Episode 1: Apocalypse Rising
1996-09-3045 min
Stardate: Unknown. With the war between Klingons and Federation intensifying, Sisko must make a plan to expose Gowron as a changeling. Odo is still having trouble with becoming a solid.
Season guide
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 5 — Episodes and Where to Watch
26 episodes · first aired 1996-09-30
Season 5 of Deep Space Nine begins the Dominion War arc that will dominate the rest of the show. The Federation and its allies face a new enemy in the form of the Cardassian-Dominion alliance, which threatens to conquer the Alpha Quadrant.
Episode guide
Episode 2: The Ship
1996-10-0745 min
Stardate: 50049.3. The crew find a crashed Jem’Hadar ship and work to repair it and capture it for the Federation, but are confronted by a Dominion force determined to recover the ship’s cargo.
Episode 3: Looking for par'Mach in All the Wrong Places
1996-10-1445 min
Stardate: Unknown. While Worf helps Quark to pursue his former wife Grilka, O'Brien and Kira grow uncomfortably close to each other.
Episode 4: Nor the Battle to the Strong
1996-10-2145 min
Stardate: Unknown. Jake, reporting from the front lines, sees what war truly is.
Episode 5: The Assignment
1996-10-2845 min
Stardate: Unknown. An alien entity has possessed Keiko's body and is holding it hostage until O'Brien completes an assignment for it.
Episode 6: Trials and Tribble-ations
1996-11-0445 min
Stardate: 4523.7. In this celebration of the 30th anniversary of The Original Series, the disgraced Klingon spy Darvin travels back in time to undo his century-old defeat by James Kirk. The DS9 crew must track him down and stop him, while blending in with the crew of the original Enterprise NCC-1701.
Episode 7: Let He Who Is Without Sin...
1996-11-1145 min
Stardate: Unknown. While vacationing on Risa, Worf and Dax meet a group of fundamentalist protesters who claim that the Federation has gone soft.
Episode 8: Things Past
1996-11-1845 min
Stardate: Unknown. Sisko, Dax, Odo and Garak find themselves in the past when the Cardassians controlled the station, and a crime that Odo investigated may be the key.
Episode 9: The Ascent
1996-11-2545 min
Stardate: Unknown. When Odo and Quark crash land, they must put aside their differences to climb a mountain to signal for help. Jake and Nog try to be roommates, but their different styles clash.
Episode 10: Rapture
1996-12-3045 min
Stardate: Unknown. After a brain injury, Sisko begins experiencing powerful visions through time. He dives fully into the role of the Emissary, while becoming obsessed with finding a legendary Bajoran ruin.
Episode 11: The Darkness and the Light
1997-01-0645 min
Stardate: 50416.2. A mysterious assassin begins wiping out all the members of Kira's old resistance cell.
Episode 12: The Begotten
1997-01-2745 min
Stardate: Unknown. The discovery of an infant Changeling gives Odo a chance to put right the trauma of his own upbringing, while his “father” Dr. Mora insists on a more clinical approach.
Episode 13: For the Uniform
1997-02-0345 min
Stardate: 50485.2. When the traitorous Eddington returns, Sisko will go to any lengths to capture him.
Episode 14: In Purgatory's Shadow (1)
1997-02-1045 min
Stardate: Unknown. A coded message from the Gamma Quadrant leads Garak to believe his mentor, Enabran Tain, is still alive. He and Worf seek him out, only to discover something much worse: a Dominion invasion fleet poised to attack the Alpha Quadrant.
Episode 15: By Inferno's Light (2)
1997-02-1745 min
Stardate: 50564.2. The station readies for a Dominion attack. Worf and Garak meet some unexpected friends in a Dominion Prison camp.
Episode 16: Doctor Bashir, I Presume?
1997-02-2445 min
Stardate: Unknown. Dr. Bashir is selected to be the model for the next-generation of Emergency Medical Hologram (EMH). But he balks when his parents are invited to the station to be interviewed by the EMH programmer, Dr. Zimmerman. There is a dark secret in his family that he's afraid that his parents will reveal.
Episode 17: A Simple Investigation
1997-03-3145 min
Odo helps a woman hiding on the station from organized criminals, but quickly develops a personal interest in the case.
Episode 18: Business As Usual
1997-04-0745 min
Stardate: Unknown. Quark must wrestle with his conscience when he becomes involved with arms merchants.
Episode 19: Ties of Blood and Water
1997-04-1445 min
Stardate: 50712.2. When a Cardassian official that thinks of Kira as his daughter is dying, he agrees to reveal all he knows to her. But the experience dredges up Kira's memories of her own father's death.
Episode 20: Ferengi Love Songs
1997-04-2145 min
Stardate: Unknown. Quark doesn't know whether to be panicked or overjoyed when he learns that his mother is the new lover of the Grand Nagus.
Episode 21: Soldiers of the Empire
1997-04-2845 min
Stardate: Unknown. Dax and Worf accompany Martok on his first command since being held by the Dominion. But the ship they are given hasn't seen victory in months and the crew is near mutinous.
Episode 22: Children of Time
1997-05-0545 min
Stardate: 50814.2. The DS9 crew discovers a colony that, due to a time travel accident, turns out to be inhabited by the crew's own descendants.
Episode 23: Blaze of Glory
1997-05-1245 min
Stardate: Unknown. Sisko learns that the Maquis are planning a devastating attack on Cardassia, and must rely on the traitor Eddington to help him prevent it.
Episode 24: Empok Nor
1997-05-1945 min
Stardate: Unknown. While salvaging components from DS9's sister station, the crew run afoul of a "surprise" left behind by the Cardassians.
Episode 25: In the Cards
1997-06-0945 min
Stardate: 50929.4. Jake has his heart set on a vintage Willie Mays baseball card as a present to cheer up his father, whose spirits are flagging from the ongoing conflict.
Episode 26: Call to Arms
1997-06-1645 min
Stardate: 50975.2. Sisko decides to mine the wormhole to prevent further Dominion ships crossing into the Alpha Quadrant. This provokes an attack by the Dominion and the Cardassians, and a desperate last stand on Deep Space Nine.
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