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DS9 · SEASON 22×09

Second Sight

NOMADIC PICK · FOR COMPLETISTSA romance that never quite ignites.
FIRST SHOWN (US)
22 November 1993
ON
First-run syndication
STARDATE
47329.4
DIRECTED BY
Alexander Singer
PRODUCTION NO.
429

WRITTEN BYTeleplay by Mark Gehred-O'Connell and Ira Steven Behr & Robert Hewitt Wolfe; story by Mark Gehred-O'Connell

IN BRIEF

SPOILER-FREE

On the anniversary of his wife's death, Sisko meets a captivating woman on the Promenade and falls for her, but Fenna seems to leave no trace anywhere on the station.

SYNOPSIS

SPOILERS
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Four years after the battle of Wolf 359, Sisko is still grieving for Jennifer when he meets Fenna, a mysterious woman who appears while he is looking out at the stars. He is drawn to her, the first time he has felt this way since his loss, but Odo can find no record of her. The famous terraformer Gideon Seyetik arrives on the Prometheus, planning to reignite a dead star, and Sisko is stunned to meet his wife, Nidell, who looks exactly like Fenna but does not know him. After Fenna vanishes in his arms, Dax works out that she is a telepathic projection created by Nidell's unconscious mind. Nidell is deeply unhappy, but her species mates for life, and the projection is now killing her. Seyetik realises the truth and flies into the star himself to set it alight, freeing his wife. Nidell recovers with no memory of Fenna.

DID YOU KNOW?

  1. 01Michael Piller moved the original pitch's focus from Bashir to Sisko, to give the commander a more personal story.
  2. 02The larger-than-life Seyetik was modelled on film director John Huston.
  3. 03Salli Elise Richardson, later known as Salli Richardson-Whitfield, plays both Fenna and Nidell. She went on to star in “Eureka”.
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