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 ┌──────────────┤  The "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" LogBook  ├────────────────┐
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 │               A Complete Episode Guide   from 1993 to 1993                 │
 │                           written by Earl Green                            │
 │        special thanks to Joe Siegler, Robert Heyman and Cindy Hill         │
 │                covering "Emissary" through "The Passenger"                 │
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   This is a mostly complete episode guide to "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine," a
science-fiction television series created by Michael Piller and Rick Berman
(with the approval of original "Trek" creator Gene Roddenberry).  This is a
guide of information and it makes no attempt to be subjective in dealing with
the episodes' quality.

   The time is the 24th century (same as "Next Generation").  The planet Bajor,
once home to a proud, thriving culture, was invaded by the Cardassians, with
whom the Federation had once waged a bloody war.  The peaceful Bajora were
enslaved by the Cardassians, who strip-mined the planet to the dregs.  However,
the invaders underestimated the Bajora.  As primitive as they may have seemed
compared to the Cardassians or the Federation's more advanced members, the
Bajora still had their pride and offered a stubborn resistance to the Cardassian
oppressors, waging guerilla warfare to regain their own territory.  Those who
could escape set up refugee camps on other planets (such as the Valo II camp
seen in the "Ensign Ro" segment of "Next Generation"), as the Bajoran Army's
ranks launched terrorist attacks on the Cardassians using whatever means they
had at their disposal.
   Though some Bajora have chosen to join Starfleet, Bajor has never joined the
Federation proper, and this has resulted in strained relationships.  During one
incident engineered by the Cardassians and a Cardassian sympathizer within the
ranks of Starfleet, a terrorist attack was committed by the Cardassians against
the Federation's Solarian IV outpost and attributed to the Bajorans, who were
admittedly unhappy that the Federation, worried about engaging the Cardassians
in another full-scale war, refused to intervene when Bajor was occupied four
decades earlier.  The conspiracy, however, was discovered and thwarted by the
crew of the starship Enterprise (with the help of new Bajoran crewmember Ensign
Ro Laren), but it did not make any progress toward easing Federation-Bajoran
relations.  Many Federation diplomats are simply embarassed about the Bajoran
situation, since help has often been promised, but never given.
   The Bajora, though their efforts have been dilligent, fail to do anything but
annoy the Cardassians.  The natural resources of the planet Bajor have been, for
the most part, taken; the only continuing activity the Cardassians expect to
find at Bajor now is terrorist activity.  Moving on to more practical and
strategic matters, the Cardassians leave Bajor to its original inhabitants and
abandon the sector.  They also leave behind the enormous space station Deep
Space 9, built eighteen years before by Bajoran slave laborers under the
Cardassian whip, and now a dilapidated city in space populated by any number of
seedy characters with a good deal of the on-board profit-making opportunities
monopolized by the Ferengi.  The Bajora take over the station, but their seeming
victory is soon outshadowed by the decision of the newly established Bajoran
provisional government to invite the Federation to move a crew in to take over
Deep Space 9.  Many in the ranks of the Bajoran freedom fighters are enraged by
this development, feeling that the Federation has played it far too safe; some
even contemplate the Federation crew as a new target for terrorism.  And many of
Deep Space 9's residents and visitors are unhappy with the prospect of the
Federation moving in to clean up the neighborhood and try to impose its own idea
of law and order upon the station's activities (which many members of the
outpost's underworld - including the Ferengi - regarded as quite satisfactory).
   Once the Starfleet team arrives and takes over, trouble begins almost
instantly as they encounter hostility or trepidation from the Bajora and from
the many station-dwellers, and renewed interest from the Cardassians in taking
Bajor back for themselves.  And then, a scientific impossibility happens near
Bajor - a stable wormhole opens, offering a safe gateway to areas of the galaxy
between 70,000 and 90,000 light years away - a travel distance previously
thought unreachable within most beings' lifetimes.  (In "Emissary," Sisko
remarks that the gamma quadrant is "over 70,000 light years from Bajor"; when
Tosk's ship arrives in "Captive Pursuit," Sisko informs him that he has traveled
"nearly 90,000 light years.")  Bajor is once again a strategic hot spot, and the
Cardassians, among others, see the wormhole as an unparalleled new opportunity
for conquest or profit.  But the Starfleet officers manning Deep Space 9 mean to
control the traffic at the Bajoran wormhole equitably, and the station is
quickly moved to stand guard in front of the wormhole.  And then, there is the
possibility of an unpredictable and inevitable emergence of beings from that
other end of the galaxy through the wormhole - civilizations, both friendly and
otherwise, encountering the Federation for the first time.  Federation starships
also stage their own expeditions through the wormhole into unexplored territory.
   The new crewmembers of Deep Space 9 suddenly have their hands full.
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   (For more in-depth discussions on the Cardassians and other aliens, including
the Borg and Ferengi, and the Federation's standings with them, see the overview
in the "Next Generation" LogBook.)


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 ────────────────────────────────┤ THE CREW ├──────────────────────────────────
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Commander Benjamin Sisko (Avery Brooks) and Jake Sisko (Cirroc Lofton):
   Up until roughly stardate 44001.4, Benjamin Sisko was serving aboard the
starship Saratoga, accompanied by his wife and their son.  But at that time, the
Saratoga, along with 38 other starships, were assigned emergency combat duty.
Their mission was to stop, at any cost, a Borg vessel approaching Earth at warp
speed, which had assimilated the captain of the USS Enterprise and used his
tactical knowledge of Starfleet to defeat his own vessel's attempt to halt the
Borg's onslaught.  None of the vessels ordered to stop the Borg at Wolf 359
survived, and over 11,000 people died, including Sisko's wife Jennifer.  Sisko
and his son Jake escaped the Saratoga's destruction, hoping that some last-ditch
effort by Starfleet would destroy the attackers who had annihilated his ship,
most of its crew, and his wife.  The Borg were stopped, sure enough, but the man
whose information - unwillingly given to the Borg - allowed them to penetrate
Starfleet's defenses survived.  Over time, Benjamin Sisko came to regard
Jean-Luc Picard as personally responsible for the outcome of the Borg attack.
   For three years, Sisko turned down new assignments, serving at the Utopia
Planitia shipyards (which, by coincidence, is where the Enterprise was built,
according to the "Booby Trap" episode of "Next Generation").  Assigned to take
charge of a Starfleet administrative team placed in control of Deep Space 9,
Sisko contemplated resignation, concerned about moving impressionable Jake into
the seedy environs of the station.  But the experiences he goes through in the
wormhole ("Emissary") convince Sisko that, at last, it is time for him to move
on.  Uneasily reconciling with Picard, Sisko took back his statement that he
might resign, and remains in command of the station with Jake in tow.  Jake
himself is a true child of Starfleet - he doesn't remember ever having spent
time on Earth, having grown up on starships all his life.  On the purely trivial
side, Commander Sisko's father was a gourmet chef, and his talents apparently
run in the family - or, at least, Sisko tried his best to make it seem that way
when he asked Jennifer out for the first time.
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Major Kira Nerys (Nana Visitor):
   A major in the Bajoran Army, Major Kira (the name sequence is Bajoran
tradition - surname first, given name last, as in Ensign Ro Laren) was requested
as first officer by Commander Sisko.  She is a Bajoran freedom fighter who waged
war on the Cardassians since she was old enough to fight, but even when the
Cardassians have withdrawn from the sector, she still finds plenty of people to
be at odds with - Sisko, Quark, the provisional Bajoran government...she isn't
exactly happy with her job or the situation in general.  Kira is of the opinion
that the Federation, which kept its eyes shut to the conflict between the
Cardassians and Bajora until the Cardassians' outpost at Bajor suddenly became
unoccupied, has no business whatsoever overseeing the station or the nearby
wormhole.  The sight of a Cardassian is also sure to set her off.  Despite her
reservations, she does want solutions to her people's problems, but having
experienced the deceitfulness of the Cardassians, she's always cautious whenever
such a solution finally avails itself.  In addition, Major Kira has a shady past
as a former member of the Kohn-Ma, a Bajoran terrorist underground with an
excessively violent history; a member of the Kohn-Ma attempted, soon after the
Federation occupation of Deep Space 9, to sabotage the wormhole, which would
cause the Federation and the Cardassians alike to lose interest in Bajor, and he
tried to enlist the help of former comrade Kira.  Though some of her loyalties
were tested by her old fellow freedom fighter, Kira turned him over the proper
authorities.
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Lt. Miles Edward O' Brien (Colm Meaney), Keiko O' Brien (Rosalind Chao) and
Molly O' Brien (Hana Hatae):
   Miles O' Brien, formerly chief of the transporter operations division on the
starship Enterprise, transferred to Deep Space 9 when it presented a chance for
promotion and perhaps a more stable living environment for his wife Keiko and
their infant daughter Molly.  He obviously didn't have to chance to look up any
references on the station before leaving his Enterprise posting!  Having gotten
used to the comfortable surroundings of the Enterprise, the leap to Deep Space
9's cramped, alien quarters was a tremendous shock, leaving Keiko very unhappy
with the move, upset that Molly will have to grow up in a shabby space station
surrounded by aliens and visitors who, if not entirely corrupt, are at least
suspicious.  For his part, though, Miles himself is occupied by the task of
continually fixing the station, a job made harder by the incomprehensible
technology of the pre-Cardassian-occupation Bajora.
   O' Brien and Keiko both served on the Enterprise for a number of years.
Keiko (maiden name: Ishekawa) was a botany specialist who was introduced to O'
Brien by Lt. Commander Data.  O' Brien himself was head of the transporter
division since around the second year of the Enterprise's mission (he first
appears as transporter chief in "The Child," though Colm Meaney appeared in the
first season as both a helmsman and a security officer, but it is not known if
either of these two roles was meant to be O' Brien - the second, however, could
have been O' Brien; read on for details), having come aboard the Enterprise
after a tour on the USS Rutledge under Captain Benjamin Maxwell.  On the
Rutledge, Miles served as tactics officer during the war with the Cardassians,
and he experienced events during this time that changed him forever (see the
"The Wounded" for more details - it would also explain his apparent security
duty in "Lonely Among Us.").  After Miles and Keiko felt they were ready for
marriage, the usual pre-wedding mayhem broke loose ("Data's Day"), but they did
marry, and roughly a year later Keiko gave birth to Molly under the watchful eye
of the most experienced medic present: Worf.  After witnessing Jake Sisko and
his Ferengi pal Nog get into a spot of trouble on the Promenade, Keiko got
permission from Commander Sisko to open a school, whose students include not
only children of the human Federation crew, but Nog and, before long, Bajoran
children.
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Lt. Jadzia Dax (Terry Farrell):
   Dax is a Trill, a race first seen in the "Next Generation" fourth season
episode "The Host," a member of a race of parasites who coexist symbiotically
with voluntary humanoid host bodies.  As demonstrated by Trillian ambassador
Odan in "The Host," periodic treatments administered by a small hand-held energy
device are required to stabilize the host body, and Trills cannot use the
transporters because the disassembly process would damage the parasitic half of
the being (her use of the station's transporter in "Emissary" could be chalked
up to the power of the Orb that carried her from the wormhole).  The actual
physical form of the Trill parasite is a greenish-grey mollusk-like being with
an oily, semi-hard shell and a tail that appears to end in a "stinger."  Dax has
been acquainted with Captain Sisko for a long time.  In fact, Sisko once knew
Dax when Dax occupied the form of an elderly man known as Curzon; the Trill
custom is for the joined being to use the host's first name and the symbiont's
last name, thus her former body was known to Sisko as Curzon Dax.  Though Dax
may have appeared elderly at that time, he got into plenty of mischief with
Sisko when the commander was in his late twenties or so, and Sisko even admits
that Dax taught him a great deal and seemed like another father to him, though
Sisko has also mentioned that Curzon Dax occasionally drank a little on the
heavy side and tended to appreciate the female form more than is normally deemed
appropriate for a joined Trill.  (Ten years before the friendship with Sisko,
Curzon Dax acted as confidant and advisor to General Tandro of Klaestron IV,
during which circumstances cast a shadow of doubt on Dax's true motives in his
conduct at that time - as brought up in the first season episode "Dax.")  Dax
now lives in the body of a 28-year-old woman (but Sisko still refers to her
occasionally as "old man" - the actual parasite itself is over 300 years old.
Having now been joined with Dax for two years, Jadzia competed with other young
people for the honor of becoming a Trill host, and attained four specialization
degrees on her own before joining with Dax.  93 hours after the joining, a
ceremony which usually combines medical transplant and ritual, the host and
symbiont are dependent on one another for their lives.  Jadzia Dax now serves as
science officer on Deep Space 9, and unwittingly serves as a sight for the sore
eyes of Dr. Bashir, whom she tries to remind of her society's belief that
physical relationships, or relationships based upon physical traits, are
considered shallow and useless by Trills much of the time.  Bashir wistfully
hopes that Dax will reach a decision point much like that which Odan must have
reached in "The Host"...
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Odo (Rene Auberjonois):
   Odo is an honorary Bajoran constable who had served on the station long
before the arrival of Sisko and the rest of the Starfleet team, though he's been
there less than eighteen years (according to "Babel").  A shapeshifter, Odo was
able to blend into his surroundings and learned about the denizens of the
station from experience.  As a result, Sisko relies on Odo's knowledge of
activities on the station (especially the Promenade), but Odo has a method of
acting independently in a way that, while it commands the respect and attention
of the beings who frequent Deep Space 9, irritates Sisko at times because Odo's
actions aren't exactly Starfleet regulation.  Odo has a fairly concrete idea of
justice, but has unusual ideas in other areas, such as his refusal to use
phasers (not to mention the understandable fact that he doesn't allow phasers or
other weapons on the Promenade).  Aside from this, however, Odo has no idea of
his own origin; he was found in a drifting space vessel in the middle of the
Denorios Belt and wound up being brought to Deep Space 9, where he learned how
to survive among the occupants of the station at that time - the Cardassians.
Odo continues to try to investigate his past, and he's not the only one; some of
the station's occupants are suspicious of the fact that Odo has remained in
charge of security even though he apparently enforced Cardassian rule of law on
DS9 when the Cardassians occupied Bajor.  Odo also has a humorous rapport with
Quark, who's a valuable source of information from below decks (as well as
someone Odo would be more than happy to throw in the slammer, given the chance).
   His shapeshifting abilities require much energy, therefore Odo can't just
change at will as much as he wants to.  His native form is that of a puddle of
viscous, copper-colored liquid, and he must revert to that form every eighteen
hours to rest in a bucket in the back of his office.  When in human form, his
face is flat and featureless, with some angles where human faces have curves and
smooth surfaces - Odo hasn't quite gotten the hang of humans' true appearance
yet, nor is he fond of their sentimentalities and quirks.
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Dr. Julian Bashir (Siddig El Fadil):
   Bashir is a recent graduate of Starfleet Academy and medical school.  He
graduated second in his class (in his final exam, his mistook a pre-ganglionic
fiber for a post-ganglionic nerve), and thus was given his choice of any posting
in the entire Federation.  He chose to serve aboard Deep Space 9 because the
station is a new, untamed wilderness, and he believes there's an opportunity in
such an environment for him to become a hero.  However, the conditions aboard
the outpost aren't exactly the same as in the Academy's facilites, and the
patients he is charged with are as different from the Academy simulations as
they can be.  He is somewhat disappointed with how his "choice assignment" turns
out, but he doesn't have time to mull that over; he'll be too busy keeping up
with what duties he does have, and meeting with the approval of Sisko, who gets
impatient with someone who seems to think that a Starfleet assignment should be
a picnic.  Dr. Bashir, however, won't miss a chance to involve himself in an
adventure, but has a habit of getting cold feet when the action finally finds
him...
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Quark (Armin Shimerman) and Nog (Aron Eisenerg):
   Quark oversees gambling on Deep Space 9's Promenade, having operated there
for four years prior to Sisko's arrival (also in Quark's resume is an eight year
tour on a Ferengi freighter).  He runs his bar on the Promenade and, in all
likelihood, has connections to crime, organized and disorganized, throughout the
station.  He covers his tracks well enough, however, to avoid being thrown in
the brig by Odo, who looks forward to the day when Quark can be put away.  In
the meantime, Quark's nephew, Nog, causes trouble on the station and befriends
Jake Sisko (causing him trouble, too).  Quark's brother, Rom, operates one of
the Promenade's gambling pits, and initially rejected the idea of Nog attending
Keiko O' Brien's newly-opened school on the station, though she managed to
convince Rom that knowledge of other cultures would allow young Nog to be a more
profitable member of society with the knowledge of how to conduct commerce with
many societies; Nog, not willingly, wound up in school shortly afterward!
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                             ┌───────────────────┐
 ────────────────────────────┤ THE EPISODE GUIDE ├─────────────────────────────
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                             ┌───────────────────┐
                             │ Season One:  1993 │
                             └───────────────────┘

01      EMISSARY
        teleplay by Michael Piller
        story by Rick Berman & Michael Piller
        directed by David Carson
        music by Dennis McCarthy
  Stardate 46379.1:  Commander Ben Sisko and his son Jake, both survivors of the
    Wolf 359 Borg massacre, arrive at the planet Bajor as part of a Starfleet
    team taking over the abandoned Cardassian space station Deep Space 9.  The
    station, which was inentionally damaged by the Cardassians before they left
    it behind, is being pieced together by newly-transferred Chief of Operations
    O' Brien from the Enterprise.  Sisko also meets Major Kira, his Bajoran
    first officer who doubts the ability of the provisional government of Bajor
    to avert a civil war; Odo, the mysterious shapeshifter in charge of station
    security; and Quark, the suspicious Ferengi kingpin who's eager to get out
    of town before the regulatory hand of the Federation clamps down on his
    shady "business" affairs.  Sisko is summoned to the Enterprise for a
    briefing with Captain Picard, whom he still remembers as the man responsible
    for the death of thousands, including Sisko's wife, in the Borg invasion
    attempt.  Picard gives Sisko the Federation's orders regarding management of
    Deep Space 9 - to do everything, short of violating the prime directive, to
    get the struggling Bajora back on their feet so they can join the
    Federation.  Sisko, however, is considering resigning from Starfleet to
    raise his son in a better environment.
       Soon afterward, the Enterprise departs to undertake other duties as the
    station's new doctor, the brilliant but inexperienced Julian Bashir, and
    science officer Jadzia Dax arrive.  Dax, a Trill who has lived in a number
    of bodies, is an old friend of Sisko's.  Sisko, at the suggestion of Kira,
    beams to Bajor and visits Bajoran spiritual leader Kai Opaka, who tells
    Sisko that he is to be the emissary of the people to the temple of their
    gods.  Opaka reveals an Orb, a mystic object of a type which has appeared
    throughout Bajoran history.  The Orb envelops Sisko in a brief recollection
    of his first meeting with his wife, and then releases him.  Opaka gives him
    the Orb, and the news that Sisko - whether he likes it or not, whether he
    even knows it or not - will find the temple.  He returns to Deep Space 9 and
    hands the Orb over to Dax for further study.  The Cardassians return,
    ostensibly to make use of the station's amenities.  Dax discovers that
    reports of the Orbs' appearances correspond to a certain area of space near
    Bajor.  She and Sisko set out in a Federation Runabout to investigate, and
    stumble across a wormhole that shoots them 70,000 light years across the
    galaxy.  Trying to return to the station, their ship is halted.  Dax is
    taken back to the station by an Orb, while Sisko is kept and studied by
    noncorporeal beings who built the wormhole.  These beings have no conception
    of linear time, existing simultaneously in the past, present and future, and
    they ask Sisko questions about the ephemeral nature of humans, which they do
    not comprehend.
       Dax, back on Deep Space 9, fills the crew in on details of the wormhole.
    Major Kira orders O' Brien to shift the station's position so that it stands
    in front of the wormhole.  A Cardassian ship, however, enters the wormhole,
    but is damaged by the wormhole life forms.  When another Cardassian flotilla
    arrives and finds no sign of the missing ship, they threaten to open fire on
    Deep Space 9 unless Kira agrees to surrender the station.  In the wormhole,
    the aliens' study of Sisko reaches an end when they discover the human drive
    for knowledge, and they are puzzled by Sisko's inability to live down the
    death of his wife.  At the station, Kira's brinksmanship abilities and her
    feisty confrontations with the Cardassians result in a firefight, damaging
    the station heavily.  The solution to the confrontation lies with Sisko, if
    he can overcome the wormhole beings' manifestations of his inner barriers
    and escape from the wormhole.
  Season 1 Regular Cast:  Avery Brooks (Commander Benjamin Sisko), Rene
    Auberjonois (Odo), Siddig El Fadil (Dr. Julian Bashir), Terry Farrell (Lt.
    Jadzia Dax), Cirroc Lofton (Jake Sisko), Colm Meaney (Chief O' Brien), Armin
    Shimerman (Quark), Nana Visitor (Major Kira Nerys)
  Guest Cast:  Patrick Stewart (Captain Picard/Locutus of Borg), Camille Saviola
    (Kai Opaka), Felecia M. Bell (Jennifer Sisko), Marc Alaimo (Gul Dukat), Joel
    Swetow (Gul Jasad), Aron Eisenerg (Nog), Stephen Davies (Tactical Officer),
    Max Grodenchik (Ferengi Pit Boss), Steve Rankin (Cardassian Officer), Lily
    Mariye (Ops Officer), Cassandra Bryam (Conn Officer), John Noah Hertzler
    (Vulcan Captain), April Grace (Transporter Chief), Kevin McDermott (Alien
    Batter), Parker Whitman (Cardassian Officer), William Powell-Blair
    (Cardassian Officer), Frank Owen Smith (Curzon), Lynnda Ferguson (Doran),
    Megan Butler (Lieutenant), Stephen Rowe (Chanting Monk), Thomas Hobson
    (young Jake), Donald Hotton (Monk #1), Gene Armor (Bajoran Bureaucrat),
    Diana Cignoni (Dabo Girl), Judi Durand (Computer Voice), Majel Barrett
    (Computer Voice)

02      PAST PROLOGUE
        written by Kathryn Powers
        directed by Winrich Kolbe
        music by Jay Chattaway
  Stardate not given:  Shortly after Dr. Bashir excitedly reports to Sisko a
    meeting with a merchant who happens to be the only remaining Cardassian on
    the station, a Bajoran ship is detected with hostile Cardassians hot in
    pursuit.  The single occupant of the damaged Bajoran vessel is beamed aboard
    and is discovered to be a member of a group of violent Bajoran extremists
    who have not yet ceased their terrorism against the Cardassians.  Requesting
    asylum, all Tahna does is invite Sisko's suspicion.  Sisko is further put in
    a tenuous situation when the Cardassian ship's commander demands that Tahna
    be turned over for his crimes against the Cardassians.  Kira, herself a
    former member of Tahna's underground, tries to convince Tahna to give up his
    violent tactics, but he refuses, and it turns out that his visit to Deep
    Space 9 is all part of another of his inevitably bloody gambits for revenge.
    This time, however, Tahna plans action not only against the Cardassians, but
    the Federation as well - and he expects Kira to help him.
  Guest Cast:  Jeffrey Nordling (Tahna), Andrew Robinson (Garak), Barbara March
    (Lursa), Gwynyth Walsh (B'etor), Vaughn Armstrong (Gul Dunar), Susan Bay
    (Admiral)

03      A MAN ALONE
        teleplay by Michael Piller
        story by Gerald Sanford and Michael Piller
        directed by Paul Lynch
        music by Jay Chattaway
  Stardate 46421.5:  During routine banter with Quark on the Promenade, Odo
    spots Ibundan, a Bajoran man he jailed months ago for murder, and the old
    enemies get into a fight almost immediately.  Not long afterward, Ibundan is
    found dead in one of the Promenade's holosuites, and evidence has been
    carefully placed to lead a trail to Odo, a suspicion which spreads among the
    station's populace along with rumors of Odo being a Cardassian agent and a
    growing paranoia.  Bashir and Dax begin piecing together pieces of a puzzle
    which include DNA traces from Ibundan's ship, but in the meantime, the
    station's residents grow restless and demand that Odo be handed over to be
    punished for a crime they believe he committed.  While Sisko and his crew
    are working full-time on finding the solution to the crime, the denizens of
    Deep Space 9 seem to have no intention of allowing Odo to survive.
  Guest Cast:  Rosalind Chao (Keiko), Edward Laurence Albert (Zayra), Max
    Grodenchik (Rom), Peter Vogt (Bajoran Man #1), Aron Eisenerg (Nog), Steven
    James Carver (Ibundan), Tom Klunis ("Old Man" Ibundan), Scott Trost (Bajoran
    Officer), Patrick Cupo (Bajoran Man), Kahtryn Graf (Bajoran Woman), Hana
    Hatae (Molly O' Brien), Diana Cignoni (Dabo Girl), Judi Durand (Computer
    Voice)

04      BABEL
        teleplay by Michael McGreevey and Naren Shankar
        story by Sally Caves and Ira Steven Behr
        directed by Paul Lynch
        music by Dennis McCarthy
  Stardate 46425.8:  Business as usual is keeping O' Brien the busiest man on
    DS9, as systems continuously break down almost at random, mainly food
    replicators.  In the course of his repairs, O' Brien accidentally activates
    a concealed Bajoran device designed to release an adaptive virus into the
    food generated by that replicator.  He is immediately stricken with the
    disease, which scrambles his brain's ability to connect language, stimuli
    and responses.  Quark, impatient to get service back on schedule at his bar,
    unwittingly spreads the virus to all of his patrons, and a stationwide
    epidemic ensues.  Bashir, before falling victim to the virus himself,
    discovers that the plague was created by the Bajora in an attempt to prevent
    the construction of the station years ago, and it is eventually fatal.  Most
    of the population is rendered useless, with a few exceptions, among them
    Odo, Major Kira and Quark.  They must find an antidote to the virus and try
    to ensure the station's safety until a cure can be found.
  Guest Cast:  Jack Kehler (Jaheel), Matthew Faison (Surmak Ren), Ann Gillespie
    (Nurse Jabara), Geraldine Farrell (Galis Blin), Bo Zenga (Asoth), Richard
    Ryder (Bajoran Deputy), Frank Novak (Businessman), Kathleen Wirt (Aphasia
    Victim), Lee Brooks (Aphasia Victim), Todd Feder (Federation Male)

05      CAPTIVE PURSUIT
        teleplay by Jill Sherman Donner and Michael Piller
        story by Jill Sherman Donner
        directed by Corey Allen
        music by Dennis McCarthy
  Stardate not given:  The first ship from the Gamma Quadrant emerges through
    the wormhole and arrives at DS9.  Its single occupant is convinced to dock
    at the station to allow the crew to repair his battle-damaged vessel.
    O' Brien tries to get acquainted with the alien, who identifies itself only
    as Tosk.  As soon as no one is watching, however, Tosk begins trying to
    determine how to fight and hide on the station.  Odo discovers Tosk
    tampering with a security junction and Tosk winds up in the brig.  A second
    ship arrives from the wormhole.  Sisko gives the new visitors every chance
    to make friendly contact, but they instead disrupt the station's shields and
    beam into the Promenade without permission.  Armed, they begin searching for
    Tosk and hold Odo and the rest of the crew at bay.  It turns out that they
    are game hunters searching for Tosk, and advise the crew of DS9 to stay out
    of their way.  O' Brien decides to take the rules of the hunt into his own
    hands to prevent Tosk from having to be bagged in captivity and disgrace.
  Guest Cast:  Scott MacDonald (Tosk), Gerrit Graham (The Hunter), Kelly Curtis
    (Miss Sarda)

06      Q-LESS
        teleplay by Robert Hewitt Wolfe
        story by Hannah Louise Shearer
        directed by Paul Lynch
        music by Dennis McCarthy
  Stardate 46531.2:  A Runabout barely returns from the Gamma Quadrant after
    experiencing a power loss on its way back to DS9.  The crew must be rescued
    by Sisko, Kira and O' Brien on arrival, and they have brought a passenger
    back from the other side: Vash, Captain Picard's old flame from a vacation
    on Risa, last seen going off to explore the universe with Q.  Vash has
    apparently been wandering through the Gamma Quadrant on her own for two
    years, and once she gets settled in on the station, begins making plans to
    sell several artifacts from the Gamma Quadrant.  In the meantime, power
    failures begin occurring on DS9, coinciding with the arrival of Q, who is
    pestering Vash to continue her travels with him.  Q also introduces himself
    to Sisko and the station crew and delights in irritating them as much as he
    has always enjoyed badgering the Enterprise crew.  In the meantime, Vash
    meets Quark and they begin planning an auction of her Gamma Quadrant loot -
    off of which they both expect to make a fortune.  Power failures and Q
    continue to plague the station, climaxing with a gravitational force sucking
    DS9 straight toward the wormhole.  Sisko is unsure whether an unknown
    natural phenomenon is dragging the station to its doom, or if Q is simply
    playing another of his infamous pranks.
  Guest Cast:  John de Lancie (Q), Jennifer Hetrick (Vash), Van Epperson
    (Bajoran Clerk), Tom McCleister (Kolos), Laura Cameron (Bajoran Woman)

07      DAX
        teleplay by D.C. Fontana and Peter Allan Fields
        story by Peter Allan Fields
        directed by David Carson
        music by Jay Chattaway
  Stardate 46910.1:  A small group of Klaestrons try to kidnap Lt. Dax from the
    station, but Sisko snags their ship in the station's tractor beam before
    they can escape with their hostage.  The leader of the Klaestron party,
    Ailon Tandro, claims to be carrying out the extradition of Dax on charges of
    treason and the murder of Tandro's military father 30 years before, when Dax
    inhabited the host body Curzon.  Sisko, not believing the charges and unable
    to comprehend Dax's silence regarding the situation, stalls the Klaestrons'
    plans by calling for an extradition hearing overseen by a Bajoran judge, and
    sends Odo to Klaestron 4 to find out as much as he can about Curzon Dax's
    activities 30 years ago.  Meanwhile, time, and possibly the letter of the
    law, are against the case for Dax's freedom and survival.
  Guest Cast:  Gregory Itzin (Ailon Tandro), Anne Haney (Bajoran Arbiter),
    Richard Lineback (Selon Piers), Fionnula Flanagan (Anina Tandro)

08      THE PASSENGER
        teleplay by Morgan Gendel, Robert Hewitt Wolfe and Michael Piller
        story by Morgan Gendel
        directed by Paul Lynch
        music by Dennis McCarthy
  Stardate not given:  As Odo and Starfleet newcomer Lt. Primmin irritate each
    other while trying to coordinate security for a transfer of a duridium
    shipment due to arrive at DS9, a Runabout is sent to aid a crippled Cobliat
    prison ship, containing investigator Ty Kajada and two corpses, one of which
    was a notorious Cobliat 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.
  Guest Cast:  Caitlin Brown (Ty Kajada), James Lashly (Lt. Primmin),
    Christopher Collins (Durg), James Harper (Rao Vantika)

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