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Kai Opaka feels Sisko's pagh in his vision |
Emissary Stardate: 46379.1
Commander Sisko arrives at Deep Space Nine, a space station orbiting Bajor, with his son. Formerly the Cardassian mining station Terok Nor, the Bajorans reclaimed it after the retreat of the Cardassians. While petitioning to join the Federation, the Bajoran Provisional Government asked Starfleet for assistance in rebuilding their homeworld in the aftermath of the Cardassian Occupation. Sisko is reluctant to accept his post, having just lost his wife to the Borg at Wolf359. Once onboard, he sees among his senior officers Bajoran liaison officer Major Kira Nerys, who harbors anti-Federation sentiments; Miles O'Brien, who transferred from the Enterprise to become the Chief of Operations; Julian Bashir, the Chief Medical Officer fresh out of Starfleet Medical; Constable Odo, shapeshifter who is in charge of station security; and Dax, whose previous host Curzon had been Sisko's mentor and best friend.
Sisko and Dax soon find the legendary "Celestial Temple" in the Denorios Belt where all the Orbs have been discovered. It is in fact the first stable wormhole ever found and links the Alpha and Gamma Quadrants, some 70,000 light years of distance. Transdimensional aliens the Bajorans worship as their prophets live inside the wormhole talk to Sisko and give him visions of his dying wife he wishes to forget. The importance of the wormhole do not escape the Cardassians, who send their own ship in an effort to claim the entrance first. Major Kira orders Chief O'Brien to use the station's thrusters and move Deep Space Nine into position in front of the wormhole. A Cardassian warship demanding the whereabouts of Gul Dukat, who disappeared into the wormhole, fires on the station and damages it severely. When Sisko emerges from the Wormhole towing Dukat's ship, the confrontation ends but Sisko's problems are only beginning.
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 Tahna being examined by Dr. Julian Bashir |
Past Prologue
Dr. Bashir meets the enigmatic Mr. Garak, the only remaining Cardassian on the station, for the first time in the Replimat. Soon after, a Bajoran ship is detected pursued by a Cardassian warship. After emergency beam-out, the lone survivor, Tahna, member of a Bajoran terrorist group still actively striking against Cardassians, requests for asylum. Central Command sends a Gul to demand the release of Tahna for his continuing crimes against Cardassians. Kira, former member of Tahna's underground, sides with him and refuses to turn him over to the Cardassians. She tries to dissuade Tahna from engaging in further violence, finally eliciting a promise on his side. The Klingon Duras sisters, Lursa and B'Etor, arrive on Deep Space Nine unannounced at the same time. Soon it is discovered that Tahna is buying bilitrium from the Klingon renegades, at a quantity enough for a major explosive. Not privy to the knowledge of his intentions, Kira takes Tahna to the wormhole as he requested. She learns of his plot to collapse the wormhole and drive away the Federation and all other non-Bajoran presence from Bajor. Only then does Kira realize Tahna has no intention of renouncing his violence.
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 The dead Ibundan lying on the floor of the holosuite |
A Man Alone Stardate 46421.5
At Quark's one day, Odo spots Ibundan, a Bajoran man he jailed months ago for murder. A fight broke out almost immediately. Not long later, Ibundan is found dead in Quark's holosuites, and all evidence trace a path directly to Odo. Rumors spread and paranoia stricken the population of Odo being a Cardassian agent. Being the stand-offish enigma that Odo is, his silence only serves to confirm in the minds of the civilians of his guilt. Dr. Bashir and Dax search the murder scene and the quarters of Ibundan for clues, finding one in DNA traces from Ibundan's ship. Meanwhile, violent emotions affect infect most of the station and demands for Odo's removal and punishment grow increasingly loud. Bashir's discovery that the dead Ibundan was a clone, while the real man himself roams the station, finally placates the inhabitants of Deep Space Nine, who collects outside Odo's office demanding their own form of mob justice.
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 Julian hard at work on an antidote in the Infirmary |
Babel Stardate 46425.8
O'Brien is kept busy by the continual system failures around the station. While making repairs on the tricky food replicators that break down more often than not, he accidentally trips on a Bajoran device release an adaptive virus into the food generated by that replicator. O'Brien becomes immediately stricken with the disease, which scrambles the relaying efficiency of the brain synapses, rendering him incapable of connecting language, stimuli and responses. Quark, meanwhile, is impatient to resume business at his bar and unwittingly spreads the virus to all his patrons, creating a station-wide epidemic. Bashir, of course, comes into the spotlight at this point, being the only man aboard who could save the station. Only a few, Odo, Kira, and Quark himself, are left unaffected, and he must procure an antidote before he himself falls victim. The virus was put in place by Bajorans years ago when they tried to sabotage the construction of the Cardassian mining station and is eventually fatal. With very little time and the Station security nonexistent at that point, the four beat the odds and finally did bring back the comatose population.
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 O'Brien talking to his new friend Tosk at Quark's |
Captive Pursuit
The first ship from the Gamma Quadrant emerges through the wormhole and arrives at DS9. First Contact procedures are immediately taken up -- welcoming hails, full dress-uniform, and the senior staff greeting at the airlock. The single occupant of damaged the alien ship docks at the station, and Chief O'Brien sets out to repair his vessel. While working on the ship, O'Brien makes friendly overtures to the alien, who identifies itself only as Tosk and speaks in simple sentences. Tosk looks harmless and naive, but out of earshot of anyone, he slips out of his quarters and tries to open a weapons security locker. Odo instantly swoops on Tosk and throws him into the brig. Neither O'Brien nor anyone else understand the motives of Tosk, and the the alien didn't help to clarify matters. Shortly afterwards a second ship arrives from the wormhole. Sisko again hails the visitors with peaceful and friendly messages, but these visitors (clad in armor and face masks) instead penetrate the station's shields and beam into the Promenade without notice. Armed, they spread out and begin to hunt for Tosk. When one of the hunters finally arrives at the brig and takes off his mask, the crew learns that he and the rest of his colleagues are game hunters searching for Tosk. The tradition of their society is centered around the glorious hunt, during which a new Tosk every year provides them with an intelligent target to capture and kill. The visitors are deeply annoyed at Tosk for ruining their "hunt" by being abominably easy to find and condemned him to a life of disgrace. Sisko argues that Tosk is a sentient being and cannot be hunted like an animal, but the visitors brush off his complaints. When Tosk is to be returned to the Gamma Quadrant with the full disgrace of surviving the Hunt, O'Brien turns the tables on the hunters.
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 Q harassing Vash on Deep Space Nine |
Q-less Stardate: 46531.2
Archaeologist Vash, Dax, and an ensign return from the Gamma Quadrant inside a damaged runabout. A power loss had lowered the oxygen levels to dangerous levels and O'Brien had to break through to rescue the passengers. O'Brien recognized Vash immediately and was very surprised to see her there. She had last seen going off to explore the universe with Q. She had wandered around the Gamma Quadrant on her own for two years, which embitters her to Q, but once she settles in on the station, she begins plotting how best to profit from her Gamma Quadrant collection. Q appeared shortly, with the purpose of winning back the favor of Vash and amusing himself with the Deep Space Nine crew. Coinciding with Q's appearance on the station are increasingly frequent power failures. O'Brien immediately takes the unexplained phenomena to be the work of Q, and Sisko confronts him with the issue, but Q merely smiles indulgently and replies in the negative. Vash loses no time in meeting Quark and setting up an auction of her Gamma Quadrant artifacts, which should rake in a fortune by their estimates. The power failures grows increasingly disturbing until an outside gravitational force begins to accelerate DS9 straight towards the wormhole. Sisko is unsure whether an what is causing the station to move, or if Q is simply playing tricks on them. In the end, the source is traced back to the glowing object that Vash is auctioning off at Quark's. Sisko orders an immediate transport of it off the station. Not seconds later, the object unfurls into a living creature that sails through the wormhole back to the Gamma Quadrant.
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 Dax refuses to defend herself at the trial |
Dax Stardate 46910.1
A small group of Klaestrons attempt to kidnap Lt. Dax, but Sisko intervened with the station's tractor beam. Ilon Tandro, the leader of the group, claims to be carrying out the extradition of Dax. The charge is a grave one : murder of General Tandro, and treason against the Kalestron. Sisko firmly disbelieves the charges against Curzon, the most honorable man he has ever known. But even when he defends Dax to the best of his abilities, Jadzia will not say a word in her own defense. Sisko stalls the Klaestrons by calling for an extradition hearing overseen by a Bajoran judge while sending Odo to Klaestron 4 to find out as much as he can about Curzon Dax's activities 30 years ago. During the hearing, Sisko speaks for Jadzia, whose mouth is still firmly shut on the subject and would betray nothing. Odo's investigation on Klaestron IV finally uncovers the fact that Curzon Dax had an affair with the general's wife, Enina, who finally comes forward and testifies that Curzon was in her bed at the moment her husband was "betrayed". Dax was willing to take the blame in order to protect the name of Enina.
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 Sisko, Kira, and Odo looking anxiously at the viewscreen |
The Passenger
As Odo and Starfleet newcomer Lt. Primmin irritate each other while trying to coordinate security for the transfer of a deuridium shipment due to arrive at DS9, a Runabout is sent to aid a crippled Kobliad prison ship, containing investigator Ty Kajada and two corpses, one of which was a notorious Kobliad criminal known as Rao Vantika, who, even after being pronounced dead by Bashir, is still considered a major threat by Kajada. Dax discovers, during post-mortem investigations, that Vantika was capable of transferring his consciousness into the mind of any other being without the recipient's consent or even their knowledge. The vital shipment may be lost to Vantika, whoever his evil ambitions inhabit now - and he has henchmen waiting to assist him on the station.
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 Quark playing a high stakes game |
Move Along Home
A group of Gamma Quadrant aliens led by Falow makes first contact with the station, an event which Sisko intends to treat with the utmost seriousness and ceremony. Sisko is surprised, however, when Falow and his fellow travelers seem to be interested only in games. After Sisko leaves the proceedings out of boredom and mild disappointment, Quark cheats Falow in his casino, and Falow means to get even by introducing Quark to a game from the Gamma Quadrant. At the same time, Sisko, Dax, Major Kira and Dr. Bashir vanish from the station without a trace, finding themselves in a surreal maze occupied by images of Falow and others. As they try to work out the puzzle and help each other survive, Quark continues to play the game, only gradually becoming aware of who his pawns are.
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 Quark recommending himself to Grand Nagus Zek |
The Nagus
Quark receives a surprise - and something of a dubious honor - when Grand Nagus Zek, a Ferengi business mogul, arrives at DS9. After some customary patronizing at Quark's, Zek insists on holding a conference of Ferengi profiteers there, while Quark fears that Zek plans on buying out his bar on the station. To everyone's surprise, especially Quark's, Zek announces his retirement and declares that Quark will succeed him to the coveted position of Grand Nagus. Many of the visiting Ferengi are jealous, as would be expected of them. But Quark discovers - after a close call - that someone among the Ferengi is jealous enough to try gaining the position of Nagus by killing him.
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 Quark confronted with one of the Miradorn twin |
Vortex
Quark and Rom are involved in a shady deal with a pair of twin Miradorns when a recent visitor from the wormhole interrupts, kills one of the Miradorn brothers, and tries to steal a valuable item. Odo turns out to have been present all along and intervenes before the surviving Miradorn can exact vengeance, but Croden, the visitor from a distant planet Rakhar troubles Odo even more, for he may have a clue to the shapeshifter's origins in the Gamma Quadrant. Odo must decide whether or not to trust the criminal when Sisko orders him to transport Croden back through the wormhole to Rakhar - and the surviving Miradorn brother leaves DS9 to follow the Runabout carrying his brother's murderer.
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 Sisko tries to mediate two warrior clans |
Battle Lines
On a routine day at the station, Kai Opaka, the Bajoran spiritual leader who helped lead Sisko to discover the wormhole when he first arrived at DS9, pays a surprise visit. Sisko, Kira and Bashir take Opaka on her first trip through the wormhole. Before they can return to the station, a signal is detected from a series of satellites orbiting a moon in the Gamma Quadrant. When Sisko's Runabout investigates, it is fired on by one of the satellites, forcing the ship to crash-land on the moon. Opaka dies on impact, but before Kira has long to grieve, warriors appear and take the crash survivors back to their camp. It is discovered that two groups of combatants have been stranded there for centuries, fighting a war in which no one ever dies - not even newcomers who find themselves in the line of fire.
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 The Sirah dies without naming a successor |
The Storyteller Stardate 46729.1
As the leaders of two Bajoran factions arrive on the station where Sisko hopes to diplomatically steer them away from solving their differences in combat, O'Brien and Dr. Bashir depart to Bajor in response to a distress call which vaguely stated that an entire community is jeopardized. Bashir is puzzled to find all of the villagers except one - the elderly Sirah - in perfect health, yet the locals still insist that they are in mortal danger. They discover, when the Sirah makes his appearance at a yearly festival (against Bashir's recommendation), that the threat comes from the legendary Dal'Rok, a mythical creature which descends upon the village for five nights of each year in an attempt to destroy it. But every year in the past several generations, the village Sirah told a Story, somehow halting the Dal'Rok's onslaught. This year, the Sirah will not complete his Story...
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 Old Mullibok refuses to go |
Progress Stardate 46844.3
The Bajoran Provisional Government enlists the aid of Deep Space Nine officers in preparation for using a moon as part of a power source needed to help the rebuilding process. On a final inspection flyover of the designated moon, Major Kira and Lt. Dax detect humanoid life on the surface. Kira beams down and finds old Mullibok, who has called the moon home since the Cardassians annexed Bajor. Mullibok and his two mute neighbors (a result of Cardassian torture) staunchly refuse to leave, despite the certain death which awaits them once the conversion of the moon into a power-generating facility is complete. But Kira begins to bond with Mullibok and sympathize with his cause when she found herself ordered by the Provisional Government's to remove the settlers by force. She decided to risk her career and her life to help Mullibok, until the interference of Commander Sisko reawakened her strong sense of duty.
Guest Cast: Brian Keith (Mullibok), Aron Eisenberg (Nog), Nicholas Worth (Alien Captain), Michael Bofshever (Toran), Terrance Evans (Baltrim), Annie O'Donnell (Keena), Daniel Riordan (First Guard)
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 Figments of the imagination |
If Wishes Were Horses Stardate 46853.2
Rumpelstiltskin makes an appearance in Chief O'Brien's quarters one night, coinciding with strange behavior near the wormhole marks the first of many manifestations of the imaginations of the crew aboard Deep Space Nine. Sisko's favorite baseball player appears as does a pair of ravishing beauties, who croon and whimper on Quark's arms, and Bashir's fantasy - a willing, "appreciative" Dax. At first the apparitions seem harmless, but it then seems that they are capable of posing danger to the crew.
Guest Cast: Rosalind Chao (Keiko), Hana Hatae (Molly), Keone Young (Buck Bokai), Michael John Anderson (Rumpelstiltskin)
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 Lwaxana grateful for the gallantry of Odo |
The Forsaken Stardate 46925.1
A few Federation ambassadors come aboard Deep Space 9 to conduct a fact-finding mission, but they cannot begin since the delegates cannot come to terms with the fact that the station doesn't come with standard Federation amenities. Among the delegates is Lwaxana Troi, Ambassador of Betazed, who becomes enamored of Odo after he returns her stolen heirloom ring from a thief at Quark's. Ambassador Troi's plans to hook the Constable commence almost immediately, and she is given a perfect opportunity when the two are trapped in a turbolift when a small probe emerges from the wormhole, and the station's computer downloads information from it, which begins a sequence of unexplainable events. The probe's effect on the station computer causes it to malfunction, trapping people in hallways and turbolifts. O'Brien must find a way to upload the information back to the probe, which appears to have transferred a sentient program to the computer, to save the station and restore control to Ops.
Guest Cast: Majel Barrett (Lwaxana Troi), Constance Towers (Ambassador Taxco), Michael Ensign (Ambassador Lojal), Jack Shearer (Ambassador Vadosia), Benita Andre (Anara)
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 Sisko possessed by an alien entity |
Dramatis Personae Stardate 46922.3
A Klingon ship makes an unexpected comes through the wormhole, returning from a scientific mission in the Gamma Quadrant, but it self-destructs before just before reaches Deep Space Nine. A single Klingon of the ship's crew beams himself into Ops, collapsing on the floor shortly after declaring "victory." As Dax and O'Brien try to solve the mystery of the Klingon ship and its demise, an air of mutiny spreads amongst the senior DS9's crew. Kira, already unsatisfied after losing an argument with Sisko concerning Federation security that might be letting a shipload of weapons armorers working for the Cardassians go, openly plots against the Commander, assessing the loyalty of her friends among the crew and threatening those who don't join her cause. Sisko, on the other hand, retreats into his quarters and lets O'Brien handle his daily tasks. Chief O'Brien and himself prepare for Kira's first move, also trying to lobby for loyalty among his crew. Odo remains the only officer who hasn't partaken in the split yet, but he is perplexed by the strange behavior exhibited by the entire senior staff. In the end, Dr Bashir inadvertently helps Odo in finding the alien entities which have overtaken the minds of the effected crew, and drove them out with an appropriately grating sound frequency.
Guest Cast: Tom Towles (Klingon), Stephen Parr (Valerian), Randy Pflug (Guard), Jeff Pruitt (Ensign)
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 Kira shocked by the death of Marritza |
Duet
A Federation freighter arrives and delivers a passenger who needs immediate medical attention. By the mention of the passenger's disease, Kira realizes that whoever the person is, he or she was present at a Cardassian labor camp on Bajor that Kira liberated years ago. She prepares to welcome a war hero, but the patient turns out to be a Cardassian instead. Instead of celebrating a survivor's return, Kira throws Marritza into the brig, and, against Sisko's advice, interrogates him. Under further scrutiny, a photo emerged in which a picture of Marritza was discovered, only the person in the scene was identified as none other than the infamous Gul Darhe'el, responsible for the killing of countless Bajorans and considered a war criminal. Under pressure, Marritza admits that he is in fact Gul Darhe'el. But how can he be Darhe'el, if the Gul was already dead, as Gul Dukat assures everyone he is. The identity of the Cardassian in the brig clears up when medical evidence proves that he is not Darhe'el, but someone who went to great lengths to resemble Gul Darhe'el. Marritza impersonated Darhe'el in the hopes of being caught and brought to justice on Bajor, to make amends for the atrocities the Cardassians committed during the Occupation. When Marritza is killed by a Bajoran for no other reason than the fact that he is a Cardassian, Major Kira comes face-to-face with the error of her own indiscriminate hatred of Cardassians.
Guest Cast: Harris Yulin (Marritza), Marc Alaimo (Gul Dukat), Ted Sorel (Kaval), Tony Rizzoli (Kainon), Norman Large (Captain), Robin Christopher (Neela)
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 Sisko trying to seek an audience with the Vedek Council |
In the Hands of the Prophets
Vedek Winn, a leader of a minor fundamentalist religious sect, covets the position of Kai and wants the Federation presence ousted. She appears in Keiko's classroom to declare that Keiko's scientific teachings about the wormhole are blasphemous, and that Bajoran children should be reared in Bajoran tradition. When Keiko refuses to acquiesce to her pressure to teach religious doctrine, Winn uses her influence as a Vedek to ward off Bajoran children from taking classes in Keiko's classroom. Winn's maneuverings cause a deep dichotomy between the minority Federation officers and the Bajorans who make up most of the population on the station. Sisko attempts to enlist the help of Vedek Bareil, the frontrunner in the upcoming election for Kai, but Bareil has his own agendas as well, and declines to assist him initially. When a bomb explodes in Keiko's classroom, evidently in retaliation for her teachings, Bareil comes aboard to express his sorrow, and to talk to the Bajorans people about peaceful coexistence. Winn was standing on the same steps as he when a Bajoran engineer who transferred to DS9 makes an attempt on Bareil's life. Sisko sees her just in time to prevent an assassination, but all circumstantial evidence points to Winn.
Guest Cast: Rosalind Chao (Keiko), Louise Fletcher (Winn), Philip Anglim (Vedek Bareil), Robin Christopher (Neela), Michael Eugene Fairman (Vendor)
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