Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Season 5

Air Date

September 30, 1996

Episodes

26 episodes

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

Season 5

Overview

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

Apocalypse Rising

1. Apocalypse Rising

7.1
September 30, 1996
45 min

Stardate: 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.

The Ship

2. The Ship

7.3
October 7, 1996
45 min

Stardate: 50049.3. The crew find a crashed Jem’Hadar ship and work to repair it and capture it for the Federation, but are confronted by a Dominion force determined to recover the ship’s cargo.

Looking for par'Mach in All the Wrong Places

3. Looking for par'Mach in All the Wrong Places

6.7
October 14, 1996
45 min

Stardate: Unknown. While Worf helps Quark to pursue his former wife Grilka, O'Brien and Kira grow uncomfortably close to each other.

Nor the Battle to the Strong

4. Nor the Battle to the Strong

6.8
October 21, 1996
45 min

Stardate: Unknown. Jake, reporting from the front lines, sees what war truly is.

The Assignment

5. The Assignment

6.6
October 28, 1996
45 min

Stardate: Unknown. An alien entity has possessed Keiko's body and is holding it hostage until O'Brien completes an assignment for it.

Trials and Tribble-ations

6. Trials and Tribble-ations

8.3
November 4, 1996
45 min

Stardate: 4523.7. In this celebration of the 30th anniversary of The Original Series, the disgraced Klingon spy Darvin travels back in time to undo his century-old defeat by James Kirk. The DS9 crew must track him down and stop him, while blending in with the crew of the original Enterprise NCC-1701.

Let He Who Is Without Sin...

7. Let He Who Is Without Sin...

5.5
November 11, 1996
45 min

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

Things Past

8. Things Past

7.2
November 18, 1996
45 min

Stardate: 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.

The Ascent

9. The Ascent

7.3
November 25, 1996
45 min

Stardate: 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.

Rapture

10. Rapture

6.8
December 30, 1996
45 min

Stardate: Unknown. After a brain injury, Sisko begins experiencing powerful visions through time. He dives fully into the role of the Emissary, while becoming obsessed with finding a legendary Bajoran ruin.

The Darkness and the Light

11. The Darkness and the Light

6.5
January 6, 1997
45 min

Stardate: 50416.2. A mysterious assassin begins wiping out all the members of Kira's old resistance cell.

The Begotten

12. The Begotten

7.3
January 27, 1997
45 min

Stardate: Unknown. The discovery of an infant Changeling gives Odo a chance to put right the trauma of his own upbringing, while his “father” Dr. Mora insists on a more clinical approach.

For the Uniform

13. For the Uniform

7.3
February 3, 1997
45 min

Stardate: 50485.2. When the traitorous Eddington returns, Sisko will go to any lengths to capture him.

In Purgatory's Shadow (1)

14. In Purgatory's Shadow (1)

8.1
February 10, 1997
45 min

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.

By Inferno's Light (2)

15. By Inferno's Light (2)

8.1
February 17, 1997
45 min

Stardate: 50564.2. The station readies for a Dominion attack. Worf and Garak meet some unexpected friends in a Dominion Prison camp.

Doctor Bashir, I Presume?

16. Doctor Bashir, I Presume?

7.1
February 24, 1997
45 min

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.

A Simple Investigation

17. A Simple Investigation

6.4
March 31, 1997
45 min

Odo helps a woman hiding on the station from organized criminals, but quickly develops a personal interest in the case.

Business as Usual

18. Business as Usual

6.6
April 7, 1997
45 min

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

Ties of Blood and Water

19. Ties of Blood and Water

6.7
April 14, 1997
45 min

Stardate: 50712.2. When 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.

Ferengi Love Songs

20. Ferengi Love Songs

6.3
April 21, 1997
45 min

Stardate: 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.

Soldiers of the Empire

21. Soldiers of the Empire

7.1
April 28, 1997
45 min

Stardate: 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.

Children of Time

22. Children of Time

7.7
May 5, 1997
45 min

Stardate: 50814.2. The DS9 crew discovers a colony that, due to a time travel accident, turns out to be inhabited by the crew's own descendants.

Blaze of Glory

23. Blaze of Glory

7.6
May 12, 1997
45 min

Stardate: Unknown. Sisko learns that the Maquis are planning a devastating attack on Cardassia, and must rely on the traitor Eddington to help him prevent it.

Empok Nor

24. Empok Nor

7.4
May 19, 1997
45 min

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

In the Cards

25. In the Cards

7.3
June 9, 1997
45 min

Stardate: 50929.4. Jake has his heart set on a vintage Willie Mays baseball card as a present to cheer up his father, whose spirits are flagging from the ongoing conflict.

Call to Arms

26. Call to Arms

8.4
June 16, 1997
45 min

Stardate: 50975.2. Sisko decides to mine the wormhole to prevent further Dominion ships crossing into the Alpha Quadrant. This provokes an attack by the Dominion and the Cardassians, and a desperate last stand on Deep Space Nine.