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The Best Episodes of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 4

Every episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 4 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 4!

The Best Episodes of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 4

At Deep Space Nine, a space station located next to a wormhole in the vicinity of the liberated planet of Bajor, Commander Sisko and crew...

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  1. 9.1/10(4.6k votes)

    #1 - The Way of the Warrior (2)

    S4:E2

    Stardate: 49011.4. Sisko becomes uncomfortable when the Klingons station a task force to help defend against the Dominion. Worf is summoned to find out their true intentions.

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  2. 9.0/10(3.2k votes)

    #2 - The Way of the Warrior (1)

    S4:E1

    Stardate: 49011.4. When the Klingons bring a task force to DS9, Captain Sisko sends for Starfleet's lone Klingon officer, Worf, to uncover the mysterious intentions of their presence.

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  3. 8.4/10(3.0k votes)

    #3 - Rejoined

    S4:E6

    Stardate: 49195.5. Lenara Kahn, the new host of the wife of Dax's former host Torias, comes to the station. While they're not allowed to renew their relation, there's still a spark.

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  4. 8.3/10(2.5k votes)

    #4 - Homefront (1)

    S4:E11

    Stardate: 49170.65. Sisko travels to Earth when a bombing at a Federation conference is determined to be the work of Changelings.

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  5. 8.2/10(2.5k votes)

    #5 - Our Man Bashir

    S4:E10

    Stardate: Unknown. When an transporter emergency turns the command crew into holosuite characters, Bashir's James Bond fantasy takes on a deadly reality.

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    Director:Winrich Kolbe
    Writer:N/A
  6. 8.2/10(2.6k votes)

    #6 - Rules of Engagement

    S4:E18

    Stardate: 49665.3. When Worf destroys a civilian shuttle during an engagement with the Klingons, an extradition hearing is held to see if he must face charges.

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    Director:LeVar Burton
    Writer:N/A
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  8. 8.2/10(2.2k votes)

    #7 - Body Parts

    S4:E25

    Stardate: Unknown. Quarks hears on Ferenginar he is going to die. Rom convinces him to sell his remains. After an accident, Bashir has to move Keiko's baby to Kira's womb.

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    Director:Avery Brooks
    Writer:N/A
  9. 8.1/10(17 votes)

    #8 - Broken Link

    S4:E26

    Stardate: 49962.4. Odo is suddenly struck by illness. He is barely able to hold shape. Bashir and Odo see no other alternative then going to the Founders. Garak wants to come along.

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    Director:Les Landau
    Writer:N/A
  10. 8.0/10(2.3k votes)

    #9 - For the Cause

    S4:E22

    Stardate: Unknown. Sisko must face betrayal when evidence surfaces that Kasidy is smuggling for the Maquis. Meanwhile Garak makes acquaintance with Ziyal.

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    Writer:N/A
  11. 7.9/10(2.6k votes)

    #10 - The Sword of Kahless

    S4:E9

    Stardate: Unknown. Worf, Dax and the Klingon Dahar master Kor set out to find an ancient lost relic: the Sword of Kahless.

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    Director:LeVar Burton
    Writer:N/A
  12. 7.7/10(2.3k votes)

    #11 - Hippocratic Oath

    S4:E4

    Stardate: 49066.5. Bashir is asked to help a group of renegade Jem'Hadar break their addiction to ketracel white. Meanwhile Worf is dissatisfied with the way Odo runs security.

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  13. 7.7/10(2.4k votes)

    #12 - Starship Down

    S4:E7

    Stardate: 49263.5. A damaged Defiant must play a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse with two Jem'hadar ships inside a gas giant.

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  14. 7.7/10(2.2k votes)

    #13 - Crossfire

    S4:E13

    Stardate: Unknown. First Minister Shakaar visits the station, despite a threat of assassination. He falls in love with Kira much to Odo's dismay.

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  15. 7.7/10(2.2k votes)

    #14 - The Muse

    S4:E21

    Stardate: Unknown. A mysterious woman approaches Jake about his future as a writer. Odo promises to do whatever it takes to help Lwaxana Troi keep her baby over the father's wishes - even if it means marrying her himself.

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  16. 7.6/10(2.4k votes)

    #15 - The Visitor

    S4:E3

    Stardate: Unknown. Melanie, an aspiring writer, wants to know why Jake Sisko stopped writing at 40. Jake tells how his father died in an accident and then suddenly reappeared.

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  17. 7.6/10(2.2k votes)

    #16 - To the Death

    S4:E23

    Stardate: 49904.2. A renegade group of Jem'Hadar plunders Deep Space Nine. Sisko agrees to a combat operation with loyal Jem'Hadar to prevent the renegades completing a planetary gateway.

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  18. 7.4/10(2.3k votes)

    #17 - Sons of Mogh

    S4:E15

    Stardate: 49556.2. Worf's brother Kurn asks him to perform a death rite to regain his lost honor. Meanwhile Kira and O'Brien investigate Klingon activity near the Bajoran border.

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  19. 7.4/10(2.2k votes)

    #18 - The Quickening

    S4:E24

    Stardate: Unknown. Bashir tries to help a planet in the grips of a Dominion-engineered plague that guarantees a painful death.

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  20. 7.3/10(2.3k votes)

    #19 - Accession

    S4:E17

    Stardate: Unknown. A man claiming to be the emissary comes through the wormhole. Sisko is happy to give up his position. Meanwhile Keiko returns and O'Brien stops spending time with Bashir.

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    Director:Les Landau
  21. 7.2/10(2.2k votes)

    #20 - Return to Grace

    S4:E14

    Stardate: Unknown. Dukat returns, stripped of his prestige, to escort Kira to a Cardassian conference about the Dominion. But an attack by a Klingon raider may give Dukat a chance to redeem himself in the eyes of his government.

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    Director:Jonathan West
    Writer:N/A
  22. 7.1/10(2.2k votes)

    #21 - Paradise Lost (2)

    S4:E12

    Stardate: Unknown. When Starfleet institutes martial law to combat the Changeling Menace, Sisko begins to question if the Dominion is the real threat.

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    Director:Reza Badiyi
    Writer:N/A
  23. 7.1/10(2.1k votes)

    #22 - Bar Association

    S4:E16

    Stardate: Unknown. Unfair working conditions and pay cuts cause Rom to organize a union of the employees of Quark's Bar. Meanwhile Worf still finds it hard to settle on the station.

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    Director:LeVar Burton
    Writer:N/A
  24. 7.1/10(2.1k votes)

    #23 - Hard Time

    S4:E19

    Stardate: Unknown. O'Brien tries to re-integrate to life on the station after serving 20 years in a virtual prison.

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    Writer:N/A
  25. 7.0/10(2.5k votes)

    #24 - Indiscretion

    S4:E5

    Stardate: Unknown. Kira and Gul Dukat go after the lost prison ship Ravinok. Dukat has a secret. Meanwhile Kasidy Yates tries to find work near Bajor, leaving Sisko uncomfortable.

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    Director:LeVar Burton
    Writer:N/A
  26. 6.9/10(2.3k votes)

    #25 - Little Green Men

    S4:E8

    Stardate: Unknown. Quark and Rom take Nog to Earth and Starfleet Academy, but a malfunction with the ship takes the crew back in time, to Roswell New Mexico in 1947.

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Season 4 Ratings Summary

"The Way of the Warrior (2)" is the best rated episode of "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" season 4. It scored 9.1/10 based on 4649 votes. Directed by James L. Conway and written by Robert Hewitt Wolfe, Ira Steven Behr, it aired on 10/2/1995. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "The Way of the Warrior (1)".