List of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episodes
Season 5 (1996–97)

List of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episodes

Section Title: Season 5 (1996–97)
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No. overall	No. in season	Title	Stardate	Directed by	Written by	Featured character(s)	Original air date	Prod. code

99	1	"Apocalypse Rising"	50015.9	James L. Conway	Ira Steven Behr and Robert Hewitt Wolfe	Sisko, Odo, O'Brien	September 30, 1996	40510-499

Starfleet assigns Sisko to expose the Changeling infiltrator in the Klingon Empire.

100	2	"The Ship"	50049.3	Kim Friedman	Story by : Pam Wigginton & Rick Cason Teleplay by : Hans Beimler	Sisko, Dax, O'Brien	October 7, 1996	40510-500

While exploring in the Gamma Quadrant, Sisko, Dax, Worf, and O'Brien see a Jem'Hadar warship crash on a planet's surface. Odo arrests Dr.

101	3	"Looking for par'Mach in All the Wrong Places"	50061.2	Andrew J. Robinson	Ronald D. Moore	Worf, Dax, Quark	October 14, 1996	40510-501

Worf finds himself attracted to Grilka, Quark's ex wife (episode 3.3), when she visits the station.

102	4	"...Nor the Battle to the Strong"	50098.7	Kim Friedman	Story by : Brice R. Parker Teleplay by : René Echevarria	Jake Sisko, Bashir	October 21, 1996	40510-502

Dr. Bashir has been away at a conference and Jake Sisko has accompanied him to research a profile he is writing about the doctor.

103	5	"The Assignment"	50124.3	Allan Kroeker	Story by : David R. Long & Robert Lederman Teleplay by : David Weddle & Bradley Thompson	O'Brien	October 28, 1996	40510-504

Keiko returns from a journey and informs O'Brien that she is really an entity that has taken possession of his wife's body.

104	6	"Trials and Tribble-ations"	4523.7	Jonathan West	Story by : Ira Steven Behr and Hans Beimler & Robert Hewitt Wolfe Teleplay by : Ronald D. Moore & René Echevarria	Various	November 4, 1996	40510-503

Darvin, a disgraced Klingon spy, travels back in time. The DS9 crew must prevent him from altering the timeline.

105	7	"Let He Who Is Without Sin..."	50136.7	René Auberjonois	Robert Hewitt Wolfe and Ira Steven Behr	Worf, Dax	November 11, 1996	40510-505

Worf and Dax vacation on the pleasure planet, Risa, and encounter unexpected dangers.

106	8	"Things Past"	50144.6	LeVar Burton	Michael Taylor	Sisko, Odo, Dax, Garak	November 18, 1996	40510-506

Sisko, Odo, Dax and Garak are found unconscious. While Bashir attempts to revive their bodies, the four wake up during the Cardassian occupation of Bajor several years earlier.

107	9	"The Ascent"	50245.2	Allan Kroeker	Ira Steven Behr and Robert Hewitt Wolfe	Odo, Quark	November 25, 1996	40510-507

Forced to crash land on a desolate planet, Odo and Quark learn they lost their communications system, replicator, and most rations in an explosion.

108	10	"Rapture"	50387.9	Jonathan West	Story by : L.J. Strom Teleplay by : Hans Beimler	Sisko	December 30, 1996	40510-508

An accident causes Sisko to have prophetic visions. When he finds an ancient Bajoran city, lost for 20,000 years, Kai Winn reconsiders her attitude towards him.

109	11	"The Darkness and the Light"	50416.2	Mike Vejar	Story by : Bryan Fuller Teleplay by : Ronald D. Moore	Kira	January 6, 1997	40510-509

Someone is killing Kira's friends off and she might be next.

110	12	"The Begotten"	50430.1	Jesús Salvador Treviño	René Echevarria	Odo	January 27, 1997	40510-510

When Quark discovers an infant Changeling, it has a profound effect on Odo. Meanwhile, Kira goes into labor.

111	13	"For the Uniform"	50485.2	Victor Lobl	Peter Allan Fields	Sisko	February 3, 1997	40510-511

Michael Eddington returns and Sisko becomes obsessed with catching him.

112	14	"In Purgatory's Shadow (Part 1 of 2)"	50560.1	Gabrielle Beaumont	Robert Hewitt Wolfe and Ira Steven Behr	Various	February 10, 1997	40510-512

Worf and Garak journey to the Gamma Quadrant to investigate a coded Cardassian message.

113	15	"By Inferno's Light (Part 2 of 2)"	50564.2	Les Landau	Ira Steven Behr and Robert Hewitt Wolfe	Various	February 17, 1997	40510-513

Gul Dukat aligns the Cardassians with the Dominion. The station must deal with a Changeling infiltrator.

114	16	"Doctor Bashir, I Presume"	50590.1	David Livingston	Story by : Jimmy Diggs Teleplay by : Ronald D. Moore	Bashir	February 24, 1997	40510-514

Julian Bashir is selected to become the model for a Long-term Medical Hologram, until a family secret is revealed. Rom has great difficulty in telling Leeta something.

115	17	"A Simple Investigation"	50606.6	John T. Kretchmer	René Echevarria	Odo	March 31, 1997	40510-515

Odo falls in love with a woman, Arissa, involved in the Orion Syndicate.

116	18	"Business as Usual"	50675.5	Siddig El Fadil	Bradley Thompson and David Weddle	Quark	April 7, 1997	40510-516

Quark's cousin Gaila, knowing Quark is desperate for funds, takes him on as a junior partner in his highly lucrative arms dealing business.

117	19	"Ties of Blood and Water"	50712.5	Avery Brooks	Story by : Edmund Newton & Robbin L. Slocum Teleplay by : Robert Hewitt Wolfe	Kira	April 14, 1997	40510-517

Tekeny Ghemor (episode 3.5) arrives on Deep Space Nine and reveals that he is dying.

118	20	"Ferengi Love Songs"	50701.2	René Auberjonois	Ira Steven Behr and Hans Beimler	Quark	April 21, 1997	40510-518

At the end of his rope, Quark returns home and discovers Moogie has a secret lover.

119	21	"Soldiers of the Empire"	50839.2	LeVar Burton	Ronald D. Moore	Worf, Dax	April 28, 1997	40510-519

Martok, Worf, and Dax go on a mission aboard a Klingon ship to search for the B'moth.

120	22	"Children of Time"	50814.2	Allan Kroeker	Story by : Gary Holland and Ethan H. Calk Teleplay by : René Echevarria	Various	May 5, 1997	40510-520

An accident causes the crew to meet their own descendants - and presents them with an ethical dilemma.

121	23	"Blaze of Glory"	50862.4	Kim Friedman	Robert Hewitt Wolfe and Ira Steven Behr	Sisko	May 12, 1997	40510-521

An act of desperation by the Maquis could plunge the Federation into war. The Maquis have 30 cloaked missiles headed to Cardassia which will cause an outbreak of war in the alpha quadrant.

122	24	"Empok Nor"	50901.7	Mike Vejar	Story by : Bryan Fuller Teleplay by : Hans Beimler	O'Brien, Garak	May 19, 1997	40510-522

O'Brien, Garak, Nog and an engineering team go to Deep Space Nine's abandoned sister space station, Empok Nor, to salvage components.

123	25	"In the Cards"	50929.4	Michael Dorn	Story by : Truly Barr Clark & Scott J. Neal Teleplay by : Ronald D. Moore	Jake Sisko	June 9, 1997	40510-523

Jake wants to give his father a present to cheer him up, a 1951 Willie Mays baseball card, but runs into complications with a mysterious geneticist, Dr.

124	26	"Call to Arms"	50975.2	Allan Kroeker	Ira Steven Behr and Robert Hewitt Wolfe	Various	June 16, 1997	40510-524

Faced with the realization that the Dominion are taking over the Alpha Quadrant, Sisko decides to mine the entrance to the wormhole with self-replicating cloaked mines, thus beginning the Dominion War.

Sentence(s)

"Doctor Bashir, I Presume" is the 114th episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and the 16th episode of the fifth season.

final_sentence: "Doctor Bashir, I Presume" is the 114th episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and the 16th episode of the fifth season.