The BEST episodes of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine season 4

Every episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine season 4, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine season 4!

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.

Last Updated: 12/15/2024Network: SyndicationStatus: Ended
The Way of the Warrior (1)
star
8.11
1647 votes

#1 - The Way of the Warrior (1)

Season 4 - Episode 1 - Aired 10/2/1995

The Klingons attack Cardassia in an attempt to overthrow the planet's newly installed civilian government. When the crew of Deep Space Nine saves the members of the new government, they fall under attack from the Klingons as well. Worf is transferred to Deep Space Nine.

Directors: James L. Conway
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The Way of the Warrior (2)
star
7.99
810 votes

#2 - The Way of the Warrior (2)

Season 4 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/2/1995

The Klingons attack Cardassia in an attempt to overthrow the planet's newly installed civilian government. When the crew of Deep Space Nine saves the members of the new government, they fall under attack from the Klingons as well. Worf is transferred to Deep Space Nine.

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Paradise Lost
star
7.86
1503 votes

#3 - Paradise Lost

Season 4 - Episode 12 - Aired 1/8/1996

As Sisko and Odo prepare for a Dominion invasion they discover a plot to place the Federation under military control.

Directors: Reza Badiyi
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Little Green Men
star
7.85
1612 votes

#4 - Little Green Men

Season 4 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/13/1995

Quark, Rom and Nog are accidentally thrust back in time to Roswell, New Mexico, Earth in 1947.

Directors: Alexander Singer
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Broken Link
star
7.76
1395 votes

#5 - Broken Link

Season 4 - Episode 26 - Aired 6/17/1996

Odo is forced to return to his people, the Changelings, to face judgment for killing one of his own.

Directors: Les Landau
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Homefront
star
7.72
1516 votes

#6 - Homefront

Season 4 - Episode 11 - Aired 1/1/1996

Sisko and Odo are brought to Earth when it's suspected Changelings are infiltrating Starfleet.

Directors: David Livingston
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The Visitor
star
7.68
1462 votes

#7 - The Visitor

Season 4 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/9/1995

An elderly Jake Sisko relates the story of how he lost his father to a temporal displacement accident.

Directors: David Livingston
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To the Death
star
7.51
1304 votes

#8 - To the Death

Season 4 - Episode 23 - Aired 5/13/1996

Sisko and the Defiant crew join forces with the Jem'Hadar to stop a group of Jem'Hadar renegades from gaining power.

Directors: LeVar Burton
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Our Man Bashir
star
7.49
1368 votes

#9 - Our Man Bashir

Season 4 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/27/1995

Bashir plays a 1960s secret agent in a holosuite, but when it is used in an emergency to store the transporter patterns of some of the crew, he must make life or death decisions.

Directors: Winrich Kolbe
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Body Parts
star
7.48
1436 votes

#10 - Body Parts

Season 4 - Episode 25 - Aired 6/10/1996

Quark is diagnosed with a terminal disease and sells his body parts on the Ferengi Futures Exchange.

Directors: Avery Brooks
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Return to Grace
star
7.42
1611 votes

#11 - Return to Grace

Season 4 - Episode 14 - Aired 2/5/1996

Dukat seeks Kira's help in regaining his rank in the Cardassian Empire.

Directors: Jonathan West
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For the Cause
star
7.39
1351 votes

#12 - For the Cause

Season 4 - Episode 22 - Aired 5/6/1996

Sisko learns that his girlfriend Kasidy may be a Maquis smuggler.

Directors: James L. Conway
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Hard Time
star
7.39
1283 votes

#13 - Hard Time

Season 4 - Episode 19 - Aired 4/15/1996

O'Brien is incarcerated for 20 years on an alien world on charges of espionage. However the experience was implanted into his mind, and O'Brien struggles to re-adjust to station life.

Directors: Alexander Singer
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Sons of Mogh
star
7.38
1273 votes

#14 - Sons of Mogh

Season 4 - Episode 15 - Aired 2/12/1996

Cast out of Klingon society because of Worf's dishonor, his outcast brother asks Worf to kill him.

Directors: David Livingston
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Starship Down
star
7.33
1440 votes

#15 - Starship Down

Season 4 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/6/1995

The USS Defiant becomes trapped in a planet's volatile atmosphere after battling with the Jem'Hadar.

Directors: Alexander Singer
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The Quickening
star
7.31
1304 votes

#16 - The Quickening

Season 4 - Episode 24 - Aired 5/20/1996

Bashir tries to free the population of a Gamma Quadrant world of an engineered disease left by the Dominion 200 years ago.

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Accession
star
7.28
1366 votes

#17 - Accession

Season 4 - Episode 17 - Aired 2/26/1996

A famous Bajoran poet who disappeared over 200 years ago appears from the wormhole and convinces Sisko that he is the true Emissary.

Directors: Les Landau
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Shattered Mirror
star
7.26
1402 votes

#18 - Shattered Mirror

Season 4 - Episode 20 - Aired 4/22/1996

Sisko attempts to rescue Jake after he is lured into a war-torn mirror universe by his mother's living counterpart.

Directors: James L. Conway
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Crossfire
star
7.26
1388 votes

#19 - Crossfire

Season 4 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/29/1996

Odo's hidden feelings for Kira surface when the visiting Bajoran First Minister begins to court her.

Directors: Les Landau
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Bar Association
star
7.25
1441 votes

#20 - Bar Association

Season 4 - Episode 16 - Aired 2/19/1996

Rom creates a union for Quark's employees and goes on strike.

Directors: LeVar Burton
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The Sword of Kahless
star
7.23
1481 votes

#21 - The Sword of Kahless

Season 4 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/20/1995

Worf, Dax and a revered Klingon warrior, Kor, search for the Sword of Kahless to unite the Klingon Empire.

Directors: LeVar Burton
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Indiscretion
star
7.18
1505 votes

#22 - Indiscretion

Season 4 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/23/1995

Kira and Dukat embark on a mission to find lost Bajoran prisoners. On the mission, Dukat reveals that he too has someone he is concerned about on the ship, a Bajoran woman with whom he had an affair.

Directors: LeVar Burton
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Hippocratic Oath
star
7.17
1422 votes

#23 - Hippocratic Oath

Season 4 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/16/1995

Bashir assists a rogue group of Jem'Hadar attempting to overcome their addiction to Ketracel White.

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Rules of Engagement
star
7.11
1364 votes

#24 - Rules of Engagement

Season 4 - Episode 18 - Aired 4/8/1996

Worf accidentally destroys a civilian ship during battle and faces a hearing to determine whether he should be extradited to the Klingon Empire.

Directors: LeVar Burton
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Rejoined
star
6.97
1472 votes

#25 - Rejoined

Season 4 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/30/1995

Dax is reunited with one of her former hosts' mates, and the two struggle with their feelings for one another.

Directors: Avery Brooks
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