Star Trek Deep Space Nine fourth season

Deep Space Nine season 4

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The Way of the Warrior (1) / season 4 - episode 1
written by Ira Steven Behr & Robert Hewitt Wolfe
directed by James L. Conway
music by Dennis McCarthy
As the Dominion threat to the Alpha quadrant increases, the peace treaty between the Klingon Empire and the Federation is in jeopardy. Captain Sisko has requested that Lieutenant Commander Worf (Michael Dorn) come to Deep Space Nine to act as a diplomatic liaison with the Klingons. When the Federation condemns the Klingon invasion of Cardassia, the Klingon Empire withdraws from their peace treaty with the Federation.

The Way of the Warrior (2) / season 4 - episode 2
written by Ira Steven Behr & Robert Hewitt Wolfe
directed by James L. Conway
music by Dennis McCarthy
Gowron offers Worf the chance to redeem himself by joining his people in the assault on Cardassia. Worf declines, prompting Gowron to excommunicate Worf's entire family. Worf then attempts to resign from Starfleet, but Sisko refuses to accept his resignation. After offering to aid the Cardassians, Sisko and the crew prepare for battle with the Klingon fleet.

The Visitor / season 4 - episode 3
written by Michael Taylor
directed by David Livingston
music by Dennis McCarthy
Decades into the future, an elderly Jake Sisko is visited at his New Orleans home by a young, aspiring author named Melanie, who is curious to know why he stopped writing at forty. Jake reveals how years ago he had gone along on the Defiant to witness a rare inversion of the wormhole that happens just once every fifty years. During the trip, Captain Sisko was hit by a bolt of energy from the malfunctioning warp core, after which he dematerialized, eventually given up for dead.

Hippocratic Oath / season 4 - episode 4
teleplay by Lisa Klink
story by Nick Corea and Lisa Klink
directed by Rene Auberjonois
music by Jay Chattaway
In the Gamma quadrant, Bashir and O'Brien respond to what they believe is a ship in trouble on a remote planet. After crash-landing on the surface, they become prisoners of Jem'Hadar soldiers. When they learn Bashir is a doctor, the leader, Goran'Agar, explains that he has been mysteriously cured of his addiction to Ketracel-white, the substance the Founders genetically-engineered the Jem'Hadar to require for survival.

Indiscretion / season 4 - episode 5
teleplay by Nicholas Corea
story by Toni Marberry & Jack Trevino
directed by LeVar Burton
music by Dennis McCarthy
When Kira investigstes the disappearance of a Cardassian vessel, six years ago, she is forced to partner with her nemesis Gul Dukat. On a planet's surface, Kira and Dukat discover the destroyed vessel and the possibility of survivors, including an old friend of Kira's. Dukat also discovers a secret from his past an illegitimate child, whom he decides he must now kill. The two find a Breen camp where the Bajoran and Cardassian survivors are being held, including Dukat's daughter.

Rejoined / season 4 - episode 6
teleplay by Ronald D. Moore & Renè Echavarria
story by Renè Echavarria
directed by Avery Brooks
music by Jay Chattaway
A group of Trill scientists, led by Dr. Lenara Kahn, comes to Deep Space Nine, using the Starship Defiant to conduct experiments. Lenara is a joined Trill who, while her symbiont was joined to a previous host body, was married to one of Dax's former male hosts, Torias. Dax, believing that she can control any feelings she may still have for her former wife, decides to meet with Lenara. Despite the fact that the penalty for "reassociation" with lovers from past lives is exile from the Trill homeworld and the eventual death of the symbiont when the host dies, the two have dinner together.

Starship Down / season 4 - episode 7
written by David Mack & John J. Ordover
directed by Alexander Singer
music by Jay Chattaway
A fierce battle with the Jem'Hadar leaves the Defiant trapped in a planet's volatile atmosphere. Dax and Bashir are trapped in a turbolift with limited air, and Quark is faced with diffusing an active torpedo embedded in the starship's hull. Meanwhile, O'Brien must discover a way to locate their attackers without sensors.

Little Green Men / season 4 - episode 8
teleplay by Ira Steven Behr & Robert Hewitt Wolfe
story by Toni Marberry and Jack Trevino
directed by James L. Conway
music by Paul Baillargeon
Quark is excited to receive a shuttle his cousin Gaila owed him for ten years, and decides to use it to fly Nog to Starfleet Academy on Earth, while doing a little smuggling on the side. But, just as the shuttle enters Earth's system, Rom is unable to take the shuttle out of warp, and realizes that the spiteful Gaila designed the ship to malfunction. Luckily, Rom figures out how to stop the ship and make an emergency landing.

The Sword of Kahless / season 4 - episode 9
teleplay by Hans Beimler
story by Richard Danus
directed by LeVar Burton
music by David Bell
Kor, a revered Klingon warrior, sets out with Worf and Dax in search of a mythical, ancient artifact - the legendary Sword of Kahless - they believe has the power to unite the Klingon Empire. Sisko loans the trio a runabout for their journey into the Gamma quadrant, where the sword is believed to be. During their quest, they are attacked by an old enemy of Worf's - Toral, the son of Duras.

Our Man Bashir / season 4 - episode 10
teleplay by Ronald D. Moore
story by Robert Gillan
directed by Winrich Kolbe
music by Jay Chattaway
Bashir is enjoying a holosuite program that casts him as a super suave, 20th century secret agent. Elim Garak intrudes on his fantasy, convincing the doctor to let him participate. At the same time, Sisko, Kira, Dax, Worf and O'Brien transport from a sabotaged Runabout just before it explodes. The explosion of the ship interferes with Eddington's emergency transport rescue. Eddington successfully stores the crew's patterns with a computer override but they become integrated into Bashir's holosuite program.

Homefront / season 4 - episode 11
written by Ira Steven Behr & Robert Hewitt Wolfe
directed by David Livingston
music by Dennis McCarthy
An explosion at a Federation/Romulan diplomatic conference reveals that Changelings have infiltrated Earth. Sisko and Odo are dispatched from Deep Space Nine to Earth in hopes of preventing a Dominion takeover. While there, Sisko is placed in command of Starfleet Security on Earth. With his son Jake, Sisko takes the opportunity to visit his father, Joseph, in New Orleans.

Paradise Lost / season 4 - episode 12
teleplay by Ira Steven Behr & Robert Hewitt Wolfe
story by Ronald D. Moore
directed by Reza Badiyi
music by Jay Chattaway
When Dominion sabotage is blamed for a planetwide power outage, Starfleet stations security all over Earth to prepare for an invasion. Sisko, in charge of the effort, becomes suspicious after learning that certain groups of Starfleet troops have been demobilized. Tricking one of the troops into revealing a plot, Sisko determines that members of Starfleet Command are behind the sabotage. While Sisko sets out to prove this insubordination to the Federation President, a Changeling reveals the plans of the takeover to Sisko.

Crossfire / season 4 - episode 13
written by Renè Echavarria
directed by Les Landau
music by Dennis McCarthy
As First Minister Shakaar arrives at Deep Space Nine to negotiate for Bajor's early admittance into the Federation, Odo learns that "The True Way," a Cardassian extremist group, is planning to assassinate Shakaar. Security around the station is boosted, and Odo personally shadows Shakaar. During his duties, Odo watches a relationship develop between the First Minister and Kira. Forced to guard the life of a man he considers a rival for Kira's affections, Odo must choose between his duty as Security Chief and his love for Kira.

Return to Grace / season 4 - episode 14
teleplay by Hans Beimler
story by Tom Benko
directed by Jonathan West
music by Jay Chattaway
Kira prepares to travel to a Cardassian outpost to share Bajoran intelligence about the Klingon Empire. She discovers that the commander of the freighter that will take her to the outpost is Gul Dukat. Dukat reveals that he has been demoted from his powerful position because he brought Tora Ziyal, his daughter by his Bajoran mistress, back to Cardassia, a move which destroyed his life and career. Upon arrival at the outpost, Kira and Dukat discover that a Klingon Bird-of-Prey has just attacked the outpost and killed all the Cardassian and Bajoran diplomats.

The Sons of Mogh / season 4 - episode 15
written by Ronald D. Moore
directed by David Livingston
music by David Bell
Worf's brother Kurn arrives unexpectedly and explains that since Worf sided with the Federation against the Klingon Empire, Kurn and his family have become outcasts on the homeworld. Having lost everything, the only way for Kurn to regain his honor is through the Mauk-to'Vor, a death ritual which only Worf can perform. Reluctantly agreeing, Worf fatally stabs Kurn, but Dax and Odo burst in and transport Kurn to the Infirmary. When Kurn survives, Worf must struggle to find an honorable life for his brother.

Bar Association / season 4 - episode 16
teleplay by Robert Hewitt Wolfe & Ira Steven Behr
story by Barbara J. Lee & Jenifer A. Lee
directed by LeVar Burton
music by Jay Chattaway
After suffering for weeks with an ear infection without a day off, Rom finally collapses in Quark's bar and is taken to the Infirmary. Bashir is outraged that Quark refuses to give any of his employees sick leave and casually suggests that Rom form a union. When Rom returns to work, Quark announces that he is cutting the salaries of his employees to compensate for declining profits. Angered at this mistreatment and inspired by Bashir's words, Rom calls a secret meeting of Quark's waiters and dabo girls and starts a union.

Accession / season 4 - episode 17
written by Jane Espenson
directed by Les Landau
music by Dennis McCarthy
A centuries-old Bajoran vessel mysteriously exits the wormhole, and its passenger, a legendary Bajoran poet named Akorem Laan, is immediately beamed to the Infirmary. Shocked to learn more than 200 years have passed since he left Bajor, he tells Sisko and Kira that he had an accident in space and was saved by the Bajoran Prophets, which has led him to believe that they have chosen him to be the Emissary. Sisko, never comfortable with the role of Emissary, steps aside to let Akorem assume the revered position.

Rules of Engagement / season 4 - episode 18
teleplay by Ronald D. Moore
story by Bradley Thompson & David Weddle
directed by LeVar Burton
Worf faces a hearing to determine whether he should be extradited to the Klingon Empire for destroying a civilian ship. While under Klingon attack, Worf ordered the U.S.S. Defiant to fire on a vessel that decloaked in front of it, apparently unaware that it was a Klingon transport until too late. Ch'Pok, the Klingon Advocate, accuses Worf of negligence brought on by his inherent bloodlust. Sisko, Worf's defense counsel, counters that this was a tragic yet unavoidable accident.

Hard Time / season 4 - episode 19
teleplay by Robert Hewitt Wolfe
story by Daniel Keys Moran & Lynn Barker
directed by Alexander Singer
music by Dennis McCarthy
A shaken O'Brien returns to Deep Space Nine after his mind has been altered to make him believe that he spent the last two decades in prison. Accused of espionage by the Argrathi, he is given the painful memories of a twenty-year incarceration and released before his fellow officers could arrive to stop the punishment. While O'Brien is told that what he went through was not real, the memories are too vivid for him to dismiss.

Shattered Mirror / season 4 - episode 20
written by Ira Steven Behr & Hans Beimler
directed by James L. Conway
music by Dennis McCarthy
Jake can hardly believe his eyes when his father introduces him to a woman who appears and acts exactly like his late mother, Jennifer. Sisko reveals that this is Jennifer at least her double from a mirror universe which Sisko once visited, where she was married to his now-dead counterpart. Sisko leaves the two of them alone for awhile. When he returns, Jennifer and Jake are nowhere to be found. All that remains is a small device. Sisko uses it to transport to the mirror universe, appearing on the alternate Deep Space Nine.

The Muse / season 4 - episode 21
teleplay by Renè Echavarria
story by Renè Echavarria & Majel Barrett Roddenberry
directed by David Livingston
music by Paul Baillargeon
Lwaxana Troi pays a visit to Odo's office with the surprising news that she is pregnant. She is thrilled to be having a baby boy, but her Tavnian husband insists she adhere to the custom of giving him their son to raise alone until the child is sixteen. Unwilling to give away the baby, Lwaxana decides to give birth to him on Deep Space Nine. Meanwhile, a mysterious alien woman named Onaya arrives on the station, telling Jake that she can help him with his writing.

For the Cause / season 4 - episode 22
teleplay by Ronald D. Moore
story by Mark Gehred O'Connell
directed by James L. Conway
music by Jay Chattaway
With the conflict between the Klingons and Cardassians taking its toll, a shipment of desperately needed replicators destined for Cardassia is set to pass through Deep Space Nine. Odo and Lt. Commander Eddington of Starfleet Security recommend heightened measures to deter both the Klingons and the terrorist group known as the Maquis, then reveal some troubling news they believe there is a Maquis smuggler aboard the station, and they have some evidence that the smuggler is Kasidy Yates, Sisko's romantic interest.

To the Death / season 4 - episode 23
written by Ira Steven Behr & Robert Hewitt Wolfe
directed by LeVar Burton
music by Jay Chattaway
When a Jem'Hadar strike force attacks the station, Sisko takes Worf, Dax, Odo, and O'Brien with the U.S.S. Defiant and pursues them into the Gamma quadrant. The crew comes upon a disabled Jem'Hadar warship emitting a distress signal, and transports aboard the survivors. Weyoun, the Jem'Hadar's Vorta master, reveals that they were attacked by the same Jem'Hadar who surprised Deep Space Nine. The attackers are Jem'Hadar renegades who turned against the Dominion, and may have an extremely powerful weapon in their possession.

The Quickening / season 4 - episode 24
written by Naren Shankar
directed by Rene Auberjonois
music by David Bell
While traveling in the Gamma quadrant, Kira, Dax, and Bashir respond to an automated distress call from a planet that the Jem'Hadar destroyed 200 hundred years ago. The attackers contaminated the inhabitants with a terminal disease that is passed on from generation to generation. The disease is called the Blight and when the afflicted is near death - called "The Quickening" - the disease becomes extremely painful. Bashir and Dax transport to the planet's surface to help find a cure but are hindered because of lack of trust by the inhabitant's of the planet.

Body Parts / season 4 - episode 25
teleplay by Hans Beimler
story by Louis P. DeSantis & Robert J. Bolivar
directed by Avery Brooks
music by Dennis McCarthy
Quark returns from a visit to his homeworld of Ferenginar with the distressing news that he has an extremely rare disease that should end his life within a week. Since a Ferengi must pay off his debts before he dies, Quark decides to put up his remains for bidding on the Ferengi Futures Exchange to earn the needed latinum. After the sale, Quark discovers he was misdiagnosed and will not die.

Broken Link / season 4 - episode 26
teleplay by Robert Hewitt Wolfe & Ira Steven Behr
story by George A. Brozak
directed by Les Landau
music by Jay Chattaway
Odo is rushed to the Infirmary when he suddenly collapses. After a thorough examination, Bashir determines that Odo is losing the ability to maintain his solid form, but is unclear as to why. Despite his protests, Bashir gives the patient strict orders to remain under observation since movement could bring on another attack. Odo, unable to keep from his investigations, ventures out of the Infirmary and promptly collapses into a puddle of goo.

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