"The Ship" is the 100th episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. It was the second episode of the show's fifth season and first aired during the week of 7 October 1996. The episode was written by Hans BeimlerMA, based on a story by Pam WiggintonMA and Rick CasonMA, and was directed by Kim FriedmanMA.
Benjamin Sisko and his crew find a crashed Dominion warship and attempt a salvage operation, although the Dominion are intent on stopping them for a reason unknown to the crew.
Summary[]
Captain Sisko has brought an away team, including Dax, O’Brien and Worf to the planet Torga IV in the Gamma Quadrant. The team see a Jem’Hadar ship crash near their position and Sisko immediately sees the intelligence information that salvaging the ship could lead to. A second Jem’Hadar ship arrives at the planet, destroying the runabout in orbit and transports down Jem’Hadar troops who kill T’Lor and shoot Muniz, two members of the away team. Sisko and the others seek refuge in the Jem’Hadar ship.
Kilana, the Vorta commander of the second ship, meets with Sisko and negotiates with Sisko while a Jem’Hadar soldier transports into the crashed ship. The Jem’Hadar deploys a sensor device within the ship which is noticed by O’Brien, who is attacked by the Jem’Hadar. The ailing Muniz is able to shoot the Jem’Hadar soldier dead. Sisko realises that there is something aboard the ship that the Dominion want. Muniz continues to get worse and the Jem’Hadar start detonating concussion shells outside the ship. The crew attempt to lift off but the attempt fails. Muniz dies during the attempt.
Sisko and Dax discover what Kilana wants - there is a Changeling aboard the ship, but it has been injured and soon dies. Kilana’s soldiers commit suicide for failing to save the Changeling, and Sisko permits her to remove the Changeling’s remains.
The Defiant arrives and salvages the ship. O’Brien and Worf hold a wake for Muniz, while Sisko reflects on the deaths of his crew. Dax points out that the sacrifices of the five crew and the intel from the Jem’Hadar ship may save five thousand lives, or five million. Sisko comments that doesn’t make it easier.
References[]
Characters[]
- Julian Bashir • Bertram • Jadzia Dax • Hoya • Kilana • Kira Nerys • Enrique Muñiz • Miles O'Brien • Odo • Quark • Rooney • Benjamin Sisko • T'Lor • Varen'agor • Worf, son of Mogh • Deep Space 9 personnel (Deep Space 9 residents)
- Referenced only
- Elim Garak • Jake Sisko • Somak • Weyoun
Locations[]
- Referenced only
- Ireland • Sto-vo-kor
Starships and vehicles[]
- Danube-class runabout • USS Defiant (Defiant-class escort) • Janitza-class (in opening credits) • USS Leeds (Nebula-class explorer, in opening credits) • Robinson (Jem'Hadar fighter)
Races and cultures[]
- Bajoran • Benzite • Changeling • Ferengi • Human • Jem'Hadar • Klingon • Tiburonian • Trill • Vorta
States and organizations[]
Science and technology[]
- anticoagulant • combadge • cormaline • guidance thruster • hyper spanner • impeller • inertial damper • medkit • microfusion initiator • PADD • phaser rifle • plasma conduit • plasma injector • pyroclastic rock • tractor beam • transporter • transporter burn • tricorder • ultritium • ultritium concussion shell • venom • viewscreen • virtual scanner headset • warp drive • warp nacelle • waste extraction
Other references[]
- ak'voh • captain's log • carnival • crewman • god • mining • officer • Osteonecrosis • q'lava • Regalian fleaspider • Regalian liquid crystal • salvage • shroud • Spanish language • Starfleet uniform • Starfleet uniform (2366-2373) • Sto-vo-kor
Appendices[]
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- DS9 episode: "The Jem'Hadar"
- Muñiz first appeared in “Starship Down”.
- The salvaged Jem’Hadar ship later appears in the episodes “A Time to Stand” and “Rocks and Shoals”.
- Two alien races from TOS and TNG appear - a Tiburonian and a Benzite.
- Kilana appears in the novel “Places of Exile”.
- The third novel in the Star Trek: The Next Generation Genesis Wave miniseries reveals that Torga IV has been colonised and mining operations established there.
- ST reference: The Star Trek Encyclopedia
- Information about this episode is presented consistently in the third and fourth volumes.
Video releases[]
Notable cast and crew[]
- Avery Brooks as Benjamin Sisko
- Nana Visitor as Kira Nerys
- Rene Auberjonois as Odo
- Alexander Siddig as Julian Bashir
- Terry Farrell as Jadzia Dax
- Armin Shimerman as Quark
- Michael Dorn as Worf
- Colm MeaneyMA as Miles O'Brien
Images[]
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Connections[]
Timeline[]
| published order | ||
|---|---|---|
| Previous episode: Apocalypse Rising |
DS9 episode produced | Next episode: Looking for par'Mach in All the Wrong Places |
| Previous episode: Apocalypse Rising |
DS9 episode aired | Next episode: Looking for par'Mach in All the Wrong Places |
| chronological order | ||
| Previous Adventure: The Secret The Killing Shadows |
Next Adventure: The Ones Left Behind 3rd entry | |
External links[]
- "The Ship" article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.
- The Ship (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) article at Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.