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DS9 Season 5

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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

Season 5 starts with the exposing of Martok as a Changeling within the Klingon Empire. Then, Worf helps Quark woo Grilka, a Klingon woman in the sequel to the episode "The House of Quark". In this episode, Worf and Jadzia Dax start a relationship initiated by Dax. This relationship will continue throughout the rest of the season and beyond.

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 in this episode, which is mainly centered around him. 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.

"Trials and Tribble-ations" is the 30th year anniversary episode of Star Trek and is a unique merging of the DS9 cast into the actual episode "The Trouble with Tribbles" using the old footage. It is also featured in the bonuses of the DVD box set's 7th DVD. Another big change is shown within the episode "Rapture" as the Starfleet uniforms are changed for the second time in all the spin-offs series to a new "grey on black" style. The crew of the USS Voyager continued with the colored-shoulder uniform style, however, as they had no way of knowing of the change.

In "The Begotten", 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 changing Odo back into a Changeling with the ability to shapeshift. 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.

Credits

Cast

Crew

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Executive Producers
Creative Consultant
Coordinating Producer
Co-Producer
Producers
Co-Supervising Producer
Supervising Producers
Associate Producer
Casting by
Music by
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
Unit Production Manager
  • Robert della Santina
First Assistant Directors
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
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
Special Effects
Property Master
Construction Coordinator
Scenic Artists
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
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
Main Title Design
  • Dan Curry
Stunt Coordinator
Pre-Production Coordinator
Science Consultant
Casting Executive
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
Editing facilities
Unitel Video
Post Production sound
Modern Sound
Filmed with
Panavision Cameras and Lenses

See also


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