The BEST episodes of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine season 1
Every episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine season 1, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine season 1!
When the Cardassian occupation of Bajor ended in 2369, the mining space-station Terok Nor was left abandoned, its systems ripped out. By invitation of the provisional Bajoran government, Starfleet stepped in to oversee the rebuilding and day-to-day operations of the newly christened Deep Space Nine. DS9 soon became a center of travel and commerce thanks to a newly found stable wormhole leading to the largely unexplored Gamma Quadrant.
#1 - Duet
Season 1 - Episode 19 - Aired 6/13/1993
A visiting Cardassian may in fact be a notorious war criminal, and Kira is determined to bring him down
#2 - Emissary (1)
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/3/1993
Stardate: 46379.1 - A new crew is assigned to a former Cardassian space station: Deep Space Nine. It is a joint Federation/Bajoran force, with Commander Sisko in charge, but his life is dramatically changed when he is declared the emissary to the prophets by a Bajoran priest.
#3 - Emissary (2)
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/3/1993
Stardate: 46379.1 - A new crew is assigned to a former Cardassian space station: Deep Space Nine. It is a joint Federation/Bajoran force, with Commander Sisko in charge, but his life is dramatically changed when he is declared the emissary to the prophets by a Bajoran priest.
#4 - In the Hands of the Prophets
Season 1 - Episode 20 - Aired 6/20/1993
Friction escalates when Vedek Winn arrives on Deep Space Nine and discovers schoolteacher Keiko O'Brien is teaching about aliens in the wormhole.
#5 - The Forsaken
Season 1 - Episode 17 - Aired 5/23/1993
A visiting Lwaxana Troi becomes enamoured with Odo after he retrieves a stolen item of hers from a thief.
#6 - Babel
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 1/24/1993
Stardate: 46423.7 - Miles O'Brien unknowingly triggers a Cardassian booby trap that releases a potentially fatal virus throughout the station.
#7 - Captive Pursuit
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 1/31/1993
Stardate: Unknown - O'Brien befriends an alien who belongs to a race of beings that are bred to be hunted by another species.
#8 - Vortex
Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 4/18/1993
Stardate: Unknown - Odo arrests a criminal from the Gamma Quadrant who offers to take him to his people on the other side of the wormhole.
#9 - The Nagus
Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 3/21/1993
Stardate: Unknown - Quark is appointed as ruler of the Ferengi Empire when the Grand Nagus enters into early retirement; however, all is not as it may seem.
#10 - Dramatis Personae
Season 1 - Episode 18 - Aired 5/30/1993
Sisko and Kira are possessed by alien forces and fight for control of the station.
#11 - Q-Less
Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 2/7/1993
Stardate: 46531.2 - Q arrives on DS9 fresh from exploring the Gamma Quadrant with Vash. Soon afterwards, power fluctuations grip the station.
#12 - Dax
Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 2/14/1993
Stardate: 46910.1 - Jadzia Dax is accused of a murder committed by her symbiont in another lifetime.
#13 - Past Prologue
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 1/10/1993
Stardate: Unknown - Major Kira's loyalties are questioned when she helps an old friend, now a suspected terrorist trying to destroy the Bajoran Wormhole.
#14 - A Man Alone
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 1/17/1993
Stardate: 46421.5 - Mob hysteria grips the station when Odo is suspected of committing a murder after a Bajoran's body is discovered.
#15 - If Wishes Were Horses
Season 1 - Episode 16 - Aired 5/16/1993
The inhabitants of Deep Space Nine are mystified when their fantasies turn into reality, however, these occurrences foreshadow a disaster.
#16 - Progress
Season 1 - Episode 15 - Aired 5/9/1993
Stardate: 46844.3 - While overseeing an evacuation mission, Kira must try to persuade a stubborn old farmer to leave his home.
#17 - The Passenger
Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 2/21/1993
Stardate: Unknown - Bashir is posessed by an alien criminal in an attempt to hijack a Gamma quadrant freighter.
#18 - Battle Lines
Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 4/25/1993
Stardate: Unknown - Sisko, Bashir, Kira and Kai Opaka become stranded on a planet ravaged by war where the inhabitants can't die and are unable to leave.
#19 - The Storyteller
Season 1 - Episode 14 - Aired 5/2/1993
Stardate: 46729.1 - O'Brien is appointed as the spiritual leader of a Bajoran village when he and Bashir are unable to save the dying predecessor.
#20 - Move Along Home
Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 3/14/1993
Stardate: Unknown - Quark is forced to play a game by the Wadi, a newly encountered species, and the lives of the crew depend on the outcome.