Season Three

Episode Details

The Search

Sisko returns to the station after a long debriefing at Star Fleet, newly promoted to Captain, and bringing with him the USS Defiant, a prototype gunship designed to deal with the Borg menace, now reassigned to DS9 to help in the fight against the Dominion, and equipped with a cloaking device, loaned by the Romulan Empire.

Sisko and the crew set off in the new ship to find the mysterious founders of The Dominion. All too soon they encounter the Jem'Hadar and Dax and O'Brien are captured.
Production Code: 447, stardate 48212.4, US airdate: 24 Sep 94

The Search, Part II

While Odo comes to terms with an amazing discovery about his past, Kira attempts to contact Sisko and the others. Meantime Sisko returns to the station to discover that things are changing at an extremely fast rate; the more he discovers the more concerned he becomes. In the end, he decides to take matters into his own hands ...
Production Code: 448, stardate not given, US airdate: 1 Oct 94

The House of Quark

After Quark accidentally kills a drunk Klingon in a brawl in his bar, Quark claims he fought the Klingon and won. His tall tale helps rebuild the dwindling clientel at his bar, and all seems to be going well until the family of the dead Klingon arrive on the Station. Soon Quark is kidnapped, taken back to the Klingon home world, and forced to marry the widow of the Klingon he killed. He then finds that he is embroiled in a bitter feud between two Klingon houses.
Production Code: 449, stardate not given, US airdate: 8 Oct 94

Equilibrium

Dax starts suffering from a severe hallucinations and keeps on blacking out. Concerned, Sisko and Bashir take her back to the Trill homeworld where they hope to find an answer to her plight. Soon it becomes apparent that the Trill authorities are hidding something and are prepared to sacrifice Jadzia's life to stop the truth coming out.
Production Code: 450, stardate not given, US airdate: 15 Oct 94

Second Skin

Kira is kidnapped by the Cardassians, who try to prove to her that she is really one of their people.
Production Code: 451, stardate not given, US airdate: 22 Oct 94

The Abandoned

Odo tries to convince a young, violent Jem'Hadar that there is more to life than fighting and killing.
Production Code: 452, stardate not given, US airdate: 29 Oct 94

Civil Defense

A trapped crew fights to save the station from self-destruction when an automated Cardassian security program is accidently activated.
Production Code: 453, stardate not given, US airdate: 7 Nov 94

Meridian

Dax falls in love with a man who will soon disappear with his planet into another dimension for sixty years.
Production Code: 454, stardate 48423.2, US airdate: 14 Nov 94

Defiant

Wil Riker's renegade duplicate steals the Defiant and attacks Cardassian territory, forcing Sisko to assist Gul Dukat in stopping him.
Production Code: 455, stardate ?, US airdate: 21 Nov 94
Guest Stars: Jonathan Frakes (Thomas Riker), Marc Alaimo (Gul Dukat)

Fascination

A Bajoran celebration on the station serves as the backdrop for an epidemic of inexplicable romantic attractions among the crew.
Production Code: 456, stardate ?, US airdate: 28 Nov 94
Guest Stars: Majel Barrett (Lwaxana Troi), Philip Anglim (Vedek Bareil)

Past Tense, Part I

The command officers of Deep Space Nine return to Earth in the Defiant to brief Starfleet on the situation in the Gamma Quadrant. As Sisko, Bashir and Dax beam down something goes wrong with the transporter and they never arrive at Starfleet Headquarters. While O'Brien and Kira try to figure out where they went, Bashir and Sisko are arrested as vagrants outside a metro station in the year 2024. Dax is luckier and is rescued by a passer by and given assistance in obtaining credentials. Bashir and Sisko are taken to a compound where the unemployed and mentally ill are kept, only to realise that they've arrived at the location of a famous riot only a few days before it's due to start. Things take a turn for the worse when the man due to be the ringleader of the riot is stabbed while trying to stop Sisko and Bashir being attacked.
Production Code: 457, stardate 48481.2, US airdate: 31 Dec 94

Past Tense, Part II

When Starfleet suddenly ceases to exist, Kira and O'Brien set off on journeys through time trying to recover Sisko, Bashir and Dax. Meantime, Sisko decides to pose as the dead man and becomes a major player in the riot ringleaders. However they soon find out just how difficult it is to follow the pre-ordained path needed to restore their version of the past, for in their history the leader of the rioters, Gabriel Bell, is shot in the final few minutes of the riot. Since Sisko is now possing as Bell, it is he who will have to die.
Production Code: 458, stardate not given, US airdate: 7 Jan 95

Life Support

Bashir musr use questionable methods in order to keep Vedek Bareil alive long enough to help bring about a Bajoran peace treaty with Cardassia.
Production Code: 459, stardate 48498.4, US airdate: 28 Jan 95
Guest Stars: Louise Fletcher (Kai Winn), Philip Anglim (Vedek Bareil)

Heart of Stone

A desperate situation that could cost Kira her life forces Odo to face the depth of his feelings for her.
Production Code: 460, stardate 48521.5, US airdate: 4 Feb 95

Destiny

Sisko ignores an ancient Bajoran prophecy of doom in order to undertake a joint scientific venture with the Cardassians.
Production Code: 461, stardate 48543.2, US airdate: 11 Feb 95
Guest Stars: Tracy Scoggins (Gilora)

Prophet Motive

When the Ferengi leader, the Nagus, suddenly decides to abolish his race's greedy ways, Quark is determined to find out the truth behind his actions.
Production Code: 462, stardate not given, US airdate: 18 Feb 95
Guest Stars: Wallace Shawn (Zek)
Directed by: Rene Auberjonois

Visionary

An accident causes O'Brien to inadvertently jump into the near future, where he witnesses his own death... and worse.
Production Code: 463, stardate ?, US airdate: 25 Feb 95

Distant Voices

After an encounter with a dubious acquaintance of Quarks, Dr Bashir finds himself trapped in a bizzare dreamworld where each member of the DS9 crew seems to play a role. He begins to age rapidly and realises that he has to find the answer before he dies of old age.
Production Code: 464, stardate ?, US airdate: 8 Apr 95

Through the Looking Glass

In a parallel universe, Sisko must assume the role of his dead counterpart in order to save the mirror version of his late wife.
Production Code: 466, stardate ?, US airdate: 15 Apr 95

Improbable Cause

Garak's shop mysteriously explodes, launching Odo on an investigation to determine who is trying to kill the Cardassian exile -- and why.
Part one of a two part story known as The Arc
Guest Star: Andrew Robinson as Garak.
Directed by: Avery Brooks
Production Code: 465, stardate ?, US airdate: 22 Apr 95

The Die Is Cast

On the eve of a Romulan/Cardassian attack against the Dominion, Garak may have to prove his loyalty to his former mentor by eliminating Odo.
Part two of a two part story known as The Arc
Guest Star: Andrew Robinson as Garak.
Production Code: 467, stardate ?, US airdate: 29 Apr 95

Explorers

Sisko builds a new version of an ancient Bajoran space vessel in an effort to prove the truth behind an 800-year-old legend that Bajorans travelled to Cardasia.
Guest Star: Marc Alaimo as Gul Dukat
Production Code: 468, stardate ?, US airdate: 6 May 95

Family Business

Quark receives a visit from the FCA, the all-powerful overseer of Ferengi business who places a seizure notice on his bar. Informed that the seisure is due to the illicit activies of his mother, Quark returns to his home planet to confront her. He discovers that she has broken the Ferengi law prohibiting females from earning a profit.
Production Code: 469, stardate ?, US airdate: 13 May 95

Shakaar

Sent to Bajor on a mission against her former leader in the resistance movement, Kira ends up joining him as a fugitive when Kai Winn sends the troops in to arrest him.
Guest Star: Louise Fletcher as Kai Wynn
Production Code: 470, stardate ?, US airdate: 20 May 95

Facets

It is Jadzia's time to meet her former hosts through a trill ceremony where the personality of a former host takes over another person so that Jadzia can talk with them as a seperate person. She selects Kira, O'Brien, Bashir, Quark, Leda, Odo and Sisko as the hosts for her previous personas. All but Quark, readily accept and she manages pursuade Quark in the end. The problems start when one of the past hosts refuses to give up it's new-found body and be returned to Jadzia.
Production Code: 471, stardate ?, US airdate: 10 Jun 95

The Adversary

A visiting ambassador briefs the command personel on a coup d'etat within one of the Federations newer allies, a former enemy with whom a peace was only recently found. He recommends that they dispatch the Defiant as a show of Federation strength to ensure that the new government does not break the treaty. As they near the territory of the alien race, they realise that they have been tricked and that the Defiant is now under the control of one of Odo's race who is determined to start a war. Can they discover who the shape shifter is in time, or will Sisko have to destroy the Defiant in order to avoid war?
Production Code: 472, stardate ?, US airdate: 17 Jun 95

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