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A series of strange murders have rocked DS9. A killer has found a way to shoot crew members (with a bullet!) from anywhere on the station. Odo is perplexed, and his familiarity with crime novels from the 20th century is surprisingly unhelpful. Bashir and O’Brien are too busy playing on the holodeck to be much help. And Sisko is at his wits end! And so the responsibility of catching a murderer falls to Ezri Dax. It’s ‘Field of Fire”.
Ezri quickly realizes that she is unprepared to catch this devious killer. Her one hope lies in Joran, a previous Dax host, who was a serial killer while joined. Using ancient Trill magic, Ezri summons Joran to be her own personal Hannibal Lector. Joran will be able to guide Ezri into the darkness of a killers mind, and with his wisdom and experience they will be able to find the killer before he or she strikes again. Or will Joran’s memories poison Ezri’s mind and turn her into a killer?
DS9 continues its exhausting stretch of Ezri Dax episodes (this is now three in a row since the awful Prodigal Daughter) with “Field of Fire”. It’s an incredibly strange episode. It has moments of brilliance. It also has leaps of logic that make you laugh out loud. It also has some very weird ’90s tech that looks and feels a lot like the Farsight gun in the N64 game, Perfect Dark.
But is it the Ezri episode that finally pulls all the threads together to make a cohesive whole? Or will it be remembered as just another final season episode that focused on an unimportant character?
Wes and Clay discuss “Field of Fire” and try to come to terms with Ezri Dax (yet again). They discuss an episode that has some interesting bones but is beaten down by more mysterious Trill abilities, a logic-breaking murder mystery, and a resolution so strange that you might not believe it.
Plus!
The guys discuss a choir of angels for the Trill, solving crimes with no evidence, and shooting melons!