Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Season 5
1996 • 26 Episodes
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
1. Apocalypse Rising
September 30, 1996
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.
2. The Ship
October 7, 1996
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.
3. Looking for par'Mach in All the Wrong Places
October 14, 1996
Stardate: Unknown. While Worf helps Quark to pursue his former wife Grilka, O'Brien and Kira grow uncomfortably close to each other.
4. Nor the Battle to the Strong
October 21, 1996
Stardate: Unknown. Jake, reporting from the front lines, sees what war truly is.
5. The Assignment
October 28, 1996
Stardate: Unknown. An alien entity has possessed Keiko's body and is holding it hostage until O'Brien completes an assignment for it.
6. Trials and Tribble-ations
November 4, 1996
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.
7. Let He Who Is Without Sin...
November 11, 1996
Stardate: Unknown. While vacationing on Risa, Worf and Dax meet a group of fundamentalist protesters who claim that the Federation has gone soft.
8. Things Past
November 18, 1996
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.
9. The Ascent
November 25, 1996
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.
10. Rapture
December 30, 1996
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.
11. The Darkness and the Light
January 6, 1997
Stardate: 50416.2. A mysterious assassin begins wiping out all the members of Kira's old resistance cell.
12. The Begotten
January 27, 1997
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.
13. For the Uniform
February 3, 1997
Stardate: 50485.2. When the traitorous Eddington returns, Sisko will go to any lengths to capture him.
14. In Purgatory's Shadow (1)
February 10, 1997
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.
15. By Inferno's Light (2)
February 17, 1997
Stardate: 50564.2. The station readies for a Dominion attack. Worf and Garak meet some unexpected friends in a Dominion Prison camp.
16. Doctor Bashir, I Presume?
February 24, 1997
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.
17. A Simple Investigation
March 31, 1997
Odo helps a woman hiding on the station from organized criminals, but quickly develops a personal interest in the case.
18. Business as Usual
April 7, 1997
Stardate: Unknown. Quark must wrestle with his conscience when he becomes involved with arms merchants.
19. Ties of Blood and Water
April 14, 1997
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.
20. Ferengi Love Songs
April 21, 1997
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.
21. Soldiers of the Empire
April 28, 1997
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.
22. Children of Time
May 5, 1997
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.
23. Blaze of Glory
May 12, 1997
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.
24. Empok Nor
May 19, 1997
Stardate: Unknown. While salvaging components from DS9's sister station, the crew run afoul of a "surprise" left behind by the Cardassians.
25. In the Cards
June 9, 1997
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.
26. Call to Arms
June 16, 1997
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.