Season 6 of Deep Space Nine marks the height of the Dominion War arc, as it depicts the Federation and its allies in a desperate struggle against the Cardassian-Dominion alliance, which has occupied Deep Space Nine and the Bajoran system.

Release Date

Premiered

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 6 released on September 29, 1997.

Your Progress

Track your watching progress by signing in

Sign In to Track Progress

Episodes

Watched?

S06E01 Aired September 29, 1997

A Time to Stand

Stardate: Unknown Several months after Deep Space Nine was handed over to the Dominion, the Federation is losing the war. Being relieved of command of the Defiant, Sisko is placed in command of a salvaged Jem'Hadar warship they discovered several months earlier, and must destroy the main Ketracel White production facility in the Alpha Quadrant. The mission is a success but it leaves the ship without warp engines and stranded 17 years from the nearest Federation Starbase.

S06E02 Aired October 06, 1997

Rocks and Shoals

Stardate: 51107.2 The damaged Jem'Hadar ship captained by Sisko crashes on a planet. Dax is seriously injured, but kept alive by Dr. Bashir. A group of Jem'Hadar who also crashed on the ship finds them, and takes them to their injured Vorta leader, who has a proposition for Sisko he may not be able to refuse.

S06E03 Aired October 13, 1997

Sons and Daughters

Stardate: Unknown Worf must help his son, Alexander, to learn the ways of a Klingon warrior, while on a ship patrolling for Dominion vessels.

S06E04 Aired October 20, 1997

Behind the Lines

Stardate: 51149.5 Sisko is promoted, and Dax is placed in command of the Defiant. She must disable a Dominion sensor array that has been monitoring all traffic within five sectors. Meanwhile, on Deep Space Nine, now named Terok Nor, Kira must find a way of preventing the minefield from being destroyed. Odo's loyalties are questioned when he physically joins with the Founder Leader.

S06E05 Aired October 27, 1997

Favor the Bold

Stardate: Unknown Odo struggles with his choices between his friends and the link. Sisko faces a suicide mission in order to reclaim Deep Space Nine. Rom is ordered to be executed. Ziyal is assaulted by Damar - Kira sees this altercation and nearly kills Damar over it.

S06E06 Aired November 03, 1997

Sacrifice of Angels

Stardate: Unknown Captain Sisko and his taskforce engage the Dominion as Starfleet pushes to reclaim DS9. Meanwhile on the station, the Dominion tries to complete its plan for removing the mines from the wormhole, and meet internal resistance.

S06E07 Aired November 10, 1997

You are Cordially Invited...

Stardate: 51247.5 Worf and Dax's marriage is threatened when Martok's wife does not welcome Dax into the House of Martok.

S06E08 Aired November 17, 1997

Resurrection

Stardate: Unknown The mirror universe's Bareil attempts to steal the Bajoran orb of Prophecy and Change. Things are complicated when Kira falls in love with him.

S06E09 Aired November 24, 1997

Statistical Probabilities

Bashir is asked to help a group of genetically enhanced people integrate into normal society, but working around their personality problems. Soon, they must analyze a proposed treaty with the Dominion and predict its outcome.

S06E10 Aired January 01, 1998

The Magnificent Ferengi

Stardate: Unknown Quark enlists the help of Rom, Nog and his employees Gaila, Leck and Brunt to rescue his mother from a Dominion prison.

S06E11 Aired January 08, 1998

Waltz

Stardate: 51413.6 While en route to Gul Dukat's war crimes hearing, Sisko meets with Dukat on a shuttle. When the shuttle is attacked they crash on a planet, where Dukat has hallucinations of Weyoun and Damar ordering him to kill Sisko. Sisko must activate the distress beacon if he is to be found alive.

S06E12 Aired February 04, 1998

Who Mourns for Morn?

Stardate: Unknown It is announced that Morn has died and has left his entire estate to Quark. But claiming his inheritance lands him in a web of lies and deceit over the nature of Morn's wealth.

S06E13 Aired February 11, 1998

Far Beyond the Stars

Stardate: Unknown Sisko has visions of himself and his crew as writers for a science fiction paper in 1950's Earth.

S06E14 Aired February 18, 1998

One Little Ship

Stardate: 51474.2 Dax, O'Brien and Bashir take the runabout U.S.S. Rubicon to explore a nebula, when they shrink to a size where the runabout is four inches long. The Defiant is taken over by the Jem'Hadar, and it up to the tiny crew of the Rubicon to get it back.

S06E15 Aired February 25, 1998

Honor Among Thieves

Stardate: 51474.2 O'Brien is ordered to infiltrate the Orion Syndicate to expose a Federation informant. However, his involvement may lead to the death of his new friend.

S06E16 Aired March 04, 1998

Change of Heart

Stardate: 51597.2 Worf is forced to choose between the life of his wife Jadzia, and the success of the mission when they must find a Cardassian defector that seeks their help.

S06E17 Aired April 01, 1998

Wrongs Darker than Death or Night

Stardate: Unknown When Gul Dukat reveals to Major Kira that her mother was a 'comfort woman' for him during the occupation, Kira uses the Bajoran Orb of Time to travel to the past and find the truth.

S06E18 Aired April 08, 1998

Inquisition

Stardate: Unknown Bashir falls under suspicion of unknowingly supplying information to the Dominion, however, all is not as it may seem.

S06E19 Aired April 15, 1998

In the Pale Moonlight

Stardate: 51721.3 Sisko and Garak lure the Romulans into the Dominion war in order to get them to join the Federation/Klingon Alliance. Without them, the Federation and Klingon Empire would eventually lose the war and fall under Dominion rule.

S06E20 Aired April 22, 1998

His Way

Stardate: Unknown Odo uses Bashir's holosuite character of Vic Fontane to bring himself and Kira closer together.

S06E21 Aired April 29, 1998

The Reckoning

Stardate: Unknown A mysterious tablet is found in the ruins of B'hala, foretelling that "The Reckoning" will soon begin. As Sisko tries to translate the texts on the tablet, Kai Winn pays a visit to Deep Space Nine, demanding that the tablet should be given back to Bajor. Sisko, getting an impulse from the Prophets, smashes the tablet, releasing strange energy-beings. Subsequentely, a Prophet saying that she must defeat the 'Evil One,' which will then usher in Bajor's Golden Age, possesses Kira. Sisko does not intervene, even when the 'Evil One' inhabits the body of his son, Jake.

S06E22 Aired May 06, 1998

Valiant

Stardate: Unknown Nog and Jake are rescued by the U.S.S. Valiant when their ship is attacked by the Dominion while on their way to Ferenginar. The crew of the Valiant consists of the Starfleet Cadet corps known as 'Red Squad,' an elite band of cadets, after the main crew were killed when the Dominion War broke out. They decide to complete their mission, which Jake sees as suicide.

S06E23 Aired May 13, 1998

Profit and Lace

Stardate: Unknown Thanks to his relationship with Quark and Rom's mother Ishka, Grand Nagus Zek announces that he will allow equal rights for women on Ferenginar. When Ishka has a heart attack, Quark poses as a convincing female in order to let the law pass.

S06E24 Aired May 20, 1998

Time's Orphan

Stardate: Unknown While on a nearby planet, the O'Brien family picnic is interrupted when Molly wanders off and falls into a vortex that sends her 300 years into the past. When they re-open the vortex, they try to retrieve her, but a miscalculation causes an 18-year-old Molly to appear. It is up to the crew of Deep Space Nine to try to re-educate her, while trying to find the original.

S06E25 Aired June 10, 1998

The Sound of Her Voice

Stardate: Unknown The Defiant attempts to rescue Captain Lisa Cusak who has crashed on a planet with high amounts of carbon dioxide. She has a limited supply of triox, which keeps her alive, but not enough to last until the crew arrives.

S06E26 Aired June 17, 1998

Tears of the Prophets

Stardate: Unknown Sisko is ordered to launch attacks against Cardassia and the Dominion. In his absence, Dax is left in command if the station. Gul Dukat is possessed by a Pah-wraith in an attempt to destroy the Bajoran Wormhole and the Prophets. Dukat manages to destroy one of the Bajoran Orbs, and kills Jadzia in the process, although the Dax symbiont is saved. The Bajoran Wormhole implodes, the Orbs go dark, and Sisko is forced to take time out while the war continues.