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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(2514 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(2553 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(2484 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(2416 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(2258 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(4686 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(2475 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(2317 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(2371 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(2263 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(2249 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(2395 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(2464 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)
    8.7/10(2652 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(2677 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(2441 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(2195 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(2195 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
    7.1/10(2167 votes)

    #19 - Ties of Blood and Water

    S5:E19

    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:Unknown

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  20. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 5 Episode 20 - Ferengi Love Songs
    6.7/10(2153 votes)

    #20 - Ferengi Love Songs

    S5:E20

    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
    Writers:Ira Steven Behr, Hans Beimler

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  21. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 5 Episode 21 - Soldiers of the Empire
    7.6/10(2278 votes)

    #21 - Soldiers of the Empire

    S5:E21

    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

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  22. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 5 Episode 22 - Children of Time
    8.1/10(2638 votes)

    #22 - Children of Time

    S5:E22

    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:Unknown

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  23. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 5 Episode 23 - Blaze of Glory
    7.5/10(2178 votes)

    #23 - Blaze of Glory

    S5:E23

    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
    Writers:Robert Hewitt Wolfe, Ira Steven Behr

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  24. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 5 Episode 24 - Empok Nor
    7.7/10(2328 votes)

    #24 - Empok Nor

    S5:E24

    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:Unknown

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  25. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 5 Episode 25 - In the Cards
    7.6/10(2358 votes)

    #25 - In the Cards

    S5:E25

    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:Unknown

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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 2514 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".