JAG (TV Series) Ares (1996) User Reviews

Kate and Meg assist Harm

[hindsonevansmike · 8/10 · 13 July 2021]

Harm is yanked off a flight by a smartly-uniformed Kate Pike, to deal with a murder.

Various espionage themes are explored before the action moves aboard. Kate's former lover finally gets a strong hint from Harm to "let her go" and the playfulness which characterised Harm's interactions with both his Season One female co-stars is particularly in evidence in this episode.

Good triumphs over evil (Harm proves that he is a crack shot) and the Yankees sail away into the sunset.

Sadly by this time, Season One of "JAG" was on its way to the graving dock as NBC had pulled the plug. We now have only "Skeleton Crew" - which subsequently entered JAG-fan folklore as "Skeleton Crew (Part One)" over time - to go before the NBC run concludes.

Viewed and reviewed in July 2021, some 25 years after first airing.

"Ares"

[allmoviesfan · 8/10 · 4 May 2023]

All the bad actors in the 1990's seemed to have been part of at least one JAG episode: Iraq, Cuba, China (I think Iran) and now another one joins the list...

The penultimate episode of JAG's freshman season was a good one: Harm is pulled off a flight in Okinawa, en route to a vacation, by Lieutenant Pike (Andrea Parker, making her second-last ever appearance) and they must go aboard a USN vessel to investigate the murder of a sailor who is an expert in Ares, a special weapons targeting system.

The episode moves quickly as Harm, Meg and Kate unravel the mystery of the sailor's murder in the midst of some war games, and, in the process, uncover a traitor and a plot by a foreign government.