Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, episode guide

"Emissary" (Part 1) PILOT

(1:176)
After careful considerations Benjamin Sisko takes the offer to be the representative of the Federation on the space station Deep Space Nine (DS9) and arrives with his son Jake. On the space station chaos rules after the cardassians' ravaged before their withdrawal, and not all his officers have arrived yet. Benjamin is contacted by the spiritual leader of Bajor, kai Opaka, who shows him a mysteriously orb.
US Air Date: 3 January 1993
Keiko is mentioned but not seen! Kai Opaka interprets Sisko to be The Emissary for Bajor - a religious icon chosen by The Prophets in the wormwhole, which they call The Celestial Tempel.

"Emissary" (Part 2) PILOT

(2:176)
Kira Nerys orders the space station closer to the just discovered worm hole, so they have complete control over it on DS9. Jadzia Dax is sent back through the worm hole by the beings, she and Benjamin has discovered far from the space station. While Kira tries to keep cardassian space ships occupied, Benjamin tries to explain to the beings, that humans are not destructive and explains them about linear time and existence.
US Air Date: 3 January 1993
First aired in USA the episode is not divided in two parts. Today "Emissary" is only shown as a two part episode. That is why the same date.

"Past Prologue"

(3:176)
Kira recognizes an old fellow freedom fighter, Tahna Los, from the time in the bajoran rebel movement. Tahna, who for a long time has been on the run from the cardassians, has just now been rescued. But Kira soon finds out, that her old friend has plans to wipe out the cardassians. Kira therefore ends up in a conflict of loyalty between her own people and her status as officer in the Starfleet.
US Air Date: 10 January 1993
Bashir meets the tailor of the space station, the cardassian Garak.

"A Man Alone"

(4:176)
O'Brien's wife, the botanist Keiko, is lacking something to do, so she decides to establish a school on DS9 and Jake finds a friend in the ferengi child Nog. Security chief Odo gets in big trouble, when he is suspected for the murder on an old enemy, as all clues apparently points at him.
US Air Date: 17 January 1993
Keiko opens a school for the children.

"Babel"

(5:176)
O'Brien works against impossible odds repairing the space stations various systems, inclusive its replicators. He is the first, to begin talking unintelligible, and soon others starts as well. Obviously there has broken out an epidemic on the space station.
US Air Date: 24 January 1993
Rom is mentioned but not seen!

"Captive Persuit"

(6:176)
Through the worm hole a damaged space ship arrives, which aboard has a mystically being, who calls himself Tosk. At first he is not eager to leave his space ship, but is persuaded by O'Brien, who takes care of him on DS9. Tosk hides some sort of a secret, and when another space ship of the same type arrives, the trouble starts.
US Air Date: 31 January 1993

"Q-less"

(7:176)
The archaeologist and the soldier of fortune Vash (watch the "Star Trek: The Next Generation" episodes "Captain’s Holiday" (67) and "Qpid" (94), where she in the last-mentioned episode voyaged on archaeological adventure with Q) arrives to DS9 in a mysteriously way and wants to return to Earth. But Q, who is in the near by, has not intended to let go of his collaborator. A serious situation arises, when the space station begins to move towards the worm hole.
US Air Date: 7 February 1993
Keiko and O'Brien has left for Earth visiting an old family member of Keiko.

"Dax"

(8:176)
Some men from the planet Ardelon tries to abduct Jadzia Dax, when she is to be executed for having killed their general Ardelon Tandro 30 years before. The trill Dax (the parasite, who lives in unification of its host, Jadzia), who also was guest parasite in the man Curzon, who the son of the general believes is to blame for the fathers death, is put on trial on DS9, whose judge is to determine, whether Jadzia Dax is identical with Curzon Dax.
US Air Date: 14 February 1993

"The Passenger"

(9:176)
Kira and Bashir receives a signal from a kobliadian space ship, who have difficulties, and on board they find two persons: Ty Kajada and the prisoner Rao Vatinka. The last-mentioned attacks Bashir, but collapses shortly after and dies. When the computer system on the space station suddenly shuts down, Ty gets the feeling, that Vatinka is still alive. The hunt is meanwhile complicated by his soul's ability to take over another body and like this wander from body to body.
US Air Date: 21 February 1993

"Move Along Home"

(10:176)
Quark swindle himself to some precious stones by playing against the delegated from the recently discovered race, the wadis, from the Gamma Quadrant. The swindle is found out and as punishment Quark is to agree playing a completely unusual game, the wadis have brought with them. It turns out to be deadly dangerous for the commander Sisko, Kira, Bashir, and Dax.
US Air Date: 14 March 1993

"The Nagus"

(11:176)
Quark and his bar is turned upside down, when the grand nagus Zek, the ferengi leader, announces that he will hold a conference on Deep Space Nine about the ferengi's future i the Gamma Quadrant. Quark is to be the host at the event, but along he realizes, that the ailing Zek quite actually has greater plans with him, and that can be fatal!
US Air Date: 21 March 1993
Jake and Nog seal up their friendship. Keiko is mentioned but not seen! O'Brien has returned and handles the school classes.

"Vortex"

(12:176)
The alien being, Croden, from the Gamma Quadrant turns up on DS9 soon to make himself guilty of murder on one from the twinrace miradon under a scuffle during a shady business deal with Quark. Odo puts Croden in prison but then learns, that the being knows where there are other shape shifters as himself. The temptation to help the criminal is high.
US Air Date: 18 April 1993
Odo gaines the hope of one day to find his people.

"Battle Lines"

(13:176)
The bajoran's spiritual leader, the kai Opaka, arrives to DS9, and after a guided tour she expresses a wish to take a trip through the worm hole. Sisko, Kira, and Bashir agrees to accompany her, but it becomes a highly dangerous excursion, when they responding to a signal is shot down by a satellite. They end up on a sterile devastated moon, where neither of the fighters are capable of dying.
US Air Date: 25 April 1993
The spiritual leader of Bajor, kai Opaka, dies! They do not have any until a new is appointed in the episode "The Collaborator" (44).

"The Storyteller"

(14:176)
On DS9 Sisko and Kira is mediators in a conflict between two, bajoran factions, where the one faction leader is a young girl, who Jake and Nog are ravished by. Meanwhile, Bashir and O'Brien are on sick call in a village. The inhabitants is threatened by a mystical destructive particle cloud, and the weakened storyteller, who can stop the menace, makes, against his will, O'Brien to his successor.
US Air Date: 2 May 1993
O'Brien does not want to become friends with Bashir. Rom is mentioned but not seen!

"Progress"

(15:176)
The Federation works together with the bajoran government in the execution of a big energy drawing from a bajoran moon, which Kira discovers to be inhabited by an old farmer, who do not wish to leave his land. Kira is reminded about how much she has changed, since she went into the service of the Federation. On DS9 Jake and Nog are busy preoccupied by a true business adventure.
US Air Date: 9 May 1993

"If Wishes were Horses"

(16:176)
O’Brien is in full swing of telling his daughter the fairytale about (Rumleskaft), when he realizes, that the figure of the fairytale stands alive in front of him. Other crew members have similar experiences, when Bashir realizes that the newcomers not are holograms but real creatures.
US Air Date: 16 May 1993

"The Forsaken"

(17:176)
It is Bashir's ungrateful job to entertain a team of demanding ambassadors. Lwaxana Troi is one of them, and she falls in love with the security chief Odo, who do not feel safe by that situation. An alien probe gets through the worm hole, and they begin to transfer data to the space station computer. The computer on DS9 then changes personality, and the systems breaks down one by one.
US Air Date: 23 May 1993

"Dramatis Personae"

(18:176)
A klingon vessel arrives through the worm hole and explodes, but before that it is succeeded by one klingon to beam himself over to DS9. He dies however shortly after, and gradually Sisko, Kira, Bashir, O'Brien, and Dax begins to act strangely and power alliances arise among them. A strange force seems to take the seize from the officers. Only Odo seems to be unaffected.
US Air Date: 30 May 1993
Keiko is mentioned but not seen! She is on Bajor with the school children.

"Duet"

(19:176)
A cardassian arrives to DS9 suffering from a dangerous disease, which Kira thinks, opposite what the man maintains, is kalla-nohra. It was the result of an accident in the feared cardassian labour camp for captured bajorans, so necessarily he must have been there at that time. It turns out, that the man is in person the commander-in-chief of the labour camp, gul Darhe'el, also known as "The Butcher from Gallitepp". Kira is not entire objective, when she investigates the matter.
US Air Date: 13 June 1993

"In the Hands of the Prophets"

(20:176)
Keiko fall foul of a bajoran religious fanatic, vedek Winn, who condemn her worldly methods of teaching. She demands, that Keiko is to tell her pupils, that the worm hole is the work of the prophets. That however is refused by Keiko, and that has uncomfortably consequences.
US Air Date: 20 June 1993