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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 5 Episodes

26 Episodes 1996 - 1997

Episode 1

Apocalypse Rising

Mon, Sep 30, 199646 mins

The war between the Klingons and the Federation is rapidly progressing into a full scale conflict and Starfleet has decided that something must be done. Now that Odo has told Chancellor Gowron is a changeling, Sisko is ordered to infiltrate into the Klingon Empire and expose him. Sisko selects O'Brien, Worf and Odo as the people to go with him, there's only one problem. Odo is still having a great deal of trouble adjusting to his new life as a "solid". His work isn't fulfilling anymore and he's not interested in joining the mission. Sisko doesn't take no for an answer. Meanwhile, the plan is taking shape, with only one problem. Gowron moved his headquarters to Ty'Gokor, heavily fortified and located in a tachyon grid protected asteroid field deep in Klingon space. Gowron is also protected by the Yan-Isleth, his personal security force. Approaching the chancellor unnoticed seems impossible.

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Episode 2

The Ship

Mon, Oct 7, 199646 mins

The crew of Deep Space Nine is on Torga IV in the Gamma Quadrant. The planet is believed to contain cormaline deposits. While determining the feasibility of a mining operation, suddenly a Jem'Hadar warship crashes into the surface. The crew is dead. Sisko decides to salvage it. Then another Jem'Hadar ship arrives. They attack. The crew is forced to retreat into the crashed ship. Engineer Muniz is badly hurt by a phaser blast. Then suddenly the attack stops. It seems the Jem'Hadar are not prepared to wage war inside the ship. A Vorta is even prepared to negotiate and the Jem'Hadar try unusual sneak tactics to gain access. Sisko gets a very strong feeling there's something going on, that there's an object so important in the ship, that the Jem'Hadar can't risk destroying it. While the crew try to find out what it is and the troops of the Dominion lay siege, time is running out for Muniz.

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Episode 3

Looking for Par'Mach in All the Wrong Places

Mon, Oct 14, 199646 mins

Smitten by Quark's Klingon ex-wife but forbidden to court her, Worf reluctantly assists Quark in winning back her favor, unaware that he has an admirer of his own. Meanwhile, Major Kira grows uncomfortably close to Chief O'Brien in her role as surrogate mother to his unborn child.

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Episode 4

Nor the Battle to the Strong

Mon, Oct 21, 199646 mins

Jake's traveling with Doctor Bashir, to write a report about his activities. It's different from what he expected though, all Julian talks about is prion replications, amino acid re-sequencing and quantum dynamics. Jake would rather write a report about the doctor battling Cartalian fever, for example and thinks that readers would relate to that more. Jake's wish for more action may come true when a distress call is sent in from the Ajilon Prime colony. They are under attack by the Klingons. They urgently need medical supplies and a doctor in a hospital near the front line. Bashir doesn't want to take Sisko's son with him, but Jake is able to convince him otherwise. Jake is delighted, but is the young reporter really prepared for the horror that is war? Meanwhile captain Sisko hears the Farragut will pick the two up the next day, but gets more anxious as time progresses.

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Episode 5

The Assignment

Mon, Oct 28, 199646 mins

A Pah-wraith possesses Keiko's body and forces Chief O'Brien to complete a task, or Keiko'll be killed.

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Episode 6

Trials and Tribble-ations

Mon, Nov 4, 199645 mins

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.

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Episode 7

Let He Who Is without Sin...

Mon, Nov 11, 199646 mins

While vacationing on Risa, Worf and Dax meet a group of fundamentalist protesters who claim that the Federation has gone soft.

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Episode 8

Things Past

Mon, Nov 18, 199646 mins

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.

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Episode 9

The Ascent

Mon, Nov 25, 199646 mins

On their way to answer a warrant, Odo and Quark crash, and must put aside their differences to survive and signal for help.

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Episode 10

Rapture

Mon, Dec 30, 199646 mins

Captain Sisko and Major Kira retrieve a lost painting from the occupation, Sisko hears a prophecy that he can unlock a legendary lost city in Bajoran mythology and while trying to use the computer to save a scanned image of the painting, he suffers shock from the holosuite and starts having health problems and visions of the lost city.

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Episode 11

The Darkness and the Light

Mon, Jan 6, 199745 mins

A mysterious assassin begins wiping out all the members of Kira's old resistance cell.

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Episode 12

The Begotten

Mon, Jan 27, 199746 mins

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.

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Episode 13

For the Uniform

Mon, Feb 3, 199746 mins

When the traitorous Eddington returns, Sisko will go to any lengths to capture him.

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Episode 14

In Purgatory's Shadow

Mon, Feb 10, 199746 mins

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.

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Episode 15

By Inferno's Light

Mon, Feb 17, 199745 mins

The station readies for a Dominion attack. Worf and Garak meet some unexpected friends in a Dominion Prison camp.

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Episode 16

Doctor Bashir, I Presume

Mon, Feb 24, 199746 mins

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.

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Episode 17

A Simple Investigation

Mon, Mar 31, 199746 mins

Odo becomes romantically attached to a woman working with the Orion Syndicate.

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Episode 18

Business as Usual

Mon, Apr 7, 199746 mins

Quark must wrestle with his conscience when he becomes involved with arms merchants.

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Episode 19

Ties of Blood and Water

Mon, Apr 14, 199747 mins

When a Cardassian official, who 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.

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Episode 20

Ferengi Love Songs

Mon, Apr 21, 199746 mins

Quark doesn't know whether to be panicked or overjoyed when he learns that his mother is the new lover of the Grand Nagus.

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Episode 21

Soldiers of the Empire

Mon, Apr 28, 199747 mins

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.

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Episode 22

Children of Time

Mon, May 5, 199746 mins

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 accident happens again, even though they've now forwarned 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.

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Episode 23

Blaze of Glory

Mon, May 12, 199746 mins

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.

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Episode 24

Empok Nor

Mon, May 19, 199746 mins

While salvaging components from DS9's sister station, the crew run afoul of a "surprise" left behind by the Cardassians.

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Episode 25

In the Cards

Mon, Jun 9, 199745 mins

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, all in order to cheer up the war-fatigued Captain Sisko.

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Episode 26

Call to Arms

Mon, Jun 16, 199746 mins

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.

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