1:[7,#B],8:[3,#I]@1“The Way of the Warrior, Part I”@2Deep Space Nine episode #73
Story by Ira Steven Behr & Robert Hewitt Wolfe
Teleplay by Ira Steven Behr & Robert Hewitt Wolfe
Directed by James L. Conway
Stardate 49011.4
First aired in 1995
GUEST STARS
Kasidy Yates PENNY JOHNSON
Gul Dukat MARC ALAIMO
Gowron ROBERT O’REILLY
Martok J.G. HERTZLER
Drex OBIN DEFO
Kaybok CHRISTOPHER DARGA
Huraga WILLIAM DENNIS HUNT
SPECIAL GUEST STAR
Garak ANDREW ROBINSON
When the Klingon Empire withdraws from its peace treaty with the Federation, Sisko must help Klingon Starfleet officer Worf decide where his loyalties lie.
A fleet of Klingon ships is stationed around Deep Space Nine, and the Promenade is swarming with Klingons. However, the warriors aren’t their usual antagonistic selves. General Martok, who leads the force, tells Sisko they have come to help the Federation fight the Dominion. Sisko finds this odd, since the Federation neither requested nor expected help. Garak and Odo then have a run-in with Drex, a young Klingon, who later attacks Garak for no apparent reason.
When a freighter is stopped by a Klingon Bird-of-Prey, Sisko confronts its commander, Kaybok. Under orders from the Klingon High Council to assist the Federation alliance, he insists the freighter must be inspected for changelings. But Sisko, aboard the Defiant, forces him to let the vessel pass. Martok later has Kaybok killed for not carrying out his orders. Since Martok will not explain their motives, Sisko summons Lieutenant Commander Worf, formerly of the U.S.S. Enterprise, hoping the Klingon officer can determine their plans.
Worf starts a fight with Drex, Martok’s son, in order to get the general’s attention, but Martok won’t reveal why the Klingons are on Deep Space Nine. Worf’s allies are equally closed-mouthed, but he soon learns the truth from a Klingon officer indebted to his family. Realizing he is betraying his own people, Worf reluctantly informs Sisko that the Klingons are planning a massive invasion of Cardassia. Apparently, a coup on that world has left a civilian regime in power, one which the Klingons insist is backed by the Dominion. But, with no proof to support this belief, Martok is asked by Sisko to call off the invasion. However, the Klingon general instead leads his fleet on a course into Cardassian space.
The Federation orders Sisko to remain neutral until word is heard from the Klingon leader, Gowron, who Worf believes is using the Dominion takeover idea as an excuse to reclaim their race’s warrior heritage. Garak is allowed to learn about the dire situation, after which he tips off Gul Dukat on their homeworld, allowing the Cardassians a chance to defend themselves. The Federation condemns the invasion, at which point the Klingon Empire withdraws from their peace treaty. Gowron then comes to Deep Space Nine and offers Worf the chance to redeem himself by joining his people in the assault on Cardassia.
Torn between his duty and his people, Worf declines, prompting Gowron to excommunicate Worf’s entire family. Worf then attempts to resign from Starfleet, but Sisko refuses to accept his resignation at this critical time. Sisko decides it’s time to speak with Dukat, now part of the new government, and tells him that he will help escort the ruling council out of the war zone, even though, as Worf points out, he might actually be helping the Dominion. Sisko, Worf, Dax, and Bashir take the Defiant to a rendezvous point, where Dukat’s ship is under heavy fire. The Defiant decloaks and prepares to attack the Klingons, ending two decades of peace.
While engaged in battle with the Klingon vessels, Sisko and his officers beam aboard the Cardassians, losing the Defiant’s cloaking device in the process. They head back to the station with two Klingon ships in pursuit, while Bashir tests the blood of the council members to make sure they aren’t changelings. When they finally reach Deep Space Nine, several dozen Klingon ships arrive ready to attack.
Sisko prepares the station for the imminent onslaught. Martok demands for him to surrender the council members, but is told that the Cardassians are not changelings. However, Gowron says that this doesn’t matter because the Alpha Quadrant will be safer with Klingons in control of Cardassia. Sisko refuses his demands and warns Gowron that several weapons upgrades have been made to the station. Gowron dismisses the threat and the Klingons attack.
Deep Space Nine opens fire, inflicting heavy damage on the Klingon fleet, but Gowron doesn’t give up, and Klingon boarding parties begin to overrun the station, fighting in Ops and on the Promenade. The attackers are contained, then several Starfleet ships appear on the scanners. Sisko points out to Gowron that splitting the Federation, the Klingons, and the Cardassians is probably just what the Dominion wants. Gowron sees the logic and opts to stand down, but tells Sisko that he will not forgive or forget what has happened. Afterward, Sisko convinces Worf to remain as his new Strategic Operations Officer. But Dax interrupts the celebration with some grim news. The Klingons are refusing to give up the Cardassian colonies they’ve seized, meaning they are there to stay.
~1:[1,#b],2:[3,#i]@1“Whispers”@2Deep Space Nine episode #34
Written by Paul Robert Coyle
Directed by Les Landau
Stardate 47552.1
First aired in 1994
GUEST STARS
Keiko ROSALIND CHAO
DeCurtis TODD WARING
Admiral SUSAN BAY
Coutu PHILIP LESTRANGE
O’Brien returns from a security mission to notice that the entire crew has seemingly turned against him.
After returning from an assignment in the Paradas system, O’Brien notices that everyone on the station is treating him differently. His wife, Keiko, acts strangely distant towards him and meets secretly with Sisko, while Ensign DeCurtis has been ordered to realign the station’s security net without O’Brien’s knowledge. Things get stranger when Bashir insists on giving O’Brien a physical, and Sisko orders him to submit to the examination. O’Brien then meets with Sisko in his office, and Sisko questions him about his experiences with the Paradas, who are preparing to arrive on Deep Space Nine for peace talks. He is surprised when, instead of having him work to prepare the station for the Paradas arrival, Sisko orders him to repair the upper pylons, which O’Brien had fixed just before he left.
Later, Ensign DeCurtis refuses to allow O’Brien to check the quarters assigned to the Paradas, explaining that only Kira has the access codes. Sisko orders O’Brien back to the upper pylons. Suspicious, O’Brien pretends to leave, but secretly watches as DeCurtis enters the quarters without Kira’s help. He then returns to his quarters for dinner, where he is overcome with the unsettling feeling that Keiko is not really his wife.
After Keiko goes to bed, O’Brien searches the computer for any anomaly aboard the station that could be causing the crew to turn against him, and learns that he has been denied access to all logs dated after his return from the Paradas system. He also discovers that his logs, even his personal ones, have been analyzed by other crew members. At this point, Odo returns from a trip to Bajor, and O’Brien is thrilled to finally have an ally. However, when Odo summons O’Brien to the Security Office to discuss what he has learned, O’Brien quickly realizes from Odo’s distant tone that he, too, is now in on the conspiracy. O’Brien prepares to leave, but is stopped by Sisko, Kira and Bashir, who is wielding a hypospray. Thinking quickly, O’Brien steals Kira’s phaser and escapes into an airlock.
O’Brien transports to a Runabout and finally makes his escape in a hail of phaser fire, despite Sisko’s orders to remain behind. O’Brien then contacts Admiral Rollman to tell her about the conspiracy, but she, much to his dismay, is apparently also a part of it. Realizing he has nowhere else to turn, O’Brien decides to look for answers where his troubles began – in the Paradas System.
With a Runabout in hot pursuit, O’Brien heads for the Paradas system and manages to elude his would-be captors. When he learns that three passengers have beamed from the Runabout to the surface of Parada Two, he follows, and finds Sisko and Kira meeting with Coutu, a rebel Paradas leader. The suspicious O’Brien attempts to shoot Coutu, but a guard shoots and fatally wounds him. As O’Brien lays dying, he is shocked to see another O’Brien appear in the room with Bashir. Coutu explains that this is the real O’Brien, who was captured and held hostage during his Paradas mission. The O’Brien who returned to the space station was actually a replicant who was programmed to assassinate someone at the peace talks. The false O’Brien dies, finally knowing the truth.
~1:[2,#B],3:[3,#I]@1“The Wire”@2Deep Space Nine episode # 42
Written by Robert Hewitt Wolfe
Directed by Kim Friedman
No stardate given
First aired in 1994
GUEST STARS
Garak ANDREW ROBINSON
Glinn Boheeka JIMMIE F. SKAGGS
Jabara ANN GILLESPIE
and as Enabran Tain PAUL DOOLEY
Bashir fights to save his Cardassian friend Garak, who is slowly being killed by a brain implant to which he is addicted.
While having his weekly lunch with Bashir, Garak is suddenly overcome by extreme pain. It subsides just as quickly, but when the worried Bashir attempts to help him, Garak angrily refuses to go to the Infirmary and cuts short their meal. Later, Bashir is suspicious when he overhears Garak asking Quark to order a piece of merchandise for him. Bashir returns to work in the Infirmary, and soon gets a call from Quark asking for help in the bar. He arrives to find Garak, extremely drunk and obviously in pain. Bashir tries again to convince Garak to submit to an examination, but the Cardassian refuses – until the pain causes him to collapse.
An examination reveals that Garak has a small implant in his brain, and Bashir believes Quark may know something he’s not telling. He and Odo monitor Quark’s transmissions that evening, and they hear him attempt to order a piece of Cardassian biotechnology. However, he is unable to obtain it since the piece is classified by the Obsidian Order – the eyes and ears of the Cardassian Empire. Odo and Bashir conclude that the implant must be some sort of punishment device. Bashir leaves to confront Garak, and discovers that he has left the Infirmary.
Bashir barges into Garak’s room, where he is injecting a powerful pain killer. Garak reveals he received the implant from the head of the Obsidian Order, Enabran Tain, when he was once a member, and it was designed to make him immune to pain if ever caught and tortured. Unfortunately, he has been using it to cope with the pain of his exile on Deep Space Nine, and now that he is addicted to it, the device is malfunctioning from constant use. Garak refuses Bashir’s help, saying he deserves the pain for past misdeeds, including ordering a ship carrying his best friend, Elim, destroyed. Garak then loses consciousness.
Bashir turns off the implant and Garak wakes up, enraged now that his supply of pain-killing endorphins has been cut off. He rants and raves about Elim, this time saying the two of them freed Bajoran prisoners, which resulted in Elim’s execution and his own exile. Garak then dismisses Bashir’s words of friendship before collapsing again, near death. Bashir debates over reactivating the implant to prolong his life, but Garak wakes up and says he never wants the device turned on again. Bashir decides the only option remaining is to locate Enabran Tain.
After making the trip into Cardassian territory, Bashir finds Tain and realizes that the man has been monitoring his and Garak’s every move. Tain is quickly convinced to give Bashir the information he needs to save Garak’s life. As he is leaving, Bashir asks Tain what really happened to Elim, and Tain laughs and tells him that Elim is Garak’s first name. Back at the station, Garak quickly recovers and resumes his weekly lunches with Bashir. Confused, Bashir asks him which of his stories of exile is true. Garak replies that they all are – especially the lies.
~1:[7,#B],8:[3,#I]@1“The Way of the Warrior, Part II”@2Deep Space Nine episode #74
Story by Ira Steven Behr & Robert Hewitt Wolfe
Teleplay by Ira Steven Behr & Robert Hewitt Wolfe
Directed by James L. Conway
Stardate 49011.4
First aired in 1995
GUEST STARS
Kasidy Yates PENNY JOHNSON
Gul Dukat MARC ALAIMO
Gowron ROBERT O’REILLY
Martok J.G. HERTZLER
Drex OBIN DEFO
Kaybok CHRISTOPHER DARGA
Huraga WILLIAM DENNIS HUNT
SPECIAL GUEST STAR
Garak ANDREW ROBINSON
When the Klingon Empire withdraws from its peace treaty with the Federation, Sisko must help Klingon Starfleet officer Worf decide where his loyalties lie.
A fleet of Klingon ships is stationed around Deep Space Nine, and the Promenade is swarming with Klingons. However, the warriors aren’t their usual antagonistic selves. General Martok, who leads the force, tells Sisko they have come to help the Federation fight the Dominion. Sisko finds this odd, since the Federation neither requested nor expected help. Garak and Odo then have a run-in with Drex, a young Klingon, who later attacks Garak for no apparent reason.
When a freighter is stopped by a Klingon Bird-of-Prey, Sisko confronts its commander, Kaybok. Under orders from the Klingon High Council to assist the Federation alliance, he insists the freighter must be inspected for changelings. But Sisko, aboard the Defiant, forces him to let the vessel pass. Martok later has Kaybok killed for not carrying out his orders. Since Martok will not explain their motives, Sisko summons Lieutenant Commander Worf, formerly of the U.S.S. Enterprise, hoping the Klingon officer can determine their plans.
Worf starts a fight with Drex, Martok’s son, in order to get the general’s attention, but Martok won’t reveal why the Klingons are on Deep Space Nine. Worf’s allies are equally closed-mouthed, but he soon learns the truth from a Klingon officer indebted to his family. Realizing he is betraying his own people, Worf reluctantly informs Sisko that the Klingons are planning a massive invasion of Cardassia. Apparently, a coup on that world has left a civilian regime in power, one which the Klingons insist is backed by the Dominion. But, with no proof to support this belief, Martok is asked by Sisko to call off the invasion. However, the Klingon general instead leads his fleet on a course into Cardassian space.
The Federation orders Sisko to remain neutral until word is heard from the Klingon leader, Gowron, who Worf believes is using the Dominion takeover idea as an excuse to reclaim their race’s warrior heritage. Garak is allowed to learn about the dire situation, after which he tips off Gul Dukat on their homeworld, allowing the Cardassians a chance to defend themselves. The Federation condemns the invasion, at which point the Klingon Empire withdraws from their peace treaty. Gowron then comes to Deep Space Nine and offers Worf the chance to redeem himself by joining his people in the assault on Cardassia.
Torn between his duty and his people, Worf declines, prompting Gowron to excommunicate Worf’s entire family. Worf then attempts to resign from Starfleet, but Sisko refuses to accept his resignation at this critical time. Sisko decides it’s time to speak with Dukat, now part of the new government, and tells him that he will help escort the ruling council out of the war zone, even though, as Worf points out, he might actually be helping the Dominion. Sisko, Worf, Dax, and Bashir take the Defiant to a rendezvous point, where Dukat’s ship is under heavy fire. The Defiant decloaks and prepares to attack the Klingons, ending two decades of peace.
While engaged in battle with the Klingon vessels, Sisko and his officers beam aboard the Cardassians, losing the Defiant’s cloaking device in the process. They head back to the station with two Klingon ships in pursuit, while Bashir tests the blood of the council members to make sure they aren’t changelings. When they finally reach Deep Space Nine, several dozen Klingon ships arrive ready to attack.
Sisko prepares the station for the imminent onslaught. Martok demands for him to surrender the council members, but is told that the Cardassians are not changelings. However, Gowron says that this doesn’t matter because the Alpha Quadrant will be safer with Klingons in control of Cardassia. Sisko refuses his demands and warns Gowron that several weapons upgrades have been made to the station. Gowron dismisses the threat and the Klingons attack.
Deep Space Nine opens fire, inflicting heavy damage on the Klingon fleet, but Gowron doesn’t give up, and Klingon boarding parties begin to overrun the station, fighting in Ops and on the Promenade. The attackers are contained, then several Starfleet ships appear on the scanners. Sisko points out to Gowron that splitting the Federation, the Klingons, and the Cardassians is probably just what the Dominion wants. Gowron sees the logic and opts to stand down, but tells Sisko that he will not forgive or forget what has happened. Afterward, Sisko convinces Worf to remain as his new Strategic Operations Officer. But Dax interrupts the celebration with some grim news. The Klingons are refusing to give up the Cardassian colonies they’ve seized, meaning they are there to stay.
