1:[2,#b],3:[3,#i]@1“The Assignment”@2Deep Space Nine episode #104
Teleplay by David Weddle & Bradley Thompson
Story by David R. Long & Robert Lederman
Directed by Allan Kroeker
No Stardate Given
First aired in 1996
GUEST STARS
Keiko ROSALIND CHAO
Rom MAX GRODENCHIK
Molly HANA HATAE
A strange entity takes over Keiko’s body and orders O’Brien to complete a secret assignment -- or his wife will be killed.
Meeting Keiko upon her return from Bajor, O’Brien is shocked when his wife says, in her own voice, that she is really an entity that has taken possession of Keiko’s body and is holding her hostage. She states O’Brien must reconfigure some communication and sensor relays on the station or Keiko will be killed, and sends Keiko into a convulsion to prove her point. Seeing no other alternative and assured no one will be harmed, O’Brien reluctantly agrees to the entity’s demands.
Since he must pretend everything is normal, O’Brien attends the birthday party Keiko planned for him. The entity fools their friends, so no one suspects anything. The next morning, she orders him to recalibrate and sequence the impulse response filters in the subspace communication emitters. O’Brien isn’t sure this complicated assignment won’t hurt the station, and decides to go to Captain Sisko. As he walks toward the captain on the Promenade, he suddenly hears his wife call him, and looks up to see Keiko, her eyes filled with tears, leaning over the railing on the upper level. Before his horrified eyes, she plummets to the Promenade.
Keiko was lucky -- she was left with no permanent injuries. O’Brien hurries in to see her, and winds up speaking to the entity still inside her. It warns him again to not tell Sisko, and says he has thirteen hours to complete his task. With no idea how he will finish in time by himself, O’Brien swears Rom to secrecy and puts him to work on the project. At three that morning, a worried Dax approaches O’Brien. She inadvertently discovered O’Brien’s alterations and is led to the conclusion that there is a saboteur.
Sisko calls an emergency meeting, where O’Brien must pretend to know nothing. Keiko interrupts the meeting and reminds O’Brien that he’s running out of time. When Odo brings in Rom for questioning, O’Brien uses the opportunity to finish his work. But Rom refuses to speak to anyone but O’Brien -- alone. This forces O’Brien back to Security. Rom secretly tells O’Brien he has done as he’s been told and hasn’t revealed anything. He only has one question. Why are they recalibrating the deflector in order to kill the aliens within the wormhole?
The question brings it all together for O’Brien. Their recalibrations will focus a beam at the wormhole that, while harmless to humanoids, will be deadly to the aliens inside it. Rom reminds O’Brien that these aliens are the Bajoran Prophets, and is told that, according to Bajoran legend, Pah-wraiths are the enemies of those Prophets. Keiko visited the mythical home of the Pah-wraiths during her trip to Bajor -- and it is apparently one of them who is using her body. O’Brien finishes his job, but is confronted by the suspicious Odo. Unable to lose any more time, O’Brien knocks him out, then arranges to meet the Keiko entity in a Runabout. They take off and target the center of the wormhole. Sisko orders O’Brien back, but he activates the beam. Instead of firing into the wormhole, however, the beam blasts the Runabout. Keiko is hit with a massive shock and falls to the ground. However, she awakens free of the Pah-wraith. Having saved his wife, O’Brien then returns to the station ready to explain his bizarre behavior to Sisko and the crew.
~1:[6,#b],7:[3,#i]@1“Let He Who Is Without Sin...”@2Deep Space Nine episode #105
Written by Ira Steven Behr & Robert Hewitt Wolfe
Directed by Rene Auberjonois
No Stardate Given
First aired in 1996
GUEST STARS
Fullerton MONTE MARKHAM
Leeta CHASE MASTERSON
Bolian Aide FRANK KOPYC
SPECIAL APPEARANCE
Arandis VANESSA WILLIAMS
While vacationing on the planet Risa, Worf falls under the influence of a traditionalist group bent on destroying the pleasure paradise.
Worf’s relationship with Dax hits a rough spot and he plans to discuss his feelings during their vacation on Risa. But things go from bad to worse when they -- along with Bashir, Quark, and Leeta -- arrive on the beautiful, climate-controlled “pleasure planet.” Worf learns that the Temtibi Lagoon’s “social director,” Arandis, is a former lover of Curzon Dax. Pascal Fullerton -- Chairman of the New Essentialists Movement, a group bent on “restoring the moral and cultural traditions of the Federation” -- approaches Worf. Fullerton’s goal is to shut down Risa.
Worf immerses himself in New Essentialist literature and attends the group’s rally. Fullerton makes a speech warning that Risa’s focus on pleasure is just one example of how the Federation’s citizens have become soft and weak -- traits which will render them defenseless if an enemy attacks. Later that night, a group of Essentialists storm the Risian Solarium, armed with phaser rifles.
Worf realizes that the attack is just a stunt to convince the Risian vacationers that they are vulnerable. That evening, Worf accuses Dax of not taking their relationship seriously. The next day, Worf sees Dax with Arandis, assumes the worst, and is overcome with jealousy. He goes to Fullerton’s chambers and announces that he knows how to drive the guests from Risa.
Soon afterward, a powerful storm rocks Risa, putting an end to the resort’s outdoor activities. Arandis realizes that rain indicates a problem with the planetary weather grid. Fullerton and Worf arrive and reveal that Worf has rigged a tricorder to sabotage the grid. Risa will experience its normal rainy climate for the next few days.
A furious Dax accuses Worf of destroying Risa because he does not trust her. He reluctantly reveals that his restrained attitude results from a childhood incident when he accidentally killed a human boy while having fun. Dax begins to understand, but the moment is shattered when a powerful earthquake shakes Risa. They rush to Fullerton’s quarters and Worf takes back the doctored tricorder, ending the shaking. He then reminds Fullerton that trust is also a traditional Federation value. After the weather grid restores the resort’s pleasant climate, Worf is ready to enjoy what’s left of their vacation, now that he has teamed to trust Dax.
~1:[2,#b],3:[3,#i]@1“Things Past”@2Deep Space Nine episode #106
Written by Michael Taylor
Directed by LeVar Burton
No Stardate Given
First aired in 1996
GUEST STARS
Dukat MARC ALAIMO
Belar VICTOR BEVINE
SPECIAL GUEST STARS
Garak ANDREW J. ROBINSON
Thrax KURT WOOD SMITH
Sisko, Odo, Dax, and Garak are mysteriously placed into the roles of a group of condemned Bajorans executed seven years ago.
Sisko, Odo, Dax, and Garak are found unconscious in their Runabout. While Bashir attempts to revive their bodies in the present Sisko and the others wake up on Terok Nor -- the station’s previous name -- during the Cardassian occupation of Bajor. They look normal to each other, but everyone else sees them as Bajorans. Odo, who was once Terok Nor’s Chief of Security, seems particularly agitated and anxious. They spot Odo’s predecessor, Thrax, which indicates that they have gone back in time at least nine years. Two soldiers then arrive and haul away Dax.
While Dax learns she has been selected to be Dukat’s “friend,” Garak scans the group to determine their identities. Sisko is a Bajoran named lshan Chaye. Garak is Jillur Gueta. He then scans Odo, who supplies his own name -- Timor Landi. Odo awkwardly explains that Timor, Ishan, and Jillur were falsely accused of trying to assassinate Gul Dukat on the Promenade -- and were publicly executed there.
They realize that this is actually seven years ago, and Odo had taken over for Thrax as Security Chief. Since they must get off the station before their pending execution, Sisko contacts the Bajoran Resistance. However, the attempt on Dukat’s life occurs before they leave, and Sisko, Garak, and Odo are arrested.
In a cell, Odo tries to convince Thrax to investigate further, but he refuses. Dax escapes from Dukat, frees her friends and leads them toward Dukat’s shuttle. Thrax blocks their path and a fight ensues where he is revealed to be a Changeling. The group moves on toward the airlock, but as they enter, they suddenly find themselves back in the cell, where a soldier tells them they will be executed in two hours.
Sisko realizes everything leads back to Odo. Thrax and Odo suddenly appear on the Promenade, watching as Sisko, Dax, and Garak are about to be executed. Odo exclaims that he won’t let this happen again. The scene changes, leaving Odo alone with his friends. Further down the Promenade, they see the execution, with Odo, wearing Thrax’s uniform, looking on dispassionately. A horrified Odo admits that he -- not Thrax -- allowed the innocent Bajorans to die. Odo then wakes up in Deep Space Nine’s Infirmary. Bashir tells him that a plasma storm the Runabout encountered caused Odo’s mind to lock his friends into a version of the Great Link. Odo realizes that his guilt forced him to relive the incident and face his failure.
~1:[2,#b],3:[3,#i]@1“The Ascent”@2Deep Space Nine episode #107
Written by Ira Steven Behr & Robert Hewitt Wolfe
Directed by Allan Kroeker
No Stardate Given
First aired in 1996
GUEST STARS
Rom MAX GRODENCHIK
Nog ARON EISENBERG
Stranded on a desolate planet, longtime adversaries Odo and Quark must rely on each other to survive.
Odo is dispatched to escort Quark to a Federation Grand Jury hearing, an eight-day journey away. Halfway to their destination, Quark hears a strange buzzing noise. When he and Odo investigate, they find a bomb aboard the Runabout.
They contain the explosion in a Transporter beam, but the Runabout is still severely damaged. Forced to crash-land on a frozen, desolate planet, Odo and Quark learn that they lost their communications system, their replicator, and most of their rations in the explosion. They are left with a horrifying choice -- starve to death or freeze to death -- when Quark has an idea. Taking the Runabout’s subspace transmitter, he suggests they haul the heavy piece of equipment up an enormous mountain, where the atmosphere may be thin enough to send a signal for help.
Sharing one set of cold-weather gear between them, they make their way toward the mountain, bickering all the way. Quark is ready to give up when Odo encourages him with an estimate of six hours before reaching the top of the mountain. But Odo is wrong. As they clear the trees, they come to the edge of a steep cliff overlooking a deep valley. The mountain is actually days away.
With no other choice, Quark and Odo make their way down into the valley toward the mountain. The pair argues throughout the journey, even as they finally begin to climb the mountain. Words soon escalate into a shoving match, and they wind up sliding down the mountainside. While Quark is unhurt, Odo’s leg is broken.
Quark tries to drag Odo up the mountain, but it soon proves to be too much work for him. Odo insists that Quark leave him behind and continue alone to the top, but Quark, exhausted and hungry, is ready to give up. After Odo tries to take the transmitter himself, broken leg and all, Quark is shamed into resuming his attempt. But when night falls, Odo is still alone, assuming that Quark failed to reach his goal and died. As Odo prepares to do the same, he is suddenly transported off the mountain. He finds himself on the Defiant -- where Bashir, Dax, and Worf inform him that Quark indeed made it to the top and was able to signal for help. The longtime adversaries return to Deep Space Nine with an uncomfortable new aspect to their relationship -- the fact that Quark saved Odo’s life.
~1:[1,#b],2:[3,#i]@1“Rapture”@2Deep Space Nine episode #108
Teleplay by Hans Beimler
Story by L.J. Strom
Directed by Jonathan West
No Stardate Given
First aired in 1996
GUEST STARS
Kasidy Yates PENNY JOHNSON
Admiral Whatley ERNEST PERRY, JR.
SPECIAL GUEST STAR
Kai Winn LOUISE FLETCHER
Sisko is plagued by life-threatening visions that may hold the key to Bajor’s future.
When Sisko sees a painting depicting B’hala, Bajor’s legendary lost city, he is inspired to search for the famed site. The painting depicts part of an obelisk that, according to legend, showed the city’s location. Sisko replicates the painted obelisk in a Holosuite to try and recreate its missing markings. After working into the night, Sisko tries to save the program, but the Holosuite system shorts and knocks him unconscious. Bashir later tells Sisko the post-neural shock syndrome he is experiencing will enhance his senses for a few days. That night, Sisko figures out the shapes of the missing obelisk markings. He returns to the Holosuite, but is interrupted by a message from Admiral Whatley -- Bajor has been accepted into the Federation, and the ceremony will be held on Deep Space Nine.
Back in the Holosuite, Sisko finally determines where B’hala should be located, just as Kasidy Yates, his old girlfriend, returns from prison. He invites her to accompany him to Bajor immediately. On the planet, Sisko is stricken with a painful headache. He ignores it, and soon finds the lost city of B’hala.
The Bajorans regard Sisko’s discovery as a miracle. Admiral Whatley, however, is more concerned with Bajor’s admission into the Federation. He visits Sisko at the Blhala site on Bajor, but Sisko is not ready to leave, sensing that the lost city holds answers to some important questions. Reluctantly, the Admiral agrees to let him stay until the morning, provided Sisko submit to a physical when he returns. When Sisko gets back, he seems to have psychic insight -- but his headaches are getting worse.
Bashir determines that Sisko’s headaches are life-threatening. But Sisko refuses to let him operate, determined to see his visions through. Kai Winn helps him consult the Orb of Prophecy. Later, at the ceremony admitting Bajor to the Federation, Sisko suddenly enters, weak and in obvious pain. He warns the assembled that if Bajor joins the Federation now, it will be destroyed.
An unconscious Sisko is rushed to the Infirmary, where Bashir operates. Sisko awakens to anguish at the loss of his visions -- but learns Bajor’s leaders voted to delay joining the Federation. Kasidy reminds Sisko that while he has lost something very important to him, what he saved -- his life with his son -- is even more precious.
~1:[5,#b],6:[3,#i]@1“The Darkness and the Light”@2Deep Space Nine episode #109
Teleplay by Ronald D. Moore
Story by Bryan Fuller
Directed by Michael Vejar
Stardate 50416.2
First aired in 1997
GUEST STARS
Silaran Prin RANDY OGLESBY
Furel WILLIAM LOCKING
Lupaza DIANE SALINGER
Fala JENNIFER SAVIDGE
Nog ARON EISENBERG
A mysterious assassin targets the members of Kira’s resistance cell for execution.
Kira is surprised when Latha Mabrin, a fellow member of her old resistance cell, is murdered. Her suspicions grow when she receives a recorded message, consisting only of a photo of Latha and a scrambled voice saying: “That’s one.” She interprets this as a threat to all the former members of the Shakaar Resistance Cell. Later, Kira receives a message from Trentin Fala, their cell’s informant during the resistance. But when Worf and Dax attempt to bring her back to the station for her safety, something goes wrong during the transport and Fala is killed.
An investigation reveals that Fala was killed by a tiny detonator programmed to break up her transporter beam. Kira soon receives a message from the scrambled voice, saying: “That’s two.” This is followed quickly by another message and a third murder. Tense and exhausted, the pregnant Kira returns to her bedroom in O’Brien’s quarters to rest, but is jolted by a loud crash outside her door.
Phaser drawn, Kira creeps into the living room, and comes faceto-face with Furel and Lupaza, two more members of the Shakaar, who volunteer to hunt down the assassin. She allows Furel and Lupaza to stay with her in the O’Brien quarters to “protect” her and the O’Briens’ unborn child. Odo surmises that whoever is doing the killing most likely has a vendetta against Kira. Dax, Nog, and Kira unscramble the recorded mystery voice, which turns out to be Kira’s own. Then, a sudden explosion in the O’Brien quarters kills Furel and Lupaza.
Odo tells Kira that he has complied a list of possible suspects, but refuses to give her the list fearing that she will head off in search of the killer on her own. Kira, however, steals the file and erases the list from Odo’s computer so she can’t be followed. Alone in a Runabout, Kira eventually arrives at a barren world, in the home of a Cardassian named Silaran Prin. But she is captured, placed in a restraining field, and told she will die.
Silaran, who was disfigured in a resistance bombing, is punishing those involved -- especially Kira, who placed the explosive. He tells Kira that he will spare the baby, but kill her, and prepares to surgically remove it. Kira begs for a sedative, knowing that the herbs she has taken for her pregnancy render sedatives ineffective. She pretends to go unconscious, then lunges at Silaran, attacking and killing him.
~1:[2,#b],3:[3,#i]@1“The Begotten”@2Deep Space Nine episode #110
Written by Rene Echevarria
Directed by Jesus Trevino
No Stardate Given
First aired in 1997
GUEST STARS
Keiko ROSALIND CHAO
Shakaar DUNCAN REGEHR
Y’Pora PEGGY ROEDER
Dr. Mora JAMES SLOYAN
While Kira gives birth, Odo raises an infant Changeling.
Kira has finally gone into labor. But Odo is uninterested, dealing with his own “baby.” The former Changeling has purchased an ailing infant Changeling from Quark, and, after Bashir treats the creature, begins the task of trying to teach his “child” to shapeshift from its natural state of goo. He is clearly displeased when Dr. Mora, the Bajoran scientist who “raised” Odo, arrives on the station to help.
Dr. Mora and Odo clash over the Changeling. Odo, sill angry at the invasive methods Dr. Mora employed with him, hopes to teach the infant through encouragement Mora, however, insists on probing and measuring the creature, to Odo’s horror and disgust. Unfortunately, Odo makes little progress using his own methods, but refuses to even consider the doctor’s expertise until Sisko reports that Starfleet Command wants Odo to establish communication with the Changeling as soon as possible -- or lose it to Starfleet.
Using Dr. Mora’s equipment, Odo employs electric shocks -- the same methods Mora used to teach him to shapeshift, to prod the Changeling into holding several basic forms. As he experiences his first success, Odo tries to resist bonding with Mora. However, they are both amazed when the creature forms a face with eyes and uses them to peer at Odo.
Mora admits to Odo that his caring seems to have helped him form a connection with the baby. Mora’s support helps Odo to finally forgive him for the past. Unfortunately, Odo’s mood for celebration is shattered when he discovers that the little creature is dying.
Odo begs Bashir to save his “child,” but there is nothing that can be done. Odo takes the goo into his hands just as it stops moving, then it absorbs itself into Odo’s hands, and he suddenly morphs into a hawk. He morphs back into Odo, elated to be a shapeshifter again, but devastated at the price of this gift -- the loss of the infant. But there is joy elsewhere on the station, as Kira finally gives birth to the O’Brien baby.
~1:[3,#b],4:[3,#i]@1“For the Uniform”@2Deep Space Nine episode #111
Written by Peter Allan Fields
Directed by Victor Lobl
Stardate 50485.2
First aired in 1997
GUEST STARS
Eddington KENNETH MARSHALL
Sanders ERIC PIERPOINT
Nog ARON EISENBERG
Sisko risks everything to capture a former crew member who deceived him and joined the Maquis.
Sisko encounters Michael Eddington, his former Starfleet Security Chief, who betrayed him and joined the Maquis. Obsessed with capturing the traitor, Sisko pursues him in the Defiant. But when Sisko gives the order to fire, the Defiant experiences a massive computer failure -- caused by Eddington. He leaves Sisko angry and humiliated, and facing a long trip home.
The Defiant is towed back to Deep Space Nine, and O’Brien begins the massive job of bringing the ship back on-line. Adding insult to injury, Sisko learns that Captain Sanders of the Malinche has been assigned to apprehend Eddington since Starfleet feels Sisko hasn’t himself been able to do the job in the past eight months. But when he learns that Eddington has attacked Cardassian colonies in the DMZ with a biogenic weapon, Sisko sees his chance. Despite the fact that the Defiant is not ready, he prepares to take his ship back into space.
The ship lurches out of the station and soon encounters Eddington again, who taunts Sisko. The captain realizes too late that he was baited to false coordinates. As the crew sets off to find Eddington’s real location, a distress call is received from the Malinche -- Maquis forces ambushed and disabled the starship.
Sisko determines Eddington’s next planetary target, but is too late to stop him from releasing, his biogenic weapon into the atmosphere. The Defiant chases after Eddington’s fleeing ship, but he cripples a transport vessel evacuating Cardassian civilians, forcing Sisko to break off his pursuit and rescue the helpless Cardassians.
Stumped as to how to get Eddington, Sisko realizes that the renegade sees himself as a noble hero and Sisko as a villain. In order to stop Eddington, Sisko decides he must do something truly villainous. He prepares to poison the atmosphere of a Maquis colony in retaliation, and reveals his sinister plan to all. Eddington is prepared to call his bluff. Amazingly, Sisko orders the deadly torpedoes launched, and the Maquis scramble to evacuate. Sisko says that he is prepared to eliminate every Maquis colony in the DMZ, and Eddington, realizing Sisko is serious, does the “heroic” gesture of offering himself in exchange. Eddington is captured, and Sisko’s vendetta is finally over.
~1:[3,#b],4:[3,#i]@1“In Purgatory’s Shadow”@2Deep Space Nine episode #112
Written by Ira Steven Behr & Robert Hewitt Wolfe
Directed by Gabrielle Beaumont
No Stardate Given
First aired in 1997
GUEST STARS
Garak ANDREW J. ROBINSON
Gul Dukat MARC ALAIMO
Ziyal MELANIE SMITH
Martok J.G. HERTZLER
Ikat’ika JAMES HORAN
Enabran Tain PAUL DOOLEY
While Worf and Garak are imprisoned in the Gamma Quadrant, Sisko learns of an impending Dominion invasion.
The station picks up a mysterious coded message from the Gamma Quadrant that appears to be Cardassian. Garak reveals that the message is a distress call from his mentor, Enabran Tain, the former head of the Obsidian Order, who was presumed to be dead. Garak convinces Sisko to allow him to search for Tain, but Sisko sends Worf along as a “chaperone.”
Traveling in a Runabout through the Gamma Quadrant, Garak and Worf, learning that the source of Tain’s signal is deep in Dominion space, proceed cautiously. However, they wind up in the midst of a Jem’Hadar fleet.
Worf realizes that this fleet can only be assembled for one reason -- they intend to invade the Alpha Quadrant. He sends a warning message to the station just before being captured with Garak by Jem’Hadar soldiers. Back on Deep Space Nine, Worf’s warning is received. Meanwhile, he and Garak are imprisoned in a Dominion internment center, where they are told they will remain until they die.
Inside the camp, Worf discovers Martok, a general who was replaced by a Changeling. Martok leads Worf and Garak to Tain, who is also a prisoner -- and is dying. Instead of being thankful to Garak for coming, Tain chastises him for being captured. On the station, after learning that at least fifty Dominion ships are headed their way, Sisko sees only one option -- sealing the wormhole. If Worf and Garak don’t escape in thirty-six hours, they will be trapped on the other side of the galaxy. Back at the interment center, Worf and Garak discover another prisoner -- Bashir. The Bashir on the station is really a Changeling spy.
In the internment camp, Garak meets with Tain again, desperate for a kind word from his mentor before the old man passes on. When Tain makes Garak promise to escape as a final request, Garak makes a request in return -- that Tain acknowledge Garak as his son. He does, then dies peacefully. His mission complete, Garak is ready to find a way out. But he may be too late. On Deep Space Nine, the crew attempts to close the wormhole, but the equipment suddenly shorts out -- secretly sabotaged by the Bashir Changeling. The wormhole remains open, and the Jem’Hadar fleet begins pouring through.
