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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine – The Complete Season Three is a DVD release containing all of the episodes which were broadcast during the series' third season.

Summary[]

From the DVD booklet:

Welcome to the third year of the adventures of Deep Space Nine, remote and abandoned Cardassian outpost stationed on the very edge of the known universe.
The year is 2371, and the power of the Dominion, enforced by the dreaded force of the Jem'Hadar continues to show its dominance as every advance by Alpha Quadrant forces comprehensively rebuffed.
While moves on the galactic chessboard are played out slowly, on board Deep Space 9 station, the key players have immediate issues:
Quark has to deal with restoring the greed of the Ferengi Grand Nagus, becoming the head of a Klingon House, pursuading his nephew not to join Starfleet and disciplining his mother: a female who insists upon making profit and wearing clothes!
Jadzia Dax's Trill heritage threatens first her life, then her friendships, as one by one the personalities of the past hosts of Dax come back to haunt her.
Kira learns she was once a Cardassian, then rejoins her former Resistance Cell leader, taking up arms against her own people.
And Benjamin Sisko travels back in time only to assume a role which means he must intentionally cause the deaths of hundreds of innocent Humans.
While Starfleet officers deals with short-term problems, and Cardassian and Romulan hawks unsuccessfully take a direct approach to conflict, the forces of the Dominion are quietly following a strategy that could alter forever the balance of power in the galaxy.
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Episodes[]

Disc
Episode
1
"The Search, Part I"
"The Search, Part II"
"The House of Quark"
"Equilibrium"
2
"Second Skin"
"The Abandoned"
"Civil Defense"
"Meridian"
3
"Defiant"
"Fascination"
"Past Tense, Part I"
"Past Tense, Part II"
4
"Life Support"
"Heart of Stone"
"Destiny"
"Prophet Motive"
5
"Visionary"
"Distant Voices"
"Through the Looking Glass"
"Improbable Cause"
6
"The Die is Cast"
"Explorers"
"Family Business"
"Shakaar"
7
"Facets"
"The Adversary"
Special Features

Special features[]

Listed is the full array of special features that were standard included on the Region 2 releases:

  • The Birth of the Dominion and Beyond – Ira Steven Behr and others discuss the development of the Dominion, DS9's arch nemesis.
  • Crew Dossier: Odo – Features interviews with Rene Auberjonois on the subject of his Changeling character, Odo.
  • USS Defiant – The writers and designers of the series discuss the creation and development of the Defiant, one of Star Trek's most popular ships. (Region 2 only)
  • Time Travel Files: "Past Tense" – Cast and crew discuss one of the series' most popular episodes.
  • Sailing Through the Stars: A Special Look at "Explorers" – Production designer Herman Zimmerman and others discuss the creation of the award-winning ship design piloted by Benjamin and Jake Sisko, including rarely seen photographs and illustrations.
  • Michael Westmore's Aliens, Season Three – Michael Westmore presents a detailed look at the make-up designs for the Ferengi, Kira Nerys as a Cardassian, Julian Bashir's aging process, and several dramatic changes for Odo.
  • Section 31 – Hidden files (otherwise known as Easter eggs, when present on DVDs)

The special features that were lacking on the regular Region 1 releases, were for that region only available as a "retailer exclusive" on a separate disc through the Best Buy retail chain store. [1] [2]

Background information[]

  • The initial US Region 1 release was issued as a transparant five-page hard plastic "booklet" in a carton foldout, with a disc mounted on each of the "pages" and came packaged within a text-imprinted, partially transparant plastic casing (with transparant cutouts to show the foldout imagery), mounted on a cardboard holder which had the release info printed on its back. The Best Buy retailer exclusive back had the bonus DVD extra mentioned. Collected on a cardboard tray it was later reissued in October 2004 as part of the first Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - The Complete Collection, along with the other six DVD season releases.
  • The region 1 artwork on the discs features the USS Defiant flying past the station from various angles.
  • The region 2 artwork on the discs features various characters from the season:
  • Region 2 continued for the Deep Space 9 debut season DVD releases with the packaging format as previously introduced for the Star Trek: The Next Generation DVD season releases, and consisted of a stylized hard plastic "Special Premium Box" in which the discs, the accompanying twelve-page foldout booklet and interactive CD-ROM (not included in the Region 1 release) were mounted. This packaging format was utilized for all 2003 Region 2 European and Japanese "Complete Limited Edition" (ASIN B00008Q0BQ) releases with only the accompanying booklet and the glued-on backcover release information leaflet translated in the language of the target market.
  • While the hard plastic box case had become the European Region 2 regular release format, it was not in Japan where it was released as a limited edition. The regular 2003 release format in Japan was very differently executed. It consisted of a carton foldout in which the discs were mounted, that came within a cardboard slip-over wrapper ("obi" in Japanese), and whose cover art was actually inspired by that of the hard plastic case. Remarkably, the regular release also came with the interactive CD-ROM.
  • As with the 2003 hard plastic box case, the 2007 Region 2 "slimline" release, consisting of four one/two-disc holding standard plastic snapcases in a hardboard slipcase, became the European 2007 reissue standard, likewise with only the booklet and DVD case inlay sleeves translated in the various languages.
  • Italian and German fans had been on the receiving end of market discrimination with their respective June 2007 and April 2009 reissues of the slimline variant which was split up in two releases, Parts 3.1 (ASIN B0041KXONA, Italy/ASIN B000OQF5SM, Germany) and 3.2 (ASIN B0041KWJHW, Italy/ASIN B000OQF5T6, Germany), a somewhat dubious practice exercised by the local branches of CBS Home Entertainment for almost all contemporary Star Trek series home video format releases in Italy and Germany at one time or another. Part 3.2 had its cover altered by having Quark replaced with the teenage Jem'Hadar from "The Abandoned". Both parts came in the same slimpack packaging as the other Region 2 (complete) releases.
  • The complete German "slimline" variant was finally released in December 2014, over seven years after the rest of Europe had received theirs. (ASIN B00LXUGR6C) Released in November 2013, the Japanese variant had earlier already lagged six years behind the UK release. (ASIN B00F27CP18) Italy incidentally, had to make do with imports from other European Region 2 territories.
  • The 2007 UK "slimline" reissue, became the motive for Region 4 to concurrently receive its own Season 3 DVD set in the form of the near-identically executed Australasian release.
  • CBS Consumer Products, commissioned renowned British film poster artist Brian Bysouth, who had already provided the service for their preceding Deep Space Nine VHS and The Next Generation DVD UK releases, to provide the cover, disc and booklet artwork to CBS Home Entertainment for its Region 2 2007 "slimline" reissue, [3] also featured on the Region 1 reissue of 2017.
Previous release:
Star Trek Nemesis 		Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
DVD 		Next release:
DS9 Season 4 DVD
Previous series release:
DS9 Season 2 DVD
LaserDisc (Vol. 1) • LaserDisc (Vol. 2) • US VHS • UK VHS • DVD • Digital
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