Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 3

Season 3

Season 3 of Deep Space Nine marks a turning point for the series, as it introduces the USS Defiant, a powerful starship that allows the crew to explore the Gamma Quadrant and face the threat of the Dominion, a vast and ruthless empire ruled by the shape-shifting Founders.

Air date: 1994-09-26

Episodes: 26

Episodes

E1: 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.

Air date: 1994-09-26 • ★ 7.6

E2: 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.

Air date: 1994-10-03 • ★ 7.7

E3: 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.

Air date: 1994-10-10 • ★ 7.8

E4: 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.

Air date: 1994-10-17 • ★ 6.6

E5: 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.

Air date: 1994-10-24 • ★ 7.6

E6: 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.

Air date: 1994-10-31 • ★ 6.7

E7: Civil Defense

Stardate: Unknown. The station goes into lockdown and the crew is endangered when an old Cardassian security program is accidentally activated.

Air date: 1994-11-07 • ★ 7.3

E8: 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.

Air date: 1994-11-14 • ★ 5.3

E9: 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.

Air date: 1994-11-21 • ★ 7.4

E10: Fascination

Stardate: Unknown. As Lwaxanna Troi visits the station for a Bajoran festival, the crew is stricken with intense romantic attractions to one another.

Air date: 1994-11-28 • ★ 6

E11: 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.

Air date: 1995-01-02 • ★ 7.2

E12: 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.

Air date: 1995-01-09 • ★ 7.4

E13: 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.

Air date: 1995-01-30 • ★ 6

E14: 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.

Air date: 1995-02-06 • ★ 7

E15: 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.

Air date: 1995-02-13 • ★ 7.3

E16: 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.

Air date: 1995-02-20 • ★ 6.7

E17: 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.

Air date: 1995-02-27 • ★ 7.7

E18: 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?

Air date: 1995-04-10 • ★ 6.3

E19: 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.

Air date: 1995-04-17 • ★ 7

E20: 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.

Air date: 1995-04-24 • ★ 8

E21: 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.

Air date: 1995-05-01 • ★ 8.2

E22: 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.

Air date: 1995-05-08 • ★ 6.4

E23: 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.

Air date: 1995-05-15 • ★ 6.2

E24: 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.

Air date: 1995-05-22 • ★ 6.5

E25: 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.

Air date: 1995-06-12 • ★ 6.6

E26: 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.

Air date: 1995-06-19 • ★ 7.9