Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Season 5

1996 · 26 episodes · ★ 7.3

What Season 5 of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

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.

26episodes

Sep 30, 1996premiered

Jun 16, 1997latest episode

19.5 hrtotal runtime

Season 5 Episodes

5x01 Apocalypse Rising
Sep 30, 1996 · 45 min · ★ 7.5
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.
Director: James L. Conway · Writers: Robert Hewitt Wolfe, Ira Steven Behr · Starring: Robert Budaska, John L. Bennett, Tony Epper, Ivor Bartels
5x02 The Ship
Oct 7, 1996 · 45 min · ★ 7.6
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.
Director: Kim Friedman · Writer: Hans Beimler · Starring: Kaitlin Hopkins, F.J. Rio, Hilary Shepard
5x03 Looking for par'Mach in All the Wrong Places
Oct 14, 1996 · 45 min · ★ 6.7
Stardate: Unknown. While Worf helps Quark to pursue his former wife Grilka, O'Brien and Kira grow uncomfortably close to each other.
Director: Andrew Robinson · Writer: Ronald D. Moore · Starring: Mary Kay Adams, Joseph Ruskin, Phil Morris, Rosalind Chao
5x04 Nor the Battle to the Strong
Oct 21, 1996 · 45 min · ★ 7.1
Stardate: Unknown. Jake, reporting from the front lines, sees what war truly is.
Directing: Kim Friedman · Writing: René Echevarria · Starring: Andrew Kavovit, Karen Austin, Danny Goldring, Mark Holton
5x05 The Assignment
Oct 28, 1996 · 45 min · ★ 6.9
Stardate: Unknown. An alien entity has possessed Keiko's body and is holding it hostage until O'Brien completes an assignment for it.
Director: Allan Kroeker · Writers: David Weddle, Bradley Thompson · Starring: Majel Barrett, Max Grodénchik, Rosie Malek-Yonan, Patrick Egan
5x06 Trials and Tribble-ations
Nov 4, 1996 · 45 min · ★ 8.6
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.
Directing: Jonathan West · Writing: Ronald D. Moore, René Echevarria · Starring: Charlie Brill, Jack Blessing, Deirdre Haj, Jim Jansen
5x07 Let He Who Is Without Sin...
Nov 11, 1996 · 45 min · ★ 5.7
Stardate: Unknown. While vacationing on Risa, Worf and Dax meet a group of fundamentalist protesters who claim that the Federation has gone soft.
Directing: René Auberjonois · Writing: Robert Hewitt Wolfe, Ira Steven Behr · Starring: Blair Valk, Vanessa Williams, Zora DeHorter, Frank Kopyc
5x08 Things Past
Nov 18, 1996 · 45 min · ★ 7.3
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.
Director: LeVar Burton · Writer: Michael Taylor · Starring: Victor Bevine, Kurtwood Smith, Louahn Lowe, Brenan T. Baird
5x09 The Ascent
Nov 25, 1996 · 45 min · ★ 7.1
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.
Directing: Allan Kroeker · Writing: Robert Hewitt Wolfe, Ira Steven Behr · Starring: Max Grodénchik, Aron Eisenberg
5x10 Rapture
Dec 30, 1996 · 45 min · ★ 6.9
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.
Director: Jonathan West · Writer: Hans Beimler · Starring: Ernest Perry Jr., Louise Fletcher, Penny Johnson Jerald
5x11 The Darkness and the Light
Jan 6, 1997 · 45 min · ★ 6.7
Stardate: 50416.2. A mysterious assassin begins wiping out all the members of Kira's old resistance cell.
Director: Michael Vejar · Writer: Ronald D. Moore · Starring: Randy Oglesby, Diane Salinger, Jennifer Savidge, Matt Roe
5x12 The Begotten
Jan 27, 1997 · 45 min · ★ 7.4
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.
Director: Jesús Salvador Treviño · Writer: René Echevarria · Starring: James Sloyan, Duncan Regehr, Peggy Roeder, Rosalind Chao
5x13 For the Uniform
Feb 3, 1997 · 45 min · ★ 7.5
Stardate: 50485.2. When the traitorous Eddington returns, Sisko will go to any lengths to capture him.
Directing: Victor Lobl · Writing: Peter Allan Fields · Starring: Eric Pierpoint, Ken Marshall, Aron Eisenberg
5x14 In Purgatory's Shadow (1)
Feb 10, 1997 · 45 min · ★ 8.3
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.
Directing: Gabrielle Beaumont · Writing: Robert Hewitt Wolfe, Ira Steven Behr · Starring: Paul Dooley, Jim Palladino, James Horan, Carrie Stauber
5x15 By Inferno's Light (2)
Feb 17, 1997 · 45 min · ★ 8.3
Stardate: 50564.2. The station readies for a Dominion attack. Worf and Garak meet some unexpected friends in a Dominion Prison camp.
Directing: Les Landau · Writing: Robert Hewitt Wolfe, Ira Steven Behr · Starring: Ray Buktenica, James Horan, Carrie Stauber, Cathy DeBuono
5x16 Doctor Bashir, I Presume?
Feb 24, 1997 · 45 min · ★ 7.2
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.
Director: David Livingston · Writer: Ronald D. Moore · Starring: Max Grodénchik, Robert Picardo, Brian George, Fadwa El Guindi
5x17 A Simple Investigation
Mar 31, 1997 · 45 min · ★ 6.5
Odo helps a woman hiding on the station from organized criminals, but quickly develops a personal interest in the case.
Director: John T. Kretchmer · Writer: René Echevarria · Starring: Dey Young, John Durbin, Nicholas Worth, Brant Cotton
5x18 Business As Usual
Apr 7, 1997 · 45 min · ★ 6.8
Stardate: Unknown. Quark must wrestle with his conscience when he becomes involved with arms merchants.
Director: Alexander Siddig · Writers: Bradley Thompson, David Weddle · Starring: Lawrence Tierney, Tim Halligan, Steven Berkoff, Eric Cadora
5x19 Ties of Blood and Water
Apr 14, 1997 · 45 min · ★ 6.9
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.
Director: Avery Brooks · Writer: Robert Hewitt Wolfe · Starring: Lawrence Pressman, William Lucking, Rick Schatz, Thomas Kopache
5x20 Ferengi Love Songs
Apr 21, 1997 · 45 min · ★ 6.4
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.
Director: René Auberjonois · Writers: Ira Steven Behr, Hans Beimler · Starring: Max Grodénchik, Hamilton Camp, Cecily Adams, Wallace Shawn
5x21 Soldiers of the Empire
Apr 28, 1997 · 45 min · ★ 7.2
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.
Directing: LeVar Burton · Writing: Ronald D. Moore · Starring: David Graf, Rick Worthy, Sandra Nelson, Scott Leva
5x22 Children of Time
May 5, 1997 · 45 min · ★ 7.8
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.
Directing: Allan Kroeker · Writing: René Echevarria · Starring: Davida Williams, Gary Frank, Jennifer Parsons, Doren Fein
5x23 Blaze of Glory
May 12, 1997 · 45 min · ★ 7.6
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.
Directing: Kim Friedman · Writing: Robert Hewitt Wolfe, Ira Steven Behr · Starring: Majel Barrett, Ken Marshall, Gretchen German, J.G. Hertzler
5x24 Empok Nor
May 19, 1997 · 45 min · ★ 7.6
Stardate: Unknown. While salvaging components from DS9's sister station, the crew run afoul of a "surprise" left behind by the Cardassians.
Director: Michael Vejar · Writer: Hans Beimler · Starring: Tom Hodges, Andy Milder, Marjean Holden, Jeffrey King
5x25 In the Cards
Jun 9, 1997 · 45 min · ★ 7.4
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.
Director: Michael Dorn · Writer: Ronald D. Moore · Starring: Brian Markinson, Louise Fletcher, Aron Eisenberg, Jeffrey Combs
5x26 Call to Arms Season Finale
Jun 16, 1997 · 45 min · ★ 8.6
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.
Director: Allan Kroeker · Writers: Robert Hewitt Wolfe, Ira Steven Behr · Starring: Max Grodénchik, Tory Christopher, Melanie Smith, J.G. Hertzler