Captain Sisko lost a friend when his ship was lost near the Cardassian border. As a result he's starting to think about whether or not he should leave Starfleet sick of the whole situation with the Dominion. Then, all of a sudden, he starts to see things that aren't really there and ends up at the infirmary where doctor Bashir states that his neural patterns are back to the way they were when he was having visions from the prophets. So far so good, but the rest of the episode is pretty much all about Sisko and the other major characters on DS9 being different people in 1950's America working as science fiction-writers...
It's a good story and it takes up important issues such as racism. It's also kind of fun to see the actors that play Odo, Worf, Quark and so on to look like they normally do without any makeup and such on. I honestly didn't even recognize some of them right away. But I feel like I'm waiting for something in this episode that never comes. We never get an answer to why Sisko was having these visions, dreams or whatever they were. My guess is that it was the prophets way of getting him to stay in Starfleet, but I still feel that the whole episode is out of context from the rest of the show. And I don't like the suggestion that maybe all of DS9 is just a dream of a science fiction-writer.
It's a good story and it takes up important issues such as racism. It's also kind of fun to see the actors that play Odo, Worf, Quark and so on to look like they normally do without any makeup and such on. I honestly didn't even recognize some of them right away. But I feel like I'm waiting for something in this episode that never comes. We never get an answer to why Sisko was having these visions, dreams or whatever they were. My guess is that it was the prophets way of getting him to stay in Starfleet, but I still feel that the whole episode is out of context from the rest of the show. And I don't like the suggestion that maybe all of DS9 is just a dream of a science fiction-writer.