Star Trek: Deep Space Nine · Season 5 26 Episodes

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Season 5 of Deep Space Nine begins the Dominion War arc that will dominate the rest of the show. The Federation and its allies face a new enemy in the form of the Cardassian-Dominion alliance, which threatens to conquer the Alpha Quadrant.

Episodes

NoFirst Air DateNameOverview
5x1Apocalypse RisingStardate: Unknown. With the war between Klingons and Federation intensifying, Sisko must make a plan to expose Gowron as a changeling. Odo is still having trouble with becoming a solid.
5x2The ShipStardate: 50049.3. The crew is forced to retreat in a crashed Jem'Hadar ship after an attack by the Jem'Hadar. They get the feeling there's something very important about this ship.
5x3Looking for par'Mach in All the Wrong PlacesStardate: Unknown. While Worf helps Quark to pursue his former wife Grilka, O'Brien and Kira grow uncomfortably close to each other.
5x4Nor the Battle to the StrongStardate: Unknown. Jake, reporting from the front lines, sees what war truly is.
5x5The AssignmentStardate: Unknown. An alien entity has possessed Keiko's body and is holding it hostage until O'Brien completes an assignment for it.
5x6Trials and Tribble-ationsStardate: 4523.7. Darvin, a disgraced Klingon spy, travels back in time to alter some events to his likings. The DS9 crew must find what he's trying to change and prevent it without altering the time line. They'll have to blend in with the crew from Star Trek: The Original Series.
5x7Let He Who Is Without Sin...Stardate: Unknown. While vacationing on Risa, Worf and Dax meet a group of fundamentalist protesters who claim that the Federation has gone soft.
5x8Things PastStardate: Unknown. Sisko, Dax, Odo and Garak find themselves in the past when the Cardassians controlled the station, and a crime that Odo investigated may be the key.
5x9The AscentStardate: Unknown. When Odo and Quark crash land, they must put aside their differences to climb a mountain to signal for help. Jake and Nog try to be roommates, but their different styles clash.
5x10RaptureStardate: Unknown. Sisko begins having visions that may show him how to best help Bajor, but they're killing him.
5x11The Darkness and the LightStardate: 50416.2. A mysterious assassin begins wiping out all the members of Kira's old resistance cell.
5x12The BegottenStardate: Unknown. The discovery of an infant Changeling gives Odo a chance to correct what he sees as the "mistakes" in his upbringing. But as Starfleet's pressure for results grows, he has to turn to his "father," Dr. Mora
5x13For the UniformStardate: 50485.2. When the traitorous Eddington returns, Sisko will go to any lengths to capture him.
5x14In Purgatory's Shadow (1)Stardate: Unknown. A coded message from the Gamma Quadrant leads Garak to believe his mentor, Enabran Tain, is still alive. He and Worf seek him out, only to discover something much worse: a Dominion invasion fleet poised to attack the Alpha Quadrant.
5x15By Inferno's Light (2)The station readies for a Dominion attack. Worf and Garak meet some unexpected friends in a Dominion Prison camp.
5x16Doctor Bashir, I Presume?Stardate: Unknown. Dr. Bashir is selected to be the model for the next-generation of Emergency Medical Hologram (EMH). But he balks when his parents are invited to the station to be interviewed by the EMH programmer, Dr. Zimmerman. There is a dark secret in his family that he's afraid that his parents will reveal.
5x17A Simple InvestigationStardate: Unknown. Odo becomes romantically attached to a woman working with the Orion Syndicate.
5x18Business as UsualStardate: Unknown. Quark must wrestle with his conscience when he becomes involved with arms merchants.
5x19Ties of Blood and WaterWhen a Cardassian official that thinks of Kira as his daughter is dying, he agrees to reveal all he knows to her. But the experience dredges up Kira's memories of her own father's death.
5x20Ferengi Love SongsStardate: Unknown. Quark doesn't know whether to be panicked or overjoyed when he learns that his mother is the new lover of the Grand Nagus.
5x21Soldiers of the EmpireStardate: Unknown. Dax and Worf accompany Martok on his first command since being held by the Dominion. But the ship they are given hasn't seen victory in months and the crew is near mutinous.
5x22Children of TimeStardate: 50814.2. The DS9 crew discovers a small colony on a remote world that was originally populated by them 200 years earlier due to a time travel accident with the Defiant. The current colonists' lives depend on making sure that the accident happens again, even though they've now forewarned the crew that it will happen. Each crew member needs to decide if they are willing to give up their lives on DS9 in order to preserve the history of the colony.
5x23Blaze of GloryStardate: Unknown. Driven to desperation by the Dominion, the Maquis launch a massive bio-weapons strike towards Cardassia. Sisko must trust the traitor Eddington to try to stop them.
5x24Empok NorStardate: Unknown. While salvaging components from DS9's sister station, the crew run afoul of a "surprise" left behind by the Cardassians.
5x25In the CardsStardate: 50929.4. Jake and Nog go through hell and high water, from participating in an auction to dealing with the Dominion, to receiving a Willie Mays baseball card to cheer up the war-fatigued Captain Sisko.
5x26Call to ArmsStardate: 50975.2. With the continuing battalions of Jem'Hadar entering the Alpha Quadrant in preparation for war, Sisko decides to mine the wormhole to prevent further troop movement. This provokes a confrontation between the Dominion and the Federation, forcing Sisko to abandon DS9.

Cast

CharacterPerson
Benjamin SiskoAvery Brooks
Kira NerysNana Visitor
Miles O'BrienColm Meaney
WorfMichael Dorn
Jadzia DaxTerry Farrell
Julian BashirAlexander Siddig
Jake SiskoCirroc Lofton
QuarkArmin Shimerman
OdoRené Auberjonois

Crew

DepartmentJobPerson
ArtProduction DesignHerman F. Zimmerman
Property MasterJoe Longo
ProductionCastingJunie Lowry-Johnson
ProducerIra Steven Behr
Michael Piller
Peter Allan Fields
Rick Berman
Robert Hewitt Wolfe
SoundMain Title Theme ComposerDennis McCarthy