Season Three
Episode Details
Sisko returns to the station after a long debriefing at Star Fleet,
newly promoted to Captain, and
bringing with him the USS Defiant, a prototype gunship designed to
deal with the Borg menace, now reassigned to DS9 to help in the fight
against the Dominion, and equipped with a cloaking device, loaned by
the Romulan Empire.
Sisko and the crew set off in the new ship to find the mysterious
founders of The Dominion.
All too soon they encounter the Jem'Hadar and Dax and O'Brien are
captured.
Press Release: Hoping to avert an invasion, Sisko takes his
officers into the Gamma Quadrant to find the leaders of the Dominion.
Production Code: 447, stardate 48212.4, US airdate: 24 Sep 94
Guest Stars: Salome Jens (Founder), Martha Hackett (T'Rul),
Kenneth Marshall (Lt Cmdr Eddington).
While Odo comes to terms with an amazing discovery about his past,
Kira attempts to contact Sisko and the others.
Meantime Sisko returns to the station to discover that things are
changing at an extremely fast rate; the more he discovers the more
concerned he becomes.
In the end, he decides to take matters into his own hands ...
Production Code: 448, stardate not given, US airdate: 1 Oct 94
After Quark accidentally kills a drunk Klingon in a brawl in his bar,
Quark claims he fought the Klingon and won.
His tall tale helps rebuild the dwindling clientel at his bar, and all
seems to be going well until the family of the dead Klingon arrive
on the Station.
Soon Quark is kidnapped, taken back to the Klingon home world, and forced
to marry the widow of the Klingon he killed.
He then finds that he is embroiled in a bitter feud between two Klingon
houses.
Press Release: In order to boost his business and gain respect,
Quark lies about killing a Klingon, then winds up forced to marry the dead
man's window.
Production Code: 449, stardate not given, US airdate: 8 Oct 94
Guest Stars: Rosalind Chao (Keiko), Mary Kay Adams (Grilka),
Robert O'Reilly (Gowron).
Dax starts suffering from a severe hallucinations and keeps on blacking
out. Concerned, Sisko and Bashir take her back to the Trill homeworld
where they hope to find an answer to her plight.
Soon it becomes apparent that the Trill authorities are hidding something
and are prepared to sacrifice Jadzia's life to stop the truth coming out.
Press Release: A deadly secret from Dax's
past could mean the end of Jadzia's life.
Production Code: 450, stardate not given, US airdate: 15 Oct 94
Guest Stars: Lisa Banes (Dr Renhol), Jeff Magnus McBride (Joran
Belar), Nicholas Cascone (Timor).
Kira comes across a record that implies that she spent time in a
Cardassian prisoner of war camp on Bajor, and when she investigates
she discovers other people who were there claim to know her. She
heads down to Bajor to investigate, but never reaches her destination.
She wakes up to find herself on Cardassia, apparently a Cardassian
and is told that she was a Cardassian spy who has been working on
Bajor for the last ten years. She refuses to believe but they show
her a range of evidence including apparently dead body of her truely
Bajoran alterego. She appears to be the daughter of an important
man, a Legate in the Cardassian senate.
Press Release:
Kira is kidnapped by the Cardassians, who try to prove to her that she
is really one of their people.
Production Code: 451, stardate not given, US airdate: 22 Oct 94
Guest Stars: Andrew Robinson (Garak), Gregory Sierra (Entek),
Cindy Katz (Yteppa), Lawrence Pressman (Ghemor).
Press Release:
Odo tries to convince a young, violent Jem'Hadar that there is more to
life than fighting and killing.
Production Code: 452, stardate not given, US airdate: 29 Oct 94
Guest Stars: Jill Sayre (Marta), Bumper Robinson (Teenager),
Leslie Bevis (Boslic Captain).
Press Release:
A trapped crew fights to save the station from self-destruction
when an automated Cardassian security program is accidently activated.
Production Code: 453, stardate not given, US airdate: 7 Nov 94
Guest Stars: Andrew Robinson (Garak), Marc Alaimo (Gul Dukat),
Danny Goldring (Legate Kell).
Press Release:
Dax falls in love with a man who will soon disappear with his planet
into another dimension for sixty years.
Production Code: 454, stardate 48423.2, US airdate: 14 Nov 94
Guest Stars: Brett Cullen (Deral), Christine Healy (Seltin),
Jeffrey Combs (Tiron).
Directed by: Jonathan Frakes.
Press Release:
Wil Riker's renegade duplicate steals the Defiant and attacks Cardassian
territory, forcing Sisko to assist Gul Dukat in stopping him.
Production Code: 455, stardate ?, US airdate: 21 Nov 94
Guest Stars: Jonathan Frakes (Riker), Marc Alaimo (Gul Dukat),
Tricia O'Neil (Korinas), Shannon Cochran (Kalita), Michael Canavan (Tamal).
Press Release:
A Bajoran celebration on the station serves as the backdrop for an epidemic
of inexplicable romantic attractions among the crew.
Production Code: 456, stardate ?, US airdate: 28 Nov 94
Guest Stars: Majel Barrett (Lwaxana Troi), Philip Anglim (Vedek Bareil),
Rosalind Chao (Keiko).
Directed by: Avery Brooks.
The command officers of Deep Space Nine return to Earth in the Defiant to
brief Starfleet on the situation in the Gamma Quadrant.
As Sisko, Bashir and Dax beam down something goes wrong with the
transporter and they never arrive at Starfleet Headquarters.
While O'Brien and Kira try to figure out where they went, Bashir and Sisko
are arrested as vagrants outside a metro station in the year 2024.
Dax is luckier and is rescued by a passer by and given assistance in
obtaining credentials.
Bashir and Sisko are taken to a compound where the unemployed and mentally
ill are kept, only to realise that they've arrived at the location of a
famous riot only a few days before it's due to start.
Things take a turn for the worse when the man due to be the ringleader of
the riot is stabbed while trying to stop Sisko and Bashir being attacked.
Production Code: 457, stardate 48481.2, US airdate: 31 Dec 94
When Starfleet suddenly ceases to exist, Kira and O'Brien set off on
journeys through time trying to recover Sisko, Bashir and Dax.
Meantime, Sisko decides to pose as the dead man and becomes a major
player in the riot ringleaders.
However they soon find out just how difficult it is to follow the
pre-ordained path needed to restore their version of the past, for in
their history the leader of the rioters, Gabriel Bell, is shot in the
final few minutes of the riot.
Since Sisko is now possing as Bell, it is he who will have to die.
Production Code: 458, stardate not given, US airdate: 7 Jan 95
Press Release:
Bashir musr use questionable methods in order to keep Vedek Bareil alive long
enough to help bring about a Bajoran peace treaty with Cardassia.
Production Code: 459, stardate 48498.4, US airdate: 28 Jan 95
Guest Stars: Louise Fletcher (Kai Winn), Philip Anglim (Vedek Bareil)
Press Release:
A desperate situation that could cost Kira her life forces
Odo to face the depth of his feelings for her.
Production Code: 460, stardate 48521.5, US airdate: 4 Feb 95
Guest Stars: Max Grodenchick (Rom), Aron Eisenberg (Nog).
Press Release:
Sisko ignores an ancient Bajoran prophecy of doom in order
to undertake a joint scientific venture with the Cardassians.
Production Code: 461, stardate 48543.2, US airdate: 11 Feb 95
Guest Stars: Tracy Scoggins (Gilora), Wendy Robie (Ulani),
Erick Avari (Vedek Yarka), Jessica Hendra (Dejar).
Press Release:
When the Ferengi leader suddenly decides to abolish his race's greedy
ways, Quark is determined to find out the truth behind his actions.
Production Code: 462, stardate not given, US airdate: 18 Feb 95
Guest Stars: Wallace Shawn (Zek), Max Grodenchik (Rom),
Juliana Donald (Emi), Tiny Ron (Maihar'du).
Directed by: Rene Auberjonois
Press Release:
An accident causes O'Brien to inadvertently jump into the near
future, where he witnesses his own death... and worse.
Production Code: 463, stardate ?, US airdate: 25 Feb 95
Guest Stars: Jack Shearer (Ruwon), Annette Helde (Karina).
After an encounter with a dubious acquaintance of Quarks, Dr Bashir finds
himself trapped in a bizzare dreamworld where each member of the DS9 crew
seems to play a role. He begins to age rapidly and realises that he has
to find the answer before he dies of old age.
Production Code: 464, stardate ?, US airdate: 8 Apr 95
Guest Stars: Andrew Robinson (Garak).
Press Release:
In a parallel universe, Sisko must assume the role of his dead counterpart
in order to save the mirror version of his late wife.
Production Code: 466, stardate ?, US airdate: 15 Apr 95
Guest Stars: Tim Russ (Tuvok), Andrew Robinson (Garak),
Felecia M Bell (Jennifer), Max Grodenchik (Rom).
Part one of a two part story known as The Arc
Press Release:
Garak's shop mysteriously explodes, launching Odo on an investigation to
determine who is trying to kill the Cardassian exile -- and why.
Production Code: 465, stardate ?, US airdate: 22 Apr 95
Guest Stars: Andrew Robinson (Garak), Paul Dooley (Enabran Tain),
Carlos LaCamara (Retaya), Julianna McCarthy (Mila).
Directed by: Avery Brooks.
Part two of a two part story known as The Arc
Press Release:
On the eve of a Romulan/Cardassian attack against the Dominion, Garak
may have to prove his loyalty to his former mentor by eliminating Odo.
Production Code: 467, stardate ?, US airdate: 29 Apr 95
Guest Star: Andrew Robinson (Garak), Paul Dooley (Enabran Tain),
Leland Orser (Lovok), Kenneth Marshall (Eddington), Leon Russom (Toddman).
Sisko becomes obsessed with a Bajoran legend that describes ancient
Bajoran spaceship that sailed on the solar winds and made it call the
way to Cardassia. He sets out to build a replica of the ship, and once
built, sets sail in it with the assistance of his son Jake.
Things do not go quite as expected and a miscalculation results in an
extraordinary discovery.
Press Release:
Sisko builds a new version of an ancient Bajoran space vessel in an effort
to prove the truth behind an 800-year-old legend.
Production Code: 468, stardate ?, US airdate: 6 May 95
Guest Star: Marc Alaimo (Gul Dukat), Bari Hochwald (Dr Elizabeth
Lense), Chase Masterson (Leeta).
Quark receives a visit from the FCA, the all-powerful overseer of
Ferengi business who places a seizure notice on his bar.
Informed that the seisure is due to the illicit activies of his
mother,
Quark returns to his home planet to confront her. He discovers
that she has broken the Ferengi law prohibiting females from earning
a profit.
Press Release:
Quark returns to his home planet to confront his mother, who
has broken the Ferengi law prohibiting females from earning a profit.
Production Code: 469, stardate ?, US airdate: 13 May 95
Guest Stars: Andrea Martin (Ishka), Penny Johnson (Kasidy Yates),
Max Grodenchik (Rom), Jeffrey Combs (Brunt).
Directed by: Rene Auberjonois.
Kira is asked to go an help reclaim some farming equipment from her
former comrades in the resistance who are refusing to release it.
Once she gets there she discovers that their need is very genuine and
a string of promises have been broken by Wai Kinn's government. When
Kai Winn sends the troops in, Kira decides to aid her comrades and
finds herself once again a rebel on the run. Soon a minor civil war
has erupted and the struggle is on to gain control of the Bajoran
government by toppling Kai Winn.
Press Release:
Sent to Bajor on a mission against her former leader in the resistance
movement, Kira ends up joining him as a fugitive.
Production Code: 470, stardate ?, US airdate: 20 May 95
Guest Star: Louise Fletcher (Kai Wynn), Duncan Regehr (Shakaar),
Dian Salinger (Lupaza), William Lucking (Furel), Sherman Howard (Syvar),
John Doman (Lenaris).
It is Jadzia's time to meet her former hosts through a trill ceremony
where the personality of a former host takes over another person so
that Jadzia can talk with them as a seperate person.
She selects Kira, O'Brien, Bashir, Quark, Leda, Odo and Sisko as the
hosts for her previous personas. All but Quark, readily accept and
she manages pursuade Quark in the end.
The problems start when one of the past hosts refuses to give up it's
new-found body and be returned to Jadzia.
Production Code: 471, stardate ?, US airdate: 10 Jun 95
Guest Star: Chase Masterson (Leeta).
A visiting ambassador briefs the command personel on a coup d'etat within
one of the Federations newer allies, a former enemy with whom a peace
was only recently found.
He recommends that they dispatch the Defiant as a show of Federation
strength to ensure that the new government does not break the treaty.
As they near the territory of the alien race, they realise that they
have been tricked and that the Defiant is now under the control of one
of Odo's race who is determined to start a war.
Can they discover who the shape shifter is in time, or will Sisko have
to destroy the Defiant in order to avoid war?
Press Release:
One of Odo's people tricks Sisko and the crew into actions
that could start a war in the Alpha Quadrant.
Production Code: 472, stardate ?, US airdate: 17 Jun 95
Guest Stars: Lawrence Pressman (Krajensky), Kenneth Marshall
(Eddington), Jeff Austin (Bolian).
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