Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, episode guide

"Apocalypse Rising"

(99:176)
After having notified Starfleet about Odo's concernes for Gowron's challenge towards Sisko, O'Brien and Odo disguises themselves as klingons together with Worf to travel to a fortress deep in the klingon empire.
US Air Date: 30 September 1996

"The Ship"

(100:176)
A team from Deep Space Nine inspects a planet in the Gamma Quadrant to see if it contains valuable minerals to extraction, when they are witness to a Jem'Hadar space ship crash-landing in the nearby.
US Air Date: 7 October 1996

"Looking for Par'mach in All the Wrong Places"

(101:176)
Quark is surprised when his klingon ex-wife, Grilka ("The House of Quark" (49)), returns to the station. He is interested in her, but so is Worf! Miles Edward O'Brien starts having feelings for Kira, who feels the same as he. Things can be complicated when the woman carying ones child lives under the same roof.
US Air Date: 14 October 1996
Directed by: Andrew J. Robinson
Worf and Jadzia Dax begins a relationship.

"Nor the Battle to the Strong"

(102:176)
Jake Sisko has been asked to write and article about doctor Julian Bashir's work but do not understand his technical language. When DS9 intercept a distress call from a science team on a planet, which is under attack by klingons, Jake talks Julian into helping them.
US Air Date: 21 October 1996

"The Assignment"

(103:176)
Keiko returns to Deep Space Nine after a botanically trip to Bajor, but as soon she is alone with O'Brien, she reveals that she is possessed by a demon, who wishes him to modifie some of the stations systems for a secret purpose.
US Air Date: 28 October 1996
Rom is promoted to the day shift.

"Trials and Tribble-ations"

(104:176)
Sisko, Bashir, Odo, O'Brien, and Dax have travelled back in time to a key moment in the history with the first USS Enterprise NCC-1701.
US Air Date: 4 November 1996
It is the "Star Trek" episode "The Trouble with Tribbles" (43) that has been used for this episode. Using computer technology they have cut the actors into the story.

"Let He who is without Sin..."

(105:176)
During his holiday on the planet Risa Worf is influenced by a group of extremists determined to destroy the holiday Paradise. The relationship between Worf and Dax is tense and Bashir and Quark are the only ones enjoying themselves. But black clouds are gathered...
US Air Date: 11 November 1996
Directed by: Rene Auberjonois

"Things Past"

(106:176)
Sisko, Dax, Odo, and Garak are returning from a conference when a phenomenon places them in a coma. They are now seven years back in time on DS9 during the cardassian occupation of Bajor. Here they are each a bajoran - except Odo, who seems to know something without knowing what...
US Air Date: 18 November 1996
Directed by: LeVar Burton

"The Ascent"

(107:176)
On route to a grand jury with Quark a bomb explodes aboard planted by the Orion Syndicate, Odo suspects Quark to be a member of. They are crash-landing and the two enemies have to work together due to survive in the rough climate. Nog is returned home to DS9 where he is to continue his education and moves in with his friend Jake in a shared quarters - not without problems...
US Air Date: 25 November 1996
Nog returns to DS9 and shares quarters with Jake Sisko.

"Rapture"

(108:176)
Five years after the liberation of Bajor they are now ready to negotiate about joining the Federation. However, Cardassias return of a cultural painting supposed to be the fabled lost city, B'Hala, makes captain Sisko losing track of time and on the trail of the city by using the holosuite. A short circuit makes Sisko strange and gives him visions becoming life-threatening.
US Air Date: 30 December 1996
Kasidy Yates has served the penalty ("For the Cause" (94)) and is united with Sisko on DS9.

"The Darkness and the Light"

(109:176)
One by one Kira's friends from the time in the resistance movement are killed in the most ingenious ways leaving a recording of a voice counting forth for each victim. Kira feels powerless but determined to find the killer as she knows, she can be his next victim!
US Air Date: 6 January 1997

"The Begotten"

(110:176)
Of Quark Odo buys a shape shifter child trying to give it a start in life he did not think he had himself. Suddenly doctor Mora Pol ("The Alternate" (32)) turns up causing feelings about things those two never really discussed. Meanwhile, Kira is ready to give birth to O'Brien and Keiko's baby.
US Air Date: 27 January 1997
Kira gives birth to O'Brien and Keiko's baby, and Odo is turning into a shape shifter again.

"For the Uniform"

(111:176)
Sisko begins an intense hunt for the traitor Michael Edington ("For the Cause" (94)) who deceived him and joined the rebel group The Maquis. He is though always a step ahead Sisko who becomes more and more obsessed to capture him.
US Air Date: 3 February 1997
Michael Edington is caught.

"In Purgatory's Shadow" (Part 1)

(112:176)
DS9 receives a distress signal from the Gamma Quadrant Garak states to be send by Enabran Tain ("Improbable Cause" (Part 1) (66) and "The Die is Cast" (Part 2) (67)). Worf and Garak take off but are caught by the Dominion. In the prison complex they find besides Enabran also general Martok (the shape shifter who posed as him was revealed and killed "Apocalypse Rising" (99)) plus chief medical officer Julian Bashir whose double on DS9 is up to something. On DS9 Sisko is preparing for an invasion by the Dominion.
US Air Date: 10 February 1997
Before Enabran Tain dies he is revealed as the father of Garak.

"By Inferno's Light" (Part 2)

(113:176)
The fleet of Dominion space ships heads for Cardassia, and gul Dukat joins them. In the prison complex Garak fights with their rescue and his own fears while Worf fights against still bigger opponents! On DS9 Romulus joins the defence...
US Air Date: 17 February 1997
New leader of Cardassia: Gul Dukat. Bashir's double dies. The klingon Empire and the Federation are once again partners, and general Martok is inaugurated as ambassador.

"Doctor Bashir, I Presume"

(114:176)
Doctor Louis Zimmerman visits Deep Space Nine with that purpose to use doctor Bashir as a sort of blueprint for a new holografic doctor. In order to find the exact profile of Bashir he interviews friends and acquaintances, but when he against the will of Bashir calls for the parents Bashir's career is at stake.
US Air Date: 24 February 1997
It is revealed that chief medical officer Julian Bashir as a child was made more intelligent by gene manipulation. Rom propose to the dabo girl Leeta.

"A Simple Investigation"

(115:176)
In Quark's bar Odo meets a beautiful woman, whose name is Arissa, who he falls in love with. So he is surprised, when she is arrested for breaking into the stations computer.
US Air Date: 31 March 1997

"Business as Usual"

(116:176)
Quark's notoriously cousin, Galen, persuades Quark to go into arms sales together with him. The customes in the bar are outraged and stay away, and Quark gets pangs of conscience when a costumer is interested in weapons to kill millions on his planet. On the other hand O'Brien has not the time for much else than his newly born baby.
US Air Date: 7 April 1997
Directed by: Siddig El Fadil

"Ties of Blood and Water"

(117:176)
Tekeny Ghemor, who once thought Kira was his missing daughter ("Second Skin" (51)), arrives at the station expelled from the new Cardassia. He has a deadly disease and asks Kira, if she will be his heir and take on his knowledge about key positions on Cardassia.
US Air Date: 14 April 1997
Directed by: Avery Brooks

"Ferengi Love Songs"

(118:176)
Oppressed by debt and depression Quark leaves for Ferengia to visit his mother. But she is in love with the ferengi leader Zek, which soon becomes a politically game in the ferengi society. On DS9 Rom and Leeta fight with disagreements in the relationship.
US Air Date: 21 April 1997
Directed by: Rene Auberjonois

"Soldiers of the Empire"

(119:176)
By The High Council general Martok is commanded to lead an expedition to look for a klingon bird of prey, that has been missing near Cardassias territory. He takes Worf along as his first officer, while Dax sees to come along as the science officer. The mission is not without danger - neither as mission or among the crew aboard!
US Air Date: 28 April 1997
Directed by: LeVar Burton

"Children of Time"

(120:176)
USS Defiant is on its way home after a long mission, when Dax discovers an unusual inhabited planet. They are contacted by the people and invited down to the surface. The leader of the planet explains, that all of them are descendants of the USS Defiant's crew.
US Air Date: 5 May 1997
Odo's double reveals the big love for Kira.

"Blaze of Glory"

(121:176)
The rebel group The Maquis will launch cloaked missils towards Cardassia, which can start a war in the Alpha Quadrant. Sisko tries to compel his treacherous former officer, Michael Edington, to stop the attack that can lead to the downfall of the Federation. Nog fights his own little battle to win the respect amongst the klingons on DS9.
US Air Date: 12 May 1997
Michael Edington is killed!

"Empok Nor"

(122:176)
O'Brien who cannot duplicate an important material for an repair job organizes a trip to the abandoned cardassian space station, Empok Nor in the Triva System, to get the materials from there. But they are not alone: Soon after their space ship explodes and they are now preys in a merciless hunt...
US Air Date: 19 May 1997

"In the Cards"

(123:176)
The moral on Deep Space Nine has reached a zero, when Jake on an auction sees an old baseball card, which he is sure of will cheer up his father. The problem is just, that he and Nog is outbidded by a mysteriously stranger, who however is willing to negotiate. Meanwhile, Dominion and Cardassia tries to create dissension between Bajor and the Federation. By the request of Sisko kai Winn begins negotiations with the Dominion about a non-aggression pact.
US Air Date: 9 June 1997
Directed by: Michael Dorn

"Call to Arms" (Part 1)

(124:176)
Deep Space Nine prepares for an attack from the two allies: Dominion and Cardassia. Continuously new convoys passes through the wormhole on their way to Cardassia, so captain Sisko decides to put out a minefield. But the time is short and war has moved much closer...
US Air Date: 16 June 1997
Romulus has signed one - now also Bajor signs a non-aggression pact with the Dominion, and Rom and Leeta gets married. The self-replicating minefield has been deployed, so Dominion cannot get reinforcement through the wormhole. Cardassia with gul Dukat in the lead capture, along with their allies from the Dominion with the shape shifters' Jem'Hadar soldiers, Deep Space Nine.