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Mind_Storm · 09-29-2003, 06:32 PM

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Deep Space Nine: Season 5
Posted on Sunday, September 21 2003 @ 22:14:03 BST by Chris Marin
Paramount have announced that they will be releasing their seven-disc Deep Space Nine Season 5 set on October 27th.

Extra features will include Trials and Tribble-ations: Uniting Two Legends, Trials and Tribble-ations: A Historic Endeavour, Miles O'Brien Crew Dossier, Inside DS9, Michael Westmore’s Aliens: Season Five, The Ferengi Culture and a DS9 Sketchbook. Also included is a DS9 space station CD-ROM.

The RRP is £84.99. We can expect to see Season 6 available on December 1st, and Season 7 on December 22nd.

NOW FOR THE FIRST TIME ON DVD

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine –

Season 5 Box Set Available on 27th October

October 27th sees the release of Star Trek Deep Space Nine Season 5 on DVD. Join Captain Benjamin Sisko and his crew return as they travel through time and space, beyond the realm of DS9.

The seven disc, collector’s edition box set contains all twenty six episodes, digitally re-mastered with 5.1 Dolby surround sound. Season 5 contains 10 hidden ‘Easter Eggs’ and more than an hour of special features and never before seen material including a look ‘inside DS9 with Mike Okuda’, a close up of ‘Miles O’Brien’ and ‘Trials and Tribble-ations: Uniting Two Legends’.

Season 5 sees Deep Space Nine makes space history in 'Trials and Tribble-ations' - an episode produced to commemorate the thirtieth anniversary of Star Trek. It features state-of-the-art Forrest Gump style technology which allowed the Deep Space Nine characters to merge with Kirk and his crew in the classic 'Troubles With Tribbles' from the Original Series.

In ‘Business As Usual’, Quark enters the lucrative field of arms dealing. When he realises that he’s on the brink of a sale that endangers 28,000,000 lives, Quark must find a way to stop the transaction even though doing so will put his own life at risk.

War is imminent in ‘Call to Arms’ - Sisko must defend the station against the fierce Dominion Armada whilst he awaits backup from Federation forces. Outgunned, Sisko receives the order to abandon Deep Space 9. As the series draws to a close, Sisko leaves an unmistakeable indicator that he’ll be back.

Extras on the DVD include over one hour of never before seen special features such as the featurettes ‘Trials and Tribble-ations: Uniting Two Legends’ and ‘Trials and Tribble-ations: A Historic Endeavour’; a close look at the character Miles O’Brian in ‘Crew Dossier’’ and we take a look at the design of the ship with scenic artist, Mike Okuda, in ‘Inside DS9’. The top make-up artist for the series talks the audience through the difficult make-up processes involved in ‘Michael Westmore’s Aliens: Season Five’; ‘The Ferengi Culture’ examines the history and processes inherent within Ferengi whilst veteran of the art department, John Eaves, shows us his ‘DS9 Sketchbook’.

This celebrated DVD box set is placed in unique collector’s edition packaging and contains the latest instalment of the interactive DS9 space station CD-ROM, allowing fans to develop their DS9 knowledge and move up the virtual ranks to become a fully fledged Federation Captain. Fans will be able to continue collecting towards limited edition DS9 merchandise.

Star Trek Deep Space Nine is released by Paramount Home Entertainment on DVD (RRP £84.99) on 27th October 2003 (certificate 12 TBC)

Disc One

APOCALYPSE RISING

Odo (Rene Auberjonois) has returned from his homeworld as a new being. Found guilty of murder, Odo has been stripped of his powers and is now a humanoid. More startling news arrives when Odo announces he believes that Klingon leader Gowron (Robert O'Reilly) is really a Changeling. Starfleet dispatches an infiltration team including Sisko (Avery Brooks) and Odo. Armed with polaron emitters to discharge radiation believed to have a destabilizing effect on Changelings, the team penetrates Klingon military headquarters. But after the emitters have been activated, Gowron appears unaffected, and the team is captured. Odo is still certain there is a Changeling in the Klingon ranks, but who is the impostor?

THE SHIP

Conducting a mineral survey on Torga IV, an away team is surprised when a Jem' Hadar warship crashes to the planet's surface. At the crash site, the team discovers that the entire crew is dead. Believing the ship may contain vital intelligence data, Sisko (Avery Brooks) prepares to beam the ship off the planet...and is attacked by the Jem' Hadar. The Jem' Hadar's Vorta leader, Kilana (Kaitlin Hopkins), contacts Sisko and demands the return of the ship. Sisko suspects there is something within the ship that is of vital importance to the Jem' Hadar. But what could it be - and is Sisko willing to risk the lives of the team to find it?

LOOKING FOR PAR'MACH IN ALL THE WRONG PLACES

Does Worf (Michael Dorn) have any chance of winning the love of a Klingon woman who's recently arrived at the station? Not in this space quadrant. And not in this lifetime. So the smitten Lt. Commander, eager to prove his human upbringing is no drawback to his wooing of Klingon females, does the next best thing. He secretly coaches the equally smitten Quark (Armin Shimerman) in how to court the visitor. But, the romance that seems so very right to Quark may soon turn very wrong. The woman's bodyguard challenges him to a Klingon death match - and the overmatched Ferengi is honor bound to accept the duel.

NOR THE BATTLE TO THE STRONG

Jake Sisko (Cirroc Lofton) is a fledgling writer with pages to fill...and a youth whose life is a page on which to be written. Like many young people, he's wondered what it's like to be in the thick of battle. Now he knows. When he and Dr. Bashir (Alexander Siddig) respond to an emergency call from a Federation colony under attack by Klingons, Jake expects to enter a realm of glorious adventure. Instead, he gets a first-hand look at the carnage and terror of combat. What's more, impressionable Jake experiences one of the true natures of heroism when, driven more by stark fear than bravery, he becomes a hero in spite of himself.

Disc Two

TRIALS AND TRIBBLE-ATIONS

No, your eyes aren't playing tricks on you. That really is the U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701 of Captain James T. Kirk and crew. But what are Captain Benjamin Sisko (Avery Brooks) and several of his crew doing on it? A Klingon plot to reach into the past and murder Kirk sends the DS9 team scrambling to stop it in this episode that weaves characters and footage from the original Star Trek. series into the storyline. Stopping the assassination isn't the only problem facing Sisko and his crew. In fact, they're facing 1,771,561 problems. They've beamed aboard the U.S.S. Enterprise when it's awash in those pesky, nettlesome, ever-multiplying critters, called Tribbles.

THE ASSIGNMENT

She looks like Keiko (Rosalind Chao). Sounds like Keiko. Yet there's something very different about the wife of Operations Chief O'Brien (Colm Meaney). A mysterious entity has taken control of her consciousness. The entity insists that O'Brien must secretly alter the station's com links and sensors...or it will kill Keiko. The loyalties and skill of DS9's lead engineer are pushed to the breaking point as he confronts a dilemma that puts his wife's life in conflict with the safety of the crew. O'Brien knows that he alone must shoulder the life-and-death burden. Nothing can be left to chance. Yet a chance comment by a co-worker provides a spark of an idea that just might resolve his plight.

LET HE WHO IS WITHOUT SIN...

For life, liberty, and the happiness of pursuit, there's no better destination than Risa the "Pleasure Planet". Here, old loves can be renewed, new loves found, and flings flung. But libertine ways may be too much for rule-bound Worf (Michael Dorn), who's come to the planet with Jadzia Dax (Terry Farrell) for what's supposed to be a romantic getaway. The Worf-Dax romance is tested when the Klingon grows uneasy over a past relationship between Risa's social director (Vanessa Williams) and Curzon Dax (one of Jadzia's previous host bodies). Unless Worf rediscovers the tolerance and trust that are among DS9's core values - Risa will be destroyed by his jealousy.

THINGS PAST

One moment Sisko (Avery Brooks) and a handful of DS9 command are on a runabout preparing for a spaceport docking, the next moment they're on Terek Nor (the station's previous name) some seven years earlier. While they don't know how they got there, they do know they have to leave - fast: They've been accused of murder and the execution hour is drawing near. The situation may be baffling to Sisko and the others, but not to Odo (Rene Auberjonois), who knows more than he's willing to admit. His secret past has come back to imperil those closest to him. Only by revealing and coming to terms with that past can Odo save his crewmates.

Disc Three

THE ASCENT

If Odo (Rene Auberjonois) and Quark (Armin Shimerman) never saw each other again it would be too soon. But their worst nightmare becomes reality when their runabout crash-lands on a harsh Class-L planet. Stranded without rations or normal com links and with only one set of cold-weather gear to share, the two set out - squabbling every step of the way - on a last-gasp quest to save their lives. If they can somehow haul the runabout's bulky subspace transmitter to the peak of a towering mountain, perhaps they'll be able to send a distress call to DS9 - if they don't kill each other first. Survival in space is never easy...and as long as Odo and Quark cling to their mutual hatred, it can only get tougher.

RAPTURE

An accident transforms Capt. Benjamin Sisko (Avery Brooks) into a true visionary leader. A post-neural shock has touched the captain in an unexpected way, leading him to dream the dreams of prophecy. Sisko now knows the location of the ancient lost city of B'hala. He can reveal mysteries of the Bajoran past and foretell that culture's future, too. The prophecies are a gift, as well as a curse. The intense revelations will certainly destroy Sisko's steadily weakening nervous system if they persist, yet the captain insists they must be allowed to continue. He knows he must discover the meaning of one especially problematic vision - a revelation that, if properly understood, may have immediate repercussions for both the Federation and Bajor.

THE DARKNESS AND THE LIGHT

Serving as a command officer on DS9 is demanding work. Serving as an officer while in the final weeks of pregnancy is even harder. Now former resistance fighter Major Kira (Nana Visitor), in the final weeks of carrying a child for the O'Briens, must face an even tougher task. She becomes the primary target of an anonymous angel of death, who seeks vengeance against her and her former partners in the Shakaar resistance cell. After Odo (Rene Auberjonois) comes up with a list of suspects, headstrong Kira sets out to settle the matter her way. She steals the list, commandeers a runabout and embarks on a mission to defend her life...and the life of the unborn child she carries.

THE BEGOTTEN

It is time. Kira (Nana Visitor), who took on the responsibility of carrying the O'Briens' unborn child when Keiko O'Brien (Rosalind Chao) could no longer safely bring the infant to term, goes into labor. Everyone on DS9 has long anticipated the event. But no one could have imagined an overlapping event that occurs on the station: Changeling-turned-humanoid Odo (Rene Auberjonois) becomes the parent of a shapeless, infant Changeling. As new life comes to the station, so, too, do new joys, new responsibilities, new ways of looking at existence. Odo's joy, however, is short-lived. But what he learns from his brief parenting experience will stay with him an entire lifetime.

Disc Four

FOR THE UNIFORM

Time and again, Sisko (Avery Brooks) has been outmaneuvered and outwitted by his former officer, Michael Eddington (Kenneth Marshall). But Sisko won't be outfought. He's determined to capture the turncoat security chief who's become a Maquis leader. Through the DMZ and Badlands, the chase is on - a pursuit that reaches critical mass when Eddington uses biogenic weapons against Cardassian settlements. The rebel leader never imagines that Sisko would reply in kind. He thinks the captain is bluffing when he orders the retaliatory use of trilithim resin to poison the atmosphere of a Maquis colony. But Sisko isn't bluffing. Extreme villainy is a game two can play. And, with luck, a game one can win.

IN PURGATORY'S SHADOW

Bickering won't get Worf (Michael Dorn) and Garak (Andrew J. Robinson) anywhere. The quarrelsome pair's runabout isn't going anywhere either. It's surrounded by a warfleet piloted by the Dominion's genetically engineered soldiers, the Jem'Hadar. Before he and Garak are captured and thrust into a Dominion prison, Worf transmits a warning to base: The assembled warfleet foreshadows a Dominion invasion of Alpha Quadrant. At the prison, the two captives are stunned to find that Dr. Bashir (Alexander Siddig) has been held there for weeks...meaning that the one crewman on DS9 who should be trusted most - the medical officer - can be trusted least. DS9's Bashir is a changeling bent on sabotage, a sabotage that will soon come to light.

BY INFERNO'S LIGHT

Danger outside - and within. An unexpected Dominion-Cardassian alliance threatens the station with war, but a more imminent threat operates secretly at close range. The station's Dr. Bashir (Alexander Siddig) is actually a changeling bent on carrying out a Dominion plan of sabotage. Meantime, DS9 captives in a remote Dominion internment camp execute their own plan to escape. While Worf (Michael Dorn) takes on all challengers in a Jem'Hadar battle arena, Garak (Andrew J. Robinson) and the real Bashir work to reconfigure a concealed transmitter that could beam them to safety...and allow them to send a warning that will alert station command to the false Bashir's mission of doom.

DOCTOR BASHIR, I PRESUME

Starfleet knows a good doctor when it sees one. That's why the organization selected Dr. Julian Bashir (Alexander Siddig) as the template for the new LMH - the highly advanced Longterm Medical Hologram."It is nothing less than a shot at immortality," proclaims Dr. Zimmerman (Robert Picardo of the Voyager series), the medical scientist who arrives at DS9 to create a comprehensive psychological profile of Bashir. It's also nothing less than a shot at being booted out of Starfleet. Because a thorough investigation into Bashir's past could reveal a secret that he has carefully kept hidden for decades - a secret that violates a fundamental Federation law.

Disc Five

A SIMPLE INVESTIGATION

Hardly anything escapes the always-alert eyes of constable Odo (Rene Auberjonois). But this time, it's not only his sharply honed observational skill that brings a mysterious visitor named Arissa (Dey Young) to his attention. It is the pull of that strongest of humanoid emotions: love. Of course, Odo is not a human. He's a Shape Shifter new to the ways of intimacy, yet not immune to the sorrow that can come when a relationship ends. His newfound love with Arissa seems so right, yet it is unavoidably doomed. Because Arissa isn't who she says she is - and the secret to her true identity lies inside a data crystal that she's come to the station to retrieve

BUSINESS AS USUAL

Schmooze a little, earn a lot! Quark (Armin Shimerman) finds what he thinks is the ideal way to get out of debt. He enters the lucrative and dangerous field of arms merchandising, skirting the ban on bringing weapons aboard the station by showing holosuite replicas of them to prospective clients. But a crisis of conscience overwhelms the Ferengi when he realizes he's on the brink of a sale that endangers 28,000,000 lives. Make that 28,000,001. Because Quark, too, is endangered when he realizes he must somehow stop the transaction, even though doing so will put him at odds with his cutthroat business partners.

TIES OF BLOOD AND WATER

When a prominent member of the Cardassian underground comes aboard, Kira (Nana Visitor) hopes he will head the opposition to the Dominion Alliance. But the guest has his own agenda. He's dying - and he wants Kira to be his daughter during his last hours. The request is not as unusual as it may first seem. The Cardassians once kidnapped Kira and had her surgically altered to look like his long-lost child. Now, since the official has no immediate family, he wants Kira to be his heir during a Cardassian ritual in which the dying person imparts vital secrets to the next of kin. Station Commander Sisko (Avery Brooks) views this as an unexpected opportunity for the Federation to learn invaluable political information. But a trauma from Kira's past may turn it into an opportunity lost.

FERENGI LOVE SONGS

Welcome home, Quark (Armin Shimerman)! Next time, however, you may want to announce your visit in advance instead of just dropping in on the childhood home where your kind, dear Moogie still lives. One peek into your bedroom closet explains why. Or, as Quark exclaims: "What's the Nagus doing in my closet?" The secret is out. Grand Nagus Zek - the ruler of all Ferenginar - has become the lover of Quark's mother. Inside information like this is a dangerous thing, especially to opportunistic Quark, who makes a deal with a Ferengi politician. The deal: Quark will break up the romance if the Ferengi Commerce Authority lifts his name from the trading blacklist.

Disc Six

SOLDIERS OF THE EMPIRE

Anytime, anyplace, any foe. It's a Klingon's nature to be eager for battle, and no one knows this better than Worf (Michael Dorn). But during a special search-and-rescue assignment aboard the bird-of-prey Rotarran, Worf finds himself serving under a Klingon commander who resolutely avoids confrontation, even when an unsuspecting Jem'Hadar ship sits in Rotarran's target window like a duck on a pond. Worf also knows that victory belongs to the bold. After consulting with Jadzia Dax (Terry Farrell), he takes it upon himself to stir the commander and his dispirited crew to action. He challenges the leader for control of the ship - a challenge that proves to be as shrewd as it is bold

CHILDREN OF TIME

Can Sisko (Avery Brooks) undo what history has done? When he and the Defiant crew arrive on the planet Gaia, they're confronted with a challenging anomaly of time: when they attempt to leave, they are destined instead to crash-land on the planet...200 years in the past! The crewmembers learn about this anomaly from the inhabitants they meet when they first arrive on the planet - people who are all descendants from when the Defiant became stranded there two centuries earlier. To leave the planet without crash-landing means the planet's 8,000 inhabitants will never exist. But not to leave means the crew will never see their family and friends again.

BLAZE OF GLORY

Maquis terrorists are reported to be launching a series of missiles at Cardassia and hunting for the launch site is like looking for a needle in a cosmic haystack. To stop the attack Sisko (Avery Brooks) has no choice but to seek help from his longtime nemesis Michael Eddington (Kenneth Marshall), the imprisoned former Starfleet officer-turned-Maquis leader. After Sisko and Eddington arrive on Athos IV, where the secret launch site is hidden, Sisko realizes that there are no missiles and that he has been tricked in order to free Eddington from prison. Now Sisko must not only contend with Eddington, and his promise to murder him, but with the invading Jem'Hadar too.

EMPOK NOR

Empok Nor? Getting to that seemingly deserted Cardassian space station is relatively easy. But getting off the station - that's a fierce life or death struggle. Needing parts to repair Deep Space Nine, O'Brien (Colm Meaney) leads a salvage team to the darkened Cardassian station. With the team is Garak (Andrew J. Robinson), the Deep Space Nine tailor whose Cardassian know-how comes in handy when defusing the booby traps placed throughout Empok Nor. But there's one thing Garak can't defuse and that's himself. His work aboard the station exposes him to the powerful psychotropic drugs used by Cardassian fighters. The credo of these unrelenting fighters: Death to All!

Disc Seven

IN THE CARDS

Jake Sisko (Cirroc Lofton) is sure he knows how to brighten his father's recent downbeat mood. All he has to do is give him the mint-condition Willie Mays baseball card being offered at an auction. "How hard can that be?" Jake confidently asks. Plenty hard. Outbid by a crackpot inventor, Jake and his friend Nog (Aaron Eisenberg) make a series of deals to obtain the card. Deal #1: they'll deliver scientific supplies to the inventor in exchange for the card. Deal #2, 3, 4 and more: they take on jobs for the staff - everything from routine maintenance to stealing a prized teddy bear - in exchange for the supplies. It all turns out to be a much bigger deal than Jake and Nog expected when their zealous efforts result in them being hauled into a Jem'Hadar interrogation room!

CALL TO ARMS

The Dominion continues to make inroads into Alpha Quadrant, stockpiling vessels at Cardassian shipyards and signing non-aggression treaties with tenuous Federation allies. The activity can only lead Sisko (Avery Brooks) to one conclusion: war is imminent. Preparing for the inevitable, Deep Space Nine command turns the access to the quadrant into an impassable minefield and oversees the evacuation of all but a few station personnel. The fighting soon begins. Outgunned but determined not to be outfought, the station holds its own against an overwhelming armada. But Sisko is only buying time, keeping the enemy in place while Federation forces strike elsewhere. Then comes the dreaded order: Abandon Deep Space Nine...but not before Sisko leaves an unmistakable indicator that he'll be back.

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Mind_Storm Tilted Location: The Finger Lakes of New York	Deep Space Nine: Season 5 A little add on for all you Trekkies out there. Enjoy ____________________________________________________ http://www.dvddebate.com/article.php?sid=3565 Deep Space Nine: Season 5 Posted on Sunday, September 21 2003 @ 22:14:03 BST by Chris Marin Paramount have announced that they will be releasing their seven-disc Deep Space Nine Season 5 set on October 27th. Extra features will include Trials and Tribble-ations: Uniting Two Legends, Trials and Tribble-ations: A Historic Endeavour, Miles O'Brien Crew Dossier, Inside DS9, Michael Westmore’s Aliens: Season Five, The Ferengi Culture and a DS9 Sketchbook. Also included is a DS9 space station CD-ROM. The RRP is £84.99. We can expect to see Season 6 available on December 1st, and Season 7 on December 22nd. NOW FOR THE FIRST TIME ON DVD Star Trek: Deep Space Nine – Season 5 Box Set Available on 27th October October 27th sees the release of Star Trek Deep Space Nine Season 5 on DVD. Join Captain Benjamin Sisko and his crew return as they travel through time and space, beyond the realm of DS9. The seven disc, collector’s edition box set contains all twenty six episodes, digitally re-mastered with 5.1 Dolby surround sound. Season 5 contains 10 hidden ‘Easter Eggs’ and more than an hour of special features and never before seen material including a look ‘inside DS9 with Mike Okuda’, a close up of ‘Miles O’Brien’ and ‘Trials and Tribble-ations: Uniting Two Legends’. Season 5 sees Deep Space Nine makes space history in 'Trials and Tribble-ations' - an episode produced to commemorate the thirtieth anniversary of Star Trek. It features state-of-the-art Forrest Gump style technology which allowed the Deep Space Nine characters to merge with Kirk and his crew in the classic 'Troubles With Tribbles' from the Original Series. In ‘Business As Usual’, Quark enters the lucrative field of arms dealing. When he realises that he’s on the brink of a sale that endangers 28,000,000 lives, Quark must find a way to stop the transaction even though doing so will put his own life at risk. War is imminent in ‘Call to Arms’ - Sisko must defend the station against the fierce Dominion Armada whilst he awaits backup from Federation forces. Outgunned, Sisko receives the order to abandon Deep Space 9. As the series draws to a close, Sisko leaves an unmistakeable indicator that he’ll be back. Extras on the DVD include over one hour of never before seen special features such as the featurettes ‘Trials and Tribble-ations: Uniting Two Legends’ and ‘Trials and Tribble-ations: A Historic Endeavour’; a close look at the character Miles O’Brian in ‘Crew Dossier’’ and we take a look at the design of the ship with scenic artist, Mike Okuda, in ‘Inside DS9’. The top make-up artist for the series talks the audience through the difficult make-up processes involved in ‘Michael Westmore’s Aliens: Season Five’; ‘The Ferengi Culture’ examines the history and processes inherent within Ferengi whilst veteran of the art department, John Eaves, shows us his ‘DS9 Sketchbook’. This celebrated DVD box set is placed in unique collector’s edition packaging and contains the latest instalment of the interactive DS9 space station CD-ROM, allowing fans to develop their DS9 knowledge and move up the virtual ranks to become a fully fledged Federation Captain. Fans will be able to continue collecting towards limited edition DS9 merchandise. Star Trek Deep Space Nine is released by Paramount Home Entertainment on DVD (RRP £84.99) on 27th October 2003 (certificate 12 TBC) Disc One APOCALYPSE RISING Odo (Rene Auberjonois) has returned from his homeworld as a new being. Found guilty of murder, Odo has been stripped of his powers and is now a humanoid. More startling news arrives when Odo announces he believes that Klingon leader Gowron (Robert O'Reilly) is really a Changeling. Starfleet dispatches an infiltration team including Sisko (Avery Brooks) and Odo. Armed with polaron emitters to discharge radiation believed to have a destabilizing effect on Changelings, the team penetrates Klingon military headquarters. But after the emitters have been activated, Gowron appears unaffected, and the team is captured. Odo is still certain there is a Changeling in the Klingon ranks, but who is the impostor? THE SHIP Conducting a mineral survey on Torga IV, an away team is surprised when a Jem' Hadar warship crashes to the planet's surface. At the crash site, the team discovers that the entire crew is dead. Believing the ship may contain vital intelligence data, Sisko (Avery Brooks) prepares to beam the ship off the planet...and is attacked by the Jem' Hadar. The Jem' Hadar's Vorta leader, Kilana (Kaitlin Hopkins), contacts Sisko and demands the return of the ship. Sisko suspects there is something within the ship that is of vital importance to the Jem' Hadar. But what could it be - and is Sisko willing to risk the lives of the team to find it? LOOKING FOR PAR'MACH IN ALL THE WRONG PLACES Does Worf (Michael Dorn) have any chance of winning the love of a Klingon woman who's recently arrived at the station? Not in this space quadrant. And not in this lifetime. So the smitten Lt. Commander, eager to prove his human upbringing is no drawback to his wooing of Klingon females, does the next best thing. He secretly coaches the equally smitten Quark (Armin Shimerman) in how to court the visitor. But, the romance that seems so very right to Quark may soon turn very wrong. The woman's bodyguard challenges him to a Klingon death match - and the overmatched Ferengi is honor bound to accept the duel. NOR THE BATTLE TO THE STRONG Jake Sisko (Cirroc Lofton) is a fledgling writer with pages to fill...and a youth whose life is a page on which to be written. Like many young people, he's wondered what it's like to be in the thick of battle. Now he knows. When he and Dr. Bashir (Alexander Siddig) respond to an emergency call from a Federation colony under attack by Klingons, Jake expects to enter a realm of glorious adventure. Instead, he gets a first-hand look at the carnage and terror of combat. What's more, impressionable Jake experiences one of the true natures of heroism when, driven more by stark fear than bravery, he becomes a hero in spite of himself. Disc Two TRIALS AND TRIBBLE-ATIONS No, your eyes aren't playing tricks on you. That really is the U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701 of Captain James T. Kirk and crew. But what are Captain Benjamin Sisko (Avery Brooks) and several of his crew doing on it? A Klingon plot to reach into the past and murder Kirk sends the DS9 team scrambling to stop it in this episode that weaves characters and footage from the original Star Trek. series into the storyline. Stopping the assassination isn't the only problem facing Sisko and his crew. In fact, they're facing 1,771,561 problems. They've beamed aboard the U.S.S. Enterprise when it's awash in those pesky, nettlesome, ever-multiplying critters, called Tribbles. THE ASSIGNMENT She looks like Keiko (Rosalind Chao). Sounds like Keiko. Yet there's something very different about the wife of Operations Chief O'Brien (Colm Meaney). A mysterious entity has taken control of her consciousness. The entity insists that O'Brien must secretly alter the station's com links and sensors...or it will kill Keiko. The loyalties and skill of DS9's lead engineer are pushed to the breaking point as he confronts a dilemma that puts his wife's life in conflict with the safety of the crew. O'Brien knows that he alone must shoulder the life-and-death burden. Nothing can be left to chance. Yet a chance comment by a co-worker provides a spark of an idea that just might resolve his plight. LET HE WHO IS WITHOUT SIN... For life, liberty, and the happiness of pursuit, there's no better destination than Risa the "Pleasure Planet". Here, old loves can be renewed, new loves found, and flings flung. But libertine ways may be too much for rule-bound Worf (Michael Dorn), who's come to the planet with Jadzia Dax (Terry Farrell) for what's supposed to be a romantic getaway. The Worf-Dax romance is tested when the Klingon grows uneasy over a past relationship between Risa's social director (Vanessa Williams) and Curzon Dax (one of Jadzia's previous host bodies). Unless Worf rediscovers the tolerance and trust that are among DS9's core values - Risa will be destroyed by his jealousy. THINGS PAST One moment Sisko (Avery Brooks) and a handful of DS9 command are on a runabout preparing for a spaceport docking, the next moment they're on Terek Nor (the station's previous name) some seven years earlier. While they don't know how they got there, they do know they have to leave - fast: They've been accused of murder and the execution hour is drawing near. The situation may be baffling to Sisko and the others, but not to Odo (Rene Auberjonois), who knows more than he's willing to admit. His secret past has come back to imperil those closest to him. Only by revealing and coming to terms with that past can Odo save his crewmates. Disc Three THE ASCENT If Odo (Rene Auberjonois) and Quark (Armin Shimerman) never saw each other again it would be too soon. But their worst nightmare becomes reality when their runabout crash-lands on a harsh Class-L planet. Stranded without rations or normal com links and with only one set of cold-weather gear to share, the two set out - squabbling every step of the way - on a last-gasp quest to save their lives. If they can somehow haul the runabout's bulky subspace transmitter to the peak of a towering mountain, perhaps they'll be able to send a distress call to DS9 - if they don't kill each other first. Survival in space is never easy...and as long as Odo and Quark cling to their mutual hatred, it can only get tougher. RAPTURE An accident transforms Capt. Benjamin Sisko (Avery Brooks) into a true visionary leader. A post-neural shock has touched the captain in an unexpected way, leading him to dream the dreams of prophecy. Sisko now knows the location of the ancient lost city of B'hala. He can reveal mysteries of the Bajoran past and foretell that culture's future, too. The prophecies are a gift, as well as a curse. The intense revelations will certainly destroy Sisko's steadily weakening nervous system if they persist, yet the captain insists they must be allowed to continue. He knows he must discover the meaning of one especially problematic vision - a revelation that, if properly understood, may have immediate repercussions for both the Federation and Bajor. THE DARKNESS AND THE LIGHT Serving as a command officer on DS9 is demanding work. Serving as an officer while in the final weeks of pregnancy is even harder. Now former resistance fighter Major Kira (Nana Visitor), in the final weeks of carrying a child for the O'Briens, must face an even tougher task. She becomes the primary target of an anonymous angel of death, who seeks vengeance against her and her former partners in the Shakaar resistance cell. After Odo (Rene Auberjonois) comes up with a list of suspects, headstrong Kira sets out to settle the matter her way. She steals the list, commandeers a runabout and embarks on a mission to defend her life...and the life of the unborn child she carries. THE BEGOTTEN It is time. Kira (Nana Visitor), who took on the responsibility of carrying the O'Briens' unborn child when Keiko O'Brien (Rosalind Chao) could no longer safely bring the infant to term, goes into labor. Everyone on DS9 has long anticipated the event. But no one could have imagined an overlapping event that occurs on the station: Changeling-turned-humanoid Odo (Rene Auberjonois) becomes the parent of a shapeless, infant Changeling. As new life comes to the station, so, too, do new joys, new responsibilities, new ways of looking at existence. Odo's joy, however, is short-lived. But what he learns from his brief parenting experience will stay with him an entire lifetime. Disc Four FOR THE UNIFORM Time and again, Sisko (Avery Brooks) has been outmaneuvered and outwitted by his former officer, Michael Eddington (Kenneth Marshall). But Sisko won't be outfought. He's determined to capture the turncoat security chief who's become a Maquis leader. Through the DMZ and Badlands, the chase is on - a pursuit that reaches critical mass when Eddington uses biogenic weapons against Cardassian settlements. The rebel leader never imagines that Sisko would reply in kind. He thinks the captain is bluffing when he orders the retaliatory use of trilithim resin to poison the atmosphere of a Maquis colony. But Sisko isn't bluffing. Extreme villainy is a game two can play. And, with luck, a game one can win. IN PURGATORY'S SHADOW Bickering won't get Worf (Michael Dorn) and Garak (Andrew J. Robinson) anywhere. The quarrelsome pair's runabout isn't going anywhere either. It's surrounded by a warfleet piloted by the Dominion's genetically engineered soldiers, the Jem'Hadar. Before he and Garak are captured and thrust into a Dominion prison, Worf transmits a warning to base: The assembled warfleet foreshadows a Dominion invasion of Alpha Quadrant. At the prison, the two captives are stunned to find that Dr. Bashir (Alexander Siddig) has been held there for weeks...meaning that the one crewman on DS9 who should be trusted most - the medical officer - can be trusted least. DS9's Bashir is a changeling bent on sabotage, a sabotage that will soon come to light. BY INFERNO'S LIGHT Danger outside - and within. An unexpected Dominion-Cardassian alliance threatens the station with war, but a more imminent threat operates secretly at close range. The station's Dr. Bashir (Alexander Siddig) is actually a changeling bent on carrying out a Dominion plan of sabotage. Meantime, DS9 captives in a remote Dominion internment camp execute their own plan to escape. While Worf (Michael Dorn) takes on all challengers in a Jem'Hadar battle arena, Garak (Andrew J. Robinson) and the real Bashir work to reconfigure a concealed transmitter that could beam them to safety...and allow them to send a warning that will alert station command to the false Bashir's mission of doom. DOCTOR BASHIR, I PRESUME Starfleet knows a good doctor when it sees one. That's why the organization selected Dr. Julian Bashir (Alexander Siddig) as the template for the new LMH - the highly advanced Longterm Medical Hologram."It is nothing less than a shot at immortality," proclaims Dr. Zimmerman (Robert Picardo of the Voyager series), the medical scientist who arrives at DS9 to create a comprehensive psychological profile of Bashir. It's also nothing less than a shot at being booted out of Starfleet. Because a thorough investigation into Bashir's past could reveal a secret that he has carefully kept hidden for decades - a secret that violates a fundamental Federation law. Disc Five A SIMPLE INVESTIGATION Hardly anything escapes the always-alert eyes of constable Odo (Rene Auberjonois). But this time, it's not only his sharply honed observational skill that brings a mysterious visitor named Arissa (Dey Young) to his attention. It is the pull of that strongest of humanoid emotions: love. Of course, Odo is not a human. He's a Shape Shifter new to the ways of intimacy, yet not immune to the sorrow that can come when a relationship ends. His newfound love with Arissa seems so right, yet it is unavoidably doomed. Because Arissa isn't who she says she is - and the secret to her true identity lies inside a data crystal that she's come to the station to retrieve BUSINESS AS USUAL Schmooze a little, earn a lot! Quark (Armin Shimerman) finds what he thinks is the ideal way to get out of debt. He enters the lucrative and dangerous field of arms merchandising, skirting the ban on bringing weapons aboard the station by showing holosuite replicas of them to prospective clients. But a crisis of conscience overwhelms the Ferengi when he realizes he's on the brink of a sale that endangers 28,000,000 lives. Make that 28,000,001. Because Quark, too, is endangered when he realizes he must somehow stop the transaction, even though doing so will put him at odds with his cutthroat business partners. TIES OF BLOOD AND WATER When a prominent member of the Cardassian underground comes aboard, Kira (Nana Visitor) hopes he will head the opposition to the Dominion Alliance. But the guest has his own agenda. He's dying - and he wants Kira to be his daughter during his last hours. The request is not as unusual as it may first seem. The Cardassians once kidnapped Kira and had her surgically altered to look like his long-lost child. Now, since the official has no immediate family, he wants Kira to be his heir during a Cardassian ritual in which the dying person imparts vital secrets to the next of kin. Station Commander Sisko (Avery Brooks) views this as an unexpected opportunity for the Federation to learn invaluable political information. But a trauma from Kira's past may turn it into an opportunity lost. FERENGI LOVE SONGS Welcome home, Quark (Armin Shimerman)! Next time, however, you may want to announce your visit in advance instead of just dropping in on the childhood home where your kind, dear Moogie still lives. One peek into your bedroom closet explains why. Or, as Quark exclaims: "What's the Nagus doing in my closet?" The secret is out. Grand Nagus Zek - the ruler of all Ferenginar - has become the lover of Quark's mother. Inside information like this is a dangerous thing, especially to opportunistic Quark, who makes a deal with a Ferengi politician. The deal: Quark will break up the romance if the Ferengi Commerce Authority lifts his name from the trading blacklist. Disc Six SOLDIERS OF THE EMPIRE Anytime, anyplace, any foe. It's a Klingon's nature to be eager for battle, and no one knows this better than Worf (Michael Dorn). But during a special search-and-rescue assignment aboard the bird-of-prey Rotarran, Worf finds himself serving under a Klingon commander who resolutely avoids confrontation, even when an unsuspecting Jem'Hadar ship sits in Rotarran's target window like a duck on a pond. Worf also knows that victory belongs to the bold. After consulting with Jadzia Dax (Terry Farrell), he takes it upon himself to stir the commander and his dispirited crew to action. He challenges the leader for control of the ship - a challenge that proves to be as shrewd as it is bold CHILDREN OF TIME Can Sisko (Avery Brooks) undo what history has done? When he and the Defiant crew arrive on the planet Gaia, they're confronted with a challenging anomaly of time: when they attempt to leave, they are destined instead to crash-land on the planet...200 years in the past! The crewmembers learn about this anomaly from the inhabitants they meet when they first arrive on the planet - people who are all descendants from when the Defiant became stranded there two centuries earlier. To leave the planet without crash-landing means the planet's 8,000 inhabitants will never exist. But not to leave means the crew will never see their family and friends again. BLAZE OF GLORY Maquis terrorists are reported to be launching a series of missiles at Cardassia and hunting for the launch site is like looking for a needle in a cosmic haystack. To stop the attack Sisko (Avery Brooks) has no choice but to seek help from his longtime nemesis Michael Eddington (Kenneth Marshall), the imprisoned former Starfleet officer-turned-Maquis leader. After Sisko and Eddington arrive on Athos IV, where the secret launch site is hidden, Sisko realizes that there are no missiles and that he has been tricked in order to free Eddington from prison. Now Sisko must not only contend with Eddington, and his promise to murder him, but with the invading Jem'Hadar too. EMPOK NOR Empok Nor? Getting to that seemingly deserted Cardassian space station is relatively easy. But getting off the station - that's a fierce life or death struggle. Needing parts to repair Deep Space Nine, O'Brien (Colm Meaney) leads a salvage team to the darkened Cardassian station. With the team is Garak (Andrew J. Robinson), the Deep Space Nine tailor whose Cardassian know-how comes in handy when defusing the booby traps placed throughout Empok Nor. But there's one thing Garak can't defuse and that's himself. His work aboard the station exposes him to the powerful psychotropic drugs used by Cardassian fighters. The credo of these unrelenting fighters: Death to All! Disc Seven IN THE CARDS Jake Sisko (Cirroc Lofton) is sure he knows how to brighten his father's recent downbeat mood. All he has to do is give him the mint-condition Willie Mays baseball card being offered at an auction. "How hard can that be?" Jake confidently asks. Plenty hard. Outbid by a crackpot inventor, Jake and his friend Nog (Aaron Eisenberg) make a series of deals to obtain the card. Deal #1: they'll deliver scientific supplies to the inventor in exchange for the card. Deal #2, 3, 4 and more: they take on jobs for the staff - everything from routine maintenance to stealing a prized teddy bear - in exchange for the supplies. It all turns out to be a much bigger deal than Jake and Nog expected when their zealous efforts result in them being hauled into a Jem'Hadar interrogation room! CALL TO ARMS The Dominion continues to make inroads into Alpha Quadrant, stockpiling vessels at Cardassian shipyards and signing non-aggression treaties with tenuous Federation allies. The activity can only lead Sisko (Avery Brooks) to one conclusion: war is imminent. Preparing for the inevitable, Deep Space Nine command turns the access to the quadrant into an impassable minefield and oversees the evacuation of all but a few station personnel. The fighting soon begins. Outgunned but determined not to be outfought, the station holds its own against an overwhelming armada. But Sisko is only buying time, keeping the enemy in place while Federation forces strike elsewhere. Then comes the dreaded order: Abandon Deep Space Nine...but not before Sisko leaves an unmistakable indicator that he'll be back.