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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!

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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Season 5 Ratings Summary

"Apocalypse Rising" is the best rated episode of "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" season 5. It scored 8.2/10 based on 2303 votes. Directed by James L. Conway and written by Robert Hewitt Wolfe, Ira Steven Behr, it aired on 9/30/1996. This episode is rated 0.3 points higher than the second-best, "The Ship".

  • Apocalypse Rising
    8.2/102,303 votes

    #1 - Apocalypse Rising

    Season 5 Episode 1 - Aired 9/30/1996

    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

  • The Ship
    7.9/102,349 votes

    #2 - The Ship

    Season 5 Episode 2 - Aired 10/7/1996

    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

  • Looking for par'Mach in All the Wrong Places
    7.6/102,287 votes

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

    Season 5 Episode 3 - Aired 10/14/1996

    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

  • Nor the Battle to the Strong
    7.5/102,205 votes

    #4 - Nor the Battle to the Strong

    Season 5 Episode 4 - Aired 10/21/1996

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

    Director: Kim Friedman

    Writer: N/A

  • The Assignment
    7.3/102,071 votes

    #5 - The Assignment

    Season 5 Episode 5 - Aired 10/28/1996

    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

  • Trials and Tribble-ations
    9.3/104,336 votes

    #6 - Trials and Tribble-ations

    Season 5 Episode 6 - Aired 11/4/1996

    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

  • Let He Who Is Without Sin...
    5.5/102,278 votes

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

    Season 5 Episode 7 - Aired 11/11/1996

    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

    Writer: Robert Hewitt Wolfe, Ira Steven Behr

  • Things Past
    7.4/102,127 votes

    #8 - Things Past

    Season 5 Episode 8 - Aired 11/18/1996

    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

  • The Ascent
    7.4/102,180 votes

    #9 - The Ascent

    Season 5 Episode 9 - Aired 11/25/1996

    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

  • Rapture
    7.1/102,087 votes

    #10 - Rapture

    Season 5 Episode 10 - Aired 12/30/1996

    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

  • The Darkness and the Light
    6.9/102,077 votes

    #11 - The Darkness and the Light

    Season 5 Episode 11 - Aired 1/6/1997

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

    Director: Michael Vejar

    Writer: N/A

  • The Begotten
    7.8/102,207 votes

    #12 - The Begotten

    Season 5 Episode 12 - Aired 1/27/1997

    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

  • For the Uniform
    7.8/102,274 votes

    #13 - For the Uniform

    Season 5 Episode 13 - Aired 2/3/1997

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

    Director: Victor Lobl

    Writer: Peter Allan Fields

  • In Purgatory's Shadow (1)
    8.7/102,452 votes

    #14 - In Purgatory's Shadow (1)

    Season 5 Episode 14 - Aired 2/10/1997

    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

  • By Inferno's Light (2)
    8.8/102,472 votes

    #15 - By Inferno's Light (2)

    Season 5 Episode 15 - Aired 2/17/1997

    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

  • Doctor Bashir, I Presume?
    7.7/102,247 votes

    #16 - Doctor Bashir, I Presume?

    Season 5 Episode 16 - Aired 2/24/1997

    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

  • A Simple Investigation
    6.6/102,019 votes

    #17 - A Simple Investigation

    Season 5 Episode 17 - Aired 3/31/1997

    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

  • Business as Usual
    7.2/102,019 votes

    #18 - Business as Usual

    Season 5 Episode 18 - Aired 4/7/1997

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

    Director: Alexander Siddig

    Writer: Bradley Thompson, David Weddle

  • Ties of Blood and Water
    7.1/101,986 votes

    #19 - Ties of Blood and Water

    Season 5 Episode 19 - Aired 4/14/1997

    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

  • Ferengi Love Songs
    6.7/101,980 votes

    #20 - Ferengi Love Songs

    Season 5 Episode 20 - Aired 4/21/1997

    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

  • Soldiers of the Empire
    7.6/102,109 votes

    #21 - Soldiers of the Empire

    Season 5 Episode 21 - Aired 4/28/1997

    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

  • Children of Time
    8.1/102,434 votes

    #22 - Children of Time

    Season 5 Episode 22 - Aired 5/5/1997

    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

  • Blaze of Glory
    7.5/102,006 votes

    #23 - Blaze of Glory

    Season 5 Episode 23 - Aired 5/12/1997

    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

  • Empok Nor
    7.7/102,141 votes

    #24 - Empok Nor

    Season 5 Episode 24 - Aired 5/19/1997

    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

  • In the Cards
    7.7/102,169 votes

    #25 - In the Cards

    Season 5 Episode 25 - Aired 6/9/1997

    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