Fifth Season
Regular Cast:
Captain Ben Sisko - Avery Brooks, Odo - Rene Auberjonois, Dr. Julian Bashir - Alexander Siddig, Jake Sisko - Curoc Lofton, O'Brien - Colm Meany, Quark - Armin Shimmerman, Major Kira - Nana Vistor
Title: Apocalypse Rising
Air Date: 10/9/96, Star Date: ____
Guest Cast:
Gowron - Robert Reily, Jiyal - Tracey Middendorf, Gul Dukat - Marc Alaimo, Martok - J.G. Hertzler, Head Guard - Robert Zachar, Klingon Guard - Ken Lesco, Klingon Guard 2 - Dennis Madalone, Klingon Guard 3 - Ellie Alexandra, Dumar - Casey Biggs, Drunk Klingon - John Bennett, Burly Klingon - Robert Budsaka, Hulking Klingon - Chris Conrad
Summary:
Sisko and Dax barely make it back from a Star fleet Command meeting due to the increasingly hostile war conditions with the Klingons. Command has decided to send Sisko into the heart of the Klingon Empire to determine whether or not Gowron is a changeling. Sisko, O'Brien, Odo, and Worf penetrate the Empire in a stolen Bird-of-Prey. Can they determine if the High Council is motivated by Changelings?
Writer(s): by I. S. Behr and R. H. Wolfe, Director: James L. Conway
Title: The Ship
Air date: 10/13/96 Star Date: _____
Guest Cast:
Kilana - Kaitlin Hopkins, Muniz - F. J. Rio
Summary:
A Jem'Hadar warship crashes into a planet which Sisko and a runabout crew are investigating. The ship survives the impact but the crew dies. Their attempts to retrieve the craft are complicated when another Jem'Hadar ship arrives and destroys the runabout, but not before the Defiant is sent for. The Away team crew hides in the downed ship, the Jem'Hadar tries to get them to leave. There is a surprise ending.
Writer(s): Pam Wigginton and Rick Cason, teleplay by Hans Beimler, Director: Kim Friedman
Title: Looking for Par-Mach In All the Wrong Places
Air Date: 10/19/96, Star Date: _____
Guest Cast:
Mary Kay Adams, Keiko - Rosalind Chao, Joseph Auskin, Phil Morris
Summary:
When Quark's Klingon ex-wife shows up on DS9, Worf finds himself falling in love with her, but he is unaware that another of the station has eyes for him.
Writer(s): by Ronald D. Moore, Director: Andrew J. Robinson
Title: Nor the Battle to the Strong
Air Date: 10/26/96, Star Date: ____
Guest Cast:
Kirby - Andrew Kakovit, Kalandra - Karen Austin, Bolian - Mark Hatton, Nurse - Lisa Lord, Ensign - Jeb Brown, Burke - Danny Goldring
Summary:
Jake experiences the horror of war firsthand when he and Bashir respond to a distress call from a Federation outpost being attacked by Klingons.
Writer(s): by Brice R. Parker, teleplay by Rene Echevarria, Director: by Kim Friedman
Title:The Assignment
Air Date: 11/6/96, Star Date: ____
Guest Cast:
Keiko - Rosalind Chao, Par Lenor - Max Grodenchik, Molly - Alana Hatae
Summary:
When a mysterious, malevolent being takes over Keiko's body, demanding that O'Brien sabotage the station's systems, or risk Keiko's death.
Writer(s): by David R. Long and Robert Lederman, Teleplay by David Weddle and Bradley Thompson. Director: Allan Kroeker
Title:Trials and Tribble-ations
Air Date: 11/9/96, Star Date: ____
Guest Cast:
Arne Darvin - Charlie Brill, Dulmur - Jack Blessing, Lucsly - James W. Jansen
Summary:
A renegade Klingon agent steals a Bajoran Orb and throws the Defiant and its crew 105 years into the past, where they come face-to-face with Capt. James T. Kirk - and thousands of Tribbles.
Writer(s): by Ira Steven Behr, Hans Beimler and Robert Hewitt, teleplay by Ronald D. Moore and Rene Echevarria, Director: by Jonathan West
Title: Let He Who Is Without Sin
Air Date: 11/16/96, Star Date: ____
Guest Cast:
Arandis - Vanessa Williams, Fullerton - Monte Markham, Leeta - Chase Masterson, Bolian Aide - Frank Kopyc
Summary:
A vacation on the pleasure planet Risa does not go as planned when Worf joins a radical group called the Essentialists, who are bent on closing the planet.
Writer(s): by Robert H. Wolfe and Ira Steven Behr, Director: Rene Auberjonois
Title: Things Past
Air Date: 11/23/96, Star Date: ____
Guest Cast:
Garak - Andrew Robinson, Gul Dukat - Marc Alaimo, Victor Bevine, Thrax - Kurtwood Smith
Summary:
Sisko, Dax, Odo and Garak inexplicably become condemned Bajorans on an alternate DS9, Terok Nor, seven years in the past, during the Cardassian occupation.
Writer(s): Michael Taylor, Director: Levar Burton
Title: The Ascent
Air Date: 11/30/96, Star Date: _____
Guest Cast:
Par Lenor - Max Grodenchik, Nog - Aron Eisenberg
Summary:
As Odo escorts Quark to a Federation Grand Jury hearing, their sabotaged shuttle crash-lands on a deserted planet, forcing them to rely on each other to survive, meanwhile Jake and Nog's friendship in in jeopardy when they share a cabin.
Writer(s): Ira Steven Behr and Robert Hewitt Wolfe Director: Allan Kroeker
Title: Rapture
Air Date: 1/4/97 Star Date: _____
Guest Cast: Kassidy Yates - Penny Johnson, Kai Winn - Louise Fletcher, Ernest Perry, Jr.
Summary: An accident leaves Sisko with enhanced senses, enabling him to find a lost Bajoran city. Meanwhile, Bajor is granted permission to join the Federation.
Writers: Story by L. J. Strom, teleplay by Hans Beimler Director: Jonathan West
Title: The Darkness and the Light
Air Date: 1/11/97 Star Date: ____
Guest Cast: Furel - Jim Lucking, Silaran Prin - Randy Oglesby, Lupaza - Diane Salinger, Fala - Jennifer Savridge, Nog - Aron Eisenberg
Summary: When members of Kira's former Bajoran Guerrila group are killed, she realizes that someone has a vendetta against the Shakaar Resistance Cell - and she may be next of the list.
Writer(s): Story by Bryan Fuller, Teleplay by Ronald D. Moore Director: Michael Vejar
Title: The Begotten
Air Date: 2/1/97 (?) Star Date:_____
Guest Cast: Keiko - Rosalind Chao, Shakaar - Duncan Reghr, Y'Pora - Peggy Roeder, Dr. Mora - James Sloyan
Summary: The arrival of Shakaar thrills Kira, but Odo views him as a threat to his relationship with her. He is distracted with trying to teach an infant changling to shape-shift. Dr. Mora, who first worked with Odo tries to help, but Odo doesn't like his methods of probing and measuring the new changling.
Writer(s): Rene Echevarria Director: Jesus Trevino
Title: For the Uniform
Air Date: 2/8/97 Star Date: ______
Guest Cast: Eddington - Kenneth Marshall, Sanders - Eric Pierpoint, Nog - Aron Eisenberg
Summary: Sisko chases security-chief turned Maquis Eddington who has acquired deadly biogenic weapons and is unleashing them upon Cardassian planets.
Writer(s): Peter Allen Fields Director: Victor Lobl
Title: In Purgatory's Shadow
Air Date: 2/15/97 Star Date: ______
Guest Cast: Garak - Andrew J. Robinson, Gul Dukat - Marc Alaimo, Ziyal - Melanie Smith, Martok - J. G. Hertzler, Deyos - Ray Butemica, Romulan - Carrie Stauber, Gowron - Robert O'Reilly
Summary: An impending attack by the Dominion convinces Sisko to close the Wormhole. Meanwhile, Garak and Worf are taken prisoner by the Jem 'Hadar. Part 1 of 2
Writer(s): Ira S. Behr and Robert H. Wolfe Director: Gabrielle Beaumont
Note: There is a discrepancy between the title for this episode on the Paramount Web Site and what the title was on the television credits. I used the T. V. credits for this information.
Title: By Inferno's Light
Air Date: 2/22/97 Star Date: ____
Guest Cast: Gul Dukat - Marc Alaimo, Garak - Andrew Robinson, Martok - J. G. Hertzler, Deyos - Ray Buktemica, Romulan - Carrie Stauber, Gowron - Robert O'Reilly
Summary: Conclusion, Dukat forges a secret alliance with the Dominion, Bashir, Worf, and Garak plan to break out from the Jem 'Hadar prison, Sisko convinces Gowron to sign a Federation Treaty.
Writer(s): Ira Steven Behr and Robert Hewitt Wolfe Director: Les Landau
Title: Dr. Bashir, I Presume?
Air Date: 3/1/97 Star Date: ______
Guest Cast: Dr. Zimmerman - Robert Picardo, Richard - Brian George, Rom - Max Grodenchik, Leeta - Chase Masterson, Amsha - Fadwa Guindi, Bennett - J. Patrick McCormack
Summary: A startling revelation about Dr. Bashir could jeopardize not only his candidacy for the Starfleet Holographic Doctor program but his entire career.
Writer(s): Jimmy Diggs, teleplay by Ronald D. Moore Director: David Livingston
Title: A Simple Investigation
Air Date: 4/5/97 Star Date: ____
Guest Cast: Traidy - John Durbin, Sorm - Nicholas Worth, Arissa - Dey Young, Idanian # 2 - Randy Mulkey
Summary: Odo meets a woman who wants out of the crime syndicate that employs her, and he tries to help her - even as he finds himself falling in love with her.
Writer(s): Rene Echevarria Director: John J. Kretchmer
Title: Business as Usual
Air Date: 4/12/97 Star Date: _____
Guest Cast: Regent - Lawrence Tierney, Gaila - Josh Pais, Farrakk - Tim Halligan, Hagath - Steven Berkoff
Summary: Quark and his cousin form a business alliance. Quark will not technically be breaking the law, his cousin sells weapons. Quark makes enough latinum that he can pay off his debts within a month.
Writer(s): Bradley Thompson and David Weddle Director: Siddig El Fadil
Title: Ties of Blood and Water
Air Date: 4-19-97 Star Date: 50712.5
Guest Cast: Ghemor - Lawrence Pressman, Dukat - Marc Alaimo, Tahan - Thomas Kopache, Furel - William Lucking, Weyoun - Jeffery Combs
Summary: A dying Cardassian who once befriended Kira, arrives at the station to confide his final secrets to her, but Dukat and the Dominion want him returned to Dardassia.
Writer(s): Edmund Newton and Robbin L. Slocum, teleplay by Robert Hewitt Wolfe Director: Avery Brooks
Title: Of Love and Profit
Air Date: 4/26/97 Star Date: _____
Guest Cast: Grand Nagus Zek - Wallace Shawn, Ishka - Cecily Adams, Rom - Max Grodenchik, Leeta - Chase Masterson, Maihar'du - Tiny Ron, Leck - Hamilton Camp, Brunt - Jeffrey Combs.
Summary: Quark's worst nightmare comes true when he discovers the Grand Nagus hiding in the closet of his mother's house, but this turn of events may prove profitable.
Writer(s): Ira Steven Behr and Hans Beimler Director: Rene Auberjonois
Title: Soldiers of the Empire
Air Date: 5/3/97 Star Date: ______
Guest Cast: Martok - J. G. Hertzler, Leskit - David Graf, Koman - Rick Worthy, Tavana - Sandra Nelson, Nog - Aron Eisenberg
Summary: Worf and Dax volunteer for a rescue mission aboard a Bird of Prey with Martok to search for a missing Klingon ship, but the crew has not had a victory in 6 missions and is on the edge of mutiny.
Writer(s): Ronald D. Moore Director: Levar Burton
Title: Children of Time
Air Date: 5/10/97 Star Date: _____
Guest Cast: Yedrin - Gary Frank, Miranda - Jennifer S. Parsons, Lista - Davida Williams, Molly - Doren Fein
Summary: A temporal anomoly is the cause of the Defiant's crew meeting their own descendents, who have been stranded on a planet for 200 years and are now in danger of never having existed.
Writer(s): Gary Holland and Ethan H. Calk, teleplay by Rene Echevarria Director: Allan Kroeker
Title: Blaze of Glory
Air Date: 5/17/97 Star Date: _____
Guest Cast: Eddington - Kenneth Marshall, Martok - J. G. Hertzler, Nog - Aron Eisenberg, Rebecca - Gretcham German
Summary:A sub-space message indicating cloaked Maquis missiles heading for Cardassia prompts Sisko to release Eddington hoping the rebel leader will help disarm them.
Writer(s):Robert Hewitt Wolfe and Ira Steven Behr Director: Kim Friedman
Title: Empok Nor
Air Date: 5/24/97 Star Date: _____
Guest Cast: Garak - Andrew Robinson, Nog - Aron Eisenberg, Pechetta - Tom Hodges, Stoltzoff - Marjorie Holden, Amaro - Jeffrey King
Summary: A team from DS9 lands on an abandoned Cardassian Space Station in search of spare parts, but soon they're stranded and discover the station's still being guarded.
Writer(s): Story by Bryan Fuller, teleplay by Hans Beimler Director: Michael Vejor
Title: In the Cards
Air Date: 6/14/97 Star Date: _____
Guest Cast: Weyoun - Jeffrey Combs, Brian Markinson, Nog - Aron Eisenberg, Chase Masterson, Kai Winn - Louise Fletcher
Summary: Jake goes to great lengths to procure a Willie May's baseball card for his dejected father, who's feeling expecially low when Kai Winn arrives to negotiate with the Dominion on DS9.
Writer(s): Teleplay by Ronald D. Moore, story by Truly Barr Clark and Scott J. Neal Director: Michael Dorn
Title: Call to Arms
Air Date: 6/21/97 Star Date: _____
Guest Cast: Garak - Andrew J. Robinson, Weyoun, Gul Dukat - Marc Alaimo, Rom - Max Grodenchik, Nog - Aron Eisenberg, Martok - J. G. Hertzler, Leeta - Chase Masterson, Ziyal - Melanie Smith, Damar - Casey Biggs
Summary: The 5th Season closes with a tense confrontation that finds the crew surrendering DS9 to the Dominion-Cardassian alliance. As enemy forces build up near Federation space, Sisko realizes that an invasion is imminent. His plan, mine the entrance to the Wormhole is discovered, the station is attacked. Odo and Kira agree to put their relationship "distractions" on hold until after the crisis. Jake stays behind to write about the war for the Federation News Service and Dax replies to Worf's marriage proposal.
Writer(s): Ira Steven Behr and Robert Hewitt Wolfe Director: Allan Kroeker
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