Hard Time

[VaBeachGuy 12]

Season: 4

Episode No: 491

 

Episode Name: Hard Time

 

Director: Alexander Singer

Teleplay By: Robert Hewitt Wolfe

Story By: Daniel Keys Moran & Lynn Barker

 

Original Air Date: 04-15-1996

 

 

Miles O'Brien is arrested for espionage by the Argrathi and convicted for the crime. His sentence is to spend 20 years in one of their prisons.

 

The way the Argrathi prison system works is by implanting memories into the minds of their prisoners that will make them believe they were incarcerated for many years when in fact they have only been in custody for only a matter of a couple of hours. Chief O'Brien must nor reintegrate back into his real life on DS9. Druring his "years" in the prison his only friend was Ee'char, his cell mate. Now that he is back on DS9 Miles continues to see Ee'char in places around DS9, though no one else can see him.

 

 

Cast:

Avery Brooks as Captain Benjamin Sisko

Rene Auberjonois as Odo

Michael Dorn as Worf

Terry Farrell as Jadzia Dax

Cirroc Lofton as Jake Sisko

Colm Meaney as Miles O'Brien

Armin Shimerman as Quark

Alexander Siddig as Julian Bashir

Nana Visitor as Kira Nerys

 

Guest Cast:

Margot Rose as Rinn

Craig Wasson as Ee'char

[deagletime 1]

awesome episode... one of the great episodes typical of startrek that make you think...

[WildStar 0]

[/color][/size][/font][/i][/b] B) :lol: Irealydont have much of a opinione of the show

[youbroughtheryouRiker 2]

4. It got a little bit cliche, but the scene with the phaser in the cargo bay was so masterfully done, it actually evoked an emotional response from me. It was great.

[Indy 8]

Excellent. I really love the 'torture Miles' episodes and this one is no exception. Extremely well-acted by Colm Meaney. He was able to portray a totally different Miles O'brien. I loved it.

[Voyager recruit 0]

I remember that one, as well. A unique ep. Curiously, I just saw a movie with Craig Wasson in it last weekend, ''Last Stop'' or something, starring Scott Glenn as a rougue CIA 'marksman', who goes off the reservation, to kill someone he felt betrayed him....Craig was a writer who got caught up in it all...

[He Who Shall Not Be Named 2]

The idea doesn't make any sense. You can give someone 20 or so years of memories, but you can't make him 20 years older. The mind will know something is up with that and will quickly figure out that those years didn't really happen.

 

If someone goes "in" when he is 20 and gets 20 years of memories the result is not a 40-year old. He will still have the body of a 20-year old.

[He Who Shall Not Be Named 2]

It would be cool though. Imagine waking up one day and your beer gut is gone, your hair is back, and your penis works again.

[GhostofMajorHayes 10]

A very good ep. I rated it a 4. I liked the concept re: crime and punishment and it showcased some of O'Brien's best acting in the series.

[VaBeachGuy 12]

This has always been one of my favorites from DS9, I thought it was very well written.

[gul_nodrog 2]

Deep Space Nine is my favorite series, but there are episodes that I skip ... anything with Miles in peril and off on his own is a "skipper" for me. So I give this one a 2. I love Colm Meaney and Miles is a great character, but I typically prefer it when the entire ensemble is "together" or at least two or three of them involved in the main story. I feel the same way about most "Jadzia in love" episodes pre-Worf relationship.