DS9 Season One Recap

Introduction

With Deep Space Nine, the Star Trek franchise has boldly shifted tone and setting, creating a world quite unlike the previous Roddenberry-helmed television shows. The results in season one of said show are... mixed.

Maybe it's the acoustics in here. Did everyone not hear "Smile!?"

Deep Space Nine, Season 1: In the Hands of the Prophets

Deep Space Nine, Season 1
"In the Hands of the Prophets"
Airdate: June 20, 1993
19 of 173 produced
19 of 173 aired

Introduction

A religious leader and potential new Kai comes to the station and objects to Keiko O'Brien teaching her students about the wormhole as a scientific phenomenon and not a religious one. An increasingly heated debate ensues that eventually threatens to erupt in outright violence and to undo the progress that DS9 has made over the last year.

Sometimes the Prophets ask us to sacrifice otherwise interesting characters for no good reason, my child.

Deep Space Nine, Season 1: Duet

Deep Space Nine, Season 1
"Duet"
Airdate: June 13, 1993
18 of 173 produced
18 of 173 aired

Introduction

Kira is forced to reevaluate her reflexive hatred against Cardassians when an apparent Cardassian war criminal turns out to be more than he first appears.

Sooner or later, Coach will put me in for real.

Deep Space Nine, Season 1: Dramatis Personae

Deep Space Nine, Season 1
"Dramatis Personae"
Airdate: May 30, 1993
17 of 173 produced
17 of 173 aired

Introduction

A Klingon ship mysteriously returns early from its Gamma Quadrant mission. Shortly after clearing the wormhole, it explodes, and one survivor beams aboard. The senior staff begin to act very strangely. Sisko appears bored at the idea of running the station. and Kira, while butting heads with Sisko is a normal day, has begun openly plotting his overthrow. The only crew member unaffected is Odo. Can he figure out what is going on? Will he be able to stop them?

When you demand satisfaction, call Samuel T. Cogley & Associates, Attorneys at Law.

Deep Space Nine, Season 1: The Forsaken

Deep Space Nine, Season 1
"The Forsaken"
Airdate: May 23, 1993
17 of 173 produced
17 of 173 aired

Introduction

An alien probe threatens to overrun the station's computer system. Meanwhile, Dr. Bashir escorts some annoying visiting dignitaries on a visit to the station. Lwaxana Troi, one of the dignitaries, gets trapped in an elevator with Odo.

Never let them see you sweat when you're being sexually harassed.

Deep Space Nine, Season 1: If Wishes Were Horses

Deep Space Nine, Season 1
"If Wishes Were Horses"
Airdate: May 16, 1993
16 of 173 produced
16 of 173 aired

Introduction

Crewmembers' fantasies and imaginary characters start appearing on the station. A famous baseball player walks off the holosuite, and a Dax suddenly very interested in Bashir's advances walks into sickbay. Rumplestilskin appears in the O'Brien's quarters as he is reading Molly the bedtime story. Meanwhile, a spacial anomaly is growing nearby and threatens the station. Are these incidents related? (Spoiler alert: Yes.)

Does it say something weird about me that my first thought during this scene was "Is that a real tattoo?" and my second was "What woman in 1993 has a tattoo like that?"

Deep Space Nine, Season One: Progress

Deep Space Nine, Season 1
"Progress"
Airdate: May 9, 1993
14 of 173 produced
14 of 173 aired

Introduction

When Kira is tasked with relocating a colony's residents whose home will be transformed into a power station, she is forced to weigh her duty to her government against her duty to a people who have suffered similar fates at the hands of their former occupiers.

Kira flashes Mullibok a bit of her Bajoran undies. Mullibok is unimpressed.

Deep Space Nine, Season 1: The Storyteller

Deep Space Nine, Season 1
"The Storyteller"
Airdate: May 2, 1993
13 of 173 produced
13 of 173 aired

Introduction

O'Brien and Bashir are summoned by a local Bajoran leader who says his village is in grave peril. Sisko must mediate a dispute between two different local governments to prevent war from breaking out between them. Will the crew get through this episode without being bored, literally, to death?

The specter of horrible green-screen loomed over our village once more!

Deep Space Nine, Season One: Battle Lines

Deep Space Nine, Season 1
"Battle Lines"
Airdate: April 25, 1993
12 of 173 produced
12 of 173 aired

Introduction

Introduction

On a tour through the wormhole to please Kai Opaka, Sisko and crew become mired in a strange situation on a Gamma Quadrant prison moon. The Kai dies in a shuttle crash, but is resurrected by the prison planet's strange properties. Now, they are all caught in a never-ending war between the immortal prisoners of this world, and must find a way to escape before they die themselves.

Why, why, WHY can't this show be consistently good?!

Deep Space Nine, Season 1: Vortex

Deep Space Nine, Season 1
"Vortex"
Airdate: April 18, 1993
11 of 173 produced
11 of 173 aired

Introduction

After a robbery attempt goes tragically goes wrong, Odo finds himself with a visitor from the Gamma Quadrant in his holding cell. Returning him to his people becomes more complicated when he offers Odo information about his origin.

Are you the keymaster? I am the gatekeeper.

Deep Space Nine, Season One: The Nagus

Deep Space Nine, Season 1
"The Nagus"
Airdate: March 21, 1993
10 of 173 produced
10 of 173 aired


Inroduction

Quark's world is overturned when he receives a surprise visit from Grand Nagus Zek, the biggest mover and shaker in all of Ferengi society.

Oddly, Odo kissing Quark's scepter makes loads more sense than whatever the hell he did later with Kira...

Deep Space Nine, Season 1: Move Along Home

Deep Space Nine, Season 1
"Move Along Home"
Airdate: March 14, 1993
9 of 173 produced
9 of 173 aired

Introduction

The station receives its first formal visit from a species from the Gamma Quadrant. Rather than being interested in diplomacy, they head straight to Quark's to play games...you know what? I just can't. I won't dignify this episode with a summary. It implies there's a cohesive story that can be summarized, and that's simply not the case. If you want to know what happens, you'll just have to watch it like we did.

They have many uses... like gouging out your eyes and puncturing your eardrums, to prevent you from experiencing this episode.

Deep Space Nine, Season 1: The Passenger

Deep Space Nine, Season 1
"The Passenger"
Airdate: February 21, 1993
8 of 174 produced
8 of 174 aired

Introduction

A distress call from a fatally damaged ship introduces a difficult problem to the station. Rao Vantika, a mass murderer with a desire to survive that goes well beyond the norm, intends to transfer his mind into the body of someone else before he dies of his injuries. The only question is: who has been mentally hijacked, and can it be discovered before the rogue consciousness selfishly causes the deaths of untold millions?

You're saying this sort of... stiffness... is normal for corpses, Doctor?

Deep Space Nine, Season 1: Dax

Deep Space Nine, Season 1
"Dax"
Airdate: February 14, 1993
7 of 174 produced
7 of 174 aired

Introduction

A group of aliens attempt to kidnap Dax, claiming that her previous host Curzon was guilty of treason on their world. The host, Curzon, has obviously died, but the symbiont Dax lives on. There is no way to separate Jadzia from Dax now, so executing Dax as they intend to do will kill her too. Sisko, relying on the jurisdictional gray area the station sits in, stalls for time to try to help Dax, but for reasons she won't reveal even to him, she refuses to act in her own defense.

Pictured: Lt. Dax, frozen in a script-induced torpor.

Deep Space Nine, Season 1: Q-Less

Deep Space Nine, Season 1
"Q-Less"
Airdate: February 7, 1993
6 of 173 produced
6 of 173 aired

Introduction

An unexpected human visitor from the Gamma Quadrant arrives on the station - Vash. As usual, she trails trouble in her wake, not just from the artifacts she has brought with her, but from the unpredictable Q, as well.

Even his moustache is omnipotent.

Deep Space Nine, Season 1: Captive Pursuit

Deep Space Nine, Season 1
"Captive Pursuit"
Airdate: January 31, 1993
5 of 173 produced
5 of 173 aired

Introduction

The station receives its first visitor from the Gamma Quadrant, an alien that only identifies himself as "Tosk." His ship was damaged, but he won't tell them why. He won't tell them much of anything in fact. Chief O'Brien discovers Tosk's ship was damaged by weapons fire, but Tosk refuses to tell them more. Chief O'Brien has been introducing Tosk to life around the station, and has grown to like him, and wants to give him the benefit of the doubt. Matters are complicated are when aliens calling themselves Hunters follow Tosk through the wormhole. They say Tosk is hunted for sport on their world, and they will not stop at violence to get him back. The Prime Directive seems to bind Sisko's hands, but what about Chief O'Brien's?

Thanks for your offer, friend, but I'm just not into that sort of thing.

Deep Space Nine, Season One: Babel

Deep Space Nine, Season 1
"Babel"
Airdate: January 24, 1993
4 of 173 produced
4 of 173 aired


Introduction

After a long week of repairs on the station, Chief O'Brien inadvertently trips a long forgotten sabotage device which releases a deadly virus on the station. Now, he and his crew mates must race to cure it before they become completely incoherent, and then die.

You want me to put this WHERE?

Deep Space Nine, Season 1: A Man Alone

Deep Space Nine, Season 1
"A Man Alone"
Airdate: January 17, 1993
2 of 173 produced
3 of 173 aired

Introduction

Odo spots a criminal he arrested during the Occupation back on the station. He attempts to remove him, but without evidence of some new crime, Sisko will not allow it. That man is found dead in a holosuite shortly thereafter. The computer records that no one else entered or exited the room, leaving the only suspect the one person on the station who could get in and out undetected: Odo himself.

Looks like Miles lost the "compromise."

Deep Space Nine, Season 1: Past Prologue

Deep Space Nine, Season 1
"Past Prologue"
Airdate: January 10, 1993
3 of 173 produced
2 of 173 aired

Introduction

Major Kira is visited by Tahna Los, a man from her past in the Bajoran resistance. He plays upon her trust in him to arrange a deadly plot to destroy the wormhole that has opened up so many opportunities for Bajor. Now, her loyalties are tested as she must decide between her own past and the future of all Bajorans.

Pop. Six. Squish. Uh-Uh. Cicero. LIPSCHITZ!

Deep Space Nine, Season 1: Emissary

Deep Space Nine, Season 1
"Emissary"
Airdate: January 3, 1993
1 of 173 produced
1 of 173 aired

Introduction

The Cardassians have at long last withdrawn from Bajor. The newly formed provisional government has asked for Starfleet's assistance in rebuilding their ravaged world. The Cardassian mining station in orbit has been rechristened Deep Space Nine and command has been given to Command Benjamin Sisko.  Tasked with helping Bajor rebuild, ideally one day joining the Federation, he must also contend with the Cardassians who may view their own withdrawal as temporary, raising a son in his own after his wife was killed in the Battle of Wolf 359, and a volatile, divided society trying to fill the power vaccuum left by the Cardassians. Can he? What will the consequences for Bajor and the Federation be if he cannot?

Holy overexposure, Batman! This must really be annoying the home audience!