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Dominion War
File:USS Majestic hit.jpg
Scene from "Sacrifice of Angels"
Created byRick Berman
Michael Piller
Country of originUnited States
No. of seasons7
No. of episodes176 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producersIra Steven Behr
Rick Berman
Michael Piller
Production companyParamount Television
Original release
Networkfirst-run syndication, UPN
ReleaseJanuary 3, 1993 –
June 2, 1999

In the fictional Star Trek universe, the Dominion War is an interstellar conflict held between the Dominion, Cardassian Union and later the Breen Confederacy against the Alpha Quadrant alliance of the United Federation of Planets, Klingon Empire, and later, the Romulan Star Empire. This conflict is notable for being the major ongoing concept in the television series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, and also for the fact that despite generally suffering ratings, episodes which focus on the conflict are some of the highest rated in the series.[1] The Dominion War story-arc was notable for developing several themes relating to war that tested the values of the characters to greater limits, and attracted both criticism and support for this, as described in the section "Clash With Roddenberry's Vision?" and its references.

Background

Main article: Emissary (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine)

In 1990, the fourth season episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation, "The Wounded" introduces the Cardassian race. The episode reveals that in recent history, the United Federation of Planets has been involved in brief conflicts with the Cardassian Union. The fifth season episode, "Ensign Ro," introduces the Bajoran race and describes that the Bajoran homeworld, Bajor, was annexed and occupied by the Cardassians generations ago.

In 1993, the pilot episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, "Emissary" reveals that the Cardassian Occupation of the planet has ended, the Cardassians having been driven off by various Bajoran Resistance factions. The Bajoran resistance groups form a provisional government to oversee the rebuilding of the planet, which has been ecologically, culturally, and financially devastated by the occupation. One of its first official acts is the controversial request of assistance from the Federation.

The Federation responds by sending Starfleet personnel to take command and share operation of the derelict Cardassian space station, Terok Nor - rechristened Deep Space Nine, and was to become a diplomatic and commercial center for Bajor. The new chief protagonist of Deep Space Nine, Commander Benjamin Sisko, was introduced as the reluctant commanding officer. USS Enterprise Captain Jean-Luc Picard tasks Sisko to do everything — short of violating the Federation's Prime Directive — to ensure that Bajor rebuils itself enough to win entry into the Federation.

A stable wormhole is discovered in Bajoran space which connects to the Gamma Quadrant of the Milky Way Galaxy, nearly 70,000 light years away. To jumpstart Bajor's reconstruction efforts and re-emergence on the galactic stage, the space station is moved from the orbit of Bajor to the Alpha Quadrant terminus of the wormhole in order to lay claim. The wormhole is said to be described in Bajoran folklore and mythology as the Celestial Temple.

Conception

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A Jem'Hadar soldier as depicted in "The Jem'Hadar"
Main article: Dominion (Star Trek)

In 2002, executive producer Ira Steven Behr, recalled that unlike some Deep Space Nine stories which were created with one small idea, the creation of the new villain and significant story-arc was very much thought out.[2] Behr noted that the first mention of the new villain, the Dominion, was purposely placed in the comedic season two Ferengi episode, "Rules of Acquisition," which would leave the viewer with an impression of, "how important could it be?"

Writer and story editor Robert Hewitt Wolfe remarked that while Star Trek: Voyager was exploring the chaotic and divided Delta Quadrant, it was desired to create a very different feel for the Gamma Quadrant. After a year and a half of Deep Space Nine exposition, "it was time to give a face to the Gamma Quadrant... a unifying anti-Federation."[2]

Executive producer Michael Piller first had the idea that the founders of the Dominion be Odo's people[2]–the character with mysterious and unknown origins. Instead of introducing one new alien race, three were introduced simultaneously: the Changelings, the Vorta and the Jem'Hadar. These three were intended to represent the front of a very old civilization coupled together by fear to contrast with the unity of the Federation though friendship.

Wolfe explained his initial conception for the Dominion:

"The Federation never knew the Dominion existed until they get this wormhole. The Dominion knew the federation was out there long before the wormhole and they had plans to deal with the Federation when the Federation was projected to enter their space in 200 years. They were building slowly toward that, that's why they sent out Odo in the first place. But then the wormhole opens up and suddenly the Federation is in their backyard... today. It just throws everything into question about the Federation and the Dominion."[2]

A founder, The Female Changeling, described the foundation of the Dominion as, "many years ago we set ourselves a task of imposing order on a chaotic universe." (The Search, Part II) The Changelings felt compelled to control the "solid" races unlike theirs in order to protect themselves.

In an interview with screenwriter Ronald D. Moore, it is revealed that executive producer Rick Berman intended for the Dominion War to only last three or four episodes.[3] Moore recalled that, "as the war went on, [Berman] would weigh in periodically about how heroic the characters are and 'Why does this one have to be so depressing' and 'This one's too violent...' And we're like, 'It's a f***in' war! What do you mean it's too violent?'"[3]

Piller recalled the endeavour to create a new villain as one of the most difficult tasks in Star Trek.[2]

Clash with Roddenberry's vision?

In a 2007 interview with iF Magazine, George Takei criticized DS9 for being the polar opposite of Gene Roddenberry's philosophy and vision of the future.[4] However, D.C. Fontana stated in an interview that Roddenberry would have liked it and its dark themes, since he was a World War II veteran.[5]

Bjo Trimble, one of the major forces behind the letter-writing campaign that helped renew the original series for its third season, commented that she thought Roddenberry would "come to like DS9, had he lived to see it. There might have been some changes. Majel recently said that GR would have hated the war in DS9, but frankly I am amazed that she cannot see the same theme in much of what Gene did, including her recent 'discovery' of Earth: Final Conflict. The only reason there were not full battles in early Trek is lack of funds to pull it off, and lack of technology to show it. Otherwise, GR would certainly have added it; he knew what audiences liked".[6]

Roddenberry himself is quoted in The Making of Star Trek DS9 as having doubts that a non-exploration show could work, and being displeased with early concepts presented to him in 1991. However, Rick Berman stated in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Companion that Roddenberry had given him his blessing for developing it very close to his death.[7]

Development of the Dominion War story-arc

The section which follows is a summary of major narrative themes relating to the Dominion War story-arcs, with references to their appearance in the episodes and seasons of the television show Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, and in other canon Star Trek series and materials.

Season Two: First Contact with the Dominion

Main article: List of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episodes

The second-season episode, "Rules of Acquisition" marks the first mention of the Dominion[8] , when Quark first hears whispers of a union of civilizations in the Gamma Quadrant similar to the Federation in its goals of mutual defense and trade practices. What at first appeared to be a minor element of an episode with a comedic atmosphere had in fact been planned to create a major change in the dynamics of the show.[2] As races from the Alpha Quadrant begin to colonize planets in the Gamma Quadrant and make their presence known to Gamma Quadrant species, disturbing reports about the Dominion begin to emerge. The reports seem to indicate that what the Dominion cannot not attain through trade is taken by force. These reports are borne out when a huge fleet of Skrreea ships appears in the Alpha Quadrant, in search of a new homeworld after their old home has been utterly destroyed by Dominion forces.[9] The second-season finale, "The Jem'Hadar" allowed the scriptwriter Robert Wolfe to surprise the audience and tap into their sense of complacency built up in the run of Star Trek: The Next Generation, as established opinions concerning the confidence and capability of the personnel of Star Fleet and the security of the Federation were put suddenly into doubt.[2] [10] The Dominion is revealed to be a ruthless empire, with three distinct races performing key roles. Sisko and Quark are captured by Jem'Hadar, the Dominion's shock troops, along with a mysterious alien (later to be identified as a Vorta, a race that serve as the Dominion's administrators) named Eris.[11] The Jem’Hadar then send a representative to DS9 to inform the Alpha Quadrant that no further intrusions into Dominion space will be tolerated, and give Major Kira Nerys a list of colonies and starships already destroyed for trespassing. The Federation sends a rescue team that successfully extracts the planetary survey party (Eris included) at a heavy cost. During a fierce battle, one of the Jem’Hadar attack ships launches a kamikaze run towards the starship Odyssey, resulting in its destruction. The remaining forces return to the Alpha Quadrant, where it is discovered that Eris is a spy and that Sisko’s capture had been engineered by the Founders, the shadowy ruling class of the Dominion. Once discovered, Eris manages to escape.[12]

Season Three: The Founders

Main article: List of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episodes

At the start of DS9’s third season, in the episode “The Search”, Commander Sisko returns from Starfleet Headquarters on Earth with the USS Defiant, a prototype starship.[13] It remains stationed at Deep Space Nine until season seven, providing an avenue for plot lines away from the station. With the third season, writers from the now completed Star Trek: The Next Generation began to write regularly for DS9. Robert Hewitt Wolfe joined Ira Steven Behr in writing the episodes concerning the Dominion, beginning with “The Search”.

The stories featuring the Dominion in Season Three develop the theme of the connection between Odo and his own people, and their differing attitudes towards other 'solid' sentient lifeforms. The USS Defiant enters the Gamma Quadrant on a peace mission to locate the Founders in the two-episode story “The Search”. The crew discover that the Founders are the same race as Odo, DS9’s shapeshifting chief of security. Despite a strong longing to return to his home, he finds his people’s philosophy — that which you can control cannot hurt you — abhorrent.[14] Odo asks to be returned to the Alpha Quadrant. The Founders, led by a character identified only as “the Female Changeling” (played by Salome Jens), acquiesce to Odo’s request, in the hopes that Odo will one day rejoin his people. This marks the beginning of a cold war phase between the Federation and Dominion..[13] [15]

"Improbable Cause" was the 20th episode of the third season.[16] It began a two-part story concerning the search for the Founders homeworld concluded in the following episode, "The Die is Cast". Following first contact with The Founders, The Obsidian Order — a covert Cardassian intelligence force — ally themselves with the Tal Shiar, their Romulan counterpart, and secretly launch a preemptive strike to destroy the Founders’ homeworld, hoping that the Dominion will collapse with the loss of the Founders. However, the Founders, using their shapeshifting abilities, have infiltrated the Tal Shiar and have actually encouraged the strike on an entirely deserted planet. They launch an ambush to wipe out both the Obsidian Order and the Tal Shiar. The story sets up an atmosphere of suspicion initiated by the ability of Changelings to assume any identity.[17]

Season Four: Founder infiltration and political destabilization

Main article: List of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episodes

Robert Hewitt Wolfe and Ira Steven Behr were responsible again for many of the episodes concerning the Dominion in this season.

Season Four begins with the episode “The Way of the Warrior”, which also marks the arrival of Worf as a permanent crew member aboard Deep Space Nine. This episode is one of several in this season to explore themes of suspicion and paranoia, and their effect upon societies and relationships, building up to the episodes "“Homefront”" and “Paradise Lost”.

After the events of "The Die is Cast", paranoia about who might or might not be a shapeshifter leads the Klingons to suspect Dominion involvement in the new Cardassian civilian government. Their refusal to break off an invasion, even after it has been proven that the Dominion was not involved, leads to military confrontation and a diplomatic breakdown with the Klingons, as they attempt to seize Deep Space Nine. This seems to further the Founders' goal of the destabilization of the Alpha Quadrant as a prelude to their own invasion.[18]

In "“Homefront”", the paranoia over shapeshifters continues, with even Commander Sisko suspecting his own father and recommending a State of Emergency be declared on Earth.[19] In "“Paradise Lost”", certain Starfleet officers go further and try to implement a coup d’état against the President of the Federation after it is learned that shapeshifters have infiltrated Earth and committed a terrorist attack. This leads to an armed conflict between Starfleet vessels for the first time in a century.[20] Sisko is able to force Admiral Leyton to abandon his efforts to impose martial law by telling him 'You're fighting the wrong war!'.[21] Writer Ira Steven Behr's favorite line in this episode is "Paradise never seemed so well armed". [7]

Season Five: Build-up to War

Main article: List of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episodes

In the fifth season, the Dominion invasion of the Alpha Quadrant begins and features in several episodes such as Apocalypse Rising, In Purgatory's Shadow, "By Inferno’s Light", and “Blaze of Glory”. Robert Hewitt Wolfe and Ira Steven Behr were responsible again for the major episodes concerning the Dominion in this season.[22] [23] [24] [25]

In the first episode of the season, Apocalypse Rising, Odo discovers that his race are capable of deceiving their own kind as well as 'solids', when they lead him to believe Klingon Chancellor Gowron to be a Changeling instead of the general, Martok. This storyline was planned to bring the series back towards a war with the Dominion, which had been postponed in earlier discussions with Paramount in favour of bringing Worf and a klingon-based storyline into the show.[26] [27]

In "In Purgatory's Shadow", the audience discover that Dr. Julian Bashir has been kidnapped and replaced by a Changeling. The real Bashir has been in a Dominion prison for several weeks. The Changeling sabotages efforts to close the wormhole, and attempts to destroy the Bajoran sun, leaving the way open for Dominion fleets to enter the Alpha Quadrant.[22] In the next episode, "By Inferno’s Light", The Cardassians become a member of the Dominion, and the Klingon Empire and Federation realise they must put aside their suspicions and unite against the common threat. A garrison of Klingon troops is stationed on Deep Space Nine, led by the real General Martok, also rescued from the Dominion prison.[23]

In “Blaze of Glory”, the characters deal with the issue of ethnic cleansing, when the Maquis - a resistance group of former Federation citizens now living in Cardassian space - are hunted down and ask for the assistance of Sisko, who has formerly opposed their methods.[24]

The season culminates in a finale “Call to Arms”, which sets the scene for the commencement of full-scale war between the Dominion and the Federation over the next two seasons. The Dominion begin sending ships through the wormhole, so the Federation and Klingon Empire build a minefield at its mouth to cut off the supply line. This event is used in the story-arc as an act of war. The story considers whether it is better for the planet Bajor to stand with their Federation friends or remain neutral in the coming war to protect themselves. Sisko persuades them that neutrality is the better course in this situation.[25]

Season Six: The Dominion War begins

Main article: List of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episodes

Season Six sees the commencement of the Dominion War, and the season tackles moral dilemmas of war. These new plot elements allowed the series to explore issues in ways that previous incarnations of Star Trek had not been able to, and the characters and relationships are challenged on, and are sometimes forced to reevaluate, their values and beliefs. Producer Ronald D. Moore at first intended the war arc to last for a small number of episodes before being resolved.[28] However, Ira Behr conceived instead a story-arc of six related episodes culminating in “Sacrifice of Angels”.[7] None of the writing staff had worked on a series involving story-arcs of such length before, and Moore, Behr and Hans Beimler all state that the writing process changed as a result, with more collaboration and interaction than before.[29][30][31]

The return of Gul Dukat as its commander allowed the scriptwriters to contrast the DS9 the audiences is familiar with with its incarnation as Terak Nor. Odo is in several episodes torn between loyalty towards Kira and the Bajorans, and his status as a Founder, as he joins the station's ruling council in "A Time to Stand". Major Kira can be seen drawing upon her characters' past as she begins her own resistance movement on the station in the episode “Behind the Lines”.

Another reversal of fortune is plotted later in the season, as the Starfleet Operation Return retakes the station in the episodes "Favor the Bold" and “Sacrifice of Angels” Heavily outnumbered, the script is leading to defeat for the main characters, as the USS Defiant stands alone in an attempt to delay thousands of Dominion ships pouring through the Wormhole. The writers instead invoked an intervention by the Wormhole Prophets, whom some characters consider to be gods, and characters ponder questions of faith and destiny in time of war.[32] The writer Hans Beimler wanted to refer to elements of myth, saying, "It's tragic hero stuff. A hero [Sisko] takes on things for others, but doesn't necessarily find any peace himself in the result."[7] Ira Behr compares Sisko to Moses and to the character Ethan Edwards from the classic western film The Searchers.[7] The Dominion fleet disappears, and the Federation once again takes control of Deep Space Nine. The Federation victory costs Gul Dukat his sanity, his daughter’s life, and his place as the Cardassian head of state.

As a counterpoint to the values upheld by the main characters of the show, this season introduced Section 31, a secret organization dedicated to preserving the Federation way of life at any cost, whether that be achieved within or outside of the laws and values of the Federation itself. Section 31 features prominently in several episodes of the Dominion War arc, with many of these being written by the team of Bradley Thompson and David Weddle.[33] In the episode Inquisition, the character Dr Julian Bashir refuses to join the organisation, and reports their actions, but ponders the significance of such an organisation: "But what would that say about us? That we're no different than our enemies? That when push comes to shove, we're willing to throw away our principles in order to survive?" Sisko replies: ""I wish I had an answer for you."[34]

Significantly, the following episode In the Pale Moonlight considers a moral dilemma of this very kind. The Dominion captures a key Federation world Betazed in a surprise attack. The capture of a planet familiar to the viewing audience was used by the writers to heighten the sense of danger and the stakes for the characters. [7] The story involves Sisko in starting a conspiracy, intended to improve the war situation, that results ultimately in a premeditated act of murder by one of the characters Elim Garak, and they decide that the greater good, in the context of the war effort, will be best served by covering up the truth.[35][36] Episode writer Michael Taylor says: "It showed how Deep Space Nine could really stretch the Star Trek formula. It pushes the boundaries in a realistic way, because the decisions Sisko makes are the kinds of decisions that have to be made in war. They're for the greater good." [7]

Season Seven: Resolution of the Dominion War Story-arc

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Season Seven continued to explore the issues and dilemmas of war that had been introduced in the previous season. Hans Beimler joined Ira Behr to develop several of the Dominion War stories. Following the critical success of the previous season's war mini-arc, a 10 episode arc for the war was planned for this season.[37] [7]

Characters face dilemmas relating to genocide, having to decide whether or not to provide a cure for the disease they have allowed to spread amongst the Founders when in "Treachery, Faith, and the Great River", Odo discovers that a virus has infected his people.[38] This sets up conflict in future episodes with other characters when it is discovered later (in the episode "When It Rains...) that Section 31 has infected him and used him to unknowingly communicate the virus. While Dr Bashir is supportive, others are not so readily convinced that a cure should be provided to the Dominion rulers.

Another race of adversaries were expanded during Season Seven with the alliance of the Breen with the Dominion in the episode ’Til Death Do Us Part. Their entry into the war turns the tide temporarily back to the Dominion’s favor. In the episode The Changing Face of Evil, writers Ira Behr and Hans Beimler chose to stage another dramatic strike at the heart of the Federation, this time in a Breen attack on Earth itself, destroying many Starfleet facilities as well as heavily damaging the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco. Furthermore, Breen vessels are equipped with a power-draining weapon that renders targeted vessels inert. In the same episode, the Dominion retake the Chin’toka system in a battle that destroys the USS Defiant. Writer Ira Behr is quoted as saying, "We wanted to kill the Defiant as a statement on how tough the Breen were. We thought that would rock the characters and the audience."[7] However, this battle also reveals a flaw in the Breen weapon: a Klingon vessel is unaffected by the weapon due to a slight modification.

The renewed struggle of the war gave opportunities to the writers to grapple with other issues of warfare, such as the impact of prolonged exposure to the stress of battle in the episode "The Siege of AR-558"[39], and the psychological impact of disablement when a major character loses a leg in the next episode, It's Only a Paper Moon, written by David Mack and John J. Ordover.[40]

Season Seven revisits also some of the issues of resistance that had originally been tackled in the context of Bajor in the early seasons, but now in the context of Cardassia. Legate Damar grows frustrated increasingly with the seemingly stalemated war and his own position as a Dominion puppet.[41] As Cardassian military losses mount, and Dominion control of Cardassia grows, he begins to drink heavily and criticizes the Dominion’s ability. Legate Damar begins his own underground resistance movement. Damar is branded a rebel by the Dominion and goes into hiding. Kira, Garak and Odo are sent as “technical advisors” to help him in the episode When It Rains.... Several other episodes explore the relationship between former enemies, Cardassian and Bajoran, in their new role as allies, for example in Tacking Into the Wind, where Damar and Kira’s group co-operate to capture a Breen weapon, despite their past prejudices. Both in this episode and in The Dogs of War, Damar is forced to choose between Cardassians, such as Gul Rusot and Gul Revok, who do not stand for the resistance or for reevaluating their past, and the support offered by Kira and others he once saw as enemies.[42] The writers chose to make the theme of popular resistance versus oppression prominent as the series reached its conclusion.[43] [44] As the war begins to become harder for the Dominion forces, cut off from the Gamma Quadrant and having lost their technological advantages, their forces withdraw to the Cardassian core worlds, and prepare for a gathering Alliance offensive. In the episode The Dogs of War, Damar’s renewed attempts at fomenting a popular uprising against the Dominion gather success, cutting Cardassia Prime’s command and control abilities off from the Dominion fleet. In an attempt to cow the Cardassians back into line, the Founder orders the destruction of an entire Cardassian metropolis, killing about two million Cardassians. This atrocity causes the Cardassian fleet to switch sides, turning the battle in the Alliance's favor. The Founder orders the extermination of the Cardassian people. 800 million Cardassians die in a Dominion bombardment. The Dominion fleet withdraws into orbit of Cardassia Prime for one last stand, in “What You Leave Behind, Part I”.

The discussion of the Founders disease, and whether it can or should be cured, is tackled in the episode Extreme Measures. Doctor Julian Bashir and DS9’s chief of operations, Chief Miles O’Brien, discover the cure for the Changelings’ disease, created by Section 31, inside the mind of Sloan. The story presents a challenging discussion of the morality of biological warfare and genocide amongst the characters. While Dr Bashir is certain that a cure should be offered to the Founders, Sisko is seen to equivocate and discusses with Odo whether the disease should be allowed to continue as it offers a valuable advantage in the war. Odo takes the perspective that this would amount to a genocide of his own species. [45] The cure is given ultimately to Odo by Dr Bashir. In exchange for the Dominion’s peaceful surrender, and the arrest of the Founder for war crimes, the Alpha Quadrant Alliance allows Odo to cure the Changelings.

The "Treaty of Bajor", is signed in a ceremony aboard DS9, where the conflict had first begun, in the concluding episode of the entire series, “What You Leave Behind, Part II”. The end of the Dominion War story was taken as a resolution of the series as a whole, and a point to decide what the characters would go on to do with their lives. The studio, Rick Berman and Ira Steven Behr agreed that the final episode of the series should focus on the human drama as opposed to military events.[46]

Spin-off media

A number of novels, novelisations and short-story collections have been written to chronicle events of the Dominion War outside of canon:

  • Behind Enemy Lines by John Vornholt.
  • A Call to Arms by Keith R. A. DeCandido.
  • Tunnel Through the Stars by John Vornholt.
  • Sacrifice of Angels by Diane Carey.
  • Tales of the Dominion War edited by Keith R. A. DeCandido.[1]

Deep Space Nine: Dominion Wars is a real-time tactics computer game based on the depictions of the Dominion War published by Simon & Schuster Interactive in 2001.[47]

See also

References

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  11. ^ "The Gamma Quadrant isn't empty, it isn't just a bunch of planets. It's bound together by the Dominion, a very very tough, very smart, very old civilization, run by the mysterious Founders, who are experts in genetic engineering, and who turn out to be Odo's people, the Shapeshifters. They then go and engineer these slave races that do their bidding. Essentially, the two main slave races were the 'carrot' and the 'stick'. The carrot being the Vorta, who would come to your planet and say, 'Hey, you're nice people, here's some M-16s and some popcorn, and whatever else you want baby, alcohol, fire-water? All you have to do is sign this little contract and we'll make you cool.' Then there's the Jem'Hadar. So the Vorta say, 'Oh, you don't want to play ball? Then meet these guys. They're gonna kick your asses.", interview with Robert Hewitt Wolfe, 'The Birth of the Dominion and Beyond' documentary special feature, DS9 Season 3 DVD.
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  14. ^ "What you can control can't hurt you." the Female Changeling, "How can you justify the deaths of so many people?" Odo "The solids have always been a threat to us, that's the only justification we need." the Female Changeling, excerpt from the script of “The Search”, Part 2, 1994
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  21. ^ "It's not over! I have enough loyal officers to make a fight of it!" "Who will you fight? Starfleet? The Federation? Don't you see, Admiral! You're fighting the wrong war! And as for your loyal officers, Benteen's already abandoned you. And she was closer to you than anyone. You've lost! Don't make anyone else pay for your mistakes." "I hope... you're not the one making the mistake.", Admiral Leyton and Benjamin Sisko, quotation from the script of episode Paradise Lost
  22. ^ a b Writers: Ira Steven Behr and Robert Hewitt Wolfe Creators: Rick Berman and Michael Piller (1997-02-10). "In Purgatory's Shadow". Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. UPN. {{cite episode}}: Unknown parameter |serieslink= ignored (|series-link= suggested) (help)
  23. ^ a b Story: Ira Steven Behr and Robert Hewitt Wolfe Creators: Rick Berman and Michael Piller (1997-02-17). "By Inferno's Light". Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. UPN. {{cite episode}}: Unknown parameter |serieslink= ignored (|series-link= suggested) (help)
  24. ^ a b Story: Ira Steven Behr and Robert Hewitt Wolfe Creators: Rick Berman and Michael Piller (1997-05-12). "Blaze Of Glory". Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. UPN. {{cite episode}}: Unknown parameter |serieslink= ignored (|series-link= suggested) (help)
  25. ^ a b Story: Ira Steven Behr and Robert Hewitt Wolfe Creators: Rick Berman and Michael Piller (1997-06-16). "Call To Arms". Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. UPN. {{cite episode}}: Unknown parameter |serieslink= ignored (|series-link= suggested) (help)
  26. ^ "Season 4 threw us for a loop, with the whole Klingon thing, and bringing Worf into the show. So the seminal thing about our fifth season opener was that we wanted to get back on the track we'd anticipated being on a year earlier. We were moving back toward making the shape-shifters and the Dominion our enemies. Not the Klingons. I didn't want to have the Klingons as our enemies." "...we wanted to let people know that we didn't switch horse in midstream. So "Apocalypse Rising" was an important episode. By having that shape-shifter in there, we were saying, 'Season 4 wasn't a mistake. It wasn't the Klingons turning against us. There was a shape-shifter behind it all along.' And that's why we had to do that episode.", interview with Ira Steven Behr, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Companion, Pocket Books, 2000.
  27. ^ Story: Ira Steven Behr and Robert Hewitt Wolfe Creators: Rick Berman and Michael Piller (1996-09-30). "Apocalypse Rising". Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. UPN. {{cite episode}}: Unknown parameter |serieslink= ignored (|series-link= suggested) (help)
  28. ^ ""The initial thinking was that we would end Season 5 on a cliff-hanger with the Federation plunged into war, and then we would come back and do a multi-episode arc, and the war would last that long." Ronald D. Moore, http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/A_Time_to_Stand_(episode)%7C"A Time To Stand at Memory Alpha wiki".
  29. ^ "We broke the six episodes together, but as everybody went off and worked on writing them, things would start to change or shift. It became a much more interactive process than it ever had been before. Because each detail had a domino effect. We'd had that happen before, to a certain extent, but we'd never done this many episodes with this many continuing storylines as a single piece. We weren't used to the rhythm. It was definitely challenging!" Ronald D. Moore, http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/A_Time_to_Stand_(episode)%7C"A Time To Stand at Memory Alpha wiki".
  30. ^ "It changed the dynamic of the way we work and it changed the kind of involvement that everybody had. Because René Echevarria or Ronald D. Moore would go away to work on an episode, and discover something in the writing process that was going to change everybody else's script. One of them would be coming back all the time saying, 'You know what guys? We need to rethink.' And then we'd call in all the troops and rethink the storyline" Hans Beimler, http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/A_Time_to_Stand_(episode)%7C"A Time To Stand at Memory Alpha wiki".
  31. ^ "The guys were coming in saying, 'What are you writing?' 'Are we gonna do this?' 'Where's Kira at right now?' 'What's Odo doing?' There were a lot of phone calls, a lot of running into each other's offices, a lot of 'Should this go before this?' and 'Wait a second - does this track?' The fact is, the show isn't geared to work like that." Ira Steven Behr, http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/A_Time_to_Stand_(episode)%7C"A Time To Stand at Memory Alpha wiki".
  32. ^ Writers: Ira Steven Behr and Hans Beimler Creators: Rick Berman and Michael Piller (1997-11-03). "Sacrifice of Angels". Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. UPN. {{cite episode}}: Unknown parameter |serieslink= ignored (|series-link= suggested) (help)
  33. ^ Writers: Bradley Thompson and David Weddle Creators: Rick Berman and Michael Piller (1998-04-08). "Inquisition". Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. UPN. {{cite episode}}: Unknown parameter |serieslink= ignored (|series-link= suggested) (help)
  34. ^ "I can't believe the Federation condones this kind of activity." Julian Bashir "Personally, I find it hard to believe they wouldn't. Every other great power has a unit like Section 31. The Romulans have the Tal Shiar, the Cardassians had the Obsidian Order..." Odo "But what does that say about us? When push comes to shove, are we willing to sacrifice our principles in order to survive?" Bashir "I wish I had an answer for you, Doctor." Benjamin Sisko, quotation from the script of episode Inquisition, 1998
  35. ^ "So... I lied. I cheated. I bribed men to cover the crimes of other men. I am an accessory to murder. But the most damning thing of all... I think I can live with it. And if I had to do it all over again, I would. Garak was right about one thing, a guilty conscience is a small price to pay for the safety of the Alpha Quadrant. So I will learn to live with it. Because I can live with it. I can live with it..." Benjamin Sisko, quotation from the script of episode In the Pale Moonlight
  36. ^ Writers: Michael Taylor, Peter Allan Fields and Ronald D. Moore Creators: Rick Berman and Michael Piller (1998-04-15). "In The Pale Moonlight". Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. UPN. {{cite episode}}: Unknown parameter |serieslink= ignored (|series-link= suggested) (help)
  37. ^ "It showed us the possibilities and the excitement that could be garnered, and in the end, we liked it so much that we decided to do the ten-episode arc at the end of the series." Hans Beimler, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Companion
  38. ^ Story: Phillip Kim Teleplay: David Weddle and Bradley Thompson Creators: Rick Berman and Michael Piller (1998-11-22). "Treachery, Faith, and the Great River". Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. UPN. {{cite episode}}: Unknown parameter |serieslink= ignored (|series-link= suggested) (help)
  39. ^ Writers: Ira Steven Behr and Hans Beimler Creators: Rick Berman and Michael Piller (1998-11-18). "The Siege of AR-558". Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. UPN. {{cite episode}}: Unknown parameter |serieslink= ignored (|series-link= suggested) (help)
  40. ^ Story: David Mack and John J. Ordover Teleplay: Ronald D. Moore Creators: Rick Berman and Michael Piller (1998-11-30). "It's Only a Paper Moon". Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. UPN. {{cite episode}}: Unknown parameter |serieslink= ignored (|series-link= suggested) (help)
  41. ^ "Seven million of our brave soldiers have given their lives to fulfill our part of the agreement, and what has the Dominion done in return? Nothing. We've gained no new territories. In fact, our influence throughout the quadrant has diminished. And to make matters worse we are no longer masters in our own home. Travel anywhere on Cardassia and what do you find? Jem'Hadar, Vorta, and now Breen. Instead of the invaders we have become the invaded. Our allies have conquered us without firing a single shot. Well, no longer.",Legate Damar excerpt from the script of The Changing Face of Evil, 1998.
  42. ^ ""We needed someone [Gul Rusot] who would highlight Damar's strength, by putting Damar in a position where he’d have to hold this tiger by the tail and keep him in line.",interview with Ira Steven Behr,Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Companion, 2000.
  43. ^ "Citizens of Cardassia, hear me! The Dominion told you that the rebellion has been crushed. What you have seen here today proves that that is yet another lie. Our fight for freedom continues! But it will take place here in the streets. I call on Cardassians everywhere to rise up, rise up and join me! I need you to be my army! If we stand together, nothing can oppose us. Freedom is ours for the taking!", Legate Damar, excerpt from the script of The Dogs of War, 1998.
  44. ^ "Citizens of Cardassia, this latest wave of vandalism directed against your Dominion allies must stop. We know that these disgraceful acts of sabotage were carried out by a mere handful of extremists, but these radicals must come to realize that their disobedience will not be tolerated, that you, the Cardassian people, will suffer the consequences of their cowardly actions. Which is why, I must inform you, a few moments ago Dominion troops reduced Lakarian City to ashes. There were no survivors. Two million men, women and children, gone in a matter of moments. For each act of sabotage committed against the Dominion, another Cardassian city will be destroyed. I implore you not to let that happen. Let us return to the spirit of friendship and cooperation between our peoples so that together we can destroy our common enemies: the Federation, the Klingons, the Romulans and all others who stand against us. Thank you.", Weyoun, excerpt from script of What You Leave Behind, Part I, 1998.
  45. ^ "Interesting, isn't it? The Federation claims to abhor Section 31's tactics, but when they need their dirty work done they look the other way. It's a tidy little arrangement, wouldn't you say?'", Odo, excerpt from teh script of What You Leave Behind, Part II, 1998.
  46. ^ "I could see their point. Deep Space Nine is bigger than just the Dominion War. So we split it. We had a two-hour episode, which allowed us to give the audience the big battle scenes and all that stuff, but then say, 'Hey, this is the final episode, and we have a lot of other stuff to take care of too'!... ...I wanted to tie up all the loose ends. I didn't want this show to end like so many TV shows do, with all this open-ended 'Whatever happened to these characters?' I mean, obviously these characters go off and have some kind of life, but in terms of this series, I wanted to bring some closure, it was important to me.", interview with Ira Steven Behr, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Companion, 2000.
  47. ^ "Star Trek: Dominion Wars Review". GameSpot UK. 1993. Retrieved 2009-07-19.

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