Fourth Season
Title: Way of the Warrior
This season marked the return of Michael Dorn reprising his role as Worf who has been promoted to Lieutenant Commander.
Air Date: 10-8-95 Star Date: 49011.4
Guest Cast: Gul Dukat - Marc Alain, Robert O'Reilly, J. G. Hertzler, Obi Ndefo, Christopher Darga, William Dennis Hunt, Garak - Andrew Robinson
Summary: The peace treaty between the Klingon Empire and the Federation is in jeopardy. Lt. Comm. Worf is asked by Sisko to come to DS9 to act as a diplomatice liaison with the Klingons. The threat from the Dominion to the Alpha Quadrant is increased.
Writer(s): Ira Steven Behr and Robert Hewitt Wolfe Director: James L. Conway

Title: The Visitor
Air Date: 10-14-95 Star Date: unknown
Guest Cast: elderly Jake - Tony Todd, Melanie - Rachel Robinson, Galyn Gorg, Aron Eisenberg
Summary: An elderly Jake looks back on the death of his father in an engine-room mishap, but Sisko's mysterious periodic reappearances lead him on a search to discover what really happened.
Writer(s): Michael Taylor Director: David Livingston

Title: Hippocratic Oath
Air Date: 10-21-95 Star Date: 49066.5
Guest Cast: Agar - Scott McDonald, Stephen Davies, Jerry Roberts, Marshall Teague
Summary: Dr. Bashir and O'Brien are captured by renegade Jem 'Hadar who demand that the doctor free them of their genetically-engineered drug addiction.
Writer(s): teleplay by Lisa Klink, Story by Nicholas Corea and Lisa Klink
Director: Rene Auberjonois

Title: Indiscretion
Air Date: 10-28-95 Star Date: unknown
Guest Cast: Gul Dukat - Marc Alaimo, Kasidy Yates - Penny Johnson, Roy Brocksmith
Summary: When parts of a Cardassian warship that was transporting Bajoran prisoners are found, both Kira and Gul Dukat take a special interest in investigating. Sisko and Kasidy Yates face a decision.
Writer(s): teleplay - Nicholas Corea, story - Toni Marberry and Jack Trevino Director: Levar Burton

Title: Rejoined
Air Date: 11-4-95 Star Date: unknown
Guest Cast: Lenara - Susanna Thompson
Summary: Jadzia discovers that a member of a Trill science team on DS9 carries within her the symbiont to whom Jadzia's symbiont was married in a previous incarnation.
Writer(s): Avery Brooks Director: unknown

Title: Starship Down
Air Date: 11-11-95 Star Date: 49263.5
Guest Cast: Hanok - James Cromwell, Muniz - F. J. Rio, Stevens - Jay Baker, Sara Mornell
Summary: A trade agreement with the Karemma is threatened by the Jem'Hadar, who lure the Defiant into a huge planet's gaseous atmosphere for a deadly game of cat-and-mouse. Dax and Bashir are trapped in a lift with limited air, Quark must defuse a torpedo, O'Brien must locate the attackers without sensors.
Writer(s): David Mack and John J. Ordover Director: Alexander Singer

Title: Little Green Men
Air Date: 11-13-95 Star Date: unknown
Guest Cast: Rom - Max Grodenchik, Nog - Aaron Eisenberg, Conor O'Farell, Megan Gallagher, Dening - Charles Napier and James L. Conway
Summary: When Quark, Rom, and Nog take a trip to Earth, The shuttle loaned to them by Quark's cousin proves defective, forcing them to crashland in Roswell, N.M., circa 1947 - where they are presumed to be "little green men" from Mars.
Writer(s): Toni Marberry and Jack Trevino, teleplay by Ira Steven Behr, Robert Hewit Wolfe Director: James L. Conway

Title: Facets
Air Date: 12-30-95 Star Date: 48959.1
Guest Cast: Guardian - Jeffrey Alan Chandler, Rom- Max Grodenchik, Nog - Aron Eisenberg, Chase Masterson
Summary: Jadzia Dax must face past hosts in the Trill Rite of Closure, but complications ensue when Odo is possessed by the spirit of Curzon Dax.
Writer(s): Rene Echevarria Director: Cliff Bole

Title: Sword of Kahless
Air Date: 11-25-95 Star Date: unknown
Guest Cast: Kor - John Colicos, Rick Pasqualone
Summary: An elderly Klingon tells Worf and Dax that he knows where the Sword of Kahless - the Klingon Excalibur - can be found.
Writer(s): Story by Richard Danus, Teleplay by Hans Deimler
Director: Levar Burton

Title: Homefront
Air Date: 1-6-96 Star Date: ______
Guest Cast: Nog - Aron Eisenborg, Joseph Sisko - Brock Peters, Benteen - Susan Gibney, Leyton - Robert Foxworth
Summary: The Changlings appear to have infiltrated Earth, so Sisko is asked to return to Earth to help in trying to find the infiltrators.
Writer(s): Ira Steven Behr and Robert Hewitt Wolfe Director: David Livingston

Title: Paradise Lost
Air Date: 1-13-96 Star Date: unknown
Guest Cast: Jaresh - Inyo - Herschel Sparber, Riley Shepard - David Drew Gallagher, Security Offiver - Mina Badie, Academy Commandant - Rudolph Willrich, Joseph Sisko - Brock Peters, Benteen - Susan Gibney, Nog - Aron Eisenberg, Admiral Leyton - Robert Foxworth
Summary: Sisko discovers the battle may not be against Changeling infiltrators, but against a subversive element within Starfleet.
Writer(s): Ronald D. Moore Director: Reza Badiyi

Title: Crossfire
Air Date: 2-3-96 Star Date: unknown
Guest Cast: Shakaar - Duncan Regehr, Sarish - Bruce Wright
Summary: As First Minister Shakaar arrives at DS9 to negotiate for Bajor's early admittance into the Federation, Odo learns that the "True Way",a Cardassian extremist group, is planning to assassinate Shakaar. Security around the station is boosted, and Odo personallhy shadows him. During his duties, Odo watches a relationship develop between the F. M. and Kira. Forced to guard the life of a man he considers a rival he must choose between his duty as Security Chief and his love for Kira.
Writer(s): Rene Echevarria Director: Les Landau

Title: Return to Grace
Air Date: 2-10-96 Star Date:
Guest Cast: Gul Dukat - Marc Alaimo, Tora Ziyal - Cyia Batten, Casey Biggs
Summary: Kira becomes an unlikely ally of a demoted Gul Dukat when they discover that Klingons have attacked an outpost where Cardassians and Bajorans were conducting talks.
Writer(s): Teleplay by Hans Beimler, Story by Tom Benko Director: Jonathan West

Title: Sons of Mogh
Air Date: 2-17-96 Star Date: 49556.2
Guest Cast: Kurn-Tony Todd, Noggra-Robert Doqui
Summary: Worf's brother Kurn arrives unexpectedly and explains that since Worf Sided with the federation against the Klingon Empire, Kurn and his family have becomwe outcasts on the homeworld. Having lost everything, the only way for Kurn to regain his honor is throught the Mauk-to'Vor, a death ritual which only Worf can perform.
Writer(s): Ronald D. Moore Director: David Livingston

Title: The Bar Association
Air Date: 2-24-96 Star Date: unknown
Guest Cast: Rom - Max Grodenchik, Leeta - Chase Masterson, Grimp - Jason Marsden, Frool - Emilio Borelli, Brunt - Jeffery Combs
Summary: After suffering for weeks with an ear infection without a day off, Rom finally collapses in Quark's bar and is taken to the infirmary. Bashir is outraged that Quark refuses to give any of his employees sick leave and casually suggests that Rom form a union. When Rom returns to work, Quark announces that he is cutting the salaries of his employees because of declining profits. Rom calls a secret meeting and starts a union of the waiters and dabo girls. Quark ignores their demands , the union strikes pitting brother against brother.
Writer(s): story by Barbara J. and Jenifer A. Lee, teleplay by Robert Hewitt Wolfe and Ira Steven Behr. Director: LeVar Burton

Title: Accession
Air Date: 2-24-96 Star Date: unknown
Guest Cast: Keiko - Rosalind Chao, Vedek Porta - Robert Symonds, Kai Opaka - Camille Saviola, Molly - Hana Hotae, Laan - Richard Libertini
Summary: A centuries-old Bajoran vessel mysteriously exits the wormhole bearin an occupant who claims to be the emissary of the prophets, causing a resurgence of Bajoran fundamentalism and enmity to the Federation.
Writer(s): Jane Espenson Director: Les Landau

Title: Rules of Engagement
Air Date: 4-8-96 Star Date: unknown
Guest Cast: Ch'Pok - Ron Canada, T'Lara - Deborah Strang
Summary: Worf faces a hearing to determine whether he should be extradited to the Klingon Empire for destroying a civilian ship which decloaked while he was commanding the Defiant during a battle.Ch'Pok, the Klingon advocate, accuses Worf of negligence brought on by his inherent bloodlust. Witnesses implicate Worf whose life hangs in the balance.
Writer(s): teleplay by Ronald D. Moore, story by Bradley Thompson and David Weddle Director: LeVar Burton

Title: Hard Time
Air Date: 4-20-96 Star Date: unknown
Guest Cast: Ee'Char - Craig Wasson, Keiko - Rosalind Chao, Rinn - Margot Rose
Summary: As punishment for being convicted of espionage, O'Brien is implanted with memories of 20 years of incarceration in an alien prison, memories he believes are real.
Writer(s): Alexander Singer Director: unknown

Title: Shattered Mirror
Air Date: 4-27-96 Star Date: unknown
Guest Cast: Jennifer Sisko - Felecia M. Bell, Aron Eisenberg, Carlos Carrasco, Garak - Andrew Robinson
Summary: When Jennifer crosses over from the alternate universe and kidnaps Jake. Sisko follows them back and finds he must fix the Rebel's Defiant as part of the ransom.
Writer(s): Ira Steven Behr and Hans Beimler Director: James L. Conway

Title: The Muse
Air Date: 5-4-96 Star Date: unknown
Guest Cast: Lwaxana Troi - Majel Barrett, Jeyal - Michael Ansara, Onaya - Meg Foster
Summary: Lwaxana Troi visits DS9 and discloses she is pregnant. Her husband wants to get the baby to raise alone for 16 years. She decides to give birth on the station and keep the baby. Onaya arrives on the station insisting that she can help Jake with his writing
Writer(s): Teleplay by Rene Echevarria, story by Echevarria and Majel Barrett Roddenberry Director: David Livingston

Title: For the Cause
Air Date: 5-11-96 Star Date: unknown
Guest Cast: Kasidy Yates - Penny Johnson, Ziyal - Tracy Middendorf, Bratlaw - John Prosky, Lt. Reese - Steven Vincent Leigh, Garak - Andrew Robinson
Summary: Kasidy Yates is suspected at smuggling goods to the Maquis. Garak and Dukat's daughter, Ziyal, come to an understanding about one another.
Writer(s): Teleplay by Ronald D. Moore, story by Mark Gehred-O'Connell Director: James L. Conway

Title: To The Death
Air Date: 5-18-96 Star Date: 49904.2
Guest Cast: Ornet'Klan - Clarence Williams III, Toman'torax - Brian Thompson, Virak'kara - Scott Haven
Summary: An attack on the station by renegade Jem'Hadar drives Sisko to form an unlikely alliance with a group still loyal to the Dominion to pursue the rebels.
Writer(s): Ira Steven Behr and Robert Hewitt Wolfe Director: LeVar Burton

Title: The Quickening
Air Date: 5-25-96 Star Date: unknown
Guest Cast: Ekoria - Ellen Wheeler, Epran - Dylan Haggerty, Trevean - Michael Sarrazin
Summary: While traveling in the Gamma Quadrant, Dax and Bashir land on a planet devestated by "the Blight", a fatal disease left by the Jem 'Hadar that Bashir hopes he can cure.
Writer(s): Naren Shankar Director: Rene Auberjonois

Title: Body Parts
Air Date: 6-14-96 Star Date: unknown
Guest Cast: Keiko - Rosalin Chao, Rom - Max Grodenchik, Hana Hatae, Brunt - Jeffrey Combs, Garak - Andrew Robinson
Summary: An accident causes Keiko to lose her unborn child - to Kira, into whom Bashir transfers the fetus. Meanwhile, Quark is told he has a fatal illness.
Writer(s): teleplay by Hans Beimler, story by Louis P. DeSantis and Robert J. Bolivar
Director: Avery Brooks

Title: Broken Link
Air Date: 6-21-96 Star Date:
Guest Cast: Female Shapeshifter - Salome Jens, Gowron - Robert O'Reilly, Aroya - Jill Jacobson, - Freighter Captain - Leslie Bevis, Garak - Andrew Robertson
Summary: Odo collapses, Bashir diagnoses that he is losing the ability to maintain his solid form, but doesn't know why. Bashir orders Odo to stay put in the infirmary, going back to work could bring on another attack. Odo ventures out and collapses into a puddle of go. He decides to go back to the Dominion to try to find out why. Sisko takes him on the Defiant, they run into the Jem'Hadar and a shapeshifter who explains that this is his punishment for having killed another shapeshifter. This is the 4th season cliffhanger.
Writer: Ira Steven Behr and Robert Hewitt Wolfe Director: George A. Brozak

Title: Our Man Bashir
Air Date: 6-28-96 Star Date: ____
Guest Cast: Rom - Max Grodenchik, Eddington - Kenneth Marshall, Garak - Andrew Robinson
Summary: Bashir is enjoying a holosuite program showing him to be a super suave, 20th century secret agent. Garak insists on joining him. There is a problem with the transporter and the crew's patterns are stored in an override, but become integrated in to the holosuite program with life or death consequences. Bashir must rescue them.
Writer(s): Teleplay by Ronald D. Moore, story by Robert Gillan Director: Winrich Kolbe

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