Season Five
Episode Details
After
informing Starfleet of Odo's concerns about Gowron being a changeling; Sisko,
O'Brien and Odo disguise themselves as Klingons, and accompanied by Worf journey
to a fortress deep in the heart of the Klingon Empire. Assisted by Gul Dukat
who's captured Bird of Prey makes a useful transport, they seek to pose as
valiant warriors due to be honoured by Gowron. The question is can they remain
undiscovered long enough to trigger the experimental device they believe will
expose the changeling?
Press Release: Captain
Sisko and his crew embark on a dangerous mission to expose the Klingon leader
Gowron as a Changeling who has provoked a war between the Federation and the
Klingon empire. By disguising themselves as Klingons, Captain Sisko and the
Defiant crew infiltrate the Klingon homeworld amidst a hotbed of political
intrigue and suspense.
Production Code: 499, stardate not given, US
airdate: 28 Sep 96
Guest Stars: Mark Alaimo (Gul Dukat), Robert
O'Reilly (Gowron).
A team from DS9 are
surveying a planet in the Gamma Quadrant with a view to establishing a mining
operation to extract valueable raw materials, when they witness another ship
crashing nearby. Initially planning to render assistance to any survivors, they
discover that the ship is a Jem'Hadar warship and the crew are all dead,
apparently killed by an equipment failure some hours before. Things turn ugly
when a second Jem'Hadar ship arrives and destroys the runabout leaving the DS9
crew under seige in the derelict Jem'Hadar ship.
No Press Release available -
the 100th episode of Deep Space Nine!
Production Code: 500, stardate 50049.3, US
airdate: 5 Oct 96
Quark is surprised when his Klingon ex-wife, Grilka,
returns to the station and with the assistance of Worf and Dax sets about wooing
her. Worf is distrinctly put out by the whole idea, and tries to approach Grilka
for himself, much to Dax's chagrin. Meantime, Miles O'Brien is becoming
uncomfortable with his growing fondness for Kira Nerys, but all his plans to
keep at a distance seem to be going wrong.
Press Release: Worf
helps Quark woo a visiting Klingon woman, despite the fact that he himself is in
love with her.
Production Code: 501, stardate not given, US
airdate: 12 Oct 96
Guest Stars: Rosalind Chao (Keiko), Mary Kay
Adams (Grilka)
Directed By: Andrew J Robinson (aka Garak)
Jake Sisko has been commissioned to write an article on
the work of Dr Julian Bashir, but when Jake interviews him Julian spouts a
seemingly endless stream of medical mumbo jumbo. When they receive a distress
call from a medical team on a planet under attack from the Klingons, Jake
pursuades Julian to help them. The team are under pressure and Jake finds
himself in the middle of a war zone. He tries his best to help, but soon finds
that the whole situation overwhelms him, in particular the case of a soldier who
shot himself in order to be taken away from the front line.
Press release: Trapped
on a planet under Klingon attack, Jake Sisko panics in the heat of battle.
Production Code: 502, stardate not given, US
airdate: 19 Oct 96
Guest Stars: Karen Austin (Kalandra), Danny
Goldring (Burke).
Keiko O'Brien
returns from a botanical trip to Bajor and once alone with Miles claims to be
possessed by a demon who requires that O'Brien modify some of the stations
systems for a secret purpose. After a couple of frightening demonstrations of
the demons power, Miles is forced to co-operate. Soon however the modifications
are noticed, and Odo and Dax start looking for a saboteur. Miles O'Brien is now
in a race to complete the work before he is caught and to figure out exactly
what he is being made to do...
Press release: A strange
entity takes over Keiko's body and orders O'Brien to complete a secret
assignment - or his wife will be killed.
Production Code: 504, stardate not given, US
airdate: 26 Oct 96
Guest Stars: Rosalind Chao (Keiko), Max
Grodenchik (Rom), Hana Hatae (Molly).
A special 30th aniversary featuring a
cross-over with Captain Kirk and the original enterprise crew and the Tribbles.
It utilises "Forest Gump" style effects to add the DS9 crew to old footage.
Press Release: Sisko
travels back in time to a pivotal moment in history of the original Starship
Enterprise.
Production Code: 503, stardate not given, US
airdate: 2 Nov 96
Guest Stars: Jack Blessing (Dulmur), James W.
Jansen (Lucsly), Charlie Brill (Arne Darvin).
Press
Release: While vacationing on the planet Risa, Worf falls under the
influence of a traditionalist group bent on destroying the pleasure paradise.
Production Code: 505, stardate not given, US
airdate: 9 Nov 96
Guest Stars: Vanessa Williams (Arandis), Chase
Masterson (Leeta).
Directed By: Rene Auberjonois.
Press Release: Sisko, Odo, and
Garak are mysteriously placed into the roles of a group of condemned Bajorans
executed seven years ago.
Production Code: 506, stardate not given, US
airdate: 16 Nov 96
Guest Stars: Andrew J. Robinson (Garak), Marc
Alaimo (Gul Dukat), Kurtwood Smith (Thrax).
Directed By: LeVar Burton
Press Release: Stranded on a
desolate planet, longtime adversaries Odo and Quark must rely on each other to
survive..
Production Code: 507, stardate not given, US
airdate: 23 Nov 96
Guest Stars: Max Grodenchick (Rom), Aron
Eisenberg (Nog).
Press Release:Sisko is plagued by
life-threatening vision that may hold the key to Bajor's future.
Production Code: 508, stardate not given, US
airdate: 28 Dec 96
Guest Stars: Penny Johnson (Kasidy Yates),
Louise Fletcher (Kai Winn).
Press
Release:A mysterious assassin targets the members of Kira's resistance cell
for execution.
Production Code: 509, stardate 50416.2, US
airdate: 4 Jan 97
Guest Stars: Aron Eisenberg (Nog).
Press Release:While Kira gives
birth to the O'Brien's baby, Odo raises an infant Changeling.
Production Code: 510, stardate not given, US
airdate: 25 Jan 97
Guest Stars: Rosalind Chao (Keiko), Duncan
Regehr (Shakaar).
Press Release: Sisko risks
everything to capture a former crew member who deceived him and joined the
Maguis.
Production Code: 511, stardate 50485.2, US
airdate: 1 Feb 97
Guest Stars: Kenneth Marshall (Eddington), Aron
Eisenberg (Nog).
Press Release:While Worf and
Garak are imprisoned in the Gamma Quadrant, Sisko learns of a Dominion invasion.
Production Code: 512, stardate ?????.?, US
airdate: 8 Feb 97
Guest Stars: Andrew Robinson (Garak), Marc
Alaimo (Cul Dukat), Melanie Smith (Ziyal) and Paul Dooley (Enabran Tain).
Press Release: Led by Gul Dukat,
Cardassia joins the Dominion and prepares to take over the Alpha Quadrant.
Production Code: 513, stardate ?????.?, US
airdate: 15 Feb 97
Guest Stars: Andrew Robinson (Garak), Marc
Alaimo (Gul Dukat), Melanie Smith (Ziyal)
Dr
Louis Zimmerman (Robert Picardo) visits the station with the intention of using
Dr Bashir as the blueprint for, and the voice of, a new long term medical
holographic doctor. At first Julian is keen on the idea, but as Dr Zimmerman
becomes ever more inquisitive about his personal history, he becomes ever more
secretive. When his parents arrive on the station, he reaches a state verging on
total panic. What is the dark secret in his past he is so desperate to hide.
Press Release:When
Bashir is chosen as the model for Starfleet's holographic doctor program, the
process threatens to expose a dark secret from his past.
Production Code: 514, stardate ?????.?, US
airdate: 22 Feb 97
Press Release: Odo falls in love
with a mysterious woman who has been targeted for murder.
Production Code: 515, stardate ?????.?, US
airdate: 29 Mar 97
Quark's
notorious cousin, Galen, arrives on the station with an invitation to Quark to
make undreamed of wealth by joining him in the arms dealing business. Quark
comes up with a neat scheme to demonstrate the various weapons on offer in the
holo-suites thus avoiding all the difficulty of importing and exporting the real
thing. Disgusted at what he's doing his customers stay away, but he's untroubled
until the next customer is seeking weapons to kill millions of his planet's
population at which time even Quark's greed meets it's limits. He's
never-the-less left with the problem of how to backout of the situation without
ending up on the arms dealer's assisination list.
Press Release: Jumping
at the chance to finally erase his debts, Quark accepts a position working for
an arms dealer.
Production Code: 516, stardate ?????.?, US
airdate: 5 Apr 97
Guest Stars: Steven Berkoff (Hagath).
Directed by: Siddig El Fadil
The
Cardassian Legate who once believed that Kira was really his lost daughter
(Second Skin) is now an outcast from the new Cardassia and comes to the station.
He has a fatal disease and asks Kira to be his heir, the recipicent of all his
knowledge of the key movers in the Cardassian state. Honoured, and aware of the
strategic importance to both Bajor and the Federation, she agrees. Gul Dukat
arrives on the station in an attempt to lure the Legate back and save his
knowledge falling into the federations hands. This fails, but Dukat tries to
turn Kira against him by revealling that he was involved in the military
operation in which Kira's own father was killed. Can Kira overcome her anger and
grief, both out of compassion for the dying man and to push through the
strategic advantage his knowledge represents.
Press Releases: The
imminent death of Kira's Cardassian "father" rekindles memories of losing her
real father.
Production Code: 517, stardate ?????.?, US
airdate: 12 Apr 97
After a
row of mishaps including a recurrence of the Cardassian Vole infestation, Quark
becomes depressed and eventually takes his brother's advice to visit their
mother on Ferengiar. Once there he is astounded to discover the Grand Nagus is
his closet! It soon transpires that his mother is in love with the Grand Nagus;
soon Quark recieves a visit from his old adversary Brunt of the FCA, who offers
Quark the reinstatement of his business license if he sours the relationship
between his mother and the Nagus. Desperate to be reinstated, Quark agrees only
to discover that he's unwittingly become Brunt's pawn in a much larger political
game and that the whole of Ferengi society is living on a lie.
Press Release: Quark
sacrifices his mother's happiness in order to regain his standing in Ferengi
society.
Production Code: 518, stardate ?????.?, US
airdate: 19 Apr 97
Guest Stars: Wallace Shawn (Zek), Jeffrey
Combs (Brunt), Cecily Adams (Ishka), Max Grodenchik (Rom), Chase Masterson
(Leeta).
Directed by: Rene Auberjonois.
General Martok is ordered to lead an expedition to find a
Klingon ship lost near Cardassian space and he asks Worf to come along as his
1st officer. Concerned about the crew of the Klingon ship that arrives to
collect them, Dax decides to join the mission as science officer. Soon it
becomes apparent that the crew is totally disillusioned by their numerous prior
defeats at the hands of the Jem'Hadar, and that Martok has become so terrified
of them by his imprisonment that he's unwilling to engage them. Soon the tension
reaches exploding point, and Worf has to decide between challenging Martok or
facing a complete mutiny by the crew.
Press Release: On a
mission for the Klingon Empire, Worf realizes that his friend General Martok is
no longer fit to lead.
Production Code: 519, stardate ?????.?, US
airdate: 26 Apr 97
Guest Stars: J G Hertzler (Martok), Sandra
Nelson (Tavana).
Directed by: LeVar Burton.
The Defiant
is travelling home after a long mission when Dax detects an unusual inhabited
planet. Braving a field arround the planet to enter orbit, they are hailed by
the inhabitants of the planet who seem to know all about them. Inviting them
down to the surface, the leaders of people explain that they are the descendants
of the crew of the Defiant which left the planet two days later and had a
terrible accident in the field surrounding the planet and was thrown back 200
years into the past.
Press Release:Sisko and
the Defiant crew must choose between the lives they have always known and the
lives of their own descendants.
Production Code: 520, stardate ?????.?, US
airdate: 3 May 97
Guest Stars: Gary Frank (Yedrin Dax), Jennifer
S. Parsons (Miranda O'Brien).
Press Release: Sisko attempts to
force his traitorous former officer to stop a final Maquis attack that could
lead to the destruction of the Federation.
Production Code: 521, stardate ?????.?, US
airdate: 10 May 97
Guest Stars: Kenneth Marshall (Eddington),
Gretchen German (Rebecca Eddington), Aron Eisenberg (Nog).
Press Release: O'Brien, Garak,
Nog and a salvage team are stranded on a supposedly abandoned Cardassian space
station.
Production Code: 522, stardate ?????.?, US
airdate: 17 May 97
Guest Stars: Andrew J Robinson (Garak), Aron
Eisenberg (Nog), Tom Hodges (Pechetti), Andy Milder (Boq'ta), Marjean Holden
(Stolzoff), Jeffrey King (Amaeo).
Morale has
reached an all time low on the station and Jake sees an ancient baseball card in
an auction which he is sure will cheer up his father. The problem is that he and
Nog are outbid by a mysterious stranger, but undetered Jake negotiates with the
stranger and agrees to his extreme terms. He and Nog then work hard to acquire
each of the obscure items the stranger has insisted on as his price. Meanwhile
the Dominion and their Cardassian allies make a politic play at being friends
while trying to drive a rift between the Bajorans and the Federation.
Press Release:
Production Code: 523, stardate 50929.4, US
airdate: 2 Jun 97
Production Code: 524, stardate 50975.2, US
airdate: 9 Jun 97
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