DS9 Season 5


Episodes

Summary 
Sisko, Odo, O'Brien, and Worf are sent on a mission to expose Chancellor Gowron as a Changeling infiltrator, only to discover that it was Martok who had been replaced. The Changeling impersonating Martok is killed, but Gowron is still not ready to end the war with the Federation but does agree to call a cease fire and begin talks. The crew is able to capture a crashed Jem'Hadar ship and return it to Starfleet. Worf helps Quark woo his ex-wife Grilka, while he and Jadzia Dax start a relationship initiated by Dax.

Jake Sisko is doing a report on Julian Bashir in a later episode when they are called to help a Federation colony against a Klingon attack, and Jake has his first real dealings with death and the horrors of war. Keiko O'Brien later gets possessed by a strange noncorporeal being who forces Miles to do whatever she says or else she'll kill Keiko. Miles is, of course, able to outwit the entity, which turns out to be a pah-wraith, who was attempting to kill the Prophets.

The crew travels back in time to the 23rd century and thwarts a plot by Arne Darvin to kill James T. Kirk, (unwittingly reintroducing the previously-extinct tribble species to the galaxy in the process). Odo is forced to reveal that during the occupation, he had three innocent Bajorans executed as he had placed order over justice and did not investigate the crime fully. Later, he and Quark crash on an L-class planet and must climb a mountain in order to get a signal through to Deep Space 9. After an accident in the holosuite, Sisko begins having visions of past, present and future, preventing Bajor from joining the United Federation of Planets by claiming that it will be disastrous for Bajor to do so.

A few weeks before giving birth to Kirayoshi O'Brien, Kira Nerys tracks down an insane Cardassian who has been killing members of the Shakaar resistance cell as revenge for civilians who were killed in one of their attacks. Odo receives a sick infant Changeling from Quark which he attempts to nurse back to health, but with no success. However, before it "dies", it absorbs itself into Odo's body and gives Odo back his shape-shifting abilities. 

Sisko vows to track down and arrest Maquis renegade Michael Eddington after he attacks a Federation starship. Sisko poisons a Maquis colony and Eddington agrees to surrender.

Garak receives a signal from Enabran Tain, indicating that he is alive in a Dominion prison. He and Worf attempt a rescue, but are captured themselves, where they discover the real Martok and Julian Bashir, who has also been captured and replaced by a shapeshifter. Tain acknowledges Garak as his son before he dies. The rest escape and return to the station. An attempt to seal the wormhole to prevent the impending arrival of a Dominion fleet is unsuccessful, thanks to an act of sabotage by Bashir's Changeling replacement, who is later killed during a failed attempt to destroy the Bajoran system by triggering a supernova within the Bajoran sun. Dukat reveals that he has negotiated Cardassia's entry into the Dominion, becoming absolute ruler of his planet under Dominion rule. In response to the sudden change of fortune in the Klingon's war against the Cardassians, Gowron agrees to Sisko's proposal to reinstate the Khitomer Accords, restoring the alliance between the Federation and the Klingon Empire. General Martok stays on DS9 as Klingon representative for the new alliance.

Julian Bashir meets Lewis Zimmerman, the creator of the EMH, who wants to use Bashir for his next Emergency Medical Holographic program. It is discovered that Bashir had been genetically altered to make him stronger and smarter as he was "slow" as a child. Odo falls in and out of love with a mysterious woman, Quark begins smuggling weapons "illegally," but has a change of heart.

Tekeny Ghemor returns to the station and reveals all his secrets to Kira before he dies. Dukat and Weyoun 5 try to prevent it, but are too late. Quark finds out his mother and the Grand Nagus had fallen in love, and Worf accompanies Martok on a mission to rescue another Klingon ship from the Jem'Hadar. In return, Martok lets Worf into his House. The crew discovers an alternate timeline by the crew aboard the  which has the Defiant being thrown back in time and crashing on a planet, and a world of eight thousand being created by the survivors of this crash. This event, however, is prevented by an alternate version of Odo, who confesses his love to Kira.

After the Cardassian-Dominion alliance has nearly wiped out the Maquis, Eddington tricks Sisko into releasing him so they can prevent a last strike. He dies in a blaze of glory, allowing the survivors to escape from the Jem'Hadar. O'Brien, Garak, and Nog travel to Empok Nor to salvage station parts, but Garak is infected by a Cardassian virus and turns to a murderous rage.

Jake and Nog manage to cheer Sisko up by offering him a baseball card. The Dominion offers Bajor a nonaggression pact, which they resist at first, but Sisko endorses it so they will stay out of the fighting. After the crew decides to mine the wormhole to prevent further Dominion reinforcements from coming through, the Dominion attacks and the crew – including Garak – is forced to abandon the station, escaping on the Defiant. Odo, Kira, Quark and Jake stay behind as Dukat, Weyoun, and the Jem'Hadar occupy the station. The Dominion War has begun…

Background information 
 This season was broadcast concurrent with  Season 3, and  was released during its run, three days prior to the airing of the episode .
 The writers' primary goal during season 5 was to get the show back on the track they'd been on in season 3, i.e. moving towards war with the Dominion. Season 3 was originally supposed to conclude with the episode that ultimately became , while season 4 was to open with . However, towards the end of season 3, Paramount had told the writers that they didn't want a cliffhanger ending, and they also wanted 'something' done to shake up the show, which ultimately led to the introduction of Worf and the Klingons. The Klingon war arc took up most of season 4, so now that the writers were moving into the next season, they wanted to end the Klingon conflict and get back to the inevitable conflict with the Dominion. As executive producer and writer Ira Steven Behr states, "Season 4 threw us for a loop, with the whole Klingon thing, and bringing Worf into the show. So the seminal thing about our fifth season was that we wanted to get back on the track we'd anticipated being on a year earlier. We were moving back toward making the shape-shifters and the Dominion our enemies. Not the Klingons. I didn't want to have the Klingons as our enemies." ()
 Art Director Randy McIlvain took over Herman Zimmerman's role as production designer for the first five episodes of the season, while Zimmerman was working on . After production of First Contact was complete, Zimmerman resumed his regular role on the show.
 Characters which "crossover" from other incarnations of Star Trek: Arne Darvin in new materials and James T. Kirk, Spock, Leonard McCoy, Montgomery Scott, Nyota Uhura, Pavel Chekov, Cyrano Jones, Freeman, Lurry, Korax, Galloway, Nilz Baris, and K-7's bartender in stock footage, () and the Emergency Medical Hologram. ()
 Also starting with , the DS9 crew switch to the new Starfleet uniforms which were designed for . However, the crew on  continued to use the old DS9 Starfleet uniforms, due to being stranded in the Delta Quadrant.

Credits

Crew 

Executive Producers
Rick Berman
Ira Steven Behr
Creative Consultant
Michael Piller
Coordinating Producer
Robert della Santina
Co-Producer
J.P. Farrell
Producers
Robert Hewitt Wolfe
Steve Oster
René Echevarria
Co-Supervising Producer
Hans Beimler
Supervising Producers
Peter Lauritson
Ronald D. Moore
Associate Producer
Terri Potts
Casting by
Junie Lowry-Johnson, CSA
Ron Surma
Music by
Dennis McCarthy ("Apocalypse Rising", "Nor the Battle to the Strong", "Trials and Tribble-ations", "Rapture", "For the Uniform", "In Purgatory's Shadow", "Doctor Bashir, I Presume", "A Simple Investigation", "Ferengi Love Songs", "Blaze of Glory")
Jay Chattaway ("The Ship", "Things Past", "The Darkness and the Light", "The Begotten", "By Inferno's Light", "Ties of Blood and Water", "Ferengi Love Songs", "Empok Nor", "Call to Arms"")
David Bell ("Looking for par'Mach in All the Wrong Places", "The Ascent", "Business as Usual", "Soldiers of the Empire", "In the Cards")
Gregory Smith ("The Assignment")
Paul Baillargeon ("Let He Who Is Without Sin...", "Children of Time")
Main Title Theme by
Dennis McCarthy (credit appears only in episodes not composed by McCarthy)
Director of Photography
Jonathan West, A.S.C. ("Apocalypse Rising" – "Looking for par'Mach in All the Wrong Places", "The Assignment" – "Things Past")
Kris Krosskove ("Nor the Battle to the Strong", "Trials and Tribble-ations", "The Ascent" – "Rapture")
Production Designer
Herman Zimmerman ("Trials and Tribble-ations" – "Let He Who Is Without Sinhellip;")
Art Director
Randy McIlvain
Editors
David Ramirez (every third episodes after "Apocalypse Rising")
Steve Tucker (every third episode after "The Ship")
Michael Westmore II (every third episode after "Looking for par'Mach in All the Wrong Places")
Unit Production Manager
Robert della Santina
First Assistant Directors
B.C. Cameron (odd-numbered episodes)
Lou Race (even-numbered episodes)
Second Assistant Director
Paul Lawrence (all episodes except "Trials and Tribble-ations")
Robin Winter ("Trials and Tribble-ations")
Costume Designer
Robert Blackman
Visual Consultant
Herman Zimmerman ("Apocalypse Rising" – "Nor the Battle to the Strong")
Visual Effects Producer
Dan Curry
Visual Effects Supervisors
Gary Hutzel ("Apocalypse Rising", "Trials and Tribble-ations", "The Ascent")
David Stipes (even-numbered episodes)
Edward L. Williams ("Looking for par'Mach in All the Wrong Places")
Dan Curry ("Let He Who Is Without Sinhellip;")
Post Production Supervisor
Kristine Fernandes
Scenic Art Supervisor/Technical Consultant
Michael Okuda
Senior Illustrator/Technical Consultant
Rick Sternbach
Make-up Designed and Supervised by
Michael Westmore
Set Decorator
Laura Richarz
Set Designers
Fritz Zimmerman ("Apocalypse Rising", "Nor the Battle to the Strong", "The Assignment", "Things Past")
Anthony Bro ("The Ship")
Ron Wilkinson ("Looking for par'Mach in All the Wrong Places", "Trials and Tribble-ations", "Let He Who Is Without Sinhellip;", "The Ascent")
Illustrator
John Eaves
Visual Effects Coordinators
Judy Elkins ("Apocalypse Rising", "Trials and Tribble-ations", "The Ascent")
Adam Buckner (even-numbered episodes)
Visual Effects Series Coordinator
Edward L. Williams
Visual Effects Associate
Laura Lang-Matz
Script Supervisor
Stuart Lippman ("Apocalypse Rising", "The Ship")
Judi Brown ("Looking for par'Mach in All the Wrong Places" – "The Ascent")
Wardrobe Supervisor
Carol Kunz (odd-numbered episodes)
Camille Argus (even-numbered episodes)
Special Effects
Gary Monak
Property Master
Joe Longo
Construction Coordinator
Thomas J. Arp
Scenic Artists
Anthony Fredrickson ("Apocalypse Rising")
James Van Over ("The Ship")
Doug Drexler (odd-numbered episodes starting with "Looking for par'Mach in All the Wrong Places")
Denise Okuda (even-numbered episodes starting with "Nor the Battle to the Strong")
Hair Designer
Norma Lee
Make-up Artists 
Sonny Burman ("Looking for par'Mach in All the Wrong Places" – "Trials and Tribble-ations")
Mark Bussan ("The Ship" – "Nor the Battle to the Strong", "Things Past", "The Ascent")
Camille Calvet ("Apocalypse Rising", "Trials and Tribble-ations" – "Let He Who Is Without Sinhellip;")
Karen Iverson ("Apocalypse Rising" – "Looking for par'Mach in All the Wrong Places", "Let He Who Is Without Sinhellip;" – "The Ascent")
Dean Jones ("Apocalypse Rising", "The Ship", "Trials and Tribble-ations" – "Things Past")
Karen Westerfield ("Nor the Battle to the Strong", "The Assignment", "The Ascent")
Hair Stylists
Jacklin Masteran ("Apocalypse Now", "Looking for par'Mach in All the Wrong Places", "Nor the Battle to the Strong", "The Assignment", "Let He Who Is Without Sinhellip;")
Brian Andrew-Tunstall ("Apocalypse Now", "The Ship", "Nor the Battle to the Strong", "Trials and Tribble-ations", "Let He Who Is Without Sinhellip;", "Things Past")
Alicia Tripi ("The Ship", "Looking for par'Mach in All the Wrong Places", "The Assignment")
Linle White ("Trials and Tribble-ations", "Things Past")
Caryl Codon-Tharp ("The Ascent")
Rebecca De Morrio ("The Ascent")
Sound Mixer
Bill Gocke
Camera Operator
Kris Krosskove, SOC (all episodes except those on which he served as Director of Photography)
Bill Asman ("Nor the Battle to the Strong", "Trials and Tribble-ations", "The Ascent")
Gary Huddleston ("Rapture")
Chief Lighting Technician
R.D. Knox
First Company Grip
Steve Gausche
Key Costumers
Mary Ellen Bosché (odd-numbered episodes)
Jerry Bono (odd-numbered episodes)
Phyllis Corcoran-Woods (even-numbered episodes except "The Assignment")
Stephanie Levanda-Lipsky ("The Ship", "Nor the Battle to the Strong") (credited as Stephanie Lipsky in "The Ship")
Carol Kunz ("The Assignment")
Cleo Severy ("The Assignment", "Things Past")
Music Editor
Stephen M. Rowe
Supervising Sound Editor
Mace Matiosian
Sound Editors
T. Ashley Harvey
Guy Tsujimoto
Jivan Tahmizian
Eric Williams
Assistant Editors
Jonathan Paul Ramirez (every third episode after "Apocalypse Rising") (credited as Jonathan Ramirez in "Apocalypse Rising")
Craig Galloway (every third episode after "The Ship")
Jonathan Posell (every third episode after "Looking for par'Mach in All the Wrong Places")
Visual Effects Assistant Editor
Edward Hoffmeister
Production Coordinator
Heidi Smothers
Post Production Coordinator

Production Associates
David Rossi
Robbin L. Slocum
Main Title Design
Dan Curry
Stunt Coordinator
Dennis Madalone
Pre-Production Coordinator
Lolita Fatjo
Science Consultant
André Bormanis
Casting Executive
Helen Mossler, CSA
Assistants to Producers
Chad Zimmerman ("Apocalypse Rising", "Trials and Tribble-ations", "The Ascent")
Meril Davis ("The Ship", "The Assignment")
Mike Mistovich ("Looking for par'Mach in All the Wrong Places", "Let He Who Is Without Sinhellip;")
Jill Sherwin ("Nor the Battle to the Strong", "Things Past")

Uncredited crew 
 Hala Gabriel – Production Accountant
 Gary Kerr – Production Illustrator ("Trials and Tribble-ations")

Companies 
Digital Optical Effects Pacific Ocean Post
Special Video Compositing CIS Hollywood
Motion Control Photography Image "G"
Computer Animation 
VisionArt Design & Animation ("Apocalypse Rising", "The Ship", "Trials and Tribble-ations", "Things Past", "The Begotten", "In Purgatory's Shadow", "By Inferno's Light", "A Simple Investigation", "Call to Arms")
Digital Muse ("The Begotten")
Foundation Imaging ("Business as Usual")
Editing facilities Unitel Video
Post Production sound Modern Sound
Filmed with Panavision Cameras and Lenses

See also 
DS9 Season 5 performers
DS9 Season 5 UK VHS
DS9 Season 5 US VHS
DS9 Season 5 DVD

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Star Trek seasons