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Episodes
| Title | Episode | Production number | Stardate | Original airdate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| "Apocalypse Rising" | 5x01 | 40510-499 | Unknown | 1996-09-30 |
| "The Ship" | 5x02 | 40510-500 | 50049.3 | 1996-10-07 |
| "Looking for par'Mach in All the Wrong Places" | 5x03 | 40510-501 | 50061.2 | 1996-10-14 |
| "Nor the Battle to the Strong" | 5x04 | 40510-502 | Unknown | 1996-10-21 |
| "The Assignment" | 5x05 | 40510-504 | Unknown | 1996-10-28 |
| "Trials and Tribble-ations" | 5x06 | 40510-503 | 4523.7 | 1996-11-04 |
| "Let He Who Is Without Sin..." | 5x07 | 40510-505 | Unknown | 1996-11-11 |
| "Things Past" | 5x08 | 40510-506 | Unknown | 1996-11-18 |
| "The Ascent" | 5x09 | 40510-507 | Unknown | 1996-11-25 |
| "Rapture" | 5x10 | 40510-508 | Unknown | 1996-12-30 |
| "The Darkness and the Light" | 5x11 | 40510-509 | 50416.2 | 1997-01-06 |
| "The Begotten" | 5x12 | 40510-510 | Unknown | 1997-01-27 |
| "For the Uniform" | 5x13 | 40510-511 | 50485.2 | 1997-02-03 |
| "In Purgatory's Shadow" | 5x14 | 40510-512 | Unknown | 1997-02-10 |
| "By Inferno's Light" | 5x15 | 40510-513 | 50564.2 | 1997-02-17 |
| "Doctor Bashir, I Presume" | 5x16 | 40510-514 | Unknown | 1997-02-24 |
| "A Simple Investigation" | 5x17 | 40510-515 | Unknown | 1997-03-31 |
| "Business as Usual" | 5x18 | 40510-516 | Unknown | 1997-04-05 |
| "Ties of Blood and Water" | 5x19 | 40510-517 | 50712.5 | 1997-04-14 |
| "Ferengi Love Songs" | 5x20 | 40510-518 | Unknown | 1997-04-21 |
| "Soldiers of the Empire" | 5x21 | 40510-519 | Unknown | 1997-04-29 |
| "Children of Time" | 5x22 | 40510-520 | 50814.2 | 1997-05-05 |
| "Blaze of Glory" | 5x23 | 40510-521 | Unknown | 1997-05-12 |
| "Empok Nor" | 5x24 | 40510-522 | 50901.7 | 1997-05-19 |
| "In the Cards" | 5x25 | 40510-523 | 50929.4 | 1997-06-09 |
| "Call to Arms" | 5x26 | 40510-524 | 50975.2 | 1997-06-16 |
Summary
Sisko, Odo, O'Brien and Worf are sent on a mission to expose 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. The crew is able to capture a crashed Jam'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 Klingon attack. 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 O'Brien to do whatever she says or else she'll kill Keiko. Miles is, of course, able to outwit her.
The crew travels back in time to the 23rd century and thwarts a plot by Arne Darvin to kill James T. Kirk. Odo is forced to reveal that he had three innocent Bajorans executed during the occupation. 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 a Cardassian who has been killing members of the Shakaar resistance cell as revenge for having been disfigured by 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.
The Maquis are shown again here in DS9 twice, first in "For the Uniform" then "Blaze of Glory", in which Michael Eddington finally is killed, but not by Benjamin Sisko. We find out midway in this series that for about two months Julian Bashir had been replaced by a changeling (before the change of uniforms, as they find Julian in his old uniform when they rescue him.) In this two-part episode, Martok is also returned and rejoins the Klingon Empire. General Martok stays on DS9 as Klingon representative for the new alliance between the Federation and the Klingon Empire (after the Cardassians join the Dominion.) We also find out the Romulans are willing to help the two defeat the Dominion.
There are many episodes not related to the Dominion War directly, such as Julian Bashir meeting the creator of the EMH who wants to use Julian for his next model, which we find out is supposed to be a Long-term Medical Hologram. In this episode, we find out Julian had been genetically altered to make him stronger and smarter as he was "slow" as a child. Other episodes include Odo's falling in and out of love with a mysterious woman, Quark smuggling weapons "illegally," Quark finding out his mother and the Grand Nagus had fallen in love, and the discovery of an alternate timeline by the crew aboard the USS Defiant which has the Defiant being thrown back in time and crashing on a planet, and a world of 8,000 being created by the survivors of this crash.
Nog is featured as a command cadet in the episode "Empok Nor". Finally, the season concludes with an attack on the station and the true beginning of the Dominion War along with the abandoning of the station by the crew, who stay on board the Defiant.
Background
- This season was broadcast concurrent with Star Trek: Voyager Season 3, and Star Trek: First Contact was released during its run, three days prior to the airing of the episode "The Ascent".
- The writers' primary goal during season 5 was to get the show back on the track they'd been on in season 3, ie moving towards war with the Dominion. Season 3 was originally supposed to conclude with the episode that ultimately became "Homefront", while season 4 was to open with "Paradise Lost". 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." (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Companion)
- 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 Star Trek: First Contact. 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 (DS9: "Trials and Tribble-ations"), and the Emergency Medical Hologram (DS9: "Doctor Bashir, I Presume").
Credits
Cast
- Avery Brooks as Benjamin Sisko
- Rene Auberjonois as Odo
- Michael Dorn as Worf
- Terry Farrell as Jadzia Dax
- Cirroc Lofton as Jake Sisko
- Colm Meaney as Miles O'Brien
- Armin Shimerman as Quark
- Alexander Siddig as Julian Bashir
- Nana Visitor as Kira Nerys
Crew
- Executive Producers
- Creative Consultant
- Coordinating Producer
- Co-Producer
- Producers
- Co-Supervising Producer
- Supervising Producers
- Associate Producer
- Casting by
- Music by
- Dennis McCarthy ("Apocalypse Rising", "...Nor the Battle to the Strong", "Trials and Tribble-ations")
- Jay Chattaway ("The Ship", "Things Past")
- David Bell ("Looking for par'Mach in All the Wrong Places", "The Ascent")
- Gregory Smith ("The Assignment")
- Paul Baillargeon ("Let He Who Is Without Sin...")
- 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")
- Production Designer
- Herman Zimmerman ("Trials and Tribble-ations" – "Let He Who Is Without Sin...")
- Art Director
- 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
- Visual Consultant
- Herman Zimmerman ("Apocalypse Rising" – "...Nor the Battle to the Strong")
- Visual Effects Producer
- 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 Sin...")
- Post Production Supervisor
- Scenic Art Supervisor/Technical Consultant
- Senior Illustrator/Technical Consultant
- Make-up Designed and Supervised by
- Set Decorator
- 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 Sin...", "The Ascent")
- Illustrator
- Visual Effects Coordinators
- Judy Elkins ("Apocalypse Rising", "Trials and Tribble-ations", "The Ascent")
- Adam Buckner (even-numbered episodes)
- Visual Effects Series Coordinator
- Visual Effects Associate
- 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
- Property Master
- Construction Coordinator
- 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
- 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 Sin...")
- Karen Iverson ("Apocalypse Rising" – "Looking for par'Mach in All the Wrong Places", "Let He Who Is Without Sin..." – "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 Sin...")
- Brian Andrew-Tunstall ("Apocalypse Now", "The Ship", "...Nor the Battle to the Strong", "Trials and Tribble-ations", "Let He Who Is Without Sin...", "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
- 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")
- Chief Lighting Technician
- First Company Grip
- 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
- Supervising Sound Editor
- Sound Editors
- 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
- Production Coordinator
- Post Production Coordinator
- Production Associates
- David Rossi
- Robbin Slocum
- Main Title Design
- Dan Curry
- Stunt Coordinator
- Pre-Production Coordinator
- Science Consultant
- 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 Sin...")
- Jill Sherwin ("...Nor the Battle to the Strong", "Things Past")
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
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