Category: Star Trek

Stardate not given: Quark’s ongoing efforts to prevent Nog from joining Starfleet Academy are interrupted by a call to attend a meeting being held by Jadzia. She is about to undergo a ritual in which the memories of each of Dax’s past hosts is telepathically transferred to another person so she can come to understand them better. Problems are anticipated when it comes to encountering Joran, the mentally unstable host preceding Curzon who was a murderer, but no one expects that Curzon himself will cause any problems. However, once the mind and memories of Curzon Dax find themselves a new home in the form of Odo, Sisko’s crusty old mentor doesn’t have any intention of relinquishing his new body.

written by Renè Echavarria
directed by Cliff Bole
music by Dennis McCarthy

Cast: Avery Brooks (Commander Benjamin Sisko), Rene Auberjonois (Odo), Siddig El Fadil (Dr. Julian Bashir), Terry Farrell (Lt. Jadzia Dax), Cirroc Lofton (Jake Sisko), Colm Meaney (Chief O’Brien), Armin Shimerman (Quark), Nana Visitor (Major Kira Nerys), Jeffrey Alan Chandler (Guardian), Max Grodenchik (Rom), Aron Eisenberg (Nog), Chase Masterson (Leeta)

LogBook entry by Earl Green

Stardate not given: It’s several decades in the future. Jake Sisko is an old man, living in his grandfather’s house on the Louisiana bayou. On a rainy night, a visitor arrives – a young woman who aspires to be a writer. Jake tells her the story of why he hasn’t written in years. Long ago, he was on a trip with his father in the Defiant when an accident in the engine room caused his father to disappear before his eyes. Yet when Ben Sisko began appearing to him in the flesh, for a few minutes at a time, with years between appearances, it became clear that he was not dead, but trapped in subspace. Jake went on with his life, married, became a famous writer – but was forever haunted by his father’s disappearance, and became obsessed with rescuing him. Now, Jake has finally found a solution…but what will it cost him?

written by Michael Taylor
directed by David Livingston
music by Dennis McCarthy

Guest Cast: Tony Todd (Jake Sisko), Galyn Gorg (Korena), Aron Eisenberg (Nog), Rachel Robinson (Melanie)

Notes: Rachel Robinson is the daughter of Andrew J. Robinson, who frequently guest stars as Garak and has directed numerous Star Trek episodes.

LogBook entry by Tracy Hemenover with notes by Earl Green

Stardate 49195.5: A Trill science team arrives on Deep Space 9 to conduct field tests on experimental techniques for creating artificial wormholes. The leader of the team is Dr. Lenara Kahn, a joined Trill whose symbiont was once borne by the wife of one of Dax’s former hosts, Torias. Trill society has a strict taboo against “reassociation” with past lovers, for which the penalty is exile – meaning that both symbionts will die with their current hosts. Therefore Dax and Lenara must be careful about interacting…but despite their best efforts they find themselves reawakening old emotional ties. What will Dax risk in order to be with her former love?

teleplay by Ronald D. Moore & Renè Echavarria
story by Renè Echavarria
directed by Avery Brooks
music by Jay Chattaway

Guest Cast: Susanna Thompson (Dr. Lenara Kahn), Tim Ryan (Bejal Kahn), James Noah (Pren), Kenneth Marshall (Eddington)

Notes: Susanna Thompson would later win a recurring role in Star Trek: Voyager; for much of that show’s last four seasons, she appeared numerous times as the Borg Queen, a role originated by Alice Krige in Star Trek: First Contact.

LogBook entry by Tracy Hemenover with notes by Earl Green