| Episode
Number
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Title |
UK Tape
Number
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Rating
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Description |
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20
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The Homecoming |
11
|
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With Bajoran rebel group "The Circle" on the move, the Provisional
Government is looking shaky. Major Kira uncovers evidence that Bajoran
hero Li Nalas may still be alive and she determines to break him out of
a Cardassian prison camp, believeing that he may be able to bring peace.
|
Writer(s) :
|
Jeri Taylor
Ira Stephen Behr |
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Director :
|
Winrich Kolbe |
|
|
21
|
The Circle |
11
|
|
Kira is replaced as first officer of DS9 by the hero she rescued, and
returns to Bajor with Vedek Bariel. The Circle forcess the government into
retreat, and soon a group of Circle assault ships is on the way to take
possesion of the station. Sisko, violating orders and the Prime Directive
itself, decides to stay and fight it out.
|
Writer(s) :
|
Peter Allan Fields |
|
Director :
|
Corey Allen |
|
|
22
|
The Siege |
12
|
|
While Sisko and his officers use guerrila tactics against the Circle
on DS9, Kira and Dax must rush to the Chamber of Ministers with evidence
that the Circle is a front for the Cardassians. But powerful forces are
determined to stop them at any cost.
|
Writer(s) :
|
Michael Piller |
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Director :
|
Winrich Kolbe |
|
|
23
|
Invasive Procedures |
12
|
|
With the station all but evacuated because of a plasma storm, a group
of mercenaries mount a raid intended to rob Jadzia of her most prized posession
- the Dax Symbiont itself.
|
Writer(s) :
|
John Whelpley |
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Director :
|
Les Landau |
|
|
24
|
Cardassians |
13
|
|
A Cardassian child who has been raised on Bajor must learn to accept
his heritage.
|
Writer(s) :
|
Gene Wolande
John Wright |
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Director :
|
Cliff Bole |
|
|
25
|
Melora |
13
|
|
Julian falls in love with a woman from a low-gravity planet.
|
Writer(s) :
|
Evan Carlos Somers |
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Director :
|
Winrich Kolbe |
|
|
26
|
Rules of Acquisition |
14
|
|
Quark is ordered to buy a huge shipment of Tulaberry wine from the
Gamma Quadrant - a mission complicated by his assistant, who is not what
he seems. This episode has the first mention of the Dominion.
|
Writer(s) :
|
Hillary Bader |
|
Director :
|
David Livingston |
|
|
27
|
Necessary Evil |
14
|
|
When somebody attempts to murder Quark for a list of names he has stolen,
Odo must once again look into the first murder he ever investigated - one
of the few he never solved. A case in which a prime suspect was none other
than Kira Nerys.
|
Writer(s) :
|
Peter Allan Fields |
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Director :
|
James L. Conway |
|
|
28
|
Second Sight |
15
|
|
On the anniversary of his wifes death, Sisko falls for a mysterious
woman. Meanwhile, an eccentric genius attempts to re-ignite a dead star.
|
Writer(s) :
|
Mark Gehred-O'Connel |
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Director :
|
Alexander Singer |
|
|
29
|
Sanctuary |
15
|
|
When a small ship arrives on DS9, the captain announces that her people
are refugees seeking "Kentanna" - a paradise they believe they will finally
settle on. But she decides that Kentanna is none other than Bajor, and
behind her are more refugees - three million of them...
|
Writer(s) :
|
Gabe Essoe
Kelley Miles |
|
Director :
|
Les landau |
|
|
30
|
Rivals |
16
|
|
An El-Aurian named Martus causes trouble when he sets up a gambling
den on DS9.
|
Writer(s) :
|
Jim Trombetta
Michael Pillar |
|
Director :
|
David Livingston |
|
|
31
|
The Alternate |
16
|
|
The DS9 crew return from the Gamma Quadrant with a mysterious artefact
from a planet that may once have been the home of a shapeshifting species.
Almost at once, strange things start happening on board the station - and
it looks like a shapeshifter is to blame.
|
Writer(s) :
|
Jim Trobbetta
Bill Dial |
|
Director :
|
David Carson |
|
|
32
|
Armageddon Game |
17
|
|
O'Brien and Bashir help the T'Lani and Kellerun species to destroy
the deadly "Harvesters", biological weapons of terrible power. But the
former enemies are determined to destroy all knowledge of the weapons by
killing everybody who could build them - including the Starfleet officers.
|
Writer(s) :
|
Morgan Gendel |
|
Director :
|
Winrich Kolbe |
|
|
33
|
Whispers |
17
|
|
Returning from a meeting with the Paradan government, Miles finds that
everybody on the station is acting strangely toward him. Fearing a terrible
conspiracy may have gripped the whole of Starfleet, he runs for his life
with his former friends in close persuit. A great episode with an outstanding
twist in the tail.
|
Writer(s) :
|
Paul Robert Coyle |
|
Director :
|
Les Landau |
|
|
34
|
Paradise |
19
|
|
Sisko and O'Brien are stranded on a planet where no Federation technology
will work. Discovering a goup of Humans stranded there ten years before,
they pitch in to help - but a battle of wills develops between Sisko and
the fanatical colony leader, Alixus.
|
Writer(s) :
|
Jim Trombetta
James Crocker |
|
Director :
|
Corey Allen |
|
|
35
|
Shadowplay |
19
|
|
Dax and Odo discover a village where people have been mysteriously
vanishing for several months. The cause turns out to be stranger than anybody
could have expected...
|
Writer(s) :
|
Robert Hewitt Wolfe |
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Director :
|
Robert Scheerer |
|
|
36
|
Playing God |
20
|
|
Dax must act as field docent to a Trill initiate, bringing back painful
memories of her own time under Curzon. meanwhile, Sisko must decide the
fate of an entire universe.
|
Writer(s) :
|
Jim Trombetta |
|
Director :
|
David Livingston |
|
|
37
|
Profit and Loss |
20
|
|
When some Cardassians are stranded on the station, one of them turns
out to be an old girlfriend of Quark.
|
Writer(s) :
|
Flip Kobler
Cindy Marcus |
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Director :
|
Robert Wiemer |
|
|
38
|
Blood Oath |
21
|
|
Dax must decide whether to honour a blood oath made by Curzon when
three Klingon warriors arrive on the station hunting an old enemy.
|
Writer(s) :
|
Peter Allan Fields |
|
Director :
|
Winrich Kolbe |
|
|
39
|
The Maquis,
Part 1 |
21
|
|
Sisko must deal with a Maquis group which is threatening the treaty
between the Federation and Cardassians.
|
Writer(s) :
|
Rick Berman
Michael Piller
Jeri Taylor
James Crocker |
|
Director :
|
David Livingston |
|
|
40
|
The Maquis,
Part 2 |
22
|
|
An old friend of Siskos betrays him in favour of the Maquis.
|
Writer(s) :
|
Rick Berman
Michael Piller
Jeri Taylor
Ira Stephen Behr |
|
Director :
|
Corey Allen |
|
|
41
|
The Wire |
22
|
|
Garak suffers massive withdrawal symptoms when a Cardassian implant
he has been using to ease his time on DS9 breaks down.
|
Writer(s) :
|
Robert Hewitt Wolfe |
|
Director :
|
Kim Friedman |
|
|
42
|
Crossover |
23
|
|
Kira and Bashir are thrown into the alternate universe visited by Captain
Kirk. Althought the Mirror Kira looks great and hams it up wonderfully,
this is a sad waste of the Mirror universe concept so well used by TOS.
|
Writer(s) :
|
Peter Allan Fields |
|
Director :
|
David Livingston |
|
|
43
|
The Collaborator |
23
|
|
With elections for the new Kai approaching, Vedek Winn asks Kira to
investigate rumours of a prominent Bajoran who turned traitor during the
war. Kira is shocked to find that it is her boyfriend Vedek Bariel.
|
Writer(s) :
|
Gary Holland |
|
Director :
|
Cliff Bole |
|
|
44
|
Tribuneral |
24
|
|
When Miles O'Brien is kidnapped and put on trial by the Cardassians,
he must face a justice system in which both guilt and sentance are determined
before the trial begins.
|
Writer(s) :
|
Bill Dial |
|
Director :
|
Avery Brooks |
|
|
45
|
The Jem'Hadar |
24
|
|
On a routine trip into the Gamma Quadrant, Sisko and Quark are imprisoned
by the Jem'Hadar, genetically engineered soldiers of the Dominion. Starfleet
rides to the rescue - but in a pitched battle, the Jem'Hadar prove to have
a considerable lead in both technology and determination.
|
Writer(s) :
|
Ira Stephern Behr |
|
Director :
|
Kim Friedman |
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