Season 3
🎬 26 Episodes 📅 1994 ⏱ 45 min
A distress signal from beyond the wormhole sets Star Trek: Deep Space Nine ablaze with tension when Commander Sisko and his crew intercept a desperate plea from a civilization on the brink of extinction. Racing against time and the station's fragile politics, they must navigate treacherous alien diplomacy while uncovering a conspiracy that threatens everything they've sworn to protect. The boundaries between heroism and sacrifice blur as each decision carries the weight of countless lives.
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📊 Season Stats
26
Episodes
1994
Year
45
min / ep
19.5
Watch Hours
3/7
Season No.
⭐ 8.3
Best Episode
Ep. 21 · The Die Is Cast (2)
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🎬 Episodes 26 episodes
1
⭐ 7.7
The Search (1)
Stardate: 48213.1. Instead of waiting for the Jem'Hadar to attack, Sisko wants to try a different approach. He wants to take a new class starship to try to find the Founders.
🎬 Kim Friedman ✍️ Ira Steven Behr
2
⭐ 7.7
The Search (2)
Stardate: 48213.1. Odo has found his home and is introduced. Meanwhile Sisko finds out peace talks between the Dominion and the Federation have already started.
🎬 Jonathan Frakes ✍️ Ira Steven Behr
3
⭐ 7.8
The House of Quark
Stardate: Unknown. Quark tries to boost his reputation by taking credit for the accidental death of a Klingon in his bar, but lands himself in the middle of a Klingon political struggle.
🎬 Les Landau ✍️ Tom Benko
4
⭐ 6.8
Equilibrium
Stardate: Unknown. The Trill homeworld is the setting, as Sisko and Bashir take Jadzia home for treatment when she begins experiencing hallucinations after playing a tune she can't recall.
🎬 Cliff Bole ✍️ Christopher Teague
5
⭐ 7.6
Second Skin
Stardate: Unknown. Kira finds herself on Cardassia as a Cardassian. She is told she is called Iliana Ghemor and was a Cardassian spy.
🎬 Les Landau ✍️ Robert Hewitt Wolfe
6
⭐ 6.8
The Abandoned
Stardate: Unknown. Odo tries to bond with an alien child Quark finds in a load of salvage, while Sisko tries to break his son's relationship with a 20 year old Dabo girl.
🎬 Avery Brooks ✍️ D. Thomas Maio
7
⭐ 7.4
Civil Defense
Stardate: Unknown. The station goes into lockdown and the crew is endangered when an old Cardassian security program is accidentally activated.
🎬 Reza Badiyi ✍️ Mike Krohn
8
⭐ 5.6
Meridian
Stardate: 48423.2. Dax falls in love with one of the residents of a multi-dimensional planet, while on DS9 an alien requests a holosuite program of Kira from Quark.
🎬 Jonathan Frakes ✍️ Evan Somers
9
⭐ 7.5
Defiant
Stardate: 48467.3. The DS9 crew welcomes a visit from William Riker of the Enterprise, but the lieutenant’s hidden agenda leads to a tense standoff deep in Cardassian space.
🎬 Cliff Bole ✍️ Ronald D. Moore
10
⭐ 6.1
Fascination
Stardate: Unknown. As Lwaxanna Troi visits the station for a Bajoran festival, the crew is stricken with intense romantic attractions to one another.
🎬 Avery Brooks ✍️ Ira Steven Behr
11
⭐ 7.3
Past Tense (1)
Stardate: 48481.2. Sisko, Bashir and Dax are accidentally sent to San Francisco in the 21st century due to a transporter malfunction, and must figure out how to get back without changing the time line.
🎬 Reza Badiyi ✍️ Ira Steven Behr
12
⭐ 7.5
Past Tense (2)
Stardate: 48481.2. Sisko is forced to take the place of a key historical figure on Earth in 2024 in order to preserve the timeline.
🎬 Jonathan Frakes ✍️ René Echevarria
13
⭐ 6.0
Life Support
Stardate: 48498.4. Dr. Bashir must use extraordinary measures to prolong Vedek Bareil's life long enough to allow Bareil to complete sensitive peace negotiations between the Bajorans and the Cardassians.
🎬 Reza Badiyi ✍️ Roger Soffer
14
⭐ 7.0
Heart of Stone
Stardate: 48521.5. After chasing a fugitive into a cave, Kira gets stuck and is slowly encapsulated by a growing crystal stone while Odo tries to figure out how to free her.
🎬 Alexander Singer ✍️ Robert Hewitt Wolfe
15
⭐ 7.3
Destiny
Stardate: 48543.2. Sisko faces a conflict between his Starfleet duties and his role as the Bajoran Emissary when an ancient Bajoran prophecy predicts that a joint Federation-Cardassian project will lead to the destruction of the wormhole.
🎬 Les Landau ✍️ Martin A. Winer
16
⭐ 6.7
Prophet Motive
Stardate: Unknown. Grand Nagus Zek is acting bizarre by giving away money and rewriting the Rules of Acquisition. Quark attempts to get the old Nagus back.
🎬 René Auberjonois ✍️ Robert Hewitt Wolfe
17
⭐ 7.7
Visionary
Stardate: Unknown. While a Romulan delegation tries to get information about the Dominion, O'Brien gets visions of unpleasant things that are about to happen in the future.
🎬 Reza Badiyi ✍️ Ethan H. Calk
18
⭐ 6.5
Distant Voices
Stardate: Unknown. After being attacked in the infirmary, Dr. Bashir has a dual mystery on his hands: what has happened to the station while he was out and why is he aging so rapidly now?
🎬 Alexander Singer ✍️ Joe Menosky
19
⭐ 7.1
Through the Looking Glass
Stardate: Unknown. Sisko is kidnapped to impersonate his deceased, mirror universe self to gain Jennifer Sisko's loyalty in the Rebel Alliance.
🎬 Winrich Kolbe ✍️ Robert Hewitt Wolfe
20
⭐ 8.1
Improbable Cause (1)
Stardate: Unknown. After an attempt is made on Garak's life, Odo conducts the investigation on who tried to murder the Cardassian tailor - and why.
🎬 Avery Brooks ✍️ David R. Long
21
⭐ 8.3
The Die Is Cast (2)
Stardate: Unknown. Now rejoined with his former mentor, Garak is ordered to interrogate Odo about the secrets of his people, while the joined Romulan/Cardassian attack fleet moves towards the Founders' home world on a mission of destruction.
🎬 David Livingston ✍️ Ronald D. Moore
22
⭐ 6.5
Explorers
Stardate: Unknown. Sisko rebuilds an ancient Bajoran space vessel from the blueprints, and he and Jake take the ship on a trip, attempting to prove that the ancient Bajorans went beyond their solar system without warp drive.
🎬 Cliff Bole ✍️ Hilary Bader
23
⭐ 6.3
Family Business
Stardate: Unknown. Quark and Rom return to the Ferengi home world because their mother has broken the law - by wearing clothes and earning profits, forbidden for women in Ferengi society.
🎬 René Auberjonois ✍️ Robert Hewitt Wolfe
24
⭐ 6.6
Shakaar
Stardate: Unknown. News arrives that Kai Winn has also become Bajor's political leader. She asks Kira to negotiate with an old resistance friend about returning soil reclamators.
🎬 Jonathan West ✍️ Gordon T. Dawson
25
⭐ 6.6
Facets
Stardate: Unknown. Dax asks the crew to join her Zhian'tara ritual. The memories of her former hosts will take over their bodies. Nog is preparing for Starfleet Academy.
🎬 Cliff Bole ✍️ René Echevarria
26
⭐ 7.9
The Adversary
Stardate: 48959.1. The Defiant is off to show the Federation's presence to the new Tzenkethi government. While underway the ship malfunctions and Bashir is suspected of sabotage.
🎬 Alexander Singer ✍️ Robert Hewitt Wolfe