Star Trek: Deep Space Nine / Season 7

Season 7 of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Episodes	26th
Country of production	United States
First broadcast	September 30, 1998 - June 2, 1999 on syndication
German-language first broadcast	September 4, 1999 - March 25, 2000 on Sat.1
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The seventh season of the American television series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine was first broadcast in the USA between September 1998 and June 1999, and in Germany from September 1999 to March 2000 on Sat.1 . With her, the series ended after a total of 176 episodes.

Episodes and first broadcast

No. ( total )	No. ( St. )	German title	Original title	First broadcast in the USA	German language first broadcast (D)	Director	script
151	1	The face in the sand (1)	Image In The Sand (1)	26 Sep 1998	4th Sep 1999	Les Landau	Ira Steven Behr , Hans Beimler
Sisko has retired to earth in his father's restaurant and experiences a vision through which he comes to the realization that he is the messenger of the prophets and that it was they who once brought about his birth. Thereupon he goes in search of the envoy's rotating body , which enables him to contact the prophets, who have disappeared along with the wormhole. Meanwhile, the new Romulan allies set up an arsenal on a Bajoran moon.
152	2	Shadows and Symbols (2)	Shadows And Symbols (2)	Oct 3, 1998	Sep 11 1999	Allan Kroeker	Ira Steven Behr , Hans Beimler
After he has opened the rotating body, the prophets drive the Pah-Spirit out of the wormhole and reopen its entrance. Since it violates Bajor's sovereign rights, Kira, risking a skirmish, causes a blockade of the supply route to the moon.
153	3	Imitation	Afterimage	Oct 10, 1998	Sep 18 1999	Les Landau	René Echevarria
Ezri Dax, who has just arrived on the ward, initially has difficulty adjusting to both her role as counselor and confidante of Worf.
154	4th	Competition in the holosuite	Take Me Out To The Holosuite	Oct 17, 1998	25 Sep 1999	Chip Chalmers	Ronald D. Moore
The Vulcan Starfleet Captain Solok challenges Sisko and his crew to a baseball match in the holosuite.
155	5	Sarina	Chrysalis	Oct 24, 1998	Oct 2, 1999	Jonathan West	René Echevarria
Bashir helps the autistic, genetically enhanced Sarina regain the ability to speak.
156	6th	Treason, Faith and Mighty Flow	Treachery, Faith, and The Great River	Oct 31, 1998	Oct 9, 1999	Steve Posey	David Weddle , Bradley Thompson ; Idea: Philip Kim
When a clone of Vortas Weyoun tries to defend the Federation, Odo learns from him that the founders are suffering from a disease that causes their bodies to degenerate.
157	7th	The Dahar Master	Once More Unto The Breach	Nov 7, 1998	Oct 16, 1999	Allan Kroeker	Ronald D. Moore
So that he can die with honor, the aged Klingon Kor wants to be in command of a spaceship, but initially meets resistance from Martok and finally receives support from Worf.
158	8th	The siege of AR-558	The Siege Of AR-558	Nov 14, 1998	Oct 23, 1999	Winrich Kolbe	Ira Steven Behr , Hans Beimler
The war continues to claim thousands of federation victims. When Starfleet defends a communications system on the Dominion, numerous Starfleet members are injured or killed, and Nog is shot and seriously injured.
159	9	Decision on Empok Nor	Covenant	Nov 21, 1998	Oct 30, 1999	John Kretchmer	René Echevarria
Kira learns that Dukat has risen to become the leader of a Bajoran sect that worships the Pah spirits as the true gods of Bajor. But when the sect members learn - also through Kira's investigations - that they were betrayed by Dukat, the latter flees.
160	10	Life in the holosuite	It's only a paper moon	Dec 26, 1998	Nov 6, 1999	Anson Williams	Ronald D. Moore , idea: David Alan Mack , John J. Ordover
Traumatized by the loss of his leg, Nog withdraws to the holosuite program that includes singer Vic Fontaine.
161	11	The prodigal daughter	Prodigal Daughter	Jan. 2, 1999	Nov 13, 1999	Victor Lobl	David Weddle , Bradley Thompson
While visiting her family on the planet New Sidney, Ezri learns that members of her family are involved in activities of the criminal Orion Syndicate.
162	12	The cloaking device	The Emperor's New Cloak	Jan. 30, 1999	Nov 20, 1999	LeVar Burton	Ira Steven Behr , Hans Beimler
After the Great Nagus Zek was kidnapped into the mirror universe and is to be executed there, Quark and Rom beam themselves into the parallel world to exchange Zek for a cloaking device that the Alliance needs.
163	13	Free field of fire	Field of Fire	Feb 6, 1999	Nov 27, 1999	Tony Dow	Robert Hewitt Wolfe
Ezri receives assistance from the consciousness of one of her previous hosts in the search for a murderer who is wreaking havoc on the station using an experimental weapon.
164	14th	Pipe dream	Chimera	Feb 13, 1999	Dec 11, 1999	Steve Posey	René Echevarria
During a shuttle flight, Odo meets another shapeshifter who, like Odo, was once abandoned to explore the galaxy and now learns more about his people from Odo.
165	15th	Badda-Bing, Badda-Bang	Badda-Bing, Badda-Bang	Feb. 20, 1999	Dec 18, 1999	Mike Vejar	Ira Steven Behr , Hans Beimler
Vic Fontaine's holographic casino is threatened with being taken over by gangsters and Fontaine's program memory is being erased as a result. Siskos and his officers have to defeat the gangsters to save him.
166	16	The laws are silent under arms	Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges	Feb. 27, 1999	Jan. 8, 2000	David Livingston	Ronald D. Moore
Bashir allegedly accepts a request from Agent Sloan from Section 31 to spy on the Romulan government in order to learn more about the people behind the Section.
167	17th	In the dark	Penumbra	Apr 3, 1999	Jan. 22, 2000	Steve Posey	René Echevarria
168	18th	Until death do us part	'Til Death Do Us Part	Apr 10, 1999	Jan. 29, 2000	Winrich Kolbe	Bradley Thompson , David Weddle
169	19th	A strange combination	Strange Bedfellows	Apr 17, 1999	Feb 5, 2000	René Auberjonois	Ronald D. Moore
170	20th	In the face of evil	The Changing Face Of Evil	Apr 24, 1999	Feb 12, 2000	Mike Vejar	Ira Steven Behr , Hans Beimler
171	21st	misfortunes never come singly	When It Rains ...	May 1, 1999	Feb 19, 2000	Michael Dorn	René Echevarria , idea: René Echevarria , Spike Steingasser
172	22nd	Fight by all means	Tacking Into The Wind	May 8, 1999	Feb 26, 2000	Mike Vejar	Ronald D. Moore
173	23	Extreme measures	Extreme measures	May 15, 1999	4th Mar 2000	Steve Posey	David Weddle , Bradley Thompson
174	24	In the turmoil of war	The Dogs Of War	May 22, 1999	11th Mar 2000	Avery Brooks	René Echevarria , Ronald D. Moore ; Idea: Peter Allan Fields
175/176	25/26	What you leave behind	What You Leave Behind	May 29, 1999	18 Mar 2000, Mar 25 2000	Allan Kroeker	Ira Steven Behr , Hans Beimler
Plot of episodes 7.17 to 7.26 Sisko tells Kassidy that he wants to build a house on Bajor for their future together, and becomes engaged to her. He later marries Kassidy, although the prophets try to prevent him. He also learns from Kassidy that she is pregnant. The Dominion fails to create a cure for shape-shifting disease. Bashir later finds out that Section 31 had infected Odo with the disease three years earlier so that he could transmit the disease to his people. Odo's symptoms of illness worsen significantly because of the shape changing. Bashir and O'Brien decide to lure Section 31 representatives to DS9 to find out about a cure for the disease. When Sloan appears from Section 31 on DS9, Bashir and O'Brien penetrate Sloan's mind through the use of neurotechnological devices. They find information about the composition of an antidote for the disease, Bashir confesses his love for O'Brien and Sloan dies. After Bashir has prepared the antidote and administered it to Odo, Odo immediately healed. Sisko insists that the cure must not be given to the founders. Gowron takes over from Martok as the commander of the Klingon forces to strengthen his power over Martok. When Gowron threatens to weaken the combined forces of the Klingons and the Federation with his risky combat strategies, Worf calls on him to resign and kills him in the ensuing duel, as a result of which Martok becomes the new Klingon ruler. The great Nagus Zek, who is planning his retirement, appoints Rome as his successor in office. During her unauthorized search, Ezri finds Worf, who was initially lost after a spaceship accident. On their return flight, however, they are captured by the Breen. As a result of torture by the Breen, Ezri unconsciously confesses to Worf that he loves Bashir. They then witness the emergence of an alliance between the Dominion and the Breen. The Cardassian ruler Damar has repeatedly expressed his displeasure with the Dominion-Breen alliance, as the alliance was entered into without his knowledge and Weyoun's attention is directed to the Breen as the Cardassians who were recently killed in the war. Concerned about the Cardassian independence, Damar helps Worf and Dax to escape from Cardassia and gives them on the way to be allies of the Federation from now on. Shortly afterwards, the Breen attack Starfleet Headquarters on Earth. With their help, the Dominion is also recapturing the Chin'toka system from the Federation. With their energy damping weapon, the Breen also destroy the Defiant, whose crew consisting of Sisko's officers was able to save themselves beforehand. Damar has meanwhile founded a Cardassian resistance movement with the aim of liberating Cardassia from the rule of the Dominion. At Sisko's behest, Kira, Odo and Garak help Damar build the resistance. Starfleet finds out that only Klingon ships are armed with the Breen's energy dampening weapon. The resistance movement succeeds in hijacking a Jem'Hadar spaceship equipped with the Breen energy damping weapon from Dominion territory. A little later, Sisko was given command of the USS Sao Paulo, which was identical to the Defiant and which he had immediately renamed Defiant. After the resistance movement has largely collapsed due to attacks on the Dominion, Damar, with the help of Kira and Garak, succeeds in rising to lead a planned revolution through which he wants to free Cardassia from the Dominion. In order to finally gain control of the Alpha Quadrant, the Dominion leadership changes their strategy by first allowing their spaceships to retreat to their own territory. In response, the Federation, Romulans and Klingons plan a large-scale attack on the Dominion. The attack on the Dominion positions around Cardassia Prime, in which the Defiant commanded by Sisko also takes part, initially brings them heavy losses. Triggered by the Cardassian popular uprising initiated by Damar, however, Cardassian spaceships begin to break away from the Dominion fleet and to side with the Federation. In response, the founder, weakened by her illness, starts a genocide against the Cardassians, killing millions of them. While he and his companions storm the command center of the Dominion, Damar is shot by Jem'Hadar and the last Weyoun clone is executed by Garak. By connecting with her and curing her of her illness, Odo convinces the founder to let the Dominion surrender. Facing each other in a conference room on DS9, the founders and representatives of the Federation, Romulans, Klingons and Breen sign a joint peace agreement that ends the Dominion War, which killed around 800 million people. Some of Sisko's senior officers are beginning to leave the station and take on new responsibilities. Dukat can be surgically transformed into a Bajoran named Anjohl Tenan. In this form, he arouses the sensation of Kai Winn, who believes in Anjohl's visit to understand the realization of an announcement by the prophets, according to which they are both destined to lead Bajor into a time of renewal . Dukats alias Anjohl's request to move Winn to turn away from faith in the prophets and to believe in the Pah spirits, succeeds when Winn realizes that this is the only way to maintain her power. Later Kai Winn's servant Solbor finds out that Anjohl is actually Gul Dukat and tells Kai Winn, who, completely shocked by this news, murders Solbor in an affect . Winn and Dukat finally begin to free the Pah spirits from a cave system on Bajor in which they have been imprisoned for a long time. In the process, Ducat kills Winn. To keep the Pah spirits trapped in the cave, Sisko plunges into an abyss, dragging Dukat with him. In the Temple of Heaven, Sisko learns from the prophets that he still has many of their tasks to do.

Reviews

“With its large ensemble cast, DS9 could have gone on perfectly well without a replacement for Jadzia. Instead, we get a "replacement Dax" who turns out to be, hands down, the least interesting and most annoying character DS9 has been stuck with. [...] too much attention is given to the soap-opera plot of "who is Ezri in love with?" [...] DS9 admittedly doesn't stretch as far as it could have in season 7. The conflict between the Pa Wraiths and the Prophets is a missed opportunity: by painting the Wraiths as evil even when the plot would have benefited from more ambiguity, DS9 opts to not explore some potentially compelling religious issues. How do we know that the Prophets are the 'good guys'? [...] But this is an avenue that remains mostly unexplored, and even the character of Kai Winn, who has been a complex figure throughout the series, is pushed in a more simplistic direction. On the other hand, the story thread of the Pa Wraiths draws in the character of Dukat, who becomes an even more interesting and three-dimensional character ... as does Damar, […]. [...] Season 7 isn't quite as strong as the exceptional Season 6, but even with some weaker episodes, it wraps up the DS9 saga with style. " - Holly E. Ordway: DVD talk

“With its large ensemble line-up, DS9 could have continued without a replacement for Jadzia. Instead, we get a replacement Dax, which turns out to be undoubtedly the most uninteresting and annoying figure in DS9. Too much attention is paid to the soap opera plot with whom Ezri is in love. DS9, however, doesn't stretch as far as it would have been possible in season seven. The conflict between the Pah spirits and the prophets is a missed opportunity: By depicting the spirits as evil even if the plot had benefited from more ambiguity , DS9 misses addressing some potentially exciting religious issues. How do we know the prophets are the 'good guys'? But that's a path that remains largely unexplored, and even the character Kai Winn, who was a complex character over the course of the series, is being developed in a simpler direction. On the other hand, the Pah ghost storyline deals with the character Dukat, who becomes an even more interesting and three-dimensional figure, as well as Damar. Season 7 is not as strong as the outstanding season 6, but it also ends the DS9 saga in style with a few weaker episodes. "

“It gets really dark in 'The Siege of AR-558', […]. The praiseworthy endeavor of the DS9 makers not to forget the terrible sides of the war in their epochal storyline finds its climax here in the description of the dirty, dark and hopeless existence on the front line. […] The […] episode 'The Laws Are Silent Under Arms' […] set the final course for the gigantic showdown, […] - the last big venture of 'Deep Space Nine', and this too was phenomenal. There would still be qualitative differences to be looked for within this conclusion, because what unfolds here over a total duration of more than seven hours is simply breathtaking in its highly exciting and congenial combination of pretty much all the threads that made up 'Deep Space Nine' High point in Trek history so far. A definitely more than worthy ending for one of the best TV series that has ever been seen. [...] Ezri brought a pleasant freshness to the routine character scenario for the last season and was able to give the series a little extra momentum at the end. "

- Frank-Michael Helmke : Filmszene.de

“The transition from one Dax to the other was handled with remarkable aplomb by the writers. They took several episodes to smoothly integrate the character into the fold, keeping her the same yet different from Jadzia. […] But, on the flipside, the time devoted to the new Jadzia, most notably in 'Prodigal Daughter,' slows down the momentum in resolving all of the other threads, […]. [...] It wasn't until we get to 'Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges' that the writers realized that they were running out of time. The stories had to begin to resolve all the plots. [...] so much had to happen in so little time. Because of that, the episodes didn't gel like they had in the past. The quality of the writing fell at the expense of resolving the series. " - Erik Profancik, DVD Verdict

“The transition from one Dax to another was handled with remarkable composure by the authors. They used a few episodes to gently integrate the character into the group, keeping it like Jadzia but differently. But on the other hand, the time devoted to the new Jadzia, especially in 'The Lost Daughter', slows down the momentum of all the other storylines. It was only with 'Under arms the laws are silent' that the authors realized that they were running out of time. The stories had to start by unraveling all the open threads. So much had to happen in such a short time. Because of this, these episodes did not take the shape they had in the past. The quality of the scripts came at the expense of the series completion. "

Awards

• ASCAP Awards 1998: Best TV Series
• Primetime Emmy Awards 1999 , nominated:
  • Best hairstyle for a series: Badda-Bing, Badda-Bang
  • Best artistic director for a series: The Prodigal Daughter
  • Best Special Effects for a Series: What You Leave Behind
  • Best make-up for a series: In the turmoil of war
• Saturn Awards 1999 , nominated: Best Syndicated Genre TV Series
• Satellite Awards 2004 , Nominated: Best DVD Release (TV Series)

continuation

→ Main article : Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (literary sequel)

The television series Deep Space Nine continues in literary form, mostly in novel form. The first novels follow the end of the plot of the seventh season.

literature

• Frank-Michael Helmke: A new beginning ... - Now also on DVD: "Star Trek - Deep Space Nine" - Seventh season , in: Filmszene.de (2003)
• Holly E. Ordway: Star Trek Deep Space Nine - Season 7 , in: DVD talk (2003)
• Eric Profancik: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Season Seven , in: DVD verdict (2003)

Remarks

1. ↑ ^{a b} The US premiere was a long episode (90 minutes). Repetitions and the German version were each broadcast in two 45-minute parts.

Web links

• Episode leader in the German StarTrek Index

Individual evidence

1. ↑ TV.com episode guide . TV.com . Retrieved March 31, 2013.
2. ↑ DS9: broadcast dates for the TV series on Sat.1 . Fernsehserien.de . Retrieved March 31, 2013.
3. ^ Ordway 2003
4. ↑ Helmke 2003
5. ↑ Profancik 2003