1:[3,#b],4:[3,#i]@1“Emissary, Part I”@2Deep Space Nine episode #1
Teleplay by Michael Piller
Story by Rick Berman & Michael Piller
Directed by David Carson
Stardate 46379.1
First aired in 1993
SPECIAL GUEST STAR
Capt. Jean-Luc Picard/Locutus PATRICK STEWART
GUEST STARS
Kai Opaka CAMILLE SAVIOLA
Jennifer Sisko FELECIA M. BELL
Gul Dukat MARC ALAIMO
On a distant outpost at the edge of the final frontier, an untested crew embarks on an unprecedented journey.
For six days in Stardate 43997, Captain Jean-Luc Picard of the Starship Enterprise was held captive by a sinister race called the Borg. The Borg altered the captain’s appearance and mind and forced him to lead an attack against the Federation, during which the U.S.S. Saratoga was all but destroyed. One of the Saratoga’s officers, Lieutenant Commander Benjamin Sisko, managed to escape with his young son Jake. Unfortunately, his wife did not survive.
Three years later, a reluctant Sisko and his even more reluctant son are transferred to Bajoran territory to the space station Deep Space Nine. Now a Commander, Sisko has been ordered to oversee the repair of the giant space station, which was heavily damaged during a period of Cardassian military occupation.
After his arrival, Sisko begins to meet his crew. He first encounters Chief Operations Officer Miles O’Brien, who has been transferred from the Enterprise, and Kira Nerys, a Bajoran who helped lead her people’s painful fight against the Cardassians. Kira agrees to act as Sisko’s first officer, but has reservations about the Federation’s presence on the Bajoran space station. Soon afterward, he meets Odo, a shape shifter and security officer who exhibits his chameleon-like talents while apprehending a Ferengi thief. Quark, the Ferengi owner of the local watering hole and gambling establishment, arrives to attempt to bail out the thief, who happens to be his young nephew, Nog. Sisko agrees to free Nog only if Quark will remain aboard and continue to operate his recreation center for the station’s residents and visitors.
The Enterprise docks at Deep Space Nine, and Sisko has a tense meeting with Picard, whom he blames for the death of his wife. Picard tersely informs Sisko that his mission aboard the space station is to assure that the Bajora enter the Federation. Sisko indicates that while he will do his job as long as he is there, he may resign his post, and the two part on less-than-friendly terms. Sisko looks to Kira for insight into the Bajora, and she tells him that his only chance for victory is to ensure that the Bajora, a somewhat diverse group, find reason to band together. She suggests that he seek out Kai Opaka, the Bajoran spiritual leader, and Sisko immediately sets out to find her. Kai Opaka reveals that Sisko’s arrival has a deep spiritual purpose, but is unable to reveal exactly what it is. She entrusts Sisko with a powerful, mystical orb, telling him it is his destiny to reclaim eight others that have been stolen by the Cardassians. To demonstrate the orb’s power, Kai Opaka uses it to transport Sisko to the beach where he first met his wife.
Back on Deep Space Nine, Sisko greets his newly-arriving crew of medical and science officers, including Dr. Julian Bashir, a cocky and ambitious young doctor, and Jadzia Dax, a beautiful Trill. Sisko’s relationship with Dax is complicated by the fact that, as a Trill, she lives by inhabiting different host bodies, and she and Sisko were close friends while she inhabited her last body – that of an old man. In the laboratory, Sisko shows Dax the orb and explains that they must find the eight others. When Sisko leaves, Dax experiences the orb’s immense power when it takes her back to an earlier time, just as it did with Sisko.
Before long, the Enterprise disembarks and a Cardassian warship arrives at the station. The Cardassian leader, Gul Dukat, immediately tries to convince Sisko to relinquish the orb in his possession, but Sisko denies knowing anything about it or the other orbs. Later, Dax researches the orbs’ history and informs Sisko that they may come from the nearby Denorios belt.
Dax and Sisko set out for the Denorios belt in a runabout pod, when without warning they are propelled through a giant tear in the fabric of space – a wormhole. After a spectacular light show, the pod slips out of the wormhole and into another corner of space located seventy-thousand light years from Bajor. Realizing this may be the venue through which the orbs entered their system, Sisko and Dax re-enter the wormhole to return home to study the implications. However, they unwittingly land on a remote planet where an orb captures Dax and transports her back to Deep Space Nine. Dax immediately informs the others of her journey, exciting all of them with the possibilities the discovery presents. Kira demands that they transport Deep Space Nine to the mouth of the wormhole so that the Bajorans can claim it and use it to gain power over the Cardassians. But Odo, who was discovered in the Denorios belt and does not know of his origins, has mixed feelings about the wormhole and the link it may provide to his past.
Left alone on the strange planet, Sisko communicates with the awesome force behind the orbs, who at first assume he is a threat. The force does not understand linear time, and presents Sisko with a barrage of images from his life, including the day he met his wife and the battle during which she was killed. Sisko is able to talk to the alien images of his late wife and child, and he and the force begin to understand each other.
O’Brien begins the task of maneuvering the space station into the mouth of the wormhole, but a Cardassian ship reaches it first. However, the mouth of the wormhole collapses around the alien ship, stranding it in a remote part of the galaxy. The alien force with Sisko detects the Cardassian ship’s presence and informs him that they are no longer alone. However, he continues to communicate with Sisko, indicating to him that he is trapped in the moment in time when his wife was killed aboard the Saratoga. Realizing his pain has been holding him back, Sisko allows the force to guide him through the circumstances leading up to his wife’s death and helps him to finally grieve his loss.
Aboard Deep Space Nine, Kira is contacted by Cardassian leader Gul Jasad, who accuses the station crew of destroying the lost Cardassian ship. The crew denies the accusation, but Jasad declares war, prompting Kira to launch an attack against the enemy. The battle escalates and the space station is damaged, but the wormhole suddenly reappears. Sisko’s runabout is seen towing the Cardassian ship out of danger, and the fighting ceases.
Later, a changed Sisko speaks with Picard about the events of the past few days. He decides that he would like to keep his post on Deep Space Nine, and Picard agrees. Later, he speaks with Kai Opaka, who informs Sisko that this is not the last time he will work with the Bajoran prophets to secure the future of the space station inhabitants.
~1:[1,#B],2:[3,#I]@1“Equilibrium”@2Deep Space Nine episode #50
A deadly secret from Dax’s past could mean the end of Jadzia’s life.
While experimenting with a keyboard, the musically untrained Dax inexplicably plays a melody she seems to remember from somewhere, then suddenly develops a short temper toward her fellow crew members. She soon wanders onto the Promenade, where everyone mysteriously vanishes. A robed, masked figure stands above her, then a longer version of the melody begins to play. Dax is gripped with fear as the figure appears again, blocks her path, then removes the mask, only to reveal another. She then backs into Quark, at which point the Promenade is bustling with life again – and the masked figure is gone.
Concerned about the hallucination, Dax has Bashir examine her. He discovers that her levels of isoboramine, a neurotransmitter that mediates synaptic functions between Jadzia and the Dax symbiont, are dangerously low. Aboard the Defiant, Sisko and Bashir go with Dax to the Trill homeworld, where the Symbiosis Commission’s Dr. Renhol administers a drug to bring up Dax’s isoboramine levels. But Dax later has another hallucination in which two men from the Commission, dressed in uniforms dated about a hundred years earlier, attempt to capture her.
Dax meets with Timor, one of the Guardians, unjoined Trill dedicated to caring for symbionts. He says Jadzia is really experiencing memories from one of Dax’s previous hosts. Later, the Defiant’s computer identifies the mysterious music as a piece composed over eighty years before by a Trill named Joran Belar. When Dax is shown a picture of him, she suddenly experiences another hallucination in which the masked figure kills a Trill doctor and is revealed to be Joran. Dax then has a seizure and goes into neural shock.
Dr. Renhol says that if Dax’s isoboramine levels don’t improve in forty-eight hours, the Dax symbiont will have to be removed and Jadzia’s life sacrificed. Desperate to save their friend, Sisko and Bashir turn to Timor, but he becomes nervous and evasive, leading them to believe he is hiding something. They access Joran’s file, and find it has been purged. Sisko and Bashir then contact Joran’s brother, Yolad, who says his sibling was killed after murdering the doctor who felt Joran was not suitable for being joined with a symbiont. Then, Yolad confides that he believes his brother actually was joined, despite claims in the official records to the contrary. Sisko and Bashir realize then that the symbiont was probably Dax.
Sisko and Bashir confront Dr. Renhol just as she is preparing to remove the Dax symbiont from Jadzia, then reveal that they have discovered the cover-up. Dax was once mistakenly joined with Joran, and this knowledge was blocked from Dax’s memory – but now the memory block is deteriorating. They also know that Joran’s experience contradicts claims that only one out of a thousand people is suitable for joining. In reality, almost half the population can be joined, a fact that would cause chaos as everyone fought to possess the few prized symbionts. When Sisko and Bashir threaten to reveal this secret, Dr. Renhol allows them to try and save Jadzia. They return to Timor, who has Dax enter the pool of symbionts, where the memories of Joran are safely re-integrated with her other memories. She emerges ready to deal with this painful, secret past – a whole new lifetime of thoughts.
~1:[1,#B],2:[3,#I]@1“Explorers”@2Deep Space Nine episode #68
Sisko builds a new version of an ancient Bajoran space vessel in an effort to prove the truth behind an 800-year-old legend.
Sisko returns from a trip to Bajor with the blueprint for an ancient space vessel that operates like a sailboat, using solar pressure for propulsion. According to legend, the Bajorans used these ships to explore their star system 800 years ago, even going as far as Cardassia. Sisko decides to build one himself to see if this was possible, and painstakingly recreates the vessel, determined to prove the design was space worthy. He hopes to have Jake join him on the adventure.
After initially declining his father’s invitation, Jake reconsiders, and the two prepare to depart the station. Before they do, Gul Dukat warns Sisko against putting so much stock in a Bajoran “fairy tale” of ancient contact. Sisko feels Dukat is only interested in disproving the notion that the Bajorans, not the Cardassians, were the first people between the two races to develop interstellar travel.
The trip gets off to a smooth start, and both Sisko and Jake enjoy their time together. Jake seizes the moment to tell his father that he has been offered a writing fellowship in New Zealand, and Sisko is thrilled, yet distressed because those studies will take his son away from Deep Space Nine. But before they can discuss it, one of the ship’s sails gives way, forcing them to struggle for control.
Sisko jettisons the sail, concerned about continuing. Jake reminds his father that the ancient Bajorans probably ran into similar problems and didn’t give up. Convinced, Sisko decides to proceed on course. Jake then reveals that he plans to delay taking the fellowship for a year because of his concerns that Sisko hasn’t had someone special in his life since his wife’s death. Then, without warning, their ship is caught in an eddy of light that inexplicably takes it to warp speed.
After the ship is thrown free of the invisible current, Sisko discovers he has no idea where they are, and fears the eddy, composed of faster-than-light tachyons, has carried their vessel light years away. Suddenly, Gul Dukat informs the two that they have entered Cardassian space. As Sisko and Jake realize they just proved the same thing could have happened 800 years ago, Dukat reluctantly congratulates them on recreating the journey of ancient Bajoran explorers who did successfully reach Cardassia then, and welcomes the two with a stellar fireworks display.
~1:[3,#b],4:[3,#i]@1“Emissary, Part II”@2Deep Space Nine episode # 2
Teleplay by Michael Piller
Story by Rick Berman & Michael Piller
Directed by David Carson
Stardate 46379.1
First aired in 1993
SPECIAL GUEST STAR
Capt. Jean-Luc Picard/Locutus PATRICK STEWART
GUEST STARS
Kai Opaka CAMILLE SAVIOLA
Jennifer Sisko FELECIA M. BELL
Gul Dukat MARC ALAIMO
On a distant outpost at the edge of the final frontier, an untested crew embarks on an unprecedented journey.
For six days in Stardate 43997, Captain Jean-Luc Picard of the Starship Enterprise was held captive by a sinister race called the Borg. The Borg altered the captain’s appearance and mind and forced him to lead an attack against the Federation, during which the U.S.S. Saratoga was all but destroyed. One of the Saratoga’s officers, Lieutenant Commander Benjamin Sisko, managed to escape with his young son Jake. Unfortunately, his wife did not survive.
Three years later, a reluctant Sisko and his even more reluctant son are transferred to Bajoran territory to the space station Deep Space Nine. Now a Commander, Sisko has been ordered to oversee the repair of the giant space station, which was heavily damaged during a period of Cardassian military occupation.
After his arrival, Sisko begins to meet his crew. He first encounters Chief Operations Officer Miles O’Brien, who has been transferred from the Enterprise, and Kira Nerys, a Bajoran who helped lead her people’s painful fight against the Cardassians. Kira agrees to act as Sisko’s first officer, but has reservations about the Federation’s presence on the Bajoran space station. Soon afterward, he meets Odo, a shape shifter and security officer who exhibits his chameleon-like talents while apprehending a Ferengi thief. Quark, the Ferengi owner of the local watering hole and gambling establishment, arrives to attempt to bail out the thief, who happens to be his young nephew, Nog. Sisko agrees to free Nog only if Quark will remain aboard and continue to operate his recreation center for the station’s residents and visitors.
The Enterprise docks at Deep Space Nine, and Sisko has a tense meeting with Picard, whom he blames for the death of his wife. Picard tersely informs Sisko that his mission aboard the space station is to assure that the Bajora enter the Federation. Sisko indicates that while he will do his job as long as he is there, he may resign his post, and the two part on less-than-friendly terms. Sisko looks to Kira for insight into the Bajora, and she tells him that his only chance for victory is to ensure that the Bajora, a somewhat diverse group, find reason to band together. She suggests that he seek out Kai Opaka, the Bajoran spiritual leader, and Sisko immediately sets out to find her. Kai Opaka reveals that Sisko’s arrival has a deep spiritual purpose, but is unable to reveal exactly what it is. She entrusts Sisko with a powerful, mystical orb, telling him it is his destiny to reclaim eight others that have been stolen by the Cardassians. To demonstrate the orb’s power, Kai Opaka uses it to transport Sisko to the beach where he first met his wife.
Back on Deep Space Nine, Sisko greets his newly-arriving crew of medical and science officers, including Dr. Julian Bashir, a cocky and ambitious young doctor, and Jadzia Dax, a beautiful Trill. Sisko’s relationship with Dax is complicated by the fact that, as a Trill, she lives by inhabiting different host bodies, and she and Sisko were close friends while she inhabited her last body – that of an old man. In the laboratory, Sisko shows Dax the orb and explains that they must find the eight others. When Sisko leaves, Dax experiences the orb’s immense power when it takes her back to an earlier time, just as it did with Sisko.
Before long, the Enterprise disembarks and a Cardassian warship arrives at the station. The Cardassian leader, Gul Dukat, immediately tries to convince Sisko to relinquish the orb in his possession, but Sisko denies knowing anything about it or the other orbs. Later, Dax researches the orbs’ history and informs Sisko that they may come from the nearby Denorios belt.
Dax and Sisko set out for the Denorios belt in a runabout pod, when without warning they are propelled through a giant tear in the fabric of space – a wormhole. After a spectacular light show, the pod slips out of the wormhole and into another corner of space located seventy-thousand light years from Bajor. Realizing this may be the venue through which the orbs entered their system, Sisko and Dax re-enter the wormhole to return home to study the implications. However, they unwittingly land on a remote planet where an orb captures Dax and transports her back to Deep Space Nine. Dax immediately informs the others of her journey, exciting all of them with the possibilities the discovery presents. Kira demands that they transport Deep Space Nine to the mouth of the wormhole so that the Bajorans can claim it and use it to gain power over the Cardassians. But Odo, who was discovered in the Denorios belt and does not know of his origins, has mixed feelings about the wormhole and the link it may provide to his past.
Left alone on the strange planet, Sisko communicates with the awesome force behind the orbs, who at first assume he is a threat. The force does not understand linear time, and presents Sisko with a barrage of images from his life, including the day he met his wife and the battle during which she was killed. Sisko is able to talk to the alien images of his late wife and child, and he and the force begin to understand each other.
O’Brien begins the task of maneuvering the space station into the mouth of the wormhole, but a Cardassian ship reaches it first. However, the mouth of the wormhole collapses around the alien ship, stranding it in a remote part of the galaxy. The alien force with Sisko detects the Cardassian ship’s presence and informs him that they are no longer alone. However, he continues to communicate with Sisko, indicating to him that he is trapped in the moment in time when his wife was killed aboard the Saratoga. Realizing his pain has been holding him back, Sisko allows the force to guide him through the circumstances leading up to his wife’s death and helps him to finally grieve his loss.
Aboard Deep Space Nine, Kira is contacted by Cardassian leader Gul Jasad, who accuses the station crew of destroying the lost Cardassian ship. The crew denies the accusation, but Jasad declares war, prompting Kira to launch an attack against the enemy. The battle escalates and the space station is damaged, but the wormhole suddenly reappears. Sisko’s runabout is seen towing the Cardassian ship out of danger, and the fighting ceases.
Later, a changed Sisko speaks with Picard about the events of the past few days. He decides that he would like to keep his post on Deep Space Nine, and Picard agrees. Later, he speaks with Kai Opaka, who informs Sisko that this is not the last time he will work with the Bajoran prophets to secure the future of the space station inhabitants.
