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Fourth Season

Air Date Prod. # Star Date Title Ratings
73/74 09/30/95 718 49011.4 Way of the Warrior
As the Dominion threat to the Alpha Quadrant increases, the peace treaty between the Klingon Empire and the Federation is in jeopardy. Captain Sisko has requested that Lieutenant Commander Worf come to Deep Space Nine to act as a diplomatic liaison with the Klingons.
TL: 8
SOS: 9.1
U: 0.940
76 10/7/95 476 Visitor
When a tragic accident causes Sisko to vanish before his son's eyes, young Jake begins a life-long obsession to bring him back. He watched his father die ... Now, Jake Sisko's life becomes an obsession to make him live again.
TL: 10
SOS: 9.3
U: 0.999
75 10/14/95 475 Hippocratic Oath
Held prisoner by a group of rebel Jem'Hadar, Bashir and O'Brien clash over Bashir's desire to help their captors escape Dominion rule. Bashir must choose between helping his Jem'Hadar captors ... or leaving them to die!
TL: 6.5
SOS: 7.9
U: 0.800
77 10/21/95 477 Indiscretions
Kira and Gul Dukat going off to investigate a ship full of missing Bajoran POW's from the Cardassian occupation. Forced to bring Dukat along on a personal mission, Kira discovers the real reason her nemesis wants to accompany her. Kira's nemesis must find his daughter - to kill her!
U: 0.780
78 10/28/95 478 Rejoined
Jadzia Dax is reunited with another joined Trill whose former host was involved with one of Dax's former hosts, but a Trill custom prohibits them from becoming reacquainted as well as they'd like. Jadzia Dax must choose between her feelings and the rules of Trill society when she is reunited with the wife of one of Dax's previous hosts.
TL: 9
SOS: 7.5
U: 0.850
80 11/4/95 480 Little Green Men
Quark, Rom and Nog travel back in time through an anomaly and end up in Roswell, New Mexico in 1947! It turns out that he and his Ferengi brethren are the aliens captured at Roswell.
TL: 7
SOS: 7.8
U: 0.920
79 11/11/95 479 Starship Down
Trying to rescue a ship inside a red giant's atmosphere, the Defiant is disabled by the Jem'Hadar. Dax and Bashir are trapped in a Turbolift. Kira cares over a dying Sisko, Worf deals with command, and Quark must disable an armed torpedo.
TL: 6.5
SOS: 7.7
U: 0.930
81 11/18/95 481 The Sword of Kahless
Kor, a revered Klingon warrior, sets out with Worf and Dax in search of a mythical, ancient artifact they believe has the power to unite the Klingon Empire.
TL: 9.5
SOS: 7.2
U: 0.850
82 482 Our Man Bashir
Bashir's secret-agent fantasy turns deadly serious when the crew is trapped inside his make-believe world. Posing as a 1960s secret agent in a malfunctioning holosuite program, Bashir is all that stands between his trapped fellow officers and certain death.
TL: 8
SOS: 8.3
U: 0.950
83 12/30/95 483 49170.65 Homefront
Changeling attack brings Sisko to Earth. Evidence that Changelings are targeting Earth sends Sisko back to his home planet, where he and Odo must prevent - or prepare for - war with the Dominion.
TL: 9
SOS: 8.6
U: 0.960
84 1/6/96 484 Paradise Lost
Alien invaders have infiltrated Earth. Preparing Earth for war with the Dominion, Sisko and Odo discover evidence of a Starfleet plot to seize control of the planet from the Federation.
TL: 7
SOS: 8.3
U: 0.680
85 1/27/96 485 Crossfire
Odo's hidden feelings for Kira interfere with his duty to protect the Bajoran First Minister - who also happens to be attracted to her. Will he reveal his feelings for Kira - before she falls for someone else?
TL: 5
SOS: 7.7
U: 0.800
86 2/3/96 486 Return to Grace
Kira and Dukat join forces to take on a ship of murderous Klingons. A demoted Dukat enlists Kira's aid in regaining his former status in the Cardassian Empire.
TL: 8
SOS: 8.2
U: 0.900
87 2/10/96 487 The Sons of Mogh
Worf's brother Kurn arrives unexpectedly and explains that since Worf sided with the Federation against the Klingon Empire, Kurn and his family have become outcasts on the homeworld. Having lost everything, the only way for Kurn to regain his honor is through the Mauk-to'Vor, a death ritual which only Worf can perform. Reluctantly agreeing, Worf fatally stabs Kurn, but Dax and Odo burst in and transport Kurn to the Infirmary. When Kurn survives, Worf must struggle to find an honorable life for his brother.
TL: 7
88 2/17/96 488 The Bar Association
Tired of workplace mistreatment at the hands of his brother, Rom organizes all of Quark's employees into a union and goes on strike against the bar.
TL: 3
89 2/24/96 489 Accession
A centuries-old Bajoran vessel mysteriously exits the wormhole, and its passenger, a legendary Bajoran poet named Akorem Laan, is immediately beamed to the Infirmary. Shocked to learn more than 200 years have passed since he left Bajor, he tells Sisko and Kira that he had an accident in space and was saved by the Bajoran Prophets, which has led him to believe that they have chosen him to be the Emissary. Sisko, never comfortable with the role of Emissary, steps aside to let Akorem assume the revered position. Akorem's first act is to return Bajor to the old ways -- including strict adherence to a restrictive caste system which throws life on the station, and Bajor's relationship with the Federation, into turmoil.
TL: 10
SOS: 8.4
90 4/07/96 490 Rules of Engagement
Worf is put on trial for destroying a Klingon vessel while commanding the Defiant.
91 4/14/96 491 Hard Time
O'Brien commits a crime in another species' space and is found guilty, but the punishment doesn't quite fit the crime.
92 4/21/96 492 Shattered Mirror
Sisko follows his son into a war-torn alternate universe after Jake is lured there by the living counterpart of his late mother.
93 4/28/96 493 Muse
While Odo provides shelter for a pregnant Lwaxana Troi, Jake Sisko falls under the spell of a mysterious woman.
94 5/04/96 494 For The Cause
Sisko is shocked to learn that his girlfriend, Kasidy Yates, may be a Maquis smuggler.
95 5/11/96 495 The Quickening
Bashir tries to save a Gamma Quadrant society afflicted with an incurable, terminal disease by the Jem'Hadar.
96 5/18/96 496 To the Death
Attempting to stop a group of Jem'Hadar renegades from gaining power, Sisko and the Defiant crew must join forces with deadly Jem'Hadar soldiers
97 5/25/96 497 Body Parts
Quark is convinced that he's dying.
98 6/01/96 498 Broken Link
Odo meets up with the founders again.

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