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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine :: The Siege of AR-558 (07x08)
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| Title: | The Siege of AR-558 |
| Episode #: | 07x08 |
| Production Number: | 558 |
| Original Airdate: | Wednesday November 18th, 1998 |
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The Defiant heads to AR-558, a former Dominion communications array now under Federation control. The array, however, isn't giving ups its secrets too easily and all attempts to link up with the array have proven fruitless. With subspace mines set up around the asteroid and Jem'Hadar soldiers continuing to lay siege to the rock, coupled with Federation forces that have been holding the array for five months, the Defiant crew find a demoralized force in place. When the Jem'Hadar attack yet again, Sisko elects to stay behind with his team in order to hold the ground.
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Ferengi Rules of Acquisition
Ezri quote Quark the thirty-fourth Ferengi Rule of Acquisition: War is good for business. Also, Quark quotes Nog the one hundred twenty-fifth rule: You can't make a deal if you're dead.
| Bill Mumy, who plays Lennier in Babylon 5, is yet another artist from the aforementioned series to star in Deep Space Nine.
| The Dominion communications array in this episode, AR-558, takes its name from the episode's production number.
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Kellin: I'm sorry, Captain, but I'm an engineer, not a magician.
| Quark: Let me tell you something about Hu-mans, Nog. They're a wonderful, friendly people — as long as their bellies are full and their holosuites are working. But take away their creature comforts...deprive them of food, sleep, sonic showers ... put their lives in jeopardy over an extended period of time and those same friendly, intelligent, wonderful people will become as nasty and violent as the most blood-thirsty Klingon.
| Benjamin: (referring to the list of war casualties) They're not just names, we have to remember that. We have to remember that...
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The Siege: Platoon
The disheartened soldiers definding Communications Array AR-558, along with the music that accompanies the siege of the array by the Jem'Hadar, shares quite a few similarities with many Vietnam War movies, particularly that of the 1986 Oliver Stone film Platoon.
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