STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE
Season 1, Episode 2

Emissary, Part II

Series: Deep Space Nine - (1993-1999)
Season: 1
Episode #: 1.02
Production #: 40511-721
Original Airdate: 01/03/1993

Writer(s): Michael Piller & Rick Berman
Director(s): David Carson

Guest Stars
Patrick Stewart as Captain Jean-Luc Picard / Locutus of Borg
Camille Saviola as Kai Opaka
Felecia M. Bell as Jennifer Sisko
Marc Alaimo as Gul Dukat

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: 46392.7

Synopsis

Dax and Sisko set out for the Denorios belt in a runabout. Without warning they are propelled through a giant tear in the fabric of space - a wormhole. After a spectacular light show, the pod slips out of the wormhole and into another corner of space - 70,000 light years from Bajor. Realizing this may be the venue the orbs entered their system, Sisko and Dax re-enter the wormhole to return home and study the implications. However, they land on a remote planet where an orb captures Dax and transports her back to Deep Space Nine. Dax immediately informs the others of her journey, exciting all of them with the possibilities the discovery presents. Kira demands that they transport Deep Space Nine to the mouth of the wormhole so the Bajorans may claim and operate the wormhole and gain power over the Cardassians. But Odo, who was discovered in the Denorios belt and does not know of his origins, has mixed feelings about the wormhole and the link it may provide to his past.

Left alone on the strange planet, Sisko communicates with the awesome force behind the orbs, who first perceive him as a threat. The force does not understand linear time, and presents Sisko with a barrage of images from his life, including the day he met his wife, Jennifer, and the battle where she was killed. Sisko is able to communicate with the alien images of Jake and his late wife. Soon after, Sisko and the force begin to understand each other.

O'Brien begins the task of maneuvering the space station to the mouth of the wormhole, but a Cardassian ship reaches it first. However, the mouth of the wormhole collapses around the alien ship, stranding it in a remote part of the galaxy. The alien force detects the Cardassian ship's presence and informs Sisko that they are no longer alone. However, the force continues to communicate with Sisko, indicating that he is trapped at the moment in time when his wife was killed aboard the Saratoga. Realizing his pain has been holding him back, Sisko allows the force to guide him through the circumstances leading up to his wife's death and helps him to finally grieve for his loss.

Aboard Deep Space Nine, Kira is contacted by Cardassian leader Gul Jasad, who accuses the station crew of destroying the lost Cardassian ship. The crew denies the accusation, but Jasad declares war, prompting Kira to launch an attack against the enemy. The battle escalates and the space station is damaged, but the wormhole suddenly reappears. Sisko's runabout is seen towing the Cardassian ship out of danger, and the fighting ceases.

Later, a changed Sisko speaks with Picard about the events of the past few days. He decides to keep his post on Deep Space Nine, and Picard agrees. Later, he speaks with Kai Opaka, who informs Sisko that this is not the last time he will work with the Bajoran prophets to secure the future of the space station inhabitants.

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