girl who really has not had much time to just be a kid. Oddly enough his son Cirroc Lofton and Aron Eisenberg help with that.

And Chief O'Brien gets a job he doesn't want as savior of a village from a monster. What is the monster? Refer to Forbidden Planet for the answer.

I read the other reviews and I disagree. I enjoyed how it showed character development plus the strength of friendship and compromise. And I certainly don't understand why everyone is so down on Jake and Nog. I get a kick out of them. True friends, despite all the odds against them. This was not an action driven episode. Both stories were about relationships. You don't have to blow things up to make a point. And it's alright to be a little bit lighthearted once in awhile.

We have in this episode the potential for civil war between 2 factions if they don't come to some sort of an agreement on the space station moderated by Commander Sisko. Wait.....didn't we just have a civil war episode?

Notice: There is a Laugh Out Loud moment here when O'Brien dons a cape and goes onto a hillside to give the natives a pep talk to dispel a monster. No, I'm not kidding.

Notice: Jake Sisko's friend (the Ferengi boy) Nog tells Jake he doesn't want to go to a holosuite and play baseball because it is so stinking boring. Nog even reminds Jake that humans have not played baseball for several hundred years. I wonder what has happened to professional football and basketball in the future?

Bad, but not offensive. Just very middle of the road D-tier TNG episode. There's been an uncomfortable number of episodes this series where the cast are just.. Hating being there. Colm phones this one in so hard that Bashir's performance actually looks competent by comparison. There's a scene in particular with entirely ADR'd dialogue because of the wind machine where Colm might as well be reading from a phone book. Really cringe stuff.

Some cute stuff with Jake and Nog and Odo elevates this to a 4, but as an episode it has no linking theme between the A and B plot resulting in a disjointed mess that doesn't say anything. Trek at its best asks big moral questions. This is just community theatre and asks nothing.

Random cameo from The Punisher Jon Bernthal as an uncredited Bajoran villager.

Another Lame and boring episode with the Doctor and O'brien going down to Bajor on what turns out to be an assine and boring mission.

Also, the kids portion is just plain dumb. Like Save By the Bell dumb but with more Odo and Sisko ridiculous scolding for no good reason.