Season 1
19 episodes · first aired 1993-01-03
| Still | # | Title | Overview | Air date | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 01 | Emissary 1993-01-03 | Stardate: 46379.1. Commander Benjamin Sisko and a new crew of Starfleet and Bajoran officers take command of an abandoned Cardassian space station and make an incredible discovery that will change the galaxy and Sisko's future. 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. | 1993-01-03 | 7.6 |
 | 02 | Past Prologue 1993-01-10 | Stardate: Unknown. Kira finds her loyalties divided when a Bajoran extremist wanted by the Cardassians comes to the station with questionable intentions. | 1993-01-10 | 7.1 |
 | 03 | A Man Alone 1993-01-17 | Stardate: 46421.5. When the return of a man Odo sent to prison years earlier leads to his murder aboard the station, Odo becomes the prime suspect and a target for harassment. | 1993-01-17 | 6.5 |
 | 04 | Babel 1993-01-24 | Stardate: 46423.7. A deadly virus created by the Bajorans 18 years earlier inadvertently breaks loose aboard the station, and prompts a race against the clock to find a cure. | 1993-01-24 | 6.9 |
 | 05 | Captive Pursuit 1993-01-31 | Stardate: Unknown. When O'Brien befriends the station's first visitor from the Gamma Quadrant, he learns that the mysterious alien is on the run from determined pursuers. | 1993-01-31 | 7.3 |
 | 06 | Q-Less 1993-02-07 | Stardate: 46531.2. Vash arrives from the Gamma Quadrant as Q plagues the station and an unknown force threatens to destroy it. | 1993-02-07 | 6.5 |
 | 07 | Dax 1993-02-14 | Stardate: 46910.1. Jadzia Dax is charged with a murder that her symbiont's previous host Curzon allegedly committed. Now an extradition hearing may decide whether Jadzia can be held responsible for the actions of a previous life. | 1993-02-14 | 6.7 |
 | 08 | The Passenger 1993-02-21 | Stardate: Unknown. A dangerous killer dies in an apparent accident, but the security officer providing his transport to prison believes the criminal's consciousness may have yet survived. | 1993-02-21 | 6.2 |
 | 09 | Move Along Home 1993-03-14 | The Wadi from the Gamma Quadrant are to make first contact and decide to visit DS9. When they catch Quark cheating they let him off by playing a special game. | 1993-03-14 | 5.8 |
 | 10 | The Nagus 1993-03-21 | Stardate: Unknown. Grand Nagus Zek, the leader of Ferengi society, comes to DS9 to oversee the introduction of a Ferengi business presence in the Gamma Quadrant and announce Quark as his successor. | 1993-03-21 | 6.5 |
 | 11 | Vortex 1993-04-18 | Stardate: Unknown. A wanted man from the Gamma Quadrant with questionable motives reveals to Odo stories about other "Changelings," which may hold clues to Odo's mysterious origin. | 1993-04-18 | 6.9 |
 | 12 | Battle Lines 1993-04-25 | Stardate: Unknown. Sisko, Kira, and Bashir take Kai Opaka through the wormhole for a brief excursion in the Gamma Quadrant. But when they crash-land on a desolate planet, they find a divided, warring penal colony where no one ever dies. | 1993-04-25 | 6.6 |
 | 13 | The Storyteller 1993-05-02 | Stardate: 46729.1. When O'Brien and Bashir beam down to a Bajoran village, the community selects O'Brien as their next Sirah - expecting him to save them from a menacing entity. | 1993-05-02 | 5.9 |
 | 14 | Progress 1993-05-09 | Stardate: 46844.3. Kira finds herself in a difficult moral situation when her job demands she force an adamant Bajoran man from his home in the name of progress. | 1993-05-09 | 6.4 |
 | 15 | If Wishes Were Horses 1993-05-16 | Stardate: 46853.2. The DS9 crew's own imaginations cause mysterious beings with unknown intentions to appear on the station. | 1993-05-16 | 6.2 |
 | 16 | The Forsaken 1993-05-23 | Stardate: 46925.1. Odo and Lwaxanna Troi come to a mutual understanding when a computer malfunction causes them to become trapped in a turbolift. | 1993-05-23 | 6.5 |
 | 17 | Dramatis Personae 1993-05-30 | Stardate: 46922.3. An alien "telepathic matrix" causes the DS9 crew to re-enact an ancient power struggle, leading Kira to attempt mutiny and overthrow Sisko. | 1993-05-30 | 6.7 |
 | 18 | Duet 1993-06-13 | A Cardassian suffering from Kalla-Nohra, a disease that indicates he served in a labor camp, visits DS9. Kira is determined to convict him as a war criminal. | 1993-06-13 | 8.2 |
 | 19 | In the Hands of the Prophets 1993-06-20 | Stardate: Unknown. The Federation and Bajoran people of DS9 fall into conflict when a Bajoran religious extremist comes to the station and challenges the secular teachings of Keiko O'Brien's school. | 1993-06-20 | 7.2 |
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