7.5/104,828 votes#1 - Emissary (1)
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 1/3/1993
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.
Director: David Carson
Writer: Michael Piller
8.0/1016 votes#2 - Emissary (2)
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 1/3/1993
Stardate: 46379.1. 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: Rick Berman
7.1/102,867 votes#3 - Past Prologue
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 1/10/1993
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
6.8/102,759 votes#4 - A Man Alone
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 1/17/1993
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
7.0/102,727 votes#5 - Babel
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 1/24/1993
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
Writer: Ira Steven Behr, Sally Caves
7.6/102,809 votes#6 - Captive Pursuit
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 1/31/1993
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
6.7/102,730 votes#7 - Q-Less
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 2/7/1993
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
7.1/102,693 votes#8 - Dax
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 2/14/1993
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
6.3/102,505 votes#9 - The Passenger
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 2/21/1993
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
5.8/102,758 votes#10 - Move Along Home
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 3/14/1993
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: N/A
7.0/102,559 votes#11 - The Nagus
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 3/21/1993
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: N/A
7.0/102,489 votes#12 - Vortex
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 4/18/1993
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
6.6/102,468 votes#13 - Battle Lines
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 4/25/1993
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: N/A
6.0/102,478 votes#14 - The Storyteller
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 5/2/1993
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: N/A
6.8/102,491 votes#15 - Progress
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 5/9/1993
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
6.4/102,425 votes#16 - If Wishes Were Horses
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 5/16/1993
Stardate: 46853.2. The DS9 crew's own imaginations cause mysterious beings with unknown intentions to appear on the station.
Director: Robert Legato
Writer: N/A
6.9/102,395 votes#17 - The Forsaken
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 5/23/1993
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: N/A
7.0/102,353 votes#18 - Dramatis Personae
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 5/30/1993
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
9.0/103,935 votes#19 - Duet
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 6/13/1993
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: N/A
7.7/102,542 votes#20 - In the Hands of the Prophets
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 6/20/1993
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
The Best Episodes of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 1
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Season 1 Ratings Summary
"Emissary (1)" is the best rated episode of "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" season 1. It scored 7.5/10 based on 4828 votes. Directed by David Carson and written by Michael Piller, it aired on 1/3/1993. This episode is rated 0.5 points higher than the second-best, "Emissary (2)".