Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Season 1

1993 · 19 episodes · ★ 6.7

What Season 1 of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

The Provisional Government of Bajor invites Starfleet to help them rebuild after the Cardassian Occupation. Commander Benjamin Sisko is selected to take command of their space station, formerly known as Terok Nor that is then designated by Starfleet as Deep Space 9. As part of the agreement between the Federation and Bajor, Starfleet will help them to become a member of the Federation.

19episodes

Jan 3, 1993premiered

Jun 20, 1993latest episode

15 hrtotal runtime

Season 1 Episodes

1x01 Emissary
Jan 3, 1993 · 90 min · ★ 7.6
Stardate: 46379.1. Commander Benjamin Sisko and a new crew of Starfleet and Bajoran officers take command of an abandoned Cardassian space station and make an incredible discovery that will change the galaxy and Sisko's future.A new crew is assigned to a former Cardassian space station: Deep Space Nine. It is a joint Federation/Bajoran force, with Commander Sisko in charge, but his life is dramatically changed when he is declared the Emissary to the Prophets by a Bajoran priest.
Directing: David Carson · Writing: Michael Piller · Starring: Max Grodénchik, Patrick Stewart, Stephen Davies, Lily Mariye
1x02 Past Prologue
Jan 10, 1993 · 45 min · ★ 7.1
Stardate: Unknown. Kira finds her loyalties divided when a Bajoran extremist wanted by the Cardassians comes to the station with questionable intentions.
Directed by: Winrich Kolbe · Written by: Katharyn Powers · Starring: Jeffrey Nordling, Gwynyth Walsh, Barbara March, Vaughn Armstrong
1x03 A Man Alone
Jan 17, 1993 · 45 min · ★ 6.6
Stardate: 46421.5. When the return of a man Odo sent to prison years earlier leads to his murder aboard the station, Odo becomes the prime suspect and a target for harassment.
Directing: Paul Lynch · Writing: Michael Piller, Gerald Sanford · Starring: Edward Albert, Stephen James Carver, Diana Cignoni, Tom Klunis
1x04 Babel
Jan 24, 1993 · 45 min · ★ 6.9
Stardate: 46423.7. A deadly virus created by the Bajorans 18 years earlier inadvertently breaks loose aboard the station, and prompts a race against the clock to find a cure.
Directed by: Paul Lynch · Written by: Michael McGreevey, Naren Shankar, Ira Steven Behr · Starring: Jack Kehler, Matthew Faison, Geraldine Farrell, Bo Zenga
1x05 Captive Pursuit
Jan 31, 1993 · 45 min · ★ 7.3
Stardate: Unknown. When O'Brien befriends the station's first visitor from the Gamma Quadrant, he learns that the mysterious alien is on the run from determined pursuers.
Directing: Corey Allen · Writing: Michael Piller, Jill Donner · Starring: Scott MacDonald, Gerrit Graham, Kelly Curtis
1x06 Q-Less
Feb 7, 1993 · 45 min · ★ 6.6
Stardate: 46531.2. Vash arrives from the Gamma Quadrant as Q plagues the station and an unknown force threatens to destroy it.
Directing: Paul Lynch · Writing: Robert Hewitt Wolfe, Hannah Louise Shearer · Starring: Jennifer Hetrick, John de Lancie, Tom McCleister, Van Epperson
1x07 Dax
Feb 14, 1993 · 45 min · ★ 6.7
Stardate: 46910.1. Jadzia Dax is charged with a murder that her symbiont's previous host Curzon allegedly committed. Now an extradition hearing may decide whether Jadzia can be held responsible for the actions of a previous life.
Directing: David Carson · Writing: D.C. Fontana, Peter Allan Fields · Starring: Gregory Itzin, Anne Haney, Richard Lineback, Fionnula Flanagan
1x08 The Passenger
Feb 21, 1993 · 45 min · ★ 6.2
Stardate: Unknown. A dangerous killer dies in an apparent accident, but the security officer providing his transport to prison believes the criminal's consciousness may have yet survived.
Directing: Paul Lynch · Writing: Michael Piller, Robert Hewitt Wolfe, Morgan Gendel · Starring: Julie Caitlin Brown, Christopher Collins, James Harper, James Lashly
1x09 Move Along Home
Mar 14, 1993 · 45 min · ★ 5.8
The Wadi from the Gamma Quadrant are to make first contact and decide to visit DS9. When they catch Quark cheating they let him off by playing a special game.
Directed by: David Carson · Written by: Lisa Rich, Frederick Rappaport, Jeanne Carrigan-Fauci · Starring: James Lashly, Joel Brooks, Clara Bryant, Max Grodénchik
1x10 The Nagus
Mar 21, 1993 · 45 min · ★ 6.5
Stardate: Unknown. Grand Nagus Zek, the leader of Ferengi society, comes to DS9 to oversee the introduction of a Ferengi business presence in the Gamma Quadrant and announce Quark as his successor.
Directing: David Livingston · Writing: Ira Steven Behr · Starring: Lou Wagner, Barry Gordon, Lee Arenberg, Max Grodénchik
1x11 Vortex
Apr 18, 1993 · 45 min · ★ 6.9
Stardate: Unknown. A wanted man from the Gamma Quadrant with questionable motives reveals to Odo stories about other "Changelings," which may hold clues to Odo's mysterious origin.
Directed by: Winrich Kolbe · Written by: Sam Rolfe · Starring: Majel Barrett, Cliff DeYoung, Randy Oglesby, Gordon Clapp
1x12 Battle Lines
Apr 25, 1993 · 45 min · ★ 6.6
Stardate: Unknown. Sisko, Kira, and Bashir take Kai Opaka through the wormhole for a brief excursion in the Gamma Quadrant. But when they crash-land on a desolate planet, they find a divided, warring penal colony where no one ever dies.
Directed by: Paul Lynch · Written by: Evan Somers, Richard Danus · Starring: Majel Barrett, Paul Collins, Jonathan Banks, Patricia Tallman
1x13 The Storyteller
May 2, 1993 · 45 min · ★ 5.9
Stardate: 46729.1. When O'Brien and Bashir beam down to a Bajoran village, the community selects O'Brien as their next Sirah - expecting him to save them from a menacing entity.
Directed by: David Livingston · Written by: Ira Steven Behr, Kurt Michael Bensmiller · Starring: Lawrence Monoson, Kay E. Kuter, Gina Philips, Jim Jansen
1x14 Progress
May 9, 1993 · 45 min · ★ 6.4
Stardate: 46844.3. Kira finds herself in a difficult moral situation when her job demands she force an adamant Bajoran man from his home in the name of progress.
Directed by: Les Landau · Written by: Peter Allan Fields · Starring: Nicholas Worth, Brian Keith, Michael Bofshever, Terrence Evans
1x15 If Wishes Were Horses
May 16, 1993 · 45 min · ★ 6.2
Stardate: 46853.2. The DS9 crew's own imaginations cause mysterious beings with unknown intentions to appear on the station.
Directed by: Robert Legato · Written by: Michael Piller, William Crawford, Nell McCue Crawford · Starring: Keone Young, Michael J. Anderson, Hana Hatae, Rosalind Chao
1x16 The Forsaken
May 23, 1993 · 45 min · ★ 6.6
Stardate: 46925.1. Odo and Lwaxanna Troi come to a mutual understanding when a computer malfunction causes them to become trapped in a turbolift.
Directing: Les Landau · Writing: Michael Piller, Don Carlos Dunaway · Starring: Constance Towers, Michael Ensign, Jack Shearer, Benita Andre
1x17 Dramatis Personae
May 30, 1993 · 45 min · ★ 6.8
Stardate: 46922.3. An alien "telepathic matrix" causes the DS9 crew to re-enact an ancient power struggle, leading Kira to attempt mutiny and overthrow Sisko.
Directing: Cliff Bole · Writing: Joe Menosky · Starring: Tom Towles, Stephen Parr, Jeff Pruitt, Tracee Cocco
1x18 Duet
Jun 13, 1993 · 45 min · ★ 8.2
A Cardassian suffering from Kalla-Nohra, a disease that indicates he served in a labor camp, visits DS9. Kira is determined to convict him as a war criminal.
Directing: James L. Conway · Writing: Peter Allan Fields · Starring: Harris Yulin, Tony Rizzoli, Ted Sorel, Norman Large
1x19 In the Hands of the Prophets Season Finale
Jun 20, 1993 · 43 min · ★ 7.2
Stardate: Unknown. The Federation and Bajoran people of DS9 fall into conflict when a Bajoran religious extremist comes to the station and challenges the secular teachings of Keiko O'Brien's school.
Directed by: David Livingston · Written by: Robert Hewitt Wolfe · Starring: Robin Christopher, Michael Fairman, Louise Fletcher, Philip Anglim