Star Trek: Deep Space Nine / Season 7
Season 7 of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine | |||
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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
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No. ( St. ) |
German title | Original title | First broadcast in the USA | German language first broadcast (D) | Director | script |
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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
- Holly E. Ordway: DVD talk
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“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. "
- Erik Profancik, DVD Verdict
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Awards
- ASCAP Awards 1998: Best TV Series
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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
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
- ↑ 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
- ↑ TV.com episode guide . TV.com . Retrieved March 31, 2013.
- ↑ DS9: broadcast dates for the TV series on Sat.1 . Fernsehserien.de . Retrieved March 31, 2013.
- ^ Ordway 2003
- ↑ Helmke 2003
- ↑ Profancik 2003