Deep Space Nine, Season 4: Paradise Lost

Deep Space Nine, Season 4
"Paradise Lost"
Airdate: January 8, 1996
82 of 173 produced
82 of 173 aired

Introduction

In the face of the planetwide power outage, the Federation President has all but declared martial law on Earth. As Sisko investigates the problem, things don't add up quite the way they should. Eventually, he discovers that Admiral Leyton was behind the sabotage, in an attempt to justify a coup by Starfleet.

Thank you, sir! May I have another?

Deep Space Nine, Season 4: Homefront

Deep Space Nine, Season 4
"Homefront"
Airdate: January 1, 1996
81 of 173 produced
81 of 173 aired

Introduction

Sisko is called back to Earth after a terrorist attack on a diplomatic meeting indicates the presence of violent changelings. While there he must balance the preservation of the idyllic way of life that humans have achieved with the sacrifices demanded by heightened security.

Welcome to Earth! Where material want and menial toil have been eliminated from the human experience. Well, except for Jose, your busboy.

Deep Space Nine, Season 4: Our Man Bashir

Deep Space Nine, Season 4
"Our Man Bashir"
Airdate: November 27, 1995
80 of 173 produced
80 of 173 aired

Introduction

Sisko, Dax, Worf, and O'Brien are almost killed when their runabout is sabotaged. Beaming them out at the last second, but unable to rematerialize them, their patterns are stored in the station computer, with unexpected consequences. The computer recasts characters in Dr. Bashir's spy fantasy holoprogram with the patterns of the crew. Now, Dr. Bashir, with the help of Garak, must not only survive the dangerous life of a spy, he can't resort to simply killing his opponents, since doing so will cost him his friends and crewmates.

Say, are those bite marks I see on Madagascar?

Deep Space Nine, Season 4: The Sword of Kahless

Deep Space Nine, Season 4
"The Sword of Kahless"
Airdate: November 20, 1995
79 of 173 produced
79 of 173 aired

Introduction

Worf is introduced to the Klingon Dahar Master Kor on the eve of his greatest quest - to find the mythical sword of Kahless, the founder of the Klingon Empire. Worf gets more than he bargained for, though, when possession of the sword causes division between him and his erstwhile hero.

It was a perfect day... when I found a sword with you...

Deep Space Nine, Season 4: Little Green Men

Deep Space Nine, Season 4
"Little Green Men"
Airdate: November 15, 1995
78 of 173 produced
78 of 173 aired

Introduction

Quark has finally gotten the ship his cousin Gaila owed him and has decided its maiden voyage should be taking Nog to Starfleet Academy. What could possibly go wrong? (Spoiler alert: Lots.)

On closer inspection, these ears are clearly FAKE!

Deep Space Nine, Season 4: Starship Down

Deep Space Nine, Season 4
"Starship Down"
Airdate: November 13, 1995
77 of 173 produced
77 of 173 aired

Introduction

While on a mission to mediate a trade agreement with a species in the Gamma Quadrant, the Defiant is drawn into a conflict with the Jem'Hadar. This conflicts sees them stranded deep in the dense and poisonous atmosphere of a gas giant planet. 

Well... at least they found a way to cover that awful hairdo...

Deep Space Nine, Season 4: Rejoined

Deep Space Nine, Season 4
"Rejoined"
Airdate: October 30, 1995
76 of 173 produced
76 of 173 aired

Introduction

Lenara Kahn, a Trill scientist is coming to the station to work on her attempt to create an artificial wormhole. Normally, as science officer, Dax would be nothing less than eager to help. However, a previous host of hers, Torias, was married to a previous host of the Kahn symbiont, a marriage that ended all to quickly when Torias was killed in a shuttle accident. Even though they both might be willing to pick up where they left off, Trill society frowns on such relationships, under threat of expulsion from Trill society. How can Jadzia risk everything she has worked for? How can she not?

Kiss! Kiss! Ki-- oh, never mind, They just did.

Deep Space Nine, Season 4: Indiscretion

Deep Space Nine, Season 4
"Indiscretion"
October 23, 1995
75 of 173 produced
75 of 173 aired

Introduction

Kira feels compelled to search for a long missing Cardassian prison ship when she learns that some of its wreckage has been located. She hoped to be reunited friend from her days as a resistance fighter. Gul Dukat conspires to be included in the search, but for mysterious reasons of his own.

 Who am I? Someone who loves you. Kiss me, Han.

Deep Space Nine, Season 4: Hippocratic Oath

Deep Space Nine, Season 4
"Hippocratic Oath"
October 16, 1995
73 of 173 produced
74 of 173 aired

Introduction

Bashir and O'Brien crash land on a planet in the Gamma Quadrant where they find a group of Jem'Hadar trying to break their addiction to ketracel white. Meanwhile on the station, Worf finds adjusting to life on DS9 more difficult than he planned.

How many more of these little pleasure cruises are they going to send us on? (PS: Split Diopter!)

Deep Space Nine, Season 4: The Visitor

Deep Space Nine, Season 4
"The Visitor"
Airdate: October 9, 1995
74 of 176 produced
73 of 176 aired

Introduction

After an accident causes Captain Sisko to disappear, Jake is left behind to grapple with the emotional aftermath. Matters are complicated by the Captain's increasingly sporadic reappearances, the last of which occurs when Jake is an old man near death.

Look, dad, I finally stopped wearing such awful clothes!