STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE
Season 1, Episode 1
Season 1, Episode 1
Emissary, Part I
Series: Deep Space Nine - (1993-1999)
Season: 1
Episode #: 1.01
Production #: 40511-721
Original Airdate: 01/03/1993
Writer(s): Michael Piller & Rick Berman
Director(s): David Carson
Guest Stars
Camille Saviola as Kai Opaka
Felecia M. Bell as Jennifer Sisko
Marc Alaimo as Gul Dukat
Special Guest Star
Patrick Stewart as Captain Jean-Luc Picard / Locutus of Borg
Co-Stars
Joel Swetow as Gul Jasad
Aron Eisenberg as Nog
Stephen Davies as a Tactical Officer
Max Grodénchik as the Ferengi Pit Boss
Steve Rankin as a Cardassian Officer
Lily Mariye as an Ops Officer
Cassandra Byram as a Conn Officer
John Noah Hertzler as the Vulcan Captain
April Grace as the Transporter Chief
Kevin McDermott as an Alien Batter
Parker Whitman as a Cardassian Officer
William Powell-Blair as a Cardassian Officer
Frank Owen Smith as Curzon
Lynnda Ferguson as Doran
Megan Butler as a Lieutenant
Stephen Rowe as a Chanting Monk
Thomas Hobson as Young Jake
Donald Hotton as Monk #1
Gene Armor as a Bajoran Bureaucrat
Diana Cignoni as Dabo Girl
Judi Durand as Computer Voice
Majel Barrett as Computer Voice
Uncredited Guest Stars
Lena Banks as Saratoga command officer
Scott Barry as Bajoran officer
John Carter as University chancellor (cut scenes)
Mike Cassidy as Human DS9 resident
Robert Coffee as a Bajoran civilian
George Colucci as Human DS9 resident
Robert Cox as Male Saratoga escape pod pilot
Brian Demonbreun as Human sciences officer
Nick Dimitri as Markalian looter
Chris Doyle as Human operations crewman
Jeannie Dreams as Human operations ensign
Brennan Dyson as Human civilian
Red Horton as Bajoran worker
Randy James as Jones
Robert Jodlowski as Alien with no neck and heavy folds over eyes
Mark Lentry as Human command lieutenant
David B. Levinson as Broik
Dennis Madalone as Humanoid DS9 resident
Chad McCord as operations ensign
Buck McDancer as Human DS9 resident
Cole McKay as Bajoran worker
Robin Morselli as Bajoran officer
Tyana Parr as the Trill surgeon
Tyana Parr as a DS9 resident
Mark Allen Shepherd as Morn
Benjamin Svetkey as Pelian
Michael Zurich as a Bajoran Security Deputy
Stardate: 46379.1
Synopsis
For six days during Stardate 43997, Captain Jean-Luc Picard of the Starship Enterprise was held captive by a sinister race called the Borg. The Borg altered the captain's appearance and mind and forced him to lead an attack against the Federation, during which the U.S.S. Saratoga was all but destroyed. One of the Saratoga's officers, Lieutenant Commander Benjamin Sisko, managed to escape with his young son Jake. Unfortunately, his wife did not survive.
Three years later, a reluctant Sisko and his even more reluctant son are transferred to the space station Deep Space Nine in Bajoran territory. Now a Commander, Sisko has been ordered to oversee the repair of the giant space station, which was heavily damaged during a period of Cardassian military occupation.
After his arrival, Sisko begins to meet his crew. He first encounters Chief Operations Officer Miles O'Brien, who has been transferred from the Enterprise, and Kira Nerys, a Bajoran who helped lead her people's painful fight against the Cardassians. Kira agrees to act as Sisko's first officer, but has reservations about the Federation's presence on the Bajoran space station. Soon afterward, he meets Odo, a shape shifter and security officer who exhibits his chameleon-like talents while apprehending a Ferengi thief. Quark, the Ferengi owner of the local watering hole and gambling establishment, arrives to bail out the thief - his young nephew, Nog. Sisko agrees to free Nog only if Quark will remain aboard and continue to operate his recreation center for the station's residents and visitors.
The Enterprise docks at Deep Space Nine, and Sisko has a tense meeting with Picard, whom he blames for the death of his wife. Picard tersely informs Sisko that his mission aboard the space station is to assure the Bajora enter the Federation. Sisko indicates that while he will do his job as long as he is there, he may resign his post. The two part on less-than-friendly terms. Sisko looks to Kira for insight into the Bajora, and she tells that his only chance for success is for the Bajora, a somewhat diverse group, to find reason to unite. She suggests that he seek out Kai Opaka, the Bajoran spiritual leader, and Sisko immediately sets out to find her. Kai Opaka reveals that Sisko's arrival has a deep spiritual purpose, but is unable to reveal exactly what it is. She entrusts Sisko with a powerful and mystical orb, telling him his destiny is to reclaim eight other orbs stolen by the Cardassians. To demonstrate the orb's power, Kai Opaka uses it to transport Sisko to the beach where he first met his wife.
Back on Deep Space Nine, Sisko greets his new crew of medical and science officers, including Dr. Julian Bashir, a cocky and ambitious young doctor, and Jadzia Dax, a beautiful Trill. Sisko's relationship with Dax is complicated by the fact that, as a Trill, she lives by inhabiting different host bodies. She and Sisko were close friends while she inhabited her previous body - that of an old man. In the laboratory, Sisko shows Dax the orb and explains they must find the eight others. When Sisko leaves, Dax experiences the orb's immense power when it takes her back to an earlier time, just as it did with Sisko.
