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Written By: Steve Mount
Source: Episode Viewing, Mark
Woodward's Deep Space 9 Episode List and The Official Star Trek Site.
Episode
order shown is Production Order.
Program Note: The seventh season was Star Trek: Deep Space 9's last.
Key terms and characters
Emissary
After the Cardassians pull out of the Bajoran system, Starfleet is asked to
step in and help. Taking command of an old space station, Commander Benjamin
Sisko must confront his past in order to go forward.
Past Prologue
An old friend of Kira seeks political asylum on the station, but is it a cover
for more violence by him and his extreme terrorist
A Man Alone
When a man is murdered in a holosuite with no visible way for the killer to
have escaped, the blame falls on the shape shifting security chief Odo.
Babel
A device is set off that causes a form of fatal aphasia throughout the station.
The crew must battle the symptoms to find a cure before people start dying.
Captive Pursuit
The first visitor from the Gamma Quadrant arrives on the station, but he is
hiding something and is determined to leave the place.
Dax
Jadzia Dax is accused of capital crimes carried out during the lifetime of her
previous host, Sisko must stall the trial while he tries to get to the bottom
of the case.
Q-Less
Vash and Q return from the Gamma Quadrant just as a series of accidents hits
the station; is Q to blame or is he really telling the truth this time?
The Passenger
Rescuing a damaged Kobliad ship, Bashir and Kira find a security officer and a
dead prisoner. The officer is convinced that the prisoner is still alive in
some way and will go through with the crime he was planning.
Move Along Home
A delegation of Wadi from the Gamma Quadrant arrive on DS9 and head straight to
Quarks, but their games take on a more serious nature when four senior officers
go missing.
The Nagus
Grand Nagus Zek of the Ferengi alliance visits the station for a meeting of all
the top Ferengi, and he brings surprising news for Quark.
Vortex
A criminal from the Gamma Quadrant may hold the secret to Odo's past, but can
Odo trust someone who constantly lies?
Battle Lines
On a quick trip into the Gamma Quadrant for Kai Opaka, a runabout crash lands
on an inhabited moon. The inhabitants are involved in a centuries long war and
Sisko does not want to get caught in the middle.
The Storyteller
Sent to Bajor on an urgent mission O'Brien finds himself thrown into the role
of the religious leader of a small village, a role he is not cut out to deal
with.
Progress
On the eve of a major energy project on Jeraddo, the fifth moon of Bajor, three
residents refuse to leave even though staying will mean certain death.
If Wishes Were Horses
Dreams become reality for the crew of DS9, but one threatens to destroy the
station and there seems only one way to stop it which might only quicken the
destruction.
The Forsaken
During a visit to the station by an number of Federation Ambassadors, including
the exuberant Lwaxana Troi, an alien probe causes havoc with the computer
systems.
Dramatis Personae
A Klingon cruiser is destroyed just outside the station and one officer beams
over to proclaim victory seconds before his death. Suddenly events start
getting out of hand as civil war breaks out on the station.
Duet
Gul Darhe'el, a notorious Cardassian war criminal, is caught on DS9 and Kira
must face one of her greatest enemies while trying to sort out some curious
discrepancies.
In the Hands of the Prophet
When Vedek Winn proclaims Keiko's teachings to be a blasphemy, the station is
becomes a focal point for religious tensions.
The Homecoming
Kira risks all to rescue the greatest war hero in Bajoran history, and someone
who might be able to bring stability to a rapidly declining Bajor.
The Circle
Recalled to Bajor, Kira is kidnapped by the Circle to find out how Sisko reacts
when their plans are set into motion.
The Siege
With the station in the hands of the Circle, Sisko must play a stalling game
while Kira and Dax try to put a stop to the coup.
Invasive Procedures
During a plasma storm, with a skeleton crew on board, the station is taken by a
group of terrorist who want to steal the Dax symbiont.
Cardassians
When a Cardassian orphan turns up on DS9, events rapidly become tense in the
tangled web of Cardassian politics.
Melora
Ensign Melora Pazler is from a low gravity world and needs to use a wheelchair
to move around. When Bashir finds a cure, can she turn her back on all she has
ever known for a dream?
Rules of Acquisition
While negotiating an important business deal with a Gamma Quadrant race, Quark
becomes friends with another Ferengi who hides a deep secret.
Necessary Evil
The attempted murder of Quark reopens a 5 year old investigation by Odo into
the death of a Bajoran while the Cardassians ruled the station.
Second Sight
For the first time since his wife died, Sisko falls for a charming young woman
who keeps disappearing without a trace.
Sanctuary
A whole race comes through the wormhole seeking refuge and a new world to
settle on, their legendary home of Kentanna.
Rivals
Marta, a charming Elorian, sets up a rival casino on the Promenade using a
strange alien gambling machine that seems to defy the laws of probability.
The Alternate
Dr. Mora arrives with news for Odo about a possible link to his past, but a
monster seems have been set loose on the station.
Armageddon Game
O'Brien and Bashir are pronounced dead in an accident during work with a race
to destroy their supplies of a biological weapon called the Harvesters.
Whispers
O'Brien returns to the station to find that everyone has somehow changed and
are working behind his back; he must get to the bottom of the problem before it
threatens upcoming peace talks.
Paradise
Sisko and O'Brien find an inhabited planet nearby and when they beam down to
investigate, all their technology stops working and they cannot get back.
Shadowplay
Odo tries to help a small village where the people are slowly disappearing and
finds that all is not as it appears.
Playing God
While tutoring a Trill initiate, Dax brings a small anomaly back to the station
which may destroy the entire system and then the universe as we know it.
Profit and Loss
A Cardassian dissident and old flame of Quark arrives on the station and the
Cardassian Central Command is determined to have her.
Blood Oath
When three old Klingons arrive on the station they find that Curzon Dax who
they made a blood oath with is dead, but will Jadzia go through with the oath
and all that it entails.
The Maquis (two parts)
A Cardassian freighter is sabotaged as it leaves DS9 by a militant group called
the Maquis. Sisko travels with Dukat to the Demilitarized Zone to find out what
is happening. Dukat is taken hostage by the Maquis and Sisko is determined to
get him back, even if the Cardassians do not want him back.
The Wire
A part of Garak's past is brought to light when he falls ill and Bashir fights
to save his life.
Crossover
An accident in the wormhole transports Kira and Bashir into a parallel universe
where Terrans are slaves to the Bajorans and the all powerful
Klingon-Cardassian Alliance.
The Collaborator
With the election of the new Kai imminent, a dark secret from Bareil's past
threatens to destroy his future.
Tribunal
While on holiday with Keiko, O'Brien is taken by the Cardassians and put on
trial. A trial where the guilty verdict and death sentence has already been
determined.
The Jem'Hadar
On a school project in the Gamma Quadrant, Sisko and Quark are captured by the
evil Jem'Hadar and Jake and Nog must work together to escape and get help.
The Search (two parts)
With the threat of Dominion invasion looming over DS9, Sisko returns from Earth
with a dangerous mission and a little surprise. Returning to DS9, Sisko finds
negotiations underway between the Dominion and the Alpha Quadrant powers. Odo
and Kira are getting nearer to the truth behinds Odo's people.
House of Quark
When a Klingon warrior dies in Quarks bar, Quark takes the credit in order to
increase his trade. But then the widow turns up and take Quark to Qo'noS, the
Klingon Home world.
Equilibrium
A piece of music sparks a memory in Dax and she must be taken to the Trill Home
world before she rejects her symbiont and dies.
Second Skin
Journeying to Bajor to look into evidence she was at labor camp she has no
recollection about, Kira wakes up on Cardassia, as a Cardassian, and is told
she is an undercover operative named Iliana Ghemor.
The Abandoned
A child is found in the wreckage of a ship from the Gamma Quadrant. Showing a
rapid growth and other unusual abilities, what is the deadly secret behind the
youth.
Civil Defense
Modifications to the ore processors sets off an old Cardassian alarm system and
the station attempts to kill everyone, no matter what they try to do.
Meridian
On a survey mission, the crew witnesses the appearance of a planet from another
dimension. Dax falls for one of the residents and quits Starfleet to join
him.
Defiant
Commander William Riker comes to DS9 on route to Risa. But when Riker hijacks
the Defiant, it is discovered that this is not William T. Riker, but W. Thomas
Riker, Riker's transporter double. Determined to emerge from his double's
shadow Tom has sided with the Maquis, and is on a mission to terrorize the
Cardassians.
Fascination
During the Bajoran Gratitude Festival, the crew of DS9 start acting strangely
and end up falling for each other. Odo must find the cause while trying to
avoid Lwaxana Troi.
Past Tense (two parts)
Returning to Earth for a debriefing, Sisko, Dax and Bashir are transported into
the past just days before a major pivotal point in history. With Sisko taking
the place of Bell, the leader of a rebellion of "quarantined" people, he
struggles to keep the hostages alive and preserve history and the future.
Destiny
When a Cardassian-Bajor science project is announced, a Vedek arrives on DS9
claiming that the project will bring destruction and the permanent closure of
the Wormhole.
Prophet Motive
The Grand Nagus returns to the station with a revised set of Rules of
Acquisition, ones that proclaim that the greed of the Ferengi is over. Quark
is determined to find out what's "wrong" with Zek - it turns out that Zek
acquired an Orb of the Prophets, which "changed" him.
Life Support
On the eve of peace talks between Bajor and Cardassia, Bareil is seriously
injured and Bashir must take unprecedented and potentially unethical measures
to save him.
Heart of Stone
While chasing a Maquis operative, Kira becomes trapped in a crystal formation.
Unable to save her Odo must deal with his feelings for her. Odo later finds
out the Kira is really a changeling, sent to help him see what he'd become, in
hopes of returning him to the Link.
Visionary
Following an minor accident, O'Brien finds himself jumping into the future to
witness his own death and the destruction of the station.
Distant Voices
Bashir is attacked and put in a coma, he must rely of different facets of his
personality to survive.
Through the Looking Glass
Sisko is kidnapped by O'Brien from the Mirror Universe. They need Sisko to
complete a mission their Sisko was on, but he is now dead. Sisko's wife
Jennifer is working for the Cardassian/Klingon/Bajoran alliance against the
rebellion by the Terrans. Sisko was to convince her to come over to the
rebellion, or to kill her. Since his Jennifer was killed by the Borg at Wolf
359, Sisko is intrigued to see her again. But his Jennifer and theirs are not
the same woman.
Improbable Cause
When Garak's shop is destroyed, evidence points to a Romulan plot to kill
members of the Obsidian Order. Garak and Odo team up to find the truth.
The Die is Cast
The joint Romulan and Cardassian fleet nears the Home world of the Founders and
Enabran Tain orders Garak to torture Odo for information.
Explorers
Sisko and Jake build an ancient Bajoran starship to prove an old legend. When
an accident happens they must rely on each other to survive.
Family Business
Quark must return to Ferenginar, the Ferengi Home world, to stop his mother who
is breaking the law by wearing clothes and earning profit.
Shakaar
Kira is sent to track down one of her former colleagues and oldest friends from
her days in the resistance.
Facets
Jadzia performs an ancient Trill ceremony to meet her previous hosts, one of
them takes Odo's body and will not give it back.
The Adversary
A Dominion spy is on the Defiant and threatens to drag the Federation into war.
Can Sisko stop an enemy he cannot find.
The Way of the Warrior
When the Klingons break their Alliance with the Federation, Lieutenant
Commander Worf is sent to DS9 to act as a liaison with the crew in these
difficult times.
Hippocratic Oath
Bashir and O'Brien find a planet in the Gamma Quadrant where a group of rebel
Jem'Hadar live. Bashir has all his ethics put to the test by the tense
situation.
The Visitor
When an experiment goes wrong and Captain Sisko is apparently killed, Jake
Sisko travels in time to the distant future where he is a noted writer.
Indiscretion
Kira and Dukat travel to Bajor to look into the situation of war orphans. But
Kira suspects Dukat has come along for a far more sinister reason.
Rejoined
A former wife of Dax arrives on the station but Trill rules prevent the two new
hosts from becoming as acquainted as they want to be.
Starship Down
Trying to rescue a ship inside a red giant's atmosphere, the Defiant is
disabled by the Jem'Hadar. Dax and Bashir are trapped in the turbolift while
Kira cares over a dying Sisko.
Little Green Men
Quark, Rom and Nog are transported to Roswell, New Mexico, where they are
captured as the infamous aliens.
The Sword of Kahless
Kor and Dax embark on a mission to find the legendary weapon of the original
Emperor Kahless.
Our Man Bashir
Bashir goes on the holosuite where he plays a Secret Agent in British
Intelligence of the 20th Century. The program goes wrong and Bashir must play
out the drama or risk killing everyone.
Homefront
Sisko finds evidence that the Changelings have infiltrated Earth and so sets
off with Odo to try and stop a major incident.
Paradise Lost
While trying to stop the Changelings on Earth, Sisko uncovers another
conspiracy in which a Starfleet Admiral intends to seize control of the
planet.
Crossfire
Odo is place in charge of the security of First Minister Shakaar during his
tour of the station. When Shakaar makes a move on Kira, Odo is torn between his
duty and his heart.
Return to Grace
A demoted Dukat once again teams up with Kira, after a Klingon raid kills all
the diplomats at a Cardassian and Bajoran conference.
Sons of Mogh
Worf's brother Kurn arrives on the station. Unable to bear the disgrace of
their family an longer, he asks Worf to kill him.
Bar Association
Finally having enough of his brother, Rom rallies the bar staff of Quark's into
a union to demand better pay and conditions.
Accession
A legendary Bajoran hero returns through the wormhole and challenges Sisko as
to which of them is the true Emissary.
Rules of Engagement
After destroying a Klingon ship while in command of the Defiant, Worf finds
himself brought before a court martial for his actions.
Hard Time
Taken prisoner O'Brien is mistaken for a murderer and as punishment has 20
years of memories placed in his mind.
Shattered Mirror
Sisko must follow Jake into the Mirror Universe where a tyrannical alternate
Worf is endangering the sector.
Muse
Lwaxana Troi returns to the station with some surprising news for Odo. She is
pregnant and is on the run from her husband.
For the Cause
Evidence mounts that there are Maquis sympathizers on board the station and
Sisko is forced to deal with the situation.
To The Death
Sisko must join forces with the enemy to stop a rogue group of Jem'Hadar from
destroying everything in sight.
The Quickening
Bashir attempts to cure a Gamma Quadrant civilization that has been infected
with a terminal disease by the Jem'Hadar.
Body Parts
Quark is diagnosed with a fatal illness and arranges the sale of his body, but
when the prognosis turns out to be wrong the buyers do not want out of the
deal.
Broken Link
Odo must return to the Founders to face the charge of murdering one of his own
kind.
Apocalypse Rising
Sisko must infiltrate the Klingon Empire in order to expose the actions of a
Changeling at the highest level of the Klingon government.
The Ship
An injured crewman lies dying as Sisko battles the Jem'Hadar and a wily Vorta
over a crashed Jem'Hadar warship.
Looking for Par'Mach in all the Wrong Places
Worf reluctantly helps Quark to romance his ex-wife Grilka when she returns to
the station.
...Nor the Battle to the Strong
Trapped with Doctor Bashir on a Federation colony under Klingon attack, Jake
panics and puts the situation in jeopardy.
The Assignment
An alien entity possesses Keiko and forces Miles to undertake a mission to
secretly modify systems all over the station.
Trials and Tribble-ations
Sisko and the crew travel back in time to a pivotal moment in the history of
the original Starship Enterprise. The U.S.S. Defiant is returning from
Cardassian space with the Bajoran Orb of Time. A Klingon named Arne Darvin,
surgically altered to look human, has come aboard as a passenger. He uses the
Orb to send the U.S.S. Defiant more than one hundred years into the past --
near the original U.S.S. Enterprise as it orbited Deep Space Station K-7.
Records reveal Darvin was a spy then, and that he was caught having poisoned a
shipment of grain on the station. Darvin is out to change history, possibly by
killing Captain James T. Kirk, who originally exposed him as the spy.
He Who is Without Sin
On a holiday to Risa with Dax, Bashir, Quark and Leeta, Worf gets himself
involved with an extremist terrorist group.
Things Past
Sisko, Dax, Odo and Garak find themselves back on Terok Nor under Cardassian
control and Odo must face his past or allow his friends to be executed for a
crime they did not commit.
The Ascent
En route to a court appearance, Odo and Quark crash land on a deserted planet
and must rely on each other to survive the ordeal.
Rapture
Sisko becomes captivated by the story of an ancient Bajoran lost city and
becomes determined to find its location.
The Darkness and the Light
Members of the Shakaar resistance cell are being killed, and Kira must try and
find the killer and stop them.
The Begotten
We view the trials and tribulations of Kira's birth of the O'Brien's child -
for a Bajoran woman, everything must be perfect for labor to happen, and
perfection is not easy to attain. Quark sells Odo an infantile changeling.
Odo is intent on bringing up the young one himself. The return of Dr. Mora,
and pressure from Starfleet, complicates things, but Odo is determined to raise
it kindly and gently. The changeling makes progress, but was damaged by
radiation in space - as it begins to die, Odo holds the changeling in his
hands, and the changeling integrates itself into Odo - restoring Odo's
shape-shifting abilities.
For the Uniform
Sisko goes on the offensive against the Maquis and the former Starfleet officer
Eddington.
In Purgatory's Shadow
Sisko learns of an upcoming Dominion invasion when Garak and Worf go on a
mission to the Gamma Quadrant. Garak and Worf are captured, and find Dr.
Bashir, Tain, and Klingon General Martok among the prisoners. On DS9, Bashir's
changeling replacement engages in sabotage.
By Inferno's Light
The station prepares for the assault while Worf tries to escape from his
captivity. We learn that Garak is Tain's son. Worf, Garak, Bashir, and Martok
escape and try to warn DS9 about the oncoming invasion - but the invasion turns
out to be the beginning of an alliance between the Dominion and the newly
remilitarized Cardassian government.
Dr. Bashir, I Presume
When Doctor Bashir is studied as the model for a new holographic doctor
simulation it threatens to reveal a hidden secret from his past - his parents
had him genetically modified when he was young, a crime for which he could be
removed from Starfleet.
A Simple Investigation
A woman who says she is fleeing from the Orion Syndicate comes to the station.
She has a data crystal with her, but she does not know what is on it. Odo
keeps close tabs on her, as she wants to escape the Orions permanently, but
doing so puts her life in danger. Eventually, the two fall in love and Odo has
his first sexual experience with a solid. The woman, Arissa, sends a message
to her former boss - she will exchange the crystal for her life. Meanwhile, an
Irdian comes to Odo to tell him that Arissa is an undercover agent, and that
the crystal contains all of her past memories - the Orions use telepaths to
scan new members of the Syndicate, and this was the only way to infiltrate it
to break it. Arissa meets with some Orions to trade the crystal, but they try
to double cross her - Odo is able to foil their attempt. After the crystal is
dumped into her head, she comes to Odo and tells his that Arissa loved him, but
this "restored" woman has a life, was a husband - her name is not even Arissa.
She tells him she does not know if they will ever see each other again.
Business as Usual
When Quark is offered the chance to erase all his debts by his cousin Galia, he
ends up working for an arms dealer.
Ties of Blood and Water
Tekeny Ghemor returns to the station to visit Kira.
Ferengi Love Songs
While visiting his mother on Ferenginar, he learns that his mother and Grand
Nagus Zek are seeing each other. Quark sees an opportunity to regain his
status in Ferengi society, but only by breaking up their relationship.
Soldier of the Empire
Working with the Klingons, Worf starts to doubt that General Martok is fit to
command. But Work risks his life in a fight with Martok, which eventually
causes Martok to lose his fears of the Dominion and the Jem'Hadar.
Children of Time
The crew find a colony on a planet surrounded by an odd energy field. They are
in a real quandary when they discover that the colony is made up of their own
descendants; their choice is to go home safely and ensure the colony never
existed, or crash land on the planet after traveling through a temporal rift
which will sling them back 200 years into the past, saving the colony, but
costing Kira her life.
Blaze of Glory
Sisko must convince Eddington to stop a Maquis attack that could tear the
Federation apart. The attack, though, was a deceit from the start, a way of
pulling Eddington from prison and rescuing what could be the last of the
Maquis.
Empok Nor
To replace a failed part that cannot be replicated, O'Brien, Nog, and an
engineering team travel to Empok Nor, a Cardassian station recently abandoned.
To counter any booby traps left behind, Garak accompanies them. When the
station's systems are activated, a pair of altered Cardassian soldiers are
awakened, and the team is quickly all but killed off... and Garak is overtaken
by the same mind-altering drug.
In The Cards
With the Dominion threat intensifying, Jake notices his father getting more and
more sullen and depressed. When he hears that Quark will be holding an
auction, including a vintage Willie Mays baseball card, he and Nog bid for it
-- but he is beaten out by a Dr. Giger. Nog and Jake try to convince Giger to
let them buy the card. He does offer a trade of the card for some technical
and medical equipment. Giger reveals that he intends to invent a cure for
aging with the equipment. They gather up all the items Giger wants, but when
they come to him with the last of it, he is gone. They confer with Odo who has
no record of Giger. Meanwhile, Kai Winn meets with Weyoun on the station to
discuss a Dominion-Bajoran non-aggression pact, which Sisko opposes. Jake and
Nog later see Giger speaking with Winn. They confront Winn and are confined to
quarters by Sisko. They are suddenly transported to the Jem'Hadar ship and
Weyoun confronts them, asking why they are so interested in Winn and Giger,
suspecting a plot of some kind against him. He does not believe their baseball
card story, but when Jake tells him a whopper about being in Starfleet
Intelligence, he decides he believes the baseball card story after all. Weyoun
reveals he is interested in Giger's work. He lets them take the card and
transport back to DS9. The card has its intended effect on Sisko, who has no
idea the trouble the boys went through.
A Call To Arms
On-going Dominion convoys to Cardassia prompt the Federation to mine the
entrance to the wormhole. The mines, designed by Rom, are self-replicating,
making clearing very difficult. The mine field prompts Dominion response in
the form of a major attack. Sisko convinces the Bajorans to sign a
non-aggression pact with the Dominion, to protect the planet. The station is
able to occupy the Dominion/Cardassian task force long enough for a
Federation/Klingon assault on a Dominion shipyard to succeed, and then the
station is evacuated. Rom and Leeta marry, and we discover Jake is working for
the Federation News Service. Dax accepts Worf's marriage proposal. Jake stays
behind on DS9 to report on the war, to Sisko's chagrin.
A Time To Stand
The station long-since abandoned, Sisko captains the Defiant through the war
effort. Federation/Klingon losses are heavy, and Admiral Ross comes to Sisko
with a secret plan - take the Jem'Hadar ship Sisko and company had captured a
year ago, and attack the main production plant of the Jem'Hadar's white.
Without the white, the Jem'Hadar in the Alpha Quadrant will all die. The ship
is difficult for humans to pilot, so Garak goes along to help. Soon they find
their undercover ship under attack by the Federation ship Centaur. Unable to
give up the mission, Sisko has the ship's weapons array destroyed, and as three
other Jem'Hadar ships approach, the Centaur limps home. The three ships pass
them without challenge, and they head for the production facility. They beam
down a white distribution unit for "refilling", but it is laden with
explosives. They are unable to escape, however, when a security net goes up
around the facility. Timing the explosion just right, they are able to escape
the main blast - but the ship is heavily damaged, and without warp drive.
Rocks and Shoals
The commandeered Jem'Hadar ship is damaged in a fire fight, and it and another
Jem'Hadar ship crash land on a deserted planet. Jadzia's symbiont is injured,
as is Jadzia herself, but Bashir says they'll live. The Jem'Hadar's Vorta
Keevan is injured and exchanges Sisko for Nog and Garak, who were captured as
they prospected for water. Keevan is almost out of white, and he fears that
the Jem'Hadar will turn on him when it runs out, so he betrays them - he tells
Sisko that the his contingent will attack them the next day. Sisko is waiting
and tries to convince the Jem'Hadar leader to mutiny against Keevan, but he
refuses, and the whole squad is killed. Keevan brings his commo gear to be
repaired by O'Brien, and surrenders as a prisoner of war. Meanwhile, on DS9, a
vedek kills herself in protest of the Dominion, and their plan to send
"advisors" to Bajor. Kira laments that she has become a collaborator, and she
and Odo begin to plan for a new resistance.
Sons and Daughters
Sisko and crew are rescued by General Martok; Worf is his first officer, and he
and Dax have a short reunion before the Starfleet crew is delivered to a
Starbase. A small set of replacements are brought aboard Martok's ship,
including Alexander, Worf's son, whom Worf has not seen in some time. Last
Worf knew, Alexander had no interest in being a warrior. When Worf tries to
get him transferred off the ship, Alexander confronts his father about his
childhood and his feelings of abandonment. Alexander is accepted into the
house of Martok. On DS9, Dukat brings Ziel aboard. She has a surprise for her
father and Kira. She has found her talent in art, combining elements of
Cardassian and Bajoran art. Some of her pieces are accepted for display by a
Cardassian art academy. Though happy for Ziel, Kira does not attend the
celebration - she tells Ziel that she does not have to choose between her and
Dukat - he is her father, after all. Kira and Odo continue to plan their
resistance, and Jake tries to talk his way into the local cell.
Behind the Lines
Sisko is promoted to the Admiral's adjutant, and Dax now captains the Defiant.
Sisko must deal with the fact that the Defiant is no longer his ship. Kira and
Rom help create a rift in the alliance between the Cardassians and the Dominion
with a small slight of hand. The female Founder comes to DS9, to be with Odo.
He is surprised, since the last time they met, he was changed to a solid. He
confesses to her that he still loves Kira, and it affects his judgement. She
offers him "clarity", and they join. When Kira finds out, she makes him
promise not to link again. Quark finds out that Damar has come up with a way
to deactivate the mines holding the Dominion behind the wormhole. The
resistance come up with a plan to foil the clearing of the mines, but it fails
when Odo links with the Founder again, and forgets the plan - Rom is captured,
and Kira is livid.
Favor the Bold
Rom is scheduled to be executed for his attempt at sabotage; Kira enlists
Ziel's help to have him pardoned, but Dukat tells her that enemies of the state
may have no mercy. Damar tries to convince her to speak with her father again,
but he won't take no for an answer - Kira knocks him unconscious. Sisko plans
a massive strike on DS9, to move forward in the war, as well as to help boost
morale. He must move quickly though, since Damar's tests to deactivate the
minefield are coming along, and he expects it to fall within a week. They have
to strike with fewer ships than they had hoped, and their 600 meet with a
Dominion/Cardassian fleet twice their size. Odo and the Founder spend more time
together; Odo is distressed that he is out of touch for several days, when he
thought it was just several hours. The Founder tells him to forget about the
need for time. Nog is promoted to Ensign.
The Sacrifice of Angels
Sisko's plan is to send small fighters in to attack only the Cardassian ships,
and anger them enough to cause them to pursue, opening a hole in the D/C
defensive line. But Dukat sees the strategy and plans to use it against the
Federation fleet. But the late arrival of a Klingon task force allows Sisko's
plan to happen by accident, though only the Defiant is able to break free of
the fighting to advance to DS9. Meanwhile, Kira, Jake, and Lyta are jailed;
Quark asks Ziel to help him free them. She does, and Kira and Rom move to
disable DS9. Rom takes the weapons offline, but not until after the one shot
needed to destroy the minefield is released. With no other choice, the Defiant
enters the wormhole and prepares to engage the first of the 2800 ships waiting
to come through. Sisko is taken by the Prophets who are displeased that his
course is suicidal. They eliminate the Dominion fleet, and say that Sisko will
have penance to pay, though we are unclear what they mean. As the D/C forces
abandon DS9, and the 200 remaining Federation ships advance on DS9, Dukat goes
to look for Ziel. When she confesses to him that she helped the saboteurs,
Damar fires on her and leaves them both behind. Ziel dead, Dukat has gone
mad.
You Are Cordially Invited
A week after retaking DS9, Alexander is about to be transferred to another ship
- Dax presses Worf to push the wedding date to before his departure. Worf asks
Martok, Sisko, Bashir, and O'Brien to participate in his pre-wedding ceremony,
along with Alexander as his best man. Dax, meanwhile, is placed under the
scrutiny of Martok's wife Serilla, who must approve of Jadzia... she does not,
and effectively cancels that wedding when Dax attacks her during her
bachelorette party. Worf insists that she apologize to Serilla, but she
refuses, until Sisko reminds her that she should act her age. Serilla grants
her approval and they are married. Jake's book of his experiences under
Dominion rule is published; Kira and Odo, who have been avoiding each other,
talk out their differences.
Resurrection
Bareil returns to DS9, but it is not the Bareil Kira knows - he has come from
the mirror universe, a thief, trying to escape the Alliance. Kira quickly falls
in love with this new Bareil, though he differs from her Bareil in many ways,
from mannerisms to dress. Kira takes him to temple where he sees the Bajoran
religion for the first time. He seems genuinely impressed. He views the Orb
of Prophesy and Change; when he returns to his quarters, the alternate
universe's Kira, the Intendant, reminds Bareil that his purpose is to steal the
Orb to help unite his Bajor to fight against the Alliance. Though Kira is
convinced that Bareil's conversion is genuine, Quark reminds her that he is a
thief, and may be planning to steal the Orb. When he does, Kira is waiting for
him - but the Intendant appears and tries to talk Bareil into stealing the Orb.
He refuses, and stuns the Intendant. Though he feels love for Kira, he does
not feel worthy of her, and goes back to his universe with the Intendant.
Statistical Probabilities
A group of genetically-enhanced people are brought on board DS9 to visit with
Dr. Bashir. Their enhancements all lead to some mental difficulty, and their
doctor feels that being with a "mutant" who is "normal" will be helpful in
their treatment. The mutants and Bashir watch a speech by Damar, newly named a
Gul and leader of Cardassia. Without knowing anything about them, they intuit
his story, and feel his calls for peace have underlying motives. Damar and
Weyoun come aboard DS9 for peace talks with Sisko, and the mutants view a
holographic transcript. They determine their willingness to give up so much is
to allow them access to raw materials for the Jem'Hadar's white. They
recommend Starfleet accept the offer, because to deny them would cause the
Dominion to attack. Further analysis indicates that the Federation has two
long-term options - fight a losing war and lose 900 billion lives, or surrender
and wait five generations for a quadrant-wide rebellion against the Dominion.
When Sisko rejects any surrender, some of the mutants plan to give the Dominion
Starfleet's battle plans, as a rout by the Dominion would only cost 2 billion
lives. But Bashir is able to stop them, and the talks continue.
The Magnificent Ferengi
Moogie is captured by the Dominion and the Nagus offers Quark a reward to get
her back. Quark organizes a rescue party, including Nog, Rom, and Quark's
cousin Gaila. Their first thought is to go in shooting, but after dismal
failures in the holosuite, they decide to negotiate for her release. Apprised
of the situation, Starfleet allows Quark to take the Vorta Keevan as one half
of a prisoner exchange. Quark arranges for the exchange on Empok Nor. After
the Jem'Hadar and a Vorta named Yelgrun arrive, Quark negotiates - all but two
Jem'Hadar are to leave, to allow them to escape after the trade. When Yelgrun
agrees, the Ferengi celebrate, and Rom lets it slip that the reward is 50 bars
of latinum, and not 20. Feeling cheated, the other Ferengi become enraged, and
in the blasting, Gaila kills Keevan. Nog attaches neural stimulators to Keevan
so he can operate his body, and the exchange proceeds. After Moogie is away,
Yelgrun realizes that Keevan is dead, but the Ferengi kill his Jem'Hadar and
take him prisoner.
Waltz
Dukat, in recovery from his mental breakdown, is being transported to a
Federation war crimes tribunal. Sisko is on the ship, and is in the brig
speaking to Dukat when the ship is attacked by a Cardassian task force. A few
escape pods and a shuttle are able to escape - the shuttle carries Dukat and a
wounded Sisko. Dukat sets up a distress signal. On DS9, a small search party
is established, with the Defiant given a very small window of time to find
survivors. On the planet they landed on, Dukat suffers from delusions, while
Sisko discovers that Dukat has disabled the distress signal. He gets it
working, but Dukat discovers his handiwork and destroys the transmitter. Dukat
defends his position as prefect of Bajor before Sisko, and while he comes to
the conclusion that he should have killed all of the Bajorans, Sisko escapes.
A struggle on board the shuttle ensues, and Dukat escapes after beating Sisko
down. The Defiant picks up a signal from Dukat, and Sisko is rescued, but
Dukat is gone, vowing to destroy Bajor.
Who Mourns for Morn?
Everyone on the station is mourning the death of Morn, DS9's resident barfly.
Quark laments his unpaid bar tab until Sisko informs him that Morn's will
leaves everything to Quark. All Morn seems to have, though, is several
shipments of rotting beets, until Quark goes to Morn's quarters and finds
Larell, who claims to be Morn's ex-wife. She asks Quark about the 1000 bars of
latinum Morn won in a lottery - she would help him find it for a cut. Soon,
though, two other claimants, brothers Krit and Nahsk, and security agent Hain
lay claim as well. Quark soon learns that all four stole the latinum, with
Morn, years ago, and the stature of limitations had just run out. Quark finds
the latinum and has it shipped to DS9, where the five of them will split it -
but when it comes time to split it, the four turn on each other, fire at each
other, and are arrested. Quark has all the latinum to himself; but he soon
finds that all the latinum has been extracted from the worthless gold, and he
has nothing. Morn reappears; he faked his death so that his partners in crime
could not take the latinum - he's hidden it in his second stomach all these
years, and he gives Quark some for his efforts.
Far Beyond the Stars
Sisko begins to have problems with his brain, as he'd had the year before while
investigating a lost Bajoran city. This time, though, his hallucinations bring
him back to Earth, in 1950's New Orleans. There, he is a staff writer for a
science fiction magazine; the other staff members are all humanized versions of
the DS9 crew. The next issue is to have photos of the writers, though Benny
and the female staff writer are told to sleep in that day. This, and prompting
from a street preacher who looks like Sisko's father, prompts Benny to write a
story about a space station called Deep Space Nine, whose captain is a black
man. The story is rejected by the editor as too unbelievable; but when told
from the point of view of a dream, it is accepted. The issue, though, is
scrapped by the publisher after printing; Benny flies into a rage and seizes;
when he awakes, Sisko is back in sick bay, Bashir unable to explain how his
neural pathways were repaired. Sisko wonders aloud to his father, visiting DS9,
if perhaps all of DS9 is really Benny's dream - is Sisko the dreamer or the
dreamed?
One Little Ship
Dax, O'Brien, and Bashir take a runabout out of Defiant and enter a spatial
anomaly, shrinking to the size of a toy in the process, secure in the knowledge
that they will return to normal size when they exit properly. The Defiant is
attacked by the Jem'Hadar, though, and is quickly overtaken. The runabout exits
the anomaly abnormally, and does not return to its proper size. The runabout
crew watches as the Jem'Hadar force the crew to repair the Defiant's warp
drive, damaged in the fighting, so they can take the ship home as a trophy.
The crew, sabotaging the repairs at every turn, are unaware of the runabout's
presence. They work to transfer command of the ship to engineering while
infecting the computer system with a virus; catching on to their plan, O'Brien
and Bashir beam into a console on the bridge and, dwarfed by the immense
isolinear chips, wend their way to a crucial junction. When they disable it,
control passes to engineering, and the crew is able to subdue the Jem'Hadar.
Once back under control, the runabout returns to the anomaly and exit properly,
returning to normal size.
Honor Among Thieves
O'Brien goes undercover for Starfleet Intelligence. On the planet Farius, he
slowly works his way into a small group aligned with the Orion Syndicate. His
mission is to find out who in Starfleet is working for the Orions. He makes
quick friends with the local leader, Bilby. He gets Bilby talking and gets
enough information about the informant to satisfy his mission. But he learns
that the Orions are working with the Dominion when Bilby's contact Raimus
brings a Vorta to Farius. Bilby is to use Klingon disrupters to kill the
Klingon ambassador, who is advocating a break-off in hostilities with the
Dominion, and a fall-back to Qo'noS to defend the home world, a position the
Dominion would like to see be made policy, and which Gowron is firmly opposed.
O'Brien, revealing himself, tries to convince Bilby to turn himself in, but he
fears for his family and does not. O'Brien blames himself for Bilby's death at
the hands of the Klingons, tipped off to the assassination attempt.
Change of Heart
Worf and Dax are sent on an away mission to pick up a Cardassian spy working
for the Federation - he has information about the whereabouts in the Alpha
quadrant of all Founders. They must pick him up on one of his trips to a
remote planet, as he feels that he is under suspicion and may not again be
allowed to leave Cardassia. They set down the runabout and hike to the
rendezvous point, but Dax is hit by a Jem'Hadar disrupter when they are
surprised by a patrol. They push on despite Dax's grave injury. Worf leaves
her to finish the mission, but has a change of heart and rushes back to her,
abandoning the spy. Back on DS9, Dax recovers, but Worf is officially
censured; though officially, Sisko must restrict them from ever going on an
away mission together again, he tells Worf he'd have done the same for
Jennifer. O'Brien teaches Julian how to play tongo, but Quark is able to beat
even the enhanced Doctor.
Wrongs Darker Than Death or Night
Kira gets ready to celebrate her late mother's 60th birthday. Dukat calls her
to tell her that her mother, Kira Meru, did not die in a refugee camp - she
died as one of his mistresses. Kira asks Sisko, as The Emissary, to recommend
she be allowed access to the Orb of Time. He agrees and she goes to Bajor. The
Orb returns her into the past as a friend of the Kira's. As she arrives, Nerys
and Meru are taken as comfort women aboard Terok Nor. Dukat greets them and
takes a liking to Meru, and he has her move into his quarters. Kira does not
see Meru for 2 weeks. When she returns, she and Dukat act as lovers. Kira has a
few choice words for her mother, concluding in her calling Meru a collaborator.
Kira joins a resistance cell and plots to kill Dukat and Meru, but she has a
change of heart when she sees her watch a message from her husband, detailing
how much she'd helped her family. Kira is taken back by the Orb. She tells
Sisko that she hated collaborators, but now, it is not quite that simple.
Inquisition
A Starfleet security officer arrives on the station and has all the senior
officers confined to quarters - someone inside DS9 has been passing secrets of
the Federation war effort on to the Dominion. Bashir endures a short
interview, but learns that O'Brien had been interrogated for several hours -
about Bashir. The officer, Sloan, tells Bashir that he suspects that during
the Doctor's incarceration, the Dominion may have messed with his mind,
something perhaps made easier by his genetic engineering. Bashir balks, but
Sloan is convinced of his theory and has Bashir locked in the brig. Sloan
reminds Sisko that Bashir and his "mutant" friends has recently suggested
surrendering to the Dominion, and had lied for years about his engineering.
When Sloan comes in the night to take Bashir to a starbase, he is transported
away by a Cardassian ship, where Weyoun meets him and confirms Sloan's
suspicions. The Defiant attacks the ship and Bashir is taken back - but
something's not right about the people -- a holographic simulation ends, and
Sloan stands before Bashir. Sloan reveals he is part of secretive Section 31,
that uncovers security threats - and Bashir passed. He is invited to join 31,
but refuses. Upon his return, Bashir tells Sisko the story - Sisko
thought he was away at a medical conference. Sisko insists that the next time
he is invited (and he will be), he should join, as a spy for Sisko.
In The Pale Moonlight
After posting yet another list of people killed in the war, Sisko decides to
somehow get the Romulans to break their non-aggression treaty with the Dominion
and bring them into the war. To get them in, he must convince them, prove to
them, that once the Dominion finishes with the Federation and the Klingons,
Romulus is next. He recruits Garak to help. Dominion invasion of Betazed places
new urgency on the plan. Garak's contacts on Cardassia are killed as quickly as
Garak can find them. He proposes a new tact - manufacture the evidence. But the
machinations needed bring Sisko into a shady world of bribes, deceit, and
trafficking, a world he is quite uncomfortable in. Sisko shows the evidence to
Romulan Senator Vreenak, but on examination, he discovers it is a forgery and
leaves in a fury. Vreenak's shuttle is later destroyed and evidence points to
the Dominion. Sisko suspects Garak; he confirms that the forged evidence was
not his plan but the death of Vreenak was. Soon, the Romulans are convinced of
Dominion duplicity, and begin to attack their bases. Sisko grapples with the
knowledge of all he did and the knowledge that he would do it again.
His Way
After Kira goes to Bajor to meet with Shakar, Odo asks for advice from Vic
Fontaine, one of Bashir's favorite holograms. Vic tells him he needs to warm
up, get some personality. First step is a turn at the piano. Second step is a
holographic look-alike. But Odo is not up to the task and backs out. Vic visits
Kira in one of her programs and tells her that he's crazy about her. He sets up
a date between them, but Odo thinks Kira is a hologram. When he realizes she is
the real McCoy, he bolts. Kira takes the initiative and they make quite a scene
of themselves as the kiss on the Promenade.
The Reckoning
An archeological dig on Bajor uncovers a relic that mentions the Emissary -
Sisko is called to the planet and has a vision of The Reckoning, which "must
start now". Sisko brings it to DS9. Dax and the computer translate the glyphs
on the tablet - they portend the destruction of DS9 as a part of The Reckoning.
Disturbances in the wormhole rock the station, lending credence to the
prophecy. Kai Winn meets with Sisko - Bajor is also being affected by the
disturbances. She thinks the Prophets are angry the relic has been taken from
Bajor and she formally requests its return. Sisko reluctantly agrees. Kira
notes to Sisko that Winn is jealous of him and his relationship with the
Prophets. Jake tells Sisko that he is worried about him. Sisko breaks the relic
in a rage after another sleepless night and releases "spirits". Winn is aghast
until Odo calls them to the Promenade - Kira has been taken over by a Prophet.
It says it is time for the Reckoning. It awaits a banished wraith - in the
battle, Bajor will be reborn or destroyed. Sisko orders DS9 evacuated. The
wraith takes Jake's body as its vessel. Sisko refuses to leave as the two
beings clash. Winn triggers a chronoton burst that forces the beings to leave
prematurely. As she leaves, Kira calls Winn's motives into question and wonders
aloud what the consequences will be for Bajor.
Valiant
Nog and Jake are in a runabout when a Jem'Hadar ship attacks them - outgunned,
Nog tries to outmaneuver it; as the runabout's shields begin to fail, a
Defiant-class ship, the Valiant, rescues them. The ship is crewed by Red Squad,
an elite corps of cadets. Their crew of regular officers has all been killed
when the ship was caught behind enemy lines at the war's outbreak. The Valiant
is under radio silence, so the crew's condition is unknown to Starfleet, but it
continues to get orders - they are in pursuit of a new Dominion battleship. The
cadet captain Watters appoints Nog chief engineer to expedite engine repairs.
Watters asks Jake to observe the Valiant and her crew but not to interfere.
They are able to find and scan their target once Nog fixes the engines,
accomplishing their mission. But Watters wants more - he wants to take the ship
down. Jake stirs up trouble when he publicly doubts their plan will work, but
with cries of "Red Squad!" they proceed. Watters has Jake confined to the brig.
The Valiant makes her run and hits her target, but they do not destroy the
ship. The Valiant takes heavy fire - only one escape pod makes it out, with
only three aboard, including Jake and Nog. They are rescued by the Defiant.
Jake weighs whether Watters failed as a captain or if his crew failed him.
Profit and Lace
Zek and Moogie arrive on DS9. Zek has amended the Ferengi Bill of Opportunity
to allow women to wear clothing, claiming doing so will mean increased profit
for everyone. Zek is deposed as Grand Nagus, and Brunt is chosen to take his
place. Zek and Moogie ask Quark, Rom, and Nog to help them gather support to
reinstate Zek before Brunt's appointment is made permanent. Of the more than
400 calls they make, only one person, influential Nilva, agrees to come to hear
Zek and Moogie out. Quark and Moogie have an argument, and Moogie has a heart
attack. Bashir is able to replace her heart, but she will not be able to meet
with Nilva. Quark is volunteered to take her place, surgically altered to
appear to be a female. Brunt arrives to gloat over Zek's deposition, aware
that Nilva is on his way. Nilva arrives early and has dinner with Quark, who
is very convincing, from both a financial and sexual stand point. Nilva makes
a pass at Quark, when Brunt barges in and announces that Quark is a male.
Quark shows off Bashir's handiwork, which convinces Nilva he's a woman.
Smitten, he agrees to support Zek, both as Grand Nagus and in his position on
women's clothing.
Time's Orphan
The newly-reunited O'Brien family goes for a picnic on Galano, a Bajoran
colony. Molly falls into an energy field and disappears - the field is a time
field, and Molly has been pulled 300 years into Galano's past. They are able
to pull Molly back, but something goes wrong, and Molly is now 18, 10 years
older. She is a wild child, seeming to have lost her memory and speech. But
Miles and Keiko work with her, and she slowly begins to come around. They take
he into a holosuite of Galano, and when the program ends, she goes on a
rampage, almost killing a patron. She is held in the brig, and Sisko tells
Miles she may have to go to a special care facility. Miles and Keiko break her
out of jail and take her back to Galano; they plan to put her back in the past,
where she was happy and safe. When they send her back, though, the older Molly
finds the younger on the other side. The young Molly goes back through, and
the older disappears into time, saying "Molly home". Worf tries to prove he
can be a good parent to Dax by helping to take care of Yoshi while Miles and
Keiko worked with Molly. He sees his attempts as a failure until it is clear
that Worf was beginning to leave an impression on Yoshi.
The Sound of Her Voice
On the way home from escorting a convoy, the Defiant picks up a distress call
from Captain Lisa Cusak of the Olympia, a long-range ship out of contact with
Starfleet for eight years in the Beta Quadrant. The ship encountered a planet
and on a routine scan, an energy surge knocked the ship out of the sky. Bashir
tells Cusak to ration her triox supply in the carbon-dioxide atmosphere; at six
days journey, she'll need it. Several of the crew talk with her over the
sub-space link to keep her company; Miles laments that his inner circle of
friends is growing apart because of the war; Sisko laments that his
relationship with Kasidy Yates is suffering because she's on missions with him
as Convoy Liaison. Cusak runs out of triox earlier than expected, and they
rush to find her. When they do, she is at least three-years dead. The energy
surrounding the planet time-shifted their subspace transmissions. They bring
her back to DS9 for burial. Quark occupies Odo's mind by bringing up Odo and
Kira's one-month anniversary. Quark plans to use the time Odo is distracted to
do some business on the side. After all plans are made, Odo changes his,
ensuring that Quark will be caught in illicit dealings. When Odo uncovers the
truth, he changes his plans again to allow Quark's deal to go through, a secret
thank-you for helping get him together with Kira.
Tears of the Prophets
Starfleet decides to go on the offensive, starting with the poorly-defended
Chin'toka system. The prophets appear to Sisko and warn him not to go into
Cardassian space; despite his request not to lead the attack, Starfleet gives
him an ultimatum to choose between being a captain and being the Emissary.
Sisko decides to lead the attack, leaving Dax in charge of DS9. Sisko and
General Martok convince the Romulans to help in the attack. When the forces
arrive, they find the planet heavily defended after all, but the defenses are
not yet online. The single-point power source for hundreds of orbital defense
platforms is found and destroyed, and the planet is taken, giving Starfleet a
much-needed victory. On DS9, Dukat has a plan to get back into good graces -
he will destroy the prophets. He is possessed by a pah wraith, critically
injures Dax, and destroys the orb housed on the station. The wormhole
implodes, and Sisko suddenly gets an uneasy feeling. Bashir summons Sisko and
crew back to DS9, where they say their goodbyes to Jadzia; Bashir is able to
save the Dax symbiont. All orbs on Bajor have gone dark, and Sisko worries the
prophets have abandoned Bajor. He feels he's failed as a captain and as the
Emissary. He takes a leave of absence and goes back to Earth with Jake.
Image in Sand
Kira has been promoted to Colonel as she continues to command DS9 after Sisko's
three month absence. She is told that Romulan Senator Cretak will be setting
up a small Romulan contingent on DS9. Cretak asks Kira for permission to
construct a hospital on the Bajor moon Derna. Bajor agrees, but it is soon
detected that the Romulans are building up weaponry there. Bajor demands the
removal of the Romulans. Work still mourns Jadzia - because of how she died,
she is not, and may never be, in Sto'vo'kor, Klingon after-life. O'Brien and
Bashir try to cheer him, but only volunteering for a dangerous mission with
General Martok lifts his spirits. The Dominion and the Cardassians are holding
the Alliance forces at bay, giving Damar reason to celebrate. Finally, Sisko
gets a vision from the prophets - that of a woman's face buried in the sand on
Tyree. Ben discovers the woman's face is that of Sarah, his real mother. Told
this secret for the first time, he is angry, but intrigued when his father
gives him a locket Sarah wore - it bears Bajoran script. It says "Orb of the
Emissary." Sisko decides to go to Tyree to search, but a Bajoran pah-wraith
worshipper stabs him. Quickly healed, he begins to set out for Tyree with his
father, Jake, and a new arrival - the "new" Dax symbiont.
Shadows and Symbols
Ezri Dax explains that Dax was on the way back to Trill when it took a turn -
it had to be implanted quickly, and Ezri, ship's counselor, was the only Trill
aboard. Unprepared by the normal years of training, she's been thrust into her
new life. She and the Siskos leave immediately for Tyree. Though Ben has no
idea where the Orb might be, he lets his feelings take over and treks across
the Tyree desert. Meanwhile, Bajor has issued the Romulans an ultimatum -
leave Derna or face a blockade. The Romulans refuse to leave and Col. Kira
sets up a blockade with a dozen small ships, all Bajor can afford to spare.
Admiral Ross tries to negotiate a settlement, but Cretak and Kira cannot agree.
The blockade is tested when the Romulans send a group of warbirds to "deliver"
medical supplies to the hospital. Meanwhile, Bashir, O'Brien, and Quark embark
with Worf to fight the battle that will admit Jadzia into Sto'vo'kor. They
intend to destroy the shipyard at Monac by setting off a plasma pulse in the
Monac sun. They arrive and attempt to set off the pulse, but the first attempt
fails, giving the Jem'Hadar a chance to catch up to them. They set off the
pulse at the last second, and barely escape the pulse themselves. On Tyree, Ben
finds the Orb and is tempted by the Kosst Amojen, the pah-wraiths, to relive
his life - to not be the Emissary. He resists the temptation and opens the
Orb, releasing it. Quickly, the wormhole opens and the pah-wraiths are driven
from it. Bolstered by its reappearance, the Bajorans stand firm; the warbirds
back off, after Ross decides to back the Bajorans. The Prophets appear to him
in the form of his mother, Sarah. They tell him that they took over Sarah's
body, forcing her into marriage with his father. They also forced Ben's
conception. He has always been the Emissary. Sisko returns to DS9, a hero to
the Bajorans for restoring the Prophets. Worf and the others are surprised by
Ezri's appearance.
Afterimage
Ezri tries to adapt to her new surroundings, but is determined to continue her
career on the Destiny as a counselor. Sisko asks her to stay on DS9. She says
she does not know how to deal with Worf. Sisko asks her to talk to Garak. He's
been having attacks of claustrophobia ever since he started decoding Cardassian
transmissions for Starfleet. His work is crucial, and his decision to stop is
of major concern to Starfleet. She determines he is reliving youthful
punishments of being locked in a closet. He tries to pound his way out an
airlock, and she goes to Sisko to tell him she's a failure; she cannot help
Garak, and cannot even help herself. O'Brien tells Worf that Ezri can tell him
how Jadzia would feel about his treatment of Ezri. Ezri and Garak speak, and
determine that he is feeling guilty that his work is killing his people. Once
he knows why, he can deal with the symptoms. Worf speaks with her, and they
decide to respect each other's space, until Worf is ready to talk. She decides
to stay on DS9 and is promoted to full counselor.
Take Me Out to the Holosuite
Solok, captain of an all-Vulcan ship docked at DS9 for repairs, challenges
Sisko and his staff to a game of baseball. Solok and Sisko are old rivals from
their academy days. Sisko, of course, accepts, and starts knocking a team into
shape, even going so far as to arrange for Kasidy to have a few weeks off. He
asks Odo to umpire the game. Sisko fixates on the training, leading to
dissention in the ranks. He explains to Kasidy that he'd challenged Solok to a
wrestling match and had been badly beaten. Ever since then, Solok had used the
match as an example of Vulcan superiority to humans in numerous published
papers. After a few weeks of practice, the game is held, and the Niners are
losing badly in the 8th to the Logicians, 10-0. Sisko sends Rom in, who bunts
inadvertently and bats in a run. It is the only one the Niners get, but they
celebrate as if they'd won, which, to Sisko's joy, visibly irritates Solok.
Chrysalis
Bashir's genetically enhanced misfit friends arrive on DS9. They want him to
try a new procedure on Sarina. She was enhanced to be able to process
information more quickly, but she can process it faster than her body can bring
it in, putting her constantly out of sync, leading to her near-catatonic state.
He operates and for days there is no improvement, but then suddenly, she
awakens, speaks, and sings. He tells her that she is doing so well, she need
not go back to the institute with the others. She tells Julien she is afraid
of reverting back to her former state. He assures her she won't, and a romance
blossoms. He awaits her for dinner and she never shows - when he finds her,
she is unresponsive again. He takes her to Patrick, Jack, and Lauren, hoping
familiar surroundings will help. They tell Julien that she is faking. He asks
her why - she does not know how to deal with the feelings she has for him, on
top of being able to see the world clearly. He sets her up with a job and
sends her off, to give her time to adapt to her new clarity.
Treachery, Faith and the Great River
Odo is called away by Gul Russol, one of his informants on Cardassia, thought
to be dead. When he arrives, Weyoun is there; he was tricked. But Weyoun is
there to defect to the Federation. Odo is cautious but takes him aboard his
runabout and they head to DS9. En route, they get a message ... from Weyoun.
Turns out Odo's Weyoun is Weyoun Six, one of a number of cloned Weyouns. The
other Weyoun tells Odo his Weyoun has gone mad. Damar convinces Weyoun to
order an attack by the Jem'Hadar; Weyoun is reluctant because Odo is a Founder,
but he eventually orders the attack. Weyoun Six helps Odo destroy the fighter.
Damar sends more ships. Meanwhile, Weyoun tells Odo that the Founders are
dying - something has infected the Great Link. Soon, Odo may be the only
Founder left. It will be a perfect time for Odo to take charge of the Dominion
and change it from a mission of conquest to one of cooperation. When the fleet
of Jem'Hadar ships arrive, the runabout has little chance, but Weyoun Six kills
himself, and the attack is called off. Odo contemplates losing his people so
soon after finding them, despite his exile. O'Brien gets into everyone's good
graces, eventually, when Nog volunteers to do some trading to get a new
stabilizer for the Defiant.
Once More Into the Breach
Kor, the Dahar Master, comes to DS9 to visit with Worf and commensurate about
Jadzia's death. He tells Worf that over the years he has gained few friends,
who might be willing to help him get one last command in his waning days. Worf
agrees to help - but at the mere mention of his name, Martok is enraged. Kor
slighted him as a young soldier, forcing him on a round-about route to the
officer corps. But he acknowledges Worf's need to keep his word and agrees to
make Kor a third officer. Martok proposes a series of "cavalry raids" on
Jem'Hadar outposts - quick, hard strikes. Kor growls as his crew fawns over
Kor. As the battle nears, Kor starts to lose his memory, and when Martok and
Worf are disabled in the attack, he takes command, ranting about an attack on a
Federation base. Martok relieves him of duty as the small force
escapes to hit its next target. But a Jem'Hadar fleet pursues them, and they
will be in attack range before the Klingons reach reinforcements. Worf devises
a plan to stall the Jem'Hadar, a suicide mission. Kor disables Worf and takes
over the mission. He dies in a glorious battle that allows the task force to
escape safely.
The Siege of AR-558
The Defiant goes on a fact-finding mission to the Chin'toka system, with Quark
on board to report the progress of the war back to the Grand Nagus. The crew
goes to check on the troops stationed on AR-558, site of a captured Dominion
communications array. The troops have sustained heavy losses to Jem'Hadar
attacks and new sub-space mines dubbed Houdinis, which appear out of no where
and explode. While a landing party is on the ground, the Jem'Hadar launch
another attack and Sisko orders Worf to take the Defiant away to safety. Ezri
and Kellin, a tech assigned to the array, devise a way to detect the Houdinis;
once they are exposed, they are used against the Jem'Hadar; when they attack,
the mines blow up their own troops. The rest of the Jem'Hadar are dispatched
in phaser battles and hand-to-hand combat, though Federation casualties are
heavy. Nog loses a leg, and many of the ground troops are hurt or killed.
Covenant
One of Kira's old teachers, Vedek Fala, comes to visit her, and gives her a
gift. As she opens it, she is transported away - away to Empok Nor, where the
Bajoran followers of the Pah Wraiths have moved in. She is shocked to discover
that Dukat is their leader. He tells Kira he is the Emissary of the Pah
Wraiths. The Prophets abandoned Bajor; the Pah Wraiths wish to help Bajor.
She refuses to join him, and asks Fala how he could come to be in this place.
He tells her he has followed the Wraiths since before the end of the
occupation. He takes her on a tour of Empok Nor, and though all looks
peaceful, the birth of the station's first baby leads to trouble - he is an
obvious Bajoran/Cardassian hybrid. Though Dukat tells his followers it is a
clear sign from the Pah Wraiths, Kira sees it as a sure sign that Dukat is up
to his old tricks. Dukat decides that he and all of his followers need to
leave their bodies and join the Pah Wraiths in spirit, and gives them suicide
pills. Kira exposes him, and as the followers turn on him, he transports
himself away. Fala takes the pill anyway, telling Kira it is a matter of his
faith.
It's Only a Paper Moon
Nog tries to comes to grips with the loss of his leg and his new prosthetic.
According to Starfleet regulations, he can choose any rehabilitation he wishes,
and he decides to spend some time in the Vic Fontaine holosuite program. Ezri
is wary, but she and Bashir approve the treatment. She informs Vic of the
situation and tells him that Nog's continued use of a cane is a psychological
need, not a physical one. Vic gradually weans Nog from his cane and keeps Nog
occupied by having him review his bookkeeping. Jake and a new girlfriend come
to visit Nog, but an argument ensues and Nog hits Jake. Ezri tells Vic and Nog
it is time to come out of the holosuite, but Nog refuses. Nog proposes that
Vic build a casino, and Ezri gives his a little more time. When Vic realizes
that Nog's beginning to lose touch too much, he shuts down the program himself.
After some time trying to restart it, Vic appears to Nog. Nog tells Vic he is
not ready to accept the real world again, but some sage advice from Vic makes
Nog realize that there are no guarantees in life, and that if he stays in the
program, he will definitely die.
Prodigal Daughter
When Morica Bilby goes missing, O'Brien goes to New Sydney to investigate.
Ezri heads to New Sydney, where her family has a business, to introduce them to
Dax and to look for Miles. Her brother Norvo is a bookkeeper for the Tigan
family mining business, and an aspiring artist. Her other brother, Janel, runs
the business with her mother, Yanas Tigan. Janel worries about the sabotage of
some of their equipment by the Orion Syndicate. An officer brings in a beaten
O'Brien; he found Morica's body and was rescued by local police as he was being
beaten by a pair of Naussicans. While he recovers, Yanas asks O'Brien to take
a look at their sabotaged equipment. As O'Brien works on the equipment with
Janel, Bokar, of the Syndicate, tells Janel that O'Brien was looking for
Morica. O'Brien notes that Janel reacts oddly. He gets suspicious when Janel
presses for Ezri and O'Brien to leave. They look through the Tigan financial
records and discover Morica worked for the family. Her pay had increased
several times until she disappeared. Ezri brings the data to the family; Janel
tells them he hired Morica at the Syndicate's request. She repeatedly asked
for more, never satisfied with what she was getting. Yanas asks Janel if he
killed her - he denies he did. Norvo confesses it was he, trying to protect the
business.
The Emperor's New Cloak
Moogie calls Rom and Quark - Zek is missing. Before they can think much about
it, Ezri corners Quark in his quarters, but it is soon clear to Quark that this
is not his Ezri - she is from the alternate universe. She demands a cloaking
device in exchange for Zek, whom she has prisoner. Quark and Rom steal the
device from Martok's ship and insist on accompanying Ezri back to get Zek. When
they transport to the alternate universe, Bashir and Smiley are there to greet
them - and arrest them. Ezri is working for the Alliance. They take the
device, and place the trio in a cell. Ezri's partner, Brunt, helps them all
escape and steal back the device. They set course for the Regent's ship, on
which the Intendant Kira has Zek, and the Regent Worf awaits his new weapon.
When they arrive, Worf has Rom and Quark jailed with Zek, who admits he came to
the alternate universe to try to set up trade. Worf summons Rom to install the
device; when the Resistance comes after the Regent's ship, it is cloaked. But
when it comes out of cloak, the ship shuts down; Rom sabotaged the circuits.
The Resistance take the ship. Ezri has a change of heart and frees all the
Ferengi, who transport back home
Field of Fire
Alario, a new helmsman on the Defiant, is found dead in his quarters. He was
shot by a projectile weapon, not a phaser - unusual in itself - but there are
no powder burns that jibe with the apparent closeness of the bullet when the
gun was fired. Dax is upset, since she had just been with Alario the night
before - just minutes before he died, in fact. She decides to try to track
down the killer, and thinks about calling forth Joran, one of the Dax hosts -
but he has been suppressed for a long time, because he was a cold-blooded
killer. She is hesitant until another crewman is killed. O'Brien explains
that Starfleet had developed the TR116 rifle, to be used in environments that
phasers would not work - but it was a prototype only. He also detects that the
bullets left no burn because the TR116 can be outfitted with a micro
transporter. The assassin could track his target from elsewhere in the station
with a device that can see through walls. Dax and Worf speak, and he tells her
that she will do what is required to find the killer, it is her nature. She
calls Joran, whom she sees only in her mind; he helps her work out the mind of
the killer; after another person is killed, she wonders if the killer is a
Vulcan - all of the victims had emotional photos in their quarters. She
investigates all the Vulcans, but a chance meeting with one in a turbo lift
narrows her focus. She investigates Chu'Lak, who was one of a handful of
survivors of a Jem'Hadar attack. She tracks him with a TR116 rifle and sees
him aiming his weapon at her. She fires and hits his shoulder. She sends
Joran back into her subconscious.
Chimera
Odo and O'Brien are intercepted in their runabout by a being of some sort - it
enters the runabout and forms in front of them - it is a changeling. Back on
DS9, Bashir analyzes it; it is not a Founder. Odo presumes it is one of the
Hundred, the infant changelings seeded throughout the galaxy as Odo had been.
Odo gets permission from Sisko to allow it out of confinement. The changeling
tells Odo he was named Laas by the Varala, the solids who occupied the planet
he was found on. He does not care for solids, and his willingness to make this
fact known makes for an uncomfortable scene in Quark's bar. Odo tells Laas
that he does not care for the Founders or their principles, and he has decided
to live among the people of DS9. Odo shows Laas the Link; the experience makes
Laas want to go out and find more of the Hundred; he asks Odo to join him. Odo
turns Laas down, but asks Laas to stay on DS9 for a while. Laas agrees, but
when Laas casually kills a Klingon, his welcome is quickly worn out. Martok
demands Laas be extradited for trial on Qo'noS. Odo wonders aloud to Kira if he
really should be out in space, exploring, searching. Kira goes to Laas and
helps him escape. She tells him she will send Odo to him, and they can explore
together. When Odo meets with Laas, he tells Laas he will be staying with
Kira. His love for her is stronger than the call of the changeling.
Badda-Bing Badda-Bang
In the Vic Fontaine holonovel, Frankie Eyes arrives and takes over - Eyes is a
gangster working for Carl Zeemo, from the East Coast. He and his gorilla, Tony
Cicci force Vic out of the business. Julian and Miles try to figure out a way
to delete the Eyes character, but learn that he is an essential part of the
program, put in to spice things up after any lull in the action. To get rid of
him, they need to play along. The entire command staff, except Worf and Sisko,
get together to devise a plan; even Kasidy Yates helps out. She asks Sisko why
he does not wish to participate. Sisko reveals that he objects to the Fontaine
novel because in the 1960's Las Vegas of the program, blacks were not welcome.
Kasidy convinces him that the novel is based on how things should have been,
not how they were - Sisko decides to help. They decide to get rid of Eyes,
they need to make Zeemo get rid of him. They will steal the casino's take and
that will be the end of Eyes. With Kira distracting Eyes, Kasidy and O'Brien
distracting the guard, and Vic and Sisko distracting the crowd, Odo and Nog
will break into the safe and steal all the money. Though the plan does not go
exactly according to plan, they are able to pull off a reasonable facsimile,
and barely make it out in one piece. Once they do, and Zeemo carts Eyes off,
Vic's returns to normal.
Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges
As Bashir readies himself for a conference on Romulus, Section 31 agent Sloan
returns and asks Bashir to go do some information gathering for him. He
consults with Sisko, and after Sisko consults with Admiral Ross, they all
concur that he should do what Sloan asks. Ross and Bashir are later surprised
to see Sloan attending the conference; Ross advises Bashir to continue with the
plan. Sloan briefs Bashir on the Romulan leadership, focusing on Koval, head
of the Tal'Shiar. Sloan suspects Koval is ill; he opposes the Alliance, and is
vying for a seat on the Continuing Committee, along with Senator Cretak, an
ally of the Federation. At the conference, Bashir speaks with the secretive
Koval; he confirms that from his brief external examination, he may indeed have
the fatal Tuvan Syndrome. Bashir meets with Ross, who wonders if Sloan might
have a confederate in the Romulan hierarchy who might help Sloan accelerate the
disease. Bashir fears the worst, and when Ross is later unavailable, he goes to
Cretak to help prevent Koval's murder. She agrees to help. Koval takes Bashir
into custody and brings him in front of the Committee; there, Cretak is being
interrogated. Bashir relates his story to help clear Cretak of treason
charges. Koval brings in a beaten Sloan, whom Koval says is not a member of
any Section 31, but who works for Starfleet Security, and who made up the
entire thing to get revenge on Koval for the death of an Admiral. Sloan
escapes and is shot by Koval. Cretak is stripped of her office and Bashir is
returned to his ship. Later, Bashir goes to Ross, after he realizes that the
whole thing was a setup. Ross confirms that Koval is a Starfleet mole, and
that the act was meant to reinforce his position in the leadership. Sloan
later appears alive and well to Bashir, saying that his deceit helps keep the
universe safe for honest people like Julian.
Penumbra
Sisko buys a plot of land on Bajor and plans to build a house there for his
retirement. He reflects on his destiny, laid out by his mother and the
Prophets. He starts to design his house, and asks Kasidy to marry him. She
accepts. They plan a small ceremony, with Jake as best man, but when word gets
out among the Bajorans that they're to marry, a huge ceremony is expected. Ben
has a prophet vision - they tell him not to marry Kasidy, it is not in his
destiny, not part of the plan. Worf's ship is damaged in a battle, and he is
not rescued. Ezri steals a runabout and goes out looking for him. She
eventually finds him in an escape pod, drifting in the badlands. She takes him
aboard and they head for home. A pair of Jem'Hadar ships attack and they crash
land on a planet, but without a transmitter, they must just wait. Tension is
high as Ezri tries to avoid talking about Jadzia, but eventually their arguing
leads to kissing, and they sleep together. As they sleep, they are captured by
a Breen scout team. Weyoun and the Founder work toward finding a cure for the
sickness in the Link, but success eludes them. They continue to keep her
condition a secret from the Cardassians. Dukat pays Damar a visit; he has a
plan. He is surgically altered to resemble a Bajoran.
'Til Death Do Us Part
Kai Winn arrives to speak with Sisko, to offer her services to preside over his
wedding. As she leaves his office, she has a vision. The vision tells her
"the Sisko has faltered", that she must prepare for the restoration; and that a
guide will come to her to help her. Sisko tells Kasidy of his own vision, and
that he cannot go against the Prophets. She gives him back his ring, though he
later reconsiders and she reaccepts his proposal. They decide to marry
immediately, in a civil ceremony. During the ceremony, he has another vision
telling him not to marry her, but this time he refuses to listen. In his
vision, Sarah tells him that she cannot change what is to come. Worf and Ezri
wait out captivity on the Breen ship. He contemplates their coming years
together as a couple, but her dreams reveal her true feelings, for Dr. Bashir.
Worf feels betrayed. Dukat arrives on DS9 and immediately goes to meet with
Kai Winn. When he talks to her in farming parables, she realizes he is her
guide. A Jem'Hadar ship with the ailing Founder meets the Breen ship; Ezri and
Worf are turned over to her as a gift to celebrate a new alliance between the
Dominion and the Breen.
Strange Bedfellows
The Dominion plans the final fate of the Federation Alliance by allying itself
with the mysterious Breen. In the treaty, Cardassia gives up much of its
territory to the Breen, which enrages Damar. Dukat continues to impersonate
farmer Anjohl Tennan. He plants the seed of dissent against Sisko and the
Prophets. She has a disturbing vision of the Pah Wraiths and consults the Orb of
Prophecy - but she sees nothing. Dukat tells her that he has been in touch with
the Pah Wraiths, and encourages her to investigate them. Frustrated by her
years of service to the Prophets without once had a vision of them, she decides
to turn on them and tells Dukat she is ready to learn about the Pah Wraiths.
Ezri and Worf are taken to Cardassia to be tried as war criminals unless they
agree to defect - they refuse. The Breen start to direct some of the war, using
the Cardassian troops as cannon fodder. Damar helps Worf and Ezri escape, in
exchange for giving the Federation a message - they have an ally in him.
The Changing Face of Evil
The Breen join in on the attacks on the Alliance, and on Earth itself. Damar
works with some trusted allies to organize a rebellion against the Dominion.
Weyoun notices Damar's renewed confidence and thinks it is because of the Breen
victories, but it is in fact due to his plan to attack Dominion forces. As the
attacks progress, Damar announces to Cardassia that he is breaking from the
Dominion. Kai Winn begins to debate Dukat about the Pah Wraiths. Anjohl
encourages her to release them, to start the restoration. To do so, she must
read the Kosst Amojen, the book of great evil. She has her aide, Solbor, bring
it to her. He expresses concern, and doubts about Anjohl, but she dismisses
him. The text is blank, and she studies other texts to determine how to make
the words appear. Solbor brings her evidence that Anjohl is Dukat; she kills
Solbor and drips his blood on the book, making the words appear. Worf and Ezri
try to determine if she is in love with Bashir. Admiral Ross tells Sisko of a
powerful new weapon the Breen have, which disables ships leaving them
defenseless. They decide to try an offensive at the Chin'Toka system; but the
battle goes badly and the Defiant is destroyed.
When it Rains
Still trying to figure out a way to counter the Breen weapon, the Klingons
discover that some of their ships are impervious to the weapon. Sisko asks Kira
to go with Garak and Odo to help train Damar and his forces in the ways of
guerrilla warfare. She is commissioned into Starfleet so that the other
Cardassians will be more willing to follow her. The small group starts to
attack Jem'Hadar outposts. Odo begins to show signs of the Changeling Disease.
While working on a small sample of Odo, Bashir realizes that Odo was infected by
Starfleet's own Section 31, as a way of spreading the disease to the Great Link
and all of the changelings. He resolves to find a cure. Gowron arrives on DS9
to induct Martok in the Order of Kahless, and to take over direction of the
Klingon efforts for the Alliance. Martok is not happy with Gowron's efforts,
but tells Worf he will follow Gowron, in spite of their folly. Kai Winn
continues to read the Kosst Amojen, but forbids Dukat to read it; when he tries
to anyway, the book strikes him blind.
Tacking into the Wind
Odo's condition worsens - the more he shape shifts, the worse it gets. One of
Damar's lieutenants, Rusot, challenges Kira, though he eventually backs down -
Garak advises her to kill him before he kills her. They plan an assault on a
Jem'Hadar ship that has been equipped with the Breen weapon. They take the
ship, but the weapon is not yet fully installed, so they wait; when Odo loses
his control and Kira rushes to his side, Rusot uses the opportunity to turn on
Kira - but Damar kills Rusot, saying that his Cardassia is dead. Once the
weapon is installed, they head for DS9 with it. Sisko and Worf discuss Gowron's
strategies, which are failing miserably. Worf thinks Gowron's sole purpose may
be to humiliate Martok. Worf tells Martok that he must challenge Gowron, but
Martok refuses. When Gowron proposes a particularly bad idea, Worf challenged
him - they fight, and Worf kills Gowron. Though the cloak of the chancellorship
rightfully belongs to Worf, he hands it over to Martok. Julian and Miles try to
devise a way to lure Section 31 to DS9 so that they can try to cure Odo's
disease.
Extreme Measures
Odo's condition worsens, and Kira brings him back to DS9 for treatment. Julian
can only relieve his pain. Odo asks Kira to leave him, he does not want her to
watch him die. She reluctantly agrees. O'Brien and Julian tell Sisko that
they suspect the mutagenic virus was planted by Section 31 and of their plan to
lure someone from Section 31 to DS9. He agrees with their plan; after he sends
a message to Starfleet that he found a cure, Sloan shows up. Bashir immediately
immobilizes Sloan and brings him to a clandestine lab. He intends to hook him
up to a set of Romulan mind probes to find the cure; but Sloan bites a suicide
pill first; Bashir rushes to save him and his brain. He establishes a link to
his damaged memories, and with O'Brien in tow, goes inside Sloan's mind.
Inside, they meet a cooperative, contrite Sloan, who vows to help them find the
cure. But a darker Sloan catches up to the them and traps them in his
deteriorating mind. He tricks them several times, but O'Brien and Bashir
eventually track down the last remaining fragments of memory, including the
cure. Sloan tempts Julian with Section 31's darkest secrets, but a grounded
O'Brien helps Julian resist the temptation. They pull out of his mind just as
it goes for good. Bashir has the data he needs and creates a cure. He gives
it to Odo, and though painful, it appears to work.
The Dogs of War
DS9 awaits the replacement for the Defiant, a Defiant-class ship, the Sau
Paulo. Admiral Ross delivers her himself, along with special permission to
change the ship's name to Defiant. She is equipped with new shields to
counter-act the Breen energy weapon. Kira and Damar go to Cardassia to try to
gain new allies, but they are betrayed - their ship and all hands are destroyed
in orbit, leaving just they and Garak alive on Cardassia. They find shelter
from Mila, Enabrim Tain's old housekeeper. They hit the Dominion in small
attacks, but their forces take heavy losses. They lament their situation until
Mila tells Damar that his name is resonating through the populace; the time is
ripe for an uprising. Bashir releases Odo for duty, and tells him about
Section 31. Sisko tells Odo that the Federation has decided not to give the
Founders the cure. Quark gets a transmission from the Grand Nagus - he is
retiring, and has chosen Quark to succeed him. Brunt arrives to grovel at
Quark's feet at the news, though Quark is less than happy to learn of many of
the reforms Zek has instituted, and plans to reverse them when he takes power.
But when Moogie and Zek arrive, they tell Rom that it is he who is to
succeed Zek, not Quark (to Quark's disgust). Bashir and Ezri finally decide to
go out. Kasidy tells Sisko that she is pregnant, but she fears the warning of
the Prophets.
What You Leave Behind (Part 1)
As Julian and Ezri consummate their relationship, Miles must think of a way to
tell Bashir that he has been offered a teaching position at the Academy, which
he intends to take after the war ends. The new Defiant leaves DS9 with a large
Alliance fleet, on its way to Cardassia. On Cardassia Prime, reports circulate
that Damar may be alive ... as he is, and he plans a small-scale rebellion. On
the Defiant, Sisko is visited by the Prophets; they tell him his journey is
nearly complete, but that the end lies behind him, not before him. Kai Winn
continued to study the Kosst Amojen; Dukat returns, and though she does not
forgive him, she does need him to release the Pah Wraiths and strike at Sisko.
As the Dominion work on defense plans, a black-out plunges the capital into
darkness. Weyoun and the new Cardassian Leget, Broca, decide to punish not just
the rebels, but the people; Lakarian City, housing two million people, is
incinerated. Kira plans an all-out assault on the headquarters. Meanwhile, the
Alliance fleet prepares an all-out assault on the Dominion/Breen/Cardassian
force. At Mila's home, a security force finds Kira and Damar, and attempt to
take them into custody; but the Cardassian half of the patrol turns on the
Jem'Hadar, foreshadowing a greater rebellion. The Alliance attacks, but the
power of the Dominion forces and the defensive advantage prove a match for the
Alliance -- until Cardassian ships begin to join with the Alliance. The Founder
orders the extermination of all Cardassians and the retreat of all forces.
Martok and Sisko recommend the Alliance pursue the retreating forces. On Bajor,
Winn and Dukat search the Fire Caves, and when they find the right spot, Winn
turns on Dukat, offering him as a sacrifice to the Pah Wraiths.
What You Leave Behind (Part 2)
As the fleet approaches the defense perimeter, the Breen commander leaves to
join the fight and the Founder falters further. As the Jem'Hadar brings Broca
out to be executed, the rebels storm the building. In the fire fight, Damar is
killed; the rebels take the control center with Weyoun and the Founder inside.
Garak kills Weyoun and they threaten the Founder, but she refuses to surrender.
Kira contacts the Alliance and Odo volunteers to try to talk to the Founder. He
links with her and cures her. She orders the Jem'Hadar to stand down. The
Founder is arrested for trial. Odo tells Kira that he will be returning to the
Great Link, to tell of what has happened. In spite of his feelings for her, he
must return, and will probably never be back. The final tally is 800 million
dead on Cardassia Prime. Garak laments the lost people and the lost culture.
The Federation appoints Worf to be ambassador to Qo'noS. Sisko and the entire
DS9 crew retire to Vic Fontaine's for a final evening out. On Bajor, the Pah
Wraiths take over Dukat's body, returning it to its Cardassian state. Sisko
feels compelled to go to the Fire Caves and when he arrives, the Emissary of the
Prophets faces the Emissary of the Pah Wraiths. Winn, defeated and abandoned by
both sides, tells Sisko that the Kosst Amojen is the key to the power of the Pah
Wraiths. As she is killed, Sisko and Dukat struggle and fall over a precipice.
Dukat falls to his death, taking the Kosst Amojen and the Pah Wraiths with him.
Sisko, though, is taken to the Celestial Temple. He pulls Kasidy in with him.
He tells her he must stay, but that he will be back, though he does not know
when. This is what the Prophets had warned of. Kira drops Odo off in the Gamma
Quadrant, then takes command of DS9.
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