Seasons & episodes
S5 · E1Apocalypse Rising 1996-09-30 · 45 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.
S5 · E2The Ship 1996-10-07 · 45 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.
S5 · E3Looking for par'Mach in All the Wrong Places 1996-10-14 · 45 min
Stardate: Unknown. While Worf helps Quark to pursue his former wife Grilka, O'Brien and Kira grow uncomfortably close to each other.
S5 · E4Nor the Battle to the Strong 1996-10-21 · 45 min
Stardate: Unknown. Jake, reporting from the front lines, sees what war truly is.
S5 · E5The Assignment 1996-10-28 · 45 min
Stardate: Unknown. An alien entity has possessed Keiko's body and is holding it hostage until O'Brien completes an assignment for it.
S5 · E6Trials and Tribble-ations 1996-11-04 · 45 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.
S5 · E7Let He Who Is Without Sin... 1996-11-11 · 45 min
Stardate: Unknown. While vacationing on Risa, Worf and Dax meet a group of fundamentalist protesters who claim that the Federation has gone soft.
S5 · E8Things Past 1996-11-18 · 45 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.
S5 · E9The Ascent 1996-11-25 · 45 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.
S5 · E10Rapture 1996-12-30 · 45 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.
S5 · E11The Darkness and the Light 1997-01-06 · 45 min
Stardate: 50416.2. A mysterious assassin begins wiping out all the members of Kira's old resistance cell.
S5 · E12The Begotten 1997-01-27 · 45 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.
S5 · E13For the Uniform 1997-02-03 · 45 min
Stardate: 50485.2. When the traitorous Eddington returns, Sisko will go to any lengths to capture him.
S5 · E14In Purgatory's Shadow (1) 1997-02-10 · 45 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.
S5 · E15By Inferno's Light (2) 1997-02-17 · 45 min
Stardate: 50564.2. The station readies for a Dominion attack. Worf and Garak meet some unexpected friends in a Dominion Prison camp.
S5 · E16Doctor Bashir, I Presume? 1997-02-24 · 45 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.
S5 · E17A Simple Investigation 1997-03-31 · 45 min
Odo helps a woman hiding on the station from organized criminals, but quickly develops a personal interest in the case.
S5 · E18Business As Usual 1997-04-07 · 45 min
Stardate: Unknown. Quark must wrestle with his conscience when he becomes involved with arms merchants.
S5 · E19Ties of Blood and Water 1997-04-14 · 45 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.
S5 · E20Ferengi Love Songs 1997-04-21 · 45 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.
S5 · E21Soldiers of the Empire 1997-04-28 · 45 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.
S5 · E22Children of Time 1997-05-05 · 45 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.
S5 · E23Blaze of Glory 1997-05-12 · 45 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.
S5 · E24Empok Nor 1997-05-19 · 45 min
Stardate: Unknown. While salvaging components from DS9's sister station, the crew run afoul of a "surprise" left behind by the Cardassians.