Star Trek Deep Space Nine fifth season

Deep Space Nine season 5

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Apocalypse Rising / season 5 - episode 1
written by Ira Steven Behr & Robert Hewitt Wolfe
directed by James L. Conway
music by Dennis McCarthy
Captain Sisko and Dax barely make it back from a Starfleet Command meeting due to the increasingly hostile war conditions with the Klingons. Starfleet Command has decided to send Captain Sisko into the heart of the Klingon Empire to determine whether or not Chancellor Gowron is being impersonated by a Changeling. Sisko, along with O'Brien, Odo and Worf must penetrate Klingon territory, disguised as Klingons in a stolen Bird-of-Prey.

The Ship / season 5 - episode 2
teleplay by Hans Beimler
story by Pam Wigginton & Rick Cason
directed by Kim Friedman
music by Jay Chattaway
While exploring a Gamma quadrant world, Sisko, Dax, Worf, O'Brien, and Muniz watch as a Jem'Hadar warship crashes into the planet's surface. It survives the impact, and Sisko's group finds a way into the alien craft. Once inside, they determine that all aboard are dead, and Sisko decides to get the ship back to Deep Space nine for study. He sends for the U.S.S. Defiant to haul the vessel with its tractor beam, while O'Brien and Muniz try to get the ship's systems on line.

Looking for par'Mach in all the Wrong Places / season 5 - episode 3
written by Ronald D. Moore
directed by Andrew J. Robinson
music by David Bell
While having a drink with Dax, Worf is taken by he sight of Grilka, a Klingon woman, as she enters the station with Tumek and her guard, Thopok. Worf falls instantly in love, and watches, horrified, as Grilka kisses Quark. Grilka is Quark's ex-wife, thanks to a complicated marriage of convenience. Undaunted, Worf decides to pursue Grilka, and tries to capture her attention at Quark's.

...Nor the Battle too Strong / season 5 - episode 4
teleplay by Renè Echavarria
story by Brice R. Parker
directed by Kim Friedman
music by Dennis McCarthy
Writing a profile on Dr. Bashir, Jake Sisko is travelling with him in a Runabout when they get a distress call from a Federation colony under attack by Klingons. Jake convinces Bashir to go to the colony, despite concern over taking the eighteen-year-old Sisko to a battleground. Once they arrive, Jake is stunned by the sight of scores of wounded and dying people. Forced to lend a hand to the medical team, Jake panics when explosions rip into the ground around them, and runs away.

The Assignment / season 5 - episode 5
teleplay by David Weddle & Bradley Thompson
story by David R. Long & Robert Lederman
directed by Allan Kroeker
music by Gregory Smith
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 that 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, O'Brien is forced to obey the entity's demands.

Trials and Tribble-ations / season 5 - episode 6
teleplay by Ronald D. Moore & Renè Echavarria
story by Ira Steven Behr & Hans Beimler & Robert Hewitt Wolfe
directed by Jonathan West
music by Dennis McCarthy
Captain Sisko and Defiant crew are transported back in time by a Klingon thief, Darvin, bent on taking revenge upon Captain Kirk, who exposed him as a spy. Upon reaching the Enterprise, Captain Sisko encounters the fuzzy, cuddly creatures known as "Tribbles." Through an insidious plot using the seemingly harmless Tribbles, Darvin attempts to destroy Kirk and his crew, and Captain Sisko must race against time to prevent the destruction of the original U.S.S. Enterprise.

Let He Who Is Without Sin... / season 5 - episode 7
written by Robert Hewitt Wolfe & Ira Steven Behr
directed by Rene Auberjonois
music by Paul Baillargeon
Dax, Worf, Bashir, Quark and Leeta travel to Risa for vacation to revel in the resort's sensual lifestyle. On the pleasure planet, Worf and Dax confront their deepening feelings for each other, and Worf grows jealous of Dax's relationship with Arandis. Worf learns that the Temtibi Lagoon's "social director," Arandis, is a former lover of Curzon Dax. Upset by Risa's sybaritic lifestyle, Worf joins a puritanical group called the Essentialists who condemn the hedonism on Risa and attempt to close down the resort.

Things Past / season 5 - episode 8
written by Michael Taylor
directed by LeVar Burton
music by Jay Chattaway
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 Terek Nor the station's previous name during the Cardassian occupation of Bajor. It is seven years earlier, and the four have been mysteriously placed into the roles of a group of Bajorans that are sentenced to be executed!

The Ascent / season 5 - episode 9
written by Ira Steven Behr & Robert Hewitt Wolfe
directed by Allan Kroeker
Odo is dispatched to escort Quark to a Federation Grand Jury hearing, an eight-day journey away. Halfway to their destination, 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 have lost their communications system, their replicator, and most of their rations in the explosion.

Rapture / season 5 - episode 10
teleplay by Hans Beimler
story by L. J. Strom
directed by Jonathan West
music by Dennis McCarthy
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. When Sisko replicates the obelisk in a Holosuite to try to recreate its missing markings, the Holosuite system shorts out and knocks him unconscious. The experience gives Sisko the ability to see visions of the future of Bajor, but the effects may kill him.

The Darkness and the Light / season 5 - episode 11
teleplay by Ronald D. Moore
story by Bryan Fuller
directed by Michael Vejar
music by Jay Chattaway
Kira is surprised when Latha Mabrin, a fellow member of her old resistance cell, is murdered during a ceremony. Her suspicions grow when she receives an untraceable message moments after learning of the murder. The message consists only of a photo of Latha and a scrambled voice saying: "That's one." Kira interprets this as a threat to all former members of the Shakaar Resistance Cell and attempts to contact the surviving members to warn them.

The Begotten / season 5 - episode 12
written by Renè Echavarria
directed by Jesus Salvador Trevino
music by Jay Chattaway
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.

For the Uniform / season 5 - episode 13
written by Peter Allan Fields
directed by Victor Lobl
music by Dennis McCarthy
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 U.S.S. Defiant. When Sisko gives the order to fire, the ship experiences a massive computer failure caused by Eddington. Returning to Deep Space Nine in the disabled U.S.S. Defiant, Sisko learns that another starship has been assigned to apprehend Eddington.

In Purgatory's Shadow / season 5 - episode 14
written by Robert Hewitt Wolfe & Ira Steven Behr
directed by Gabrielle Beaumont
music by Dennis McCarthy
The station picks up a mysterious coded message from the Gamma Quadrant that appears to be Cardassian. Garak reveals that the message is some sort of 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 travel to the Gamma Quadrant to search for Tain, and Sisko sends Worf along as a "chaperone". When Garak and Worf are captured, the station learns of an impending Dominion invasion.

By Inferno's Light / season 5 - episode 15
written by Ira Steven Behr & Robert Hewitt Wolfe
directed by Les Landau
music by Jay Chattaway
As the station prepares for a Dominion attack, the enemy fleet suddenly turns toward Cardassian space. Gul Dukat's ship breaks formation and follows, and he reveals that he has spearheaded negotiations resulting in Cardassia joining the Dominion with Dukat as Cardassia's leader. While the future of the Alpha Quadrant hangs in the balance, Worf, Martok, Bashir, and Garak mastermind an escape plan from the Dominion Internment Center in the Gamma Quadrant.

Doctor Bashir, I Presume? / season 5 - episode 16
teleplay by Ronald D. Moore
story by Jimmy Diggs
directed by David Livingston
music by Dennis McCarthy
Bashir is informed by Doctor Louis Zimmerman that he has been chosen as the model for Starfleet's holographic doctor program. As part of the process, Zimmerman must learn everything he can about Bashir, from childhood quirks to interpersonal relationships, a procedure that includes interviews with Bashir's family, friends, and co-workers. Uncomfortable, Bashir requests that Zimmerman refrain from speaking with his parents.

A Simple Investigation / season 5 - episode 17
written by Renè Echavarria
directed by John Kretchmer
music by Dennis McCarthy
In Quark's, Odo meets a beautiful woman named Arissa and is impressed by her powers of observation. Later, he is surprised when the same woman is arrested for trying to break into the station's computer. Quark questions her about the man she was waiting for in Quark's an Idanian named Tauvid Rem. Arissa tells Odo Tauvid has information about the daughter she gave up fifteen years before. Odo takes her to Tauvid's quarters, where they discover he has been killed.

Business as Usual / season 5 - episode 18
written by Bradley Thompson & David Weddle
directed by Siddig el Fadil
music by David Bell
Quark's cousin Gaila arrives at the station with a business proposition. He offers a piece of his weapon-selling business to Quark which would pay off all of Quark's debts within a month. But the best part is, Quark with technically not be breaking the law. Instead, he will be in charge of "hospitality," showing customers a good time and allowing them to test harmless replicas of their offerings in his Holosuites.

Ties of Blood and Water / season 5 - episode 19
teleplay by Robert Hewitt Wolfe
story by Edmund Newton & Robbin L. Slocum
directed by Avery Brooks
music by Jay Chattaway
Kira meets with Tekeny Ghemor, a known Cardassian dissident, hoping he will lead the opposition to the Cardassian/Dominion Alliance. Ghemor reveals he hasn't long to live, but he may still be able to help Kira's cause with a Cardassian ritual in which the dying reveal secrets to their family to use against their enemies. Since Ghemor apparently has no living relatives, he asks Kira, who the Cardassians once kidnapped and surgically altered to look like his long-lost child, to be his "daughter" one last time.

Ferengi Love Songs / season 5 - episode 20
written by Ira Steven Behr & Hans Beimler
directed by Rene Auberjonois
music by Dennis McCarthy
Depressed over his lot in life especially being blacklisted by the Ferengi Commerce Authority Quark goes to his homeworld of Ferenginar for some comfort from his mother, Ishka. The free-thinking Ishka is sympathetic, but clearly uneasy over his declaration that he will be "living" with her for an unspecified period of time. Quark soon learns the reason behind her uncertainty. When he enters his old bedroom, he finds Grand Nagus Zek the Ferengi leader hiding in the closet! It turns out that Ishka and Zek are in love.

Soldiers of the Empire / season 5 - episode 21
written by Ronald D. Moore
directed by LeVar Burton
music by David Bell
General Martok receives orders from the Klingon High Council to search for a Klingon vessel, the B'Moth, missing near the Cardassian border. The mission will be Martok's first since he escaped from a Dominion prison. Assigned a Klingon ship, the Rotarran, to command, he gets permission to take along Worf as his First Officer, while Dax joins them as the ship's Science Officer. They board their vessel and begin the search, only to discover that their crew is hardly the group of proud Klingon warriors they expected.

Children of Time / season 5 - episode 22
teleplay by Renè Echavarria
story by Gary Holland and Ethan H. Calk
directed by Allan Kroeker
music by Paul Baillargeon
In the Gamma Quadrant, Dax insists on investigating a planet surrounded by an energy barrier, but the barrier cripples the U.S.S. Defiant. A colony lives on the planet, and the leader, Miranda O'Brien, reveals that in two days, when the Defiant departs, the barrier will cause the ship to crash on the planet 200 years in the past. Stranded for life, the crew will found this colony. The planet, Gaia, is populated by their descendants! Sisko realizes that this foreknowledge will allow his crew to now avoid that crash, but by altering history, the colony will cease to exist.

Blaze of Glory / season 5 - episode 23
written by Robert Hewitt Wolfe & Ira Steven Behr
directed by Kim Friedman
music by Dennis McCarthy
A secret message is intercepted and delivered to Sisko. The few Maquis terrorists who have not been wiped out by the Dominion have initiated a massive retaliatory strike against Cardassia, launching a series of missiles due to arrive in eleven days. Now that Cardassia is under Dominion protection, an all-out war is likely unless the undetectable missiles are stopped. Seeing no alternative, Sisko goes to Michael Eddington, the former Starfleet officer-turned-Maquis leader, now in prison.

Empok Nor / season 5 - episode 24
teleplay by Hans Beimler
story by Bryan Fuller
directed by Michael Vejar
music by Jay Chattaway
With Deep Space Nine in disrepair, O'Brien is unable to replicate the Cardassian materials he needs to fix it. He assembles a team of engineers and leads a salvage mission to Empok Nor, an abandoned Cardassian space station, bringing along Garak to foil any security measures. They soon enter the eerie, deserted station and begin to work. Garak is disturbed to find two stasis tubes have recently been activated, each large enough to contain a Cardassian adult.

In The Cards / season 5 - episode 25
teleplay by Ronald D. Moore
story by Truly Barr Clark & Scott J. Neal
directed by Michael Dorn
music by David Bell
As the Dominion threat to the Alpha Quadrant intensifies, Jake notices Sisko growing increasingly depressed. Hearing that Quark plans to auction off a collection of antiquities that includes a vintage Willie Mays baseball card, he decides obtaining the card for his father is the perfect way to improve his mood. Jake persuades Nog to use his life savings to bid on the collection, but a man named Dr. Giger outbids them, taking the card and crushing Jake's hopes.

Call to Arms / season 5 - episode 26
written by Ira Steven Behr & Robert Hewitt Wolfe
directed by Allan Kroeker
music by Jay Chattaway
As another convoy of Jem'Hadar ships emerges through the wormhole toward Cardassia, Sisko and his officers face the grim realization that the Dominion is taking over the Alpha Quadrant. When Starfleet Command notifies Sisko that he must stop further Dominion reinforcements from reaching Cardassia, he decides to mine the entrance to the wormhole a move that may cost them Deep Space Nine and will likely lead to war.

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