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

Every episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 5 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 5!

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 5 Episode 1 - Apocalypse Rising
    8.2/10(2532 votes)

    #1 - Apocalypse Rising

    S5:E1

    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
    Writers:Robert Hewitt Wolfe, Ira Steven Behr

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  2. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 5 Episode 2 - The Ship
    7.9/10(2575 votes)

    #2 - The Ship

    S5:E2

    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:Unknown

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  3. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 5 Episode 3 - Looking for par'Mach in All the Wrong Places
    7.6/10(2502 votes)

    #3 - Looking for par'Mach in All the Wrong Places

    S5:E3

    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

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  4. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 5 Episode 4 - Nor the Battle to the Strong
    7.5/10(2435 votes)

    #4 - Nor the Battle to the Strong

    S5:E4

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

    Director:Kim Friedman
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 5 Episode 5 - The Assignment
    7.3/10(2282 votes)

    #5 - The Assignment

    S5:E5

    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:Unknown

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  6. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 5 Episode 6 - Trials and Tribble-ations
    9.4/10(4728 votes)

    #6 - Trials and Tribble-ations

    S5:E6

    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:Unknown

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  7. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 5 Episode 7 - Let He Who Is Without Sin...
    5.5/10(2502 votes)

    #7 - Let He Who Is Without Sin...

    S5:E7

    Stardate: Unknown. While vacationing on Risa, Worf and Dax meet a group of fundamentalist protesters who claim that the Federation has gone soft.

    Director:René Auberjonois
    Writers:Robert Hewitt Wolfe, Ira Steven Behr

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  8. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 5 Episode 8 - Things Past
    7.4/10(2341 votes)

    #8 - Things Past

    S5:E8

    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

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  9. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 5 Episode 9 - The Ascent
    7.4/10(2395 votes)

    #9 - The Ascent

    S5:E9

    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
    Writers:Robert Hewitt Wolfe, Ira Steven Behr

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  10. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 5 Episode 10 - Rapture
    7.1/10(2286 votes)

    #10 - Rapture

    S5:E10

    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:Unknown

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  11. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 5 Episode 11 - The Darkness and the Light
    6.9/10(2267 votes)

    #11 - The Darkness and the Light

    S5:E11

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

    Director:Michael Vejar
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 5 Episode 12 - The Begotten
    7.8/10(2410 votes)

    #12 - The Begotten

    S5:E12

    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

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  13. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 5 Episode 13 - For the Uniform
    7.8/10(2480 votes)

    #13 - For the Uniform

    S5:E13

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

    Director:Victor Lobl
    Writer:Peter Allan Fields

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  14. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 5 Episode 14 - In Purgatory's Shadow (1)
    8.8/10(2671 votes)

    #14 - In Purgatory's Shadow (1)

    S5:E14

    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
    Writers:Robert Hewitt Wolfe, Ira Steven Behr

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  15. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 5 Episode 15 - By Inferno's Light (2)
    8.8/10(2696 votes)

    #15 - By Inferno's Light (2)

    S5:E15

    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
    Writers:Robert Hewitt Wolfe, Ira Steven Behr

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  16. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 5 Episode 16 - Doctor Bashir, I Presume?
    7.7/10(2461 votes)

    #16 - Doctor Bashir, I Presume?

    S5:E16

    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:Unknown

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  17. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 5 Episode 17 - A Simple Investigation
    6.6/10(2214 votes)

    #17 - A Simple Investigation

    S5:E17

    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

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  18. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 5 Episode 18 - Business as Usual
    7.2/10(2212 votes)

    #18 - Business as Usual

    S5:E18

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

    Director:Alexander Siddig
    Writers:Bradley Thompson, David Weddle

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  19. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 5 Episode 19 - Ties of Blood and Water