Episode 1: The Way of the Warrior
1995-10-0290 min
Stardate: 49011.4. When the Klingons bring a task force to DS9, Captain Sisko sends for Starfleet's lone Klingon officer, Worf, to uncover the mysterious intentions of their presence.
Season guide
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 4 — Episodes and Where to Watch
25 episodes · first aired 1995-10-02
Season 4 of Deep Space Nine marks a major shift for the series, as it introduces a new conflict between the Federation and the Klingon Empire, sparked by the latter's distrust of the shape-shifting Founders. Worf, the former security chief of the USS Enterprise-D, joins the station's crew as Sisko's strategic operations officer, and faces challenges in his loyalty, honor, and family.
Episode guide
Episode 2: The Visitor
1995-10-0945 min
Stardate: Unknown. Melanie, an aspiring writer, wants to know why Jake Sisko stopped writing at 40. Jake tells how his father died in an accident and then suddenly reappeared.
Episode 3: Hippocratic Oath
1995-10-1645 min
Stardate: 49066.5. Bashir is asked to help a group of renegade Jem'Hadar break their addiction to ketracel white. Meanwhile Worf is dissatisfied with the way Odo runs security.
Episode 4: Indiscretion
1995-10-2345 min
Stardate: Unknown. Kira and Gul Dukat go after the lost prison ship Ravinok. Dukat has a secret. Meanwhile Kasidy Yates tries to find work near Bajor, leaving Sisko uncomfortable.
Episode 5: Rejoined
1995-10-3045 min
Stardate: 49195.5. Lenara Kahn, the new host of the wife of Dax's former host Torias, comes to the station. While they're not allowed to renew their relation, there's still a spark.
Episode 6: Little Green Men
1995-11-0645 min
Stardate: Unknown. Quark and Rom take Nog to Earth and Starfleet Academy, but a malfunction with the ship takes the crew back in time, to Roswell New Mexico in 1947.
Episode 7: Starship Down
1995-11-1345 min
Stardate: 49263.5. A damaged Defiant must play a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse with two Jem'hadar ships inside a gas giant.
Episode 8: The Sword of Kahless
1995-11-2045 min
Stardate: Unknown. Worf, Dax and the Klingon Dahar master Kor set out to find an ancient lost relic: the Sword of Kahless.
Episode 9: Our Man Bashir
1995-11-2745 min
Stardate: Unknown. When an transporter emergency turns the command crew into holosuite characters, Bashir's James Bond fantasy takes on a deadly reality.
Episode 10: Homefront (1)
1996-01-0145 min
Stardate: 49170.65. Sisko travels to Earth when a bombing at a Federation conference is determined to be the work of Changelings.
Episode 11: Paradise Lost (2)
1996-01-0845 min
Stardate: Unknown. When Starfleet institutes martial law to combat the Changeling Menace, Sisko begins to question if the Dominion is the real threat.
Episode 12: Crossfire
1996-01-2945 min
Stardate: Unknown. First Minister Shakaar visits the station, despite a threat of assassination. He falls in love with Kira much to Odo's dismay.
Episode 13: Return to Grace
1996-02-0545 min
Stardate: Unknown. Dukat returns, stripped of his prestige, to escort Kira to a Cardassian conference about the Dominion. But an attack by a Klingon raider may give Dukat a chance to redeem himself in the eyes of his government.
Episode 14: Sons of Mogh
1996-02-1245 min
Stardate: 49556.2. Worf's brother Kurn asks him to perform a death rite to regain his lost honor. Meanwhile Kira and O'Brien investigate Klingon activity near the Bajoran border.
Episode 15: Bar Association
1996-02-1945 min
Stardate: Unknown. Unfair working conditions and pay cuts cause Rom to organize a union of the employees of Quark's Bar. Meanwhile Worf still finds it hard to settle on the station.
Episode 16: Accession
1996-02-2645 min
Stardate: Unknown. A man claiming to be the emissary comes through the wormhole. Sisko is happy to give up his position. Meanwhile Keiko returns and O'Brien stops spending time with Bashir.
Episode 17: Rules of Engagement
1996-04-0845 min
Stardate: 49665.3. When Worf destroys a civilian shuttle during an engagement with the Klingons, an extradition hearing is held to see if he must face charges.
Episode 18: Hard Time
1996-04-1545 min
Stardate: Unknown. O'Brien tries to re-integrate to life on the station after serving 20 years in a virtual prison.
Episode 19: Shattered Mirror
1996-04-2245 min
Stardate: Unknown. When the Mirror Universe counterpart of Sisko's deceased wife lures Jake to the other side, Sisko must follow and help the human resistance against the Alliance's forces.
Episode 20: The Muse
1996-04-2945 min
Stardate: Unknown. A mysterious woman approaches Jake about his future as a writer. Odo promises to do whatever it takes to help Lwaxana Troi keep her baby over the father's wishes - even if it means marrying her himself.
Episode 21: For the Cause
1996-05-0645 min
Stardate: Unknown. Sisko must face betrayal when evidence surfaces that Kasidy is smuggling for the Maquis. Meanwhile Garak makes acquaintance with Ziyal.
Episode 22: To the Death
1996-05-1345 min
Stardate: 49904.2. A renegade group of Jem'Hadar plunders Deep Space Nine. Sisko agrees to a combat operation with loyal Jem'Hadar to prevent the renegades completing a planetary gateway.
Episode 23: The Quickening
1996-05-2045 min
Stardate: Unknown. Bashir tries to help a planet in the grips of a Dominion-engineered plague that guarantees a painful death.
Episode 24: Body Parts
1996-06-1045 min
Stardate: Unknown. Quarks hears on Ferenginar he is going to die. Rom convinces him to sell his remains. After an accident, Bashir has to move Keiko's baby to Kira's womb.
Episode 25: Broken Link
1996-06-1745 min
Stardate: 49962.4. Odo is suddenly struck by illness. He is barely able to hold shape. Bashir and Odo see no other alternative then going to the Founders. Garak wants to come along.
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