DEEP SPACE NINE SEASON FIVE 1996-1997 APOCALYPSE RISING EPISODE NUMBER - 501 AIR DATE - 09.30.96 GATEWORLD RATING - * * * When new intelligence claims that the leader of the Klingon Empire is a Changeling, Sisko leads an undercover team -- in Klingon disguise -- to try and expose him. THE SHIP EPISODE NUMBER - 502 AIR DATE - 10.07.96 GATEWORLD RATING - * * 1/2 The crew finds a downed Jem'Hadar warship while surveying a planet in the Gamma Quadrant, and must defend it from the Dominion forces who come to retrieve it. LOOKING FOR PAR'MACH IN ALL THE WRONG PLACES EPISODE NUMBER - 503 AIR DATE - 10.14.96 GATEWORLD RATING - * * Quark courts his Klingon ex-wife when she returns to DS9, prompting jealousy from Worf. O'Brien and Kira become aware that their new relationship has uncomfortably romantic implications. NOR THE BATTLE TO THE STRONG EPISODE NUMBER - 504 AIR DATE - 10.21.96 GATEWORLD RATING - * * Dr. Bashir and Jake Sisko answer a distress call from a planet near the front lines of the war with the Klingons, where they help a medical facility care for the wounded -- and where Jake learns and important lesson about bravery and cowardice. THE ASSIGNMENT EPISODE NUMBER - 505 AIR DATE - 10.28.96 GATEWORLD RATING - * * * Chief O'Brien is stunned when Keiko returns to the station possessed by a noncorporeal entity, demanding that he complete a series of tasks on the station without anyone finding out ... or Keiko will die. TRIALS AND TRIBBLE-ATIONS EPISODE NUMBER - 506 AIR DATE - 11.04.96 GATEWORLD RATING - * * * * The Defiant is thrown back in time where they encounter James Kirk's Enterprise at a deep space station, and must catch a former Klingon agent bent on killing Kirk and altering the past. LET HE WHO IS WITHOUT SIN EPISODE NUMBER - 507 AIR DATE - 11.11.96 GATEWORLD RATING - * Worf and Jadzia take a vacation to Risa -- with Julian, Lyta, and Quark tagging along -- where they encounter a movement that believes the paradise is making the Federation weak. THINGS PAST EPISODE NUMBER - 508 AIR DATE - 11.18.96 GATEWORLD RATING - * * * Sisko, Odo, Dax, and Gerak fall unconscious after a return from Bajor and find themselves on the station during the Cardassian occupation, appearing as four Bajorans -- forcing Odo to face his past. THE ASCENT EPISODE NUMBER - 509 AIR DATE - 11.25.96 GATEWORLD RATING - * * Odo transports Quark to testify at a high-security trial, but sabotage forces them to crashland on a barely hospitable world. Jake and Nog move in together. RAPTURE EPISODE NUMBER - 510 AIR DATE - 12.30.96 GATEWORLD RATING - * * 1/2 Captain Sisko experiences visions that leads to the discovery of an ancient Bajoran city lost for millenia, but which threaten his life on the eve of Bajor's acceptance into the Federation. THE DARKNESS AND THE LIGHT EPISODE NUMBER - 511 AIR DATE - 01.06.97 GATEWORLD RATING - * * An unknown assassin begins systematically murdering the former members of Kira's resistance cell, and she may be next. THE BEGOTTEN EPISODE NUMBER - 512 AIR DATE - 01.27.97 GATEWORLD RATING - * * * Odo comes upon an infant Changeling, and comes to terms with his own past with Dr. Mora when he tries to educate the being himself. Chief O'Brien and Shakar bicker as Kira goes into labor. FOR THE UNIFORM EPISODE NUMBER - 513 AIR DATE - 02.03.97 GATEWORLD RATING - * * * 1/2 Captain Sisko hunts the traitor Michael Eddington, a former Starfleet officer who has defected to the Maquis terrorist organization -- a mission that quickly becomes very personal. IN PURGATORY'S SHADOW EPISODE NUMBER - 514 AIR DATE - 02.10.97 GATEWORLD RATING - * * * * Gerak and Worf travel to the Gamma Quadrant in search of Cardassian and Federation survivors, and find themselves in a Dominion prison. Dukat tries to evacuate his daughter when he learns that a Dominion fleet is on the way to DS9. BY INFERNO'S LIGHT EPISODE NUMBER - 515 AIR DATE - 02.17.97 GATEWORLD RATING - * * * 1/2 Worf and the others struggle to survive inside a Dominion prison, while Gerak works toward their escape. The station's crew is stunned to learn that the Cardassians have joined the Dominion, with Dukat as the leader of the new government. DOCTOR BASHIR, I PRESUME? EPISODE NUMBER - 516 AIR DATE - 02.24.97 GATEWORLD RATING - * * * A Federation engineer arrives on the station to interview Dr. Bashir's colleagues and family when it is determined that he will be the template for Starfleet's next holographic doctor -- unearthing a secret about Julian's identity. A SIMPLE INVESTIGATION EPISODE NUMBER - 517 AIR DATE - 03.31.97 GATEWORLD RATING - * 1/2 Odo falls for a mysterious woman with connections to the Orion Syndicate, who is being pursued by a pair of murderous alien criminals who are looking for something. BUSINESS AS USUAL EPISODE NUMBER - 518 AIR DATE - 04.07.97 GATEWORLD RATING - * * Quark's accepts his cousin's offer to become a weapons dealer when his accounts hit rock bottom. But he has second thoughts about his new career when a high-profile customer seeks the means to massacre millions of people. TIES OF BLOOD AND WATER EPISODE NUMBER - 519 AIR DATE - 04.14.97 GATEWORLD RATING - * * 1/2 Kira hopes to convince a close friend and leader in the Cardassian dissident movement to spearhead a resistance against Dukat's new Dominion-backed government -- only to learn that he is dying. FERENGI LOVE SONGS EPISODE NUMBER - 520 AIR DATE - 04.21.97 GATEWORLD RATING - * * 1/2 Quark returns home only to find that his mother has started a romance with Grand Nagus Zek. Rom and Leeta's relationship is on the rocks when he asks her to embrace some of Ferengi society. SOLDIERS OF THE EMPIRE EPISODE NUMBER - 521 AIR DATE - 04.28.97 GATEWORLD RATING - * * 1/2 Worf and General Martok take command of a Klingon crew in search of a missing ship, and who are falling apart and desperate for a victory. CHILDREN OF TIME EPISODE NUMBER - 522 AIR DATE - 05.05.97 GATEWORLD RATING - * * 1/2 The crew of the Defiant find themselves stranded on a planet in the Gamma Quadrant, where they find a thriving settlement of their own descendents -- caused by the ship going 200 years into the past while trying to escape. BLAZE OF GLORY EPISODE NUMBER - 523 AIR DATE - 05.12.97 GATEWORLD RATING - * * * When Captain Sisko learns that the Maquis are poised to launch a devestating missile attack on Cardassia, he enlists the help of the traitorous Michael Eddington to try and stop them. EMPOK NOR EPISODE NUMBER - 524 AIR DATE - 05.19.97 GATEWORLD RATING - * * 1/2 Chief O'Brien and Garak lead a team to scavenge supplies from Empok Nor, an abandoned Cardassian station similar to DS9 -- but inadvertantly revive a pair of assassins left behind to protect the station. IN THE CARDS EPISODE NUMBER - 525 AIR DATE - 06.09.97 GATEWORLD RATING - * * Jake and Nog go to great lengths to try and acquire a twentieth century baseball card to cheer up Captain Sisko. Representatives from the Dominion arrive to negotiate with Kai Winn. CALL TO ARMS EPISODE NUMBER - 526 AIR DATE - 06.16.97 GATEWORLD RATING - * * * * As war with the Dominion grows ever more inevitable, the Federation decides to mine the entrance to the wormhole to prevent more troops from coming through -- sparking a violent backlash.