Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, episode guide

Worf was security chief aboard the space ship USS Enterprise NCC-1701-D, which now is destroyed (watch the movie "Star Trek: Generations"). Now he arrives at Deep Space Nine, where he gets rank of first officer on the USS Defiant NX7-4205.

"The Way of the Warrior" (Part 1)

(73:176)
Sisko is a little surprised, when a big klingon fleet of warbirds appeares at Deep Space Nine and asks for shore leave. They are not wilde as they usually are and their attendance of space ships makes Sisko to apply help from Worf, who has just been transferred from the Enterprise. He discovers the reason for the klingon mission but do not know, if he will report it to the Federation.
US Air Date: 2 October 1995

"The Way of the Warrior" (Part 2)

(74:176)
When the klingon empire pull out of the peace agreement with the Federation Sisko is to help Worf decide on, who he will stay loyal to. Divided between his duty and his people Worf tries to resign from Starfleet, which Sisko refuses him to do, as the situation is.
US Air Date: 2 October 1995
The klingons attacks Cardassia.

First aired in USA the episode is not divided in two parts. Today "The Way of the Warrior" is only shown as a two part episode. That is why the same date.

"The Visitor"

(75:176)
As an old man Jake Sisko receives a young woman, who would like to be a writer, and he tells her a story about his fathers disappearance. During a mission in the worm hole Sisko is spontaneous killed by a plasma leak from the USS Defiant's warp core. One night his father appears for just a moment for then to disappear again without a trace. But he knows now, how he can get him back, but unfortunately it is not that simple...
US Air Date: 9 October 1995

"Hippocratic Oath"

(76:176)
Kept prisoner by a group of rebellious Jem'Hadar soldiers O'Brien and Bashir clashes together, when Bashir will help their jailers to escape dominion control. On Deep Space Nine Worf and Odo clashes together about how security is handled on the space station.
US Air Date: 16 October 1995
Directed by: Rene Auberjonois

"Indiscretion"

(77:176)
Forced to take gul Dukat on a private mission, Kira realizes the reason to why he wants to go with her. On Deep Space Nine Sisko tries to figure out his love life.
US Air Date: 23 October 1995
Directed by: LeVar Burton
Kira obligates herself to take care Dukat's daughter, Zyial.

"Rejoined"

(78:176)
Jadzia Dax has to choose between her feelings and regulations for the trill society, when she is reunited with the wife of one of her former hosts.
US Air Date: 30 October 1995
Directed by: Avery Brooks

"Little Green Men"

(79:176)
Quark is given a small space ship by a cousin and Quark offers to fly Nog to Earth, where he is to attend the Starfleet Academy. But the cousin has sabotaged the space ship and Quark, Rom, and Nog are send back in time to the year 1947 i Rosewell, New Mexico, where the military takes them to be aliens from Mars.
US Air Date: 6 November 1995

"Starship Down"

(80:176)
A violent battle against the Jem'Hadar leaves the USS Defiant trapped in the unsettled atmosphere of a planet.
US Air Date: 13 November 1995

"The Sword of Kahless"

(81:176)
The honoured klingon warrior, Kor ("Blood Oath" (39)), leaves with Worf and Dax in the search after a mythical, ancient cultural artefact, which they think has the power to gather the klingon empire.
US Air Date: 20 November 1995
Directed by: LeVar Burton

"Our Man Bashir"

(82:176)
While Bashir and Garak is on the holodeck in a programme, where Bashir plays secret agent, sabotage is the reason why, Benjamin Sisko, Kira Nerys, Miles Edward O'Brien, and Jadzia Dax are beamed into the holodeck programme as a part of the story. If the programme is shut down, they could all die - and the situation is worsen gradually for "the secret agent".
US Air Date: 27 November 1995

"Homefront" (Part 1)

(83:176)
Evidence that the shape shifters have reached the Earth, makes Sisko to return to Earth with Odo to prevent or prepare the battle against the Dominion.
US Air Date: 1 January 1996

"Paradise Lost" (Part 2)

(84:176)
During the preparations for the battle against Dominion Sisko and Odo finds evidence of a conspiracy against the Starfleet...
US Air Date: 8 January 1996

"Crossfire"

(85:176)
During the minister Shaakar's visit at the space station Odo finds his feelings towards Kira disturbing in his work to concentrate on the threat against Shaakar.
US Air Date: 29 January 1996

"Return to Grace"

(86:176)
A degraded gul Dukat notifies himself by Kira, who is going to Cardassia on a diplomatic journey. A devastating attack on the meeting place cherish the hope of regaining his former status in the cardassian empire.
US Air Date: 5 February 1996

"Sons of Mogh"

(87:176)
Expelled from the klingon society because of Worf's decision not to support the attack on Cardassia ("The Way of the Warrior" (73/74)), his younger brother Kurn wishes Worf to kill him as the tradition prescribes.
US Air Date: 12 February 1996

"Bar Association"

(88:176)
Tired of his work and the ill treatment from his employer and brother, Quark, makes Rom set up a labor union together with the rest of the staff and starts subsequently to strike.
US Air Date: 19 February 1996
Directed by: LeVar Burton
From here on Rom works night shift for the repairing crew on DS9.

"Accession"

(89:176)
An old solar driven vessel arrives through the wormhole with a legendary bajoran aboard. He says he is the Emissary and claims Sisko's place as such. When Sisko is relieved he soon discovers that the new Emissary will reinstate the old oppression customs. But is the new Emissary really speaking for the prophets? O'Brien do not get very much time for Bashir, when Keiko returns home!
US Air Date: 26 February 1996
Keiko tells O'Brien they are going to have a baby.

"Rules of Engagement"

(90:176)
Worf is put to trial after having destroyed a klingon cargo ship with 400 civilian passengers aboard. Did he give the order to open fire in blindly rage to show, that he indeed is a true klingon warrior? If that is the case, they have to hand him over to the klingon home world.
US Air Date: 8 April 1996
Directed by: LeVar Burton

"Hard Time"

(91:176)
A race convicts O'Brien a sentence of espionage and implant a chip that makes him hallucinate which changes his personality.
US Air Date: 15 April 1996

"Shattered Mirror"

(92:176)
Sisko follow the track of his son into the battle plagued, alternative universe ("Crossover" (43), "Through the Looking Glass" (65)), to where Jake has been lured by the living counterpart to his dead mother.
US Air Date: 22 April 1996

"The Muse"

(93:176)
While Odo helps the pregnant Lwaxana Troi against her husband, Jake is subjected a spell from a mysteriously woman.
US Air Date: 29 April 1996

"For the Cause"

(94:176)
Sisko is shocked to find out, that his girlfriend, Kasidy Yates, possibly is a Maquis smuggler.
US Air Date: 6 May 1996
The security man Michael Edington is revealed as a member of The Maquis. Garak meets Dukat's daughter, Zyial.

"To the Death"

(95:176)
DS9 has been attacked by a group of Jem'Hadar renegades and Sisko is to make a dangerous alliance with a group of Jem'Hadar soldiers in the hunt. The situation is critical as the renegades has taken control over a Dominion planet that houses time portals from the long gone extinct civilization, the iconians.
US Air Date: 13 May 1996
Directed by: LeVar Burton
For the first time Weyoun shows himself: A vorta, who is the clone that controls the Jem'Hadar soldiers and ensures the loyality with the drug ketracel-white, to which they are addicted to. The first time the iconians are mentioned is in the "Star Trek: The Next Generation" episode "Contagion" (37).

"The Quickening"

(96:176)
Bashir tries to save a community in the Gamma Quadrant against an incurable deadly disease, which they have gotten from the Jem'Hadar.
US Air Date: 20 May 1996
Directed by: Rene Auberjonois

"Body Parts"

(97:176)
After having learned that he suffers from a dangerous disease, Quark sells his organs to pay off his debts. But when he is not sick after all and therefore will break the contract, it turns out not to be possible.
US Air Date: 10 June 1996
Directed by: Avery Brooks
In order to save the baby after an accident Bashir has been forced to beam the baby from Keiko into Kira's uterus.

"Broken Link"

(98:176)
Odo suddenly loses the ability to keep a solid form and he sees only one way out: To get back to The Great Link, his people. The Defiant leaves with the patient towards the Dominion, where they are met by the leader herself: She and the others will judge Odo for having killed another shape shifter ("The Adversary"(72)).
US Air Date: 17 June 1996
Odo is no longer a shape shifter but of flesh and blood, but from The Great Link he knows, that the klingon leader, Gowron, is a shape shifter.