Deep Space Nine

Season Five

Apocalypse Rising
09/29/96 -- Stardate: Unknown
SOS Rating: 8.2 -- Tim Lynch's Rating: 7.0

Captain Sisko leads a team to infiltrate the Klingon Empire and expose Gowron as a changeling; but when they are recognized, their mission and the possibilities for peace in the Alpha Quadrant are jeopardized.


The Ship
10/06/96 -- Stardate: Unknown
SOS Rating: 8.7 -- Tim Lynch's Rating: 10.0

When Captain Sisko and a survey team find a crashed Jem'Hadar ship on a Gamma Quadrant planet, they make preparations to take it back to Deep Space Nine, but the Jem'Hadar want their ship back.


Looking for Par'mach in All the Wrong Places
10/13/96 -- Stardate: Unknown
SOS Rating: 7.1 -- Tim Lynch's Rating: 3.0

When Gril'ka comes to Deep Space Nine, a love-struck Quark asks Dax and Worf for advice on the Klingon ways of love; but while Quark tries to woo the Klingon of his dreams, others aboard the station also find par'mach in unexpected places.


. . .Nor the Battle to the Strong
10/20/96 -- Stardate: Unknown
SOS Rating: 8.4 -- Tim Lynch's Rating: 9.0

When he and Dr. Bashir are stranded on planet under fierce attack by the Klingons, Jake Sisko must face his innermost fears as he finds himself in the midst of the horrors of war.


The Assignment
10/27/96 -- Stardate: Unknown
SOS Rating: 8.0 -- Tim Lynch's Rating: 7.5

An alien spirit takes over Keiko O'Brien's body, and Chief O'Brien must balance his concerns for her safety with his duty as an officer aboard Deep Space Nine.


Trials and Tribble-ations
11/03/96 -- Stardate: 4523.7
SOS Rating: 9.4 -- Tim Lynch's Rating: 10.0

When a Klingon spy sabotages the Defiant and takes it back in time to kill Captain Kirk, Captain Sisko and comany find themselves face to face with the crew of the legendary starship Enterprise and the furry tribbles.


Let He Who Is Without Sin. . .
11/10/96 -- Stardate: Unknown
SOS Rating: 4.2 -- Tim Lynch's Rating: 2.0

While on Risa with Dax, Bashir, Leeta, and Quark for rest and relaxation, Worf finds himself siding with an extremist group intent on proving that Risa's decadent lifestyle will cause the downfall of the Federation.


Things Past
11/17/96 -- Stardate: Unknown
SOS Rating: 8.1 -- Tim Lynch's Rating: 6.5

When a freak accident traps Sisko, Dax, Odo, and Garak on Terok Nor during the time of the Cardassian occupation of Bajor, their only means of escape is trapped in Odo's deep, dark memories.


The Ascent
11/24/96 -- Stardate: Unknown
SOS Rating: 7.3 -- Tim Lynch's Rating: 5.5

A bomb planted on a runabout strands Odo and Quark on a cold and harsh planet, where they must rely on each other for survival.


Rapture
12/29/96 -- Stardate: Unknown
SOS Rating: 8.8 -- Tim Lynch's Rating: 9.5

On the eve of Bajor's acceptance into the Federation, Sisko discovers a city of Bajor legend and begins to have visions that may have an effect of Bajor's future.


The Darkness and the Light
01/05/97 -- Stardate: 50416.2
SOS Rating: 8.2 -- Tim Lynch's Rating: 8.0

A mysterious attacker from Kira's past begins to kill the members of her former Bajoran resistance cell, prompting her to set out in search of the killer, regardless of the danger to herself and the O'Briens' unborn baby.


The Begotten
01/26/97 -- Stardate: Unknown
SOS Rating: 8.1 -- Tim Lynch's Rating: 7.5

Odo faces the challenge of trying to teach a baby Changeling about its shapeshifting abilities, while Kira gives birth to the O'Briens' baby.


For the Uniform
02/02/97 -- Stardate: 50485.2
SOS Rating: 8.8 -- Tim Lynch's Rating: 9.0

Captain Sisko finds himself in an almost obsessive pursuit of former Commander, turned-Maquis, Eddington, who has launched a series of deadly attacks on Cardassian colonies.


In Purgatory's Shadow
02/09/97 -- Stardate: Unknwon
SOS Rating: 9.3 -- Tim Lynch's Rating: 9.0

Responding to a Cardassian distress call from the Gamma Quadrant, Worf and Garak find themselves in a Jem'Hadar prison on the eve of a massive Dominion attack on the Alpha Quadrant.


By Inferno's Light
02/16/97 -- Stardate: 50464.2
SOS Rating: 9.0 -- Tim Lynch's Rating: 6.0

Gul Dukat joins the Dominion in a plot to destroy all non-Cardassian influence in the region; meanwhile Worf, Garak, and Bashir struggle to escape from the Jem'Hadar prison asteroid in the Gamma Quadrant.


Doctor Bashir, I Presume
02/23/97 -- Stardate: Unknown
SOS Rating: 8.2 -- Tim Lynch's Rating: 6.5

When Dr. Bashir is selected by Starfleet to serve as the model for a new holographic doctor, a dark secret about his past is revealed.


A Simple Investigation
03/30/97 -- Stardate: Unknown
SOS Rating: 7.0 -- Tim Lynch's Rating: 5.5

Odo helps an enigmatic young woman turn away from a life as an agent for a member of the Orion Syndicate and finds himself in his first romantic encounter with a humanoid.


Business as Usual
04/06/97 -- Stardate: Unknown
SOS Rating: 7.8 -- Tim Lynch's Rating: 8.0

Quarks's unscrupulous cousin convinces him to begin working for a notorious weapons dealer, but when he learns the price of his actions, Quark has second thoughts about a change of profession.


Ties of Blood and Water
04/13/97 -- Stardate: 50712.5
SOS Rating: 7.8 -- Tim Lynch's Rating: 6.0

The Cardassian who a few years earlier was tricked by the Obsidian Order into believing that a surgically altered Kira was is daughter, comes to Deep Space Nine, and Kira must confront her feelings for him and her guilt about the death of her real father.


Ferengi Love Songs
04/20/97 -- Stardate: Unknown
SOS Rating: 5.1 -- Tim Lynch's Rating: 3.0

When Moogie announces to Quark that she and the Nagus are in love, Quark uses the news to regain his standing with the Ferengi Commerce Authority, but his actions may cause a collapse of the Ferengi economy.


Soldiers of the Empire
04/27/97 -- Date: 53rd Day in the Year of Kahless 999
SOS Rating: 8.1 -- Tim Lynch's Rating: 8.5

Worf and Dax join General Martok as officers aboard a Klingon Bird of Prey haunted by defeat and dishonor, and Worf has to choose between his loyalty to Martok and the good of the crew.


Children of Time
04/27/97 -- Date: 50814.2
SOS Rating: 9.0 -- Tim Lynch's Rating: 9.5

Defiant is stranded on a planet in the Gamma Quadrant and discover that, through a freak time travel accident, they were stranded on that planet 200 years earlier and formed a settlement where 8,000 of their direct descendants now live.


Blaze of Glory
05/11/97 -- Date: Unknown
SOS Rating: 8.6 -- Tim Lynch's Rating: 8.5

When Sisko finds out that the Maquis had launched a last-ditch wave of cloaked missile towards Cardassia, he enlists the help of an unwilling Eddington to track and disarm the missiles before they trigger an all-out counter attack by the Cardassians' Dominion allies.


Empok Nor
05/18/97 -- Date: Unknown
SOS Rating: 8.0 -- Tim Lynch's Rating: 7.0

Chief O'Brien and Garak lead an away team to Empok Nor, an abandoned Cardassian station identical to Deep Space Nine, to salvage parts needed to repair DS9; but they don't count on Empok Nor being guarded by Cardassian warriors in cryo-sleep.


In the Cards
06/08/97 -- Date: 50929.4
SOS Rating: 8.5 -- Tim Lynch's Rating: 7.5

While trying to obtain a rare Willie Mays rookie baseball card to cheer up his father, Jake Sisko finds himself in the middle of an effort by a Dominion representative to win the support of Kai Winn.


A Call to Arms
06/15/97 -- Date: 50975.2
SOS Rating: 9.3 -- Tim Lynch's Rating: 8.5

When Sisko starts mining the entrance to the Wormhole to prevent the Dominion from sending more ships into the Alpha Quadrant, in retaliation, the Dominion and Cardassians mount a massive attack on Deep Space 9.

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