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The Best Episodes of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 1

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 1 Episode 1 - Emissary
    7.6/10(5130 votes)

    #1 - Emissary

    S1:E1

    Stardate: 46379.1. Commander Benjamin Sisko and a new crew of Starfleet and Bajoran officers take command of an abandoned Cardassian space station and make an incredible discovery that will change the galaxy and Sisko's future. A new crew is assigned to a former Cardassian space station: Deep Space Nine. It is a joint Federation/Bajoran force, with Commander Sisko in charge, but his life is dramatically changed when he is declared the Emissary to the Prophets by a Bajoran priest.

    Director:David Carson
    Writer:Michael Piller

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  2. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 1 Episode 2 - Past Prologue
    7.0/10(38 votes)

    #2 - Past Prologue

    S1:E2

    Stardate: Unknown. Kira finds her loyalties divided when a Bajoran extremist wanted by the Cardassians comes to the station with questionable intentions.

    Director:Winrich Kolbe
    Writer:Katharyn Powers

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  3. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 1 Episode 3 - A Man Alone
    7.1/10(3110 votes)

    #3 - A Man Alone

    S1:E3

    Stardate: 46421.5. When the return of a man Odo sent to prison years earlier leads to his murder aboard the station, Odo becomes the prime suspect and a target for harassment.

    Director:Paul Lynch
    Writer:Gerald Sanford

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  4. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 1 Episode 4 - Babel
    6.8/10(2994 votes)

    #4 - Babel

    S1:E4

    Stardate: 46423.7. A deadly virus created by the Bajorans 18 years earlier inadvertently breaks loose aboard the station, and prompts a race against the clock to find a cure.

    Director:Paul Lynch
    Writers:Ira Steven Behr, Sally Caves

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  5. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 1 Episode 5 - Captive Pursuit
    7.0/10(2969 votes)

    #5 - Captive Pursuit

    S1:E5

    Stardate: Unknown. When O'Brien befriends the station's first visitor from the Gamma Quadrant, he learns that the mysterious alien is on the run from determined pursuers.

    Director:Corey Allen
    Writer:Jill Donner

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  6. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 1 Episode 6 - Q-Less
    7.6/10(3058 votes)

    #6 - Q-Less

    S1:E6

    Stardate: 46531.2. Vash arrives from the Gamma Quadrant as Q plagues the station and an unknown force threatens to destroy it.

    Director:Paul Lynch
    Writer:Hannah Louise Shearer

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  7. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 1 Episode 7 - Dax
    6.7/10(2961 votes)

    #7 - Dax

    S1:E7

    Stardate: 46910.1. Jadzia Dax is charged with a murder that her symbiont's previous host Curzon allegedly committed. Now an extradition hearing may decide whether Jadzia can be held responsible for the actions of a previous life.

    Director:David Carson
    Writer:Peter Allan Fields

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  8. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 1 Episode 8 - The Passenger
    7.1/10(2918 votes)

    #8 - The Passenger

    S1:E8

    Stardate: Unknown. A dangerous killer dies in an apparent accident, but the security officer providing his transport to prison believes the criminal's consciousness may have yet survived.

    Director:Paul Lynch
    Writer:Morgan Gendel

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  9. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 1 Episode 9 - Move Along Home
    6.4/10(2713 votes)

    #9 - Move Along Home

    S1:E9

    The Wadi from the Gamma Quadrant are to make first contact and decide to visit DS9. When they catch Quark cheating they let him off by playing a special game.

    Director:David Carson
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 1 Episode 10 - The Nagus
    5.8/10(2996 votes)

    #10 - The Nagus

    S1:E10

    Stardate: Unknown. Grand Nagus Zek, the leader of Ferengi society, comes to DS9 to oversee the introduction of a Ferengi business presence in the Gamma Quadrant and announce Quark as his successor.

    Director:David Livingston
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 1 Episode 11 - Vortex
    7.0/10(2775 votes)

    #11 - Vortex

    S1:E11

    Stardate: Unknown. A wanted man from the Gamma Quadrant with questionable motives reveals to Odo stories about other "Changelings," which may hold clues to Odo's mysterious origin.

    Director:Winrich Kolbe
    Writer:Sam Rolfe

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  12. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 1 Episode 12 - Battle Lines
    7.0/10(2696 votes)

    #12 - Battle Lines

    S1:E12

    Stardate: Unknown. Sisko, Kira, and Bashir take Kai Opaka through the wormhole for a brief excursion in the Gamma Quadrant. But when they crash-land on a desolate planet, they find a divided, warring penal colony where no one ever dies.

    Director:Paul Lynch
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 1 Episode 13 - The Storyteller
    6.6/10(2680 votes)

    #13 - The Storyteller

    S1:E13

    Stardate: 46729.1. When O'Brien and Bashir beam down to a Bajoran village, the community selects O'Brien as their next Sirah - expecting him to save them from a menacing entity.

    Director:David Livingston
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 1 Episode 14 - Progress
    6.0/10(2692 votes)

    #14 - Progress

    S1:E14

    Stardate: 46844.3. Kira finds herself in a difficult moral situation when her job demands she force an adamant Bajoran man from his home in the name of progress.

    Director:Les Landau
    Writer:Peter Allan Fields

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  15. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 1 Episode 15 - If Wishes Were Horses
    6.8/10(2702 votes)

    #15 - If Wishes Were Horses

    S1:E15

    Stardate: 46853.2. The DS9 crew's own imaginations cause mysterious beings with unknown intentions to appear on the station.

    Director:Robert Legato
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 1 Episode 16 - The Forsaken
    6.5/10(2623 votes)

    #16 - The Forsaken

    S1:E16

    Stardate: 46925.1. Odo and Lwaxanna Troi come to a mutual understanding when a computer malfunction causes them to become trapped in a turbolift.

    Director:Les Landau
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 1 Episode 17 - Dramatis Personae
    6.9/10(2594 votes)

    #17 - Dramatis Personae

    S1:E17

    Stardate: 46922.3. An alien "telepathic matrix" causes the DS9 crew to re-enact an ancient power struggle, leading Kira to attempt mutiny and overthrow Sisko.

    Director:Cliff Bole
    Writer:Joe Menosky

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  18. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 1 Episode 18 - Duet
    7.0/10(2559 votes)

    #18 - Duet

    S1:E18

    A Cardassian suffering from Kalla-Nohra, a disease that indicates he served in a labor camp, visits DS9. Kira is determined to convict him as a war criminal.

    Director:James L. Conway
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 1 Episode 19 - In the Hands of the Prophets
    9.0/10(4276 votes)

    #19 - In the Hands of the Prophets

    S1:E19

    Stardate: Unknown. The Federation and Bajoran people of DS9 fall into conflict when a Bajoran religious extremist comes to the station and challenges the secular teachings of Keiko O'Brien's school.

    Director:David Livingston
    Writer:Robert Hewitt Wolfe

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Season 1 Ratings Summary

"Emissary" is the best rated episode of "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" season 1. It scored 7.6/10 based on 5130 votes. Directed by David Carson and written by Michael Piller, it aired on 1/3/1993. This episode is rated 0.6 points higher than the second-best, "Past Prologue".