Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Episode Guide
                           Part 6

@~Continued from Issue 65

SEASON THREE 1994-1995

047 "The Search, Part I"
Stardate 48212.4: Preparations are being made aboard DS9 for
an inevitable visit from the Dominion, but no one can escape the
fact that the station would wither under an attack from the
Jem'Hadar. Commander Sisko, having gone to Earth for Starfleet
briefings on the threat from the Gamma Quadrant, arrives in the
experimental Federation vessel Defiant, a small ship originally
created to do battle with the Borg. Carrying more firepower than
any other Starfleet ship and a cloaking device loaned by the
Romulans, the Defiant is to go to the Dominion before the
Dominion arrives in the Alpha Quadrant; if need be, the ship is
also to take the fight to the other side of the galaxy. Another
innovation brought about by Starfleet Command is the transfer of
a Starfleet security officer to the station, relieving Odo of all
but station-bound security matters. The shapeshifter withdraws in
anger while Sisko assembles a crew for the Defiant's mission to
seek out the Dominion for negotiations, but joins the Defiant crew
at the last minute. A trade contact of Quark's offers some
information but little help in the search for the Founders of the
Dominion, but does point the crew out to a planet through which
most Dominion communications pass. When the Defiant arrives there,
Dax and O'Brien beam down and find the possible co- ordinates of
the Dominion command center - and are captured by the Jem'Hadar,
who have also arrived in force in orbit. The Defiant manages to
take out only one Jem'Hadar ship and barely survives the withering
assault of the remaining attackers. The Defiant is boarded and
Kira is blasted unconscious in the ensuing melee.  Odo takes her
and evacuates in an escape shuttle, heading not back to the
station, but to a planet in the Omarian Nebula with which he has
been preoccupied since arriving in the Gamma Quadrant. The planet
turns out to be the home of a race of life forms very like Odo
himself, one of which welcomes him home.

048 "The Search, Part II"
Stardate not given: Odo has arrived on his home world, greeted by
his fellow shapeshifters. He at last learns of his origins - he,
along with hundreds of other newly-formed shapeshifters, were
dispelled into the far reaches of space and genetically programmed
to return home with their knowledge later; Odo is the first to
make it back. But his homecoming is not without its complications
- his fellow shapeshifters consider him tainted by the many years
he has spent in the company of "solids," and he has much to learn
about his heritage. In the meantime, Sisko and Bashir, having
escaped the Defiant in a shuttle, are picked up by Dax and
O'Brien, who return them to DS9. Negotiations are now apparently
underway between the Dominion and the Federation, but some of the
proposed treaty's stipulations have sinister undercurrents; the
Romulans are being excluded from the talks, though the
Cardassians, Ferengi and Klingons are being welcomed, and it is
revealed to Sisko that the station - and Bajor - are being handed
over to the Dominion. As the Jem'Hadar are walking over the
station's inhabitants, Sisko and his crew - and unlikely ally
Garak - take up arms to try to take DS9 back from its new owners.
Meanwhile, on the planet of the shapeshifters and unknown to all,
the Founders lie in wait, conducting a terrifying experiment.

049 "The House of Quark"
Stardate not given: A drunk Klingon named Kozak tries to kill
Quark in a dispute over his bar tab, and winds up falling on his
own knife by accident. Quark, attempting to boost business, tells
Odo that he bravely killed Kozak in self-defense. Odo warns that
Kozak's family will come after Quark to claim the right of
vengeance, which springs to mind very quickly when a new
Klingon arrival who claims to be Kozak's brother D'Ghor accosts
Quark on the station. But D'Ghor doesn't want revenge, he wants
Quark to keep quiet about the true nature of Kozak's death to
avoid dishonoring his family.

050 "Equilibrium"
Stardate not given: During an informal home-cooked dinner held
by Sisko for the senior staff, Dax picks up a musical instrument
of Jake's and begins to pick out, seemingly at random, a tune
which she becomes preoccupied with, and it follows her into some
disturbing hallucinations of masked figures. A medical checkup
reveals some deficiencies in the chemical links between Jadzia and
the Dax symbiont, necessitating a trip to the specialized medical
facilities on the Trill planet. Though she shows favorable
response to her initial treatments, Dax goes into shock when the
computer aboard the Defiant displays a picture of the Trill
composer of the song that has been on her mind. Sisko and Bashir
try to seek out the mysterious link with the long-dead musician
and Dax only to have all the official channels closed in their
faces to protect a devastating secret, the cost of which will be
Jadzia's life.

@~I've been serialising this guide for a year which is quite long
@~enough so the rest of it is on this issue's disk ... Sue





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