The Best Episodes of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 5

Stardate: 4523.7. In this celebration of the 30th anniversary of The Original Series, the disgraced Klingon spy Darvin travels back in time to undo his century-old defeat by James Kirk. The DS9 crew must track him down and stop him, while blending in with the crew of the original Enterprise NCC-1701.

Director: Jonathan West

Writer: N/A

Stardate: 50975.2. Sisko decides to mine the wormhole to prevent further Dominion ships crossing into the Alpha Quadrant. This provokes an attack by the Dominion and the Cardassians, and a desperate last stand on Deep Space Nine.

Director: Allan Kroeker

Writer: Robert Hewitt Wolfe, Ira Steven Behr

Stardate: 50564.2. The station readies for a Dominion attack. Worf and Garak meet some unexpected friends in a Dominion Prison camp.

Director: Les Landau

Writer: Robert Hewitt Wolfe, Ira Steven Behr

Stardate: Unknown. A coded message from the Gamma Quadrant leads Garak to believe his mentor, Enabran Tain, is still alive. He and Worf seek him out, only to discover something much worse: a Dominion invasion fleet poised to attack the Alpha Quadrant.

Director: Gabrielle Beaumont

Writer: Robert Hewitt Wolfe, Ira Steven Behr

Stardate: Unknown. With the war between Klingons and Federation intensifying, Sisko must make a plan to expose Gowron as a changeling. Odo is still having trouble with becoming a solid.

Director: James L. Conway

Writer: Robert Hewitt Wolfe, Ira Steven Behr

Stardate: 50814.2. The DS9 crew discovers a colony that, due to a time travel accident, turns out to be inhabited by the crew's own descendants.

Director: Allan Kroeker

Writer: N/A

Stardate: 50049.3. The crew find a crashed Jem’Hadar ship and work to repair it and capture it for the Federation, but are confronted by a Dominion force determined to recover the ship’s cargo.

Director: Kim Friedman

Writer: N/A

Stardate: Unknown. The discovery of an infant Changeling gives Odo a chance to put right the trauma of his own upbringing, while his “father” Dr. Mora insists on a more clinical approach.

Director: Jesús Salvador Treviño

Writer: René Echevarria

Stardate: 50485.2. When the traitorous Eddington returns, Sisko will go to any lengths to capture him.

Director: Victor Lobl

Writer: Peter Allan Fields

Stardate: Unknown. Dr. Bashir is selected to be the model for the next-generation of Emergency Medical Hologram (EMH). But he balks when his parents are invited to the station to be interviewed by the EMH programmer, Dr. Zimmerman. There is a dark secret in his family that he's afraid that his parents will reveal.

Director: David Livingston

Writer: N/A

Stardate: Unknown. While salvaging components from DS9's sister station, the crew run afoul of a "surprise" left behind by the Cardassians.

Director: Michael Vejar

Writer: N/A

Stardate: Unknown. While Worf helps Quark to pursue his former wife Grilka, O'Brien and Kira grow uncomfortably close to each other.

Director: Andrew Robinson

Writer: Ronald D. Moore

Stardate: Unknown. Dax and Worf accompany Martok on his first command since being held by the Dominion. But the ship they are given hasn't seen victory in months and the crew is near mutinous.

Director: LeVar Burton

Writer: Ronald D. Moore

Stardate: 50929.4. Jake has his heart set on a vintage Willie Mays baseball card as a present to cheer up his father, whose spirits are flagging from the ongoing conflict.

Director: Michael Dorn

Writer: N/A

Stardate: Unknown. Jake, reporting from the front lines, sees what war truly is.

Director: Kim Friedman

Writer: N/A

Stardate: Unknown. Sisko learns that the Maquis are planning a devastating attack on Cardassia, and must rely on the traitor Eddington to help him prevent it.

Director: Kim Friedman

Writer: Robert Hewitt Wolfe, Ira Steven Behr

Stardate: Unknown. Sisko, Dax, Odo and Garak find themselves in the past when the Cardassians controlled the station, and a crime that Odo investigated may be the key.

Director: LeVar Burton

Writer: Michael Taylor

Stardate: Unknown. When Odo and Quark crash land, they must put aside their differences to climb a mountain to signal for help. Jake and Nog try to be roommates, but their different styles clash.

Director: Allan Kroeker

Writer: Robert Hewitt Wolfe, Ira Steven Behr

Stardate: Unknown. An alien entity has possessed Keiko's body and is holding it hostage until O'Brien completes an assignment for it.

Director: Allan Kroeker

Writer: N/A

Stardate: Unknown. Quark must wrestle with his conscience when he becomes involved with arms merchants.

Director: Alexander Siddig

Writer: Bradley Thompson, David Weddle

Stardate: Unknown. After a brain injury, Sisko begins experiencing powerful visions through time. He dives fully into the role of the Emissary, while becoming obsessed with finding a legendary Bajoran ruin.

Director: Jonathan West

Writer: N/A

Stardate: 50712.2. When a Cardassian official that thinks of Kira as his daughter is dying, he agrees to reveal all he knows to her. But the experience dredges up Kira's memories of her own father's death.

Director: Avery Brooks

Writer: N/A

Stardate: 50416.2. A mysterious assassin begins wiping out all the members of Kira's old resistance cell.

Director: Michael Vejar

Writer: N/A

Stardate: Unknown. Quark doesn't know whether to be panicked or overjoyed when he learns that his mother is the new lover of the Grand Nagus.

Director: René Auberjonois

Writer: Ira Steven Behr, Hans Beimler

Odo helps a woman hiding on the station from organized criminals, but quickly develops a personal interest in the case.

Director: John T. Kretchmer

Writer: René Echevarria