Behind the Lines (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine)

"**Behind the Lines**"
"Behind the Lines"
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode
Episode no.	Season 6; Episode 4
Directed by	LeVar Burton
Written by	René Echevarria
Featured music	Dennis McCarthy
Production code	527
Original air date	October 20, 1997
Guest appearances
	Jeffrey Combs - Weyoun; Marc Alaimo - Dukat; Max Grodénchik - Rom; Aron Eisenberg - Nog; Casey Biggs - Damar; Barry Jenner - Admiral Ross; Salome Jens - Female Changeling;
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"Behind the Lines" is the fourth episode of the sixth season of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, 128th episode in the franchise.

Plot

Returning from another successful mission against the Dominion, Captain Sisko is informed that Starfleet Intelligence has discovered a massive Dominion sensor array. It is capable of tracking ship movements over five sectors and cloaked ships within two light-years. Sisko determines that the only way to destroy the array is to approach it from through a star cluster. However, he will not be commanding the mission. Commander Dax leads the mission and is successful in destroying the array.

Meanwhile, Major Kira and the others on Terok Nor are successful in spreading distrust between the Cardassians and Dominion (by having the Jem'Hadar find Damar's PADD, in which he outlined a plan to poison the last batches of ketracel-white should they run out). Things nearly reach a head between Weyoun and Dukat (who has still not been able to destroy the minefield) until the Female Changeling arrives. She had become trapped in the Alpha Quadrant and wishes to link with Odo. He learns more about his people.

Over a bottle of Kanar, Damar tells Quark he has found a way to destroy the minefield: by using the station's deflector array, they can use an anti-graviton beam to disable the mines' replicator units. Quark relays this information to Kira and Rom, who attempt to destroy the beam. However, the plan depends on Odo running a security diagnostic (disabling the system's alarms) and he is in the middle of linking with the Changeling while Rom begins his work. Rom is captured by Damar. Kira confronts Odo, but he merely says that while linked nothing else matters.

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The Next Generation	"The Wounded" "Ensign Ro" "Chain of Command" "The Chase" " Lower Decks" "Journey's End" "Preemptive Strike"
Deep Space Nine	"Emissary" "Duet" "The Homecoming" "The Circle" "Cardassians" "Necessary Evil" "Profit and Loss" "The Maquis" "The Wire" "Tribunal" "Second Skin" "Civil Defense" "Defiant" "Destiny" "Improbable Cause" "The Die is Cast" "The Way of the Warrior" "Indiscretion" "Return to Grace" "Things Past" "The Darkness and the Light" "In Purgatory's Shadow" "By Inferno's Light" "Ties of Blood and Water" "Empok Nor" "Call to Arms" "A Time to Stand" "Sons and Daughters" "Behind the Lines" "Favor the Bold" "Sacrifice of Angels" "Waltz" "Wrongs Darker Than Death or Night" "Tears of the Prophets" "Penumbra" "'Til Death Do Us Part" "Strange Bedfellows" "The Changing Face of Evil" "When It Rains…" "Tacking into the Wind" "The Dogs of War" "What You Leave Behind"
Voyager	"Caretaker" "State of Flux" "Dreadnought" "Nothing Human" "Worst Case Scenario" "Shattered"
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v t e Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episodes
Seasons 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Season 1	"Emissary" "Past Prologue" "A Man Alone" "Babel" "Captive Pursuit" "Q-Less" "Dax" "The Passenger" "Move Along Home" "The Nagus" "Vortex" "Battle Lines" "The Storyteller" "Progress" "If Wishes Were Horses" "The Forsaken" "Dramatis Personae" "Duet" "In the Hands of the Prophets"
Season 2	"The Homecoming" "The Circle" "The Siege" "Invasive Procedures" "Cardassians" "Melora" "Rules of Acquisition" "Necessary Evil" "Second Sight" "Sanctuary" "Rivals" "The Alternate" "Armageddon Game" "Whispers" "Paradise" "Shadowplay" "Playing God" "Profit and Loss" "Blood Oath" "The Maquis, Part I" "The Maquis, Part II" "The Wire" "Crossover" "The Collaborator" "Tribunal" "The Jem'Hadar"
Season 3	"The Search" "The House of Quark" "Equilibrium" "Second Skin" "The Abandoned" "Civil Defense" "Meridian" "Defiant" "Fascination" "Past Tense, Part I" "Past Tense, Part II" "Life Support" "Heart of Stone" "Destiny" "Prophet Motive" "Visionary" "Distant Voices" "Through the Looking Glass" "Improbable Cause" "The Die Is Cast" "Explorers" "Family Business" "Shakaar" "Facets" "The Adversary"
Season 4	"The Way of the Warrior" "The Visitor" "Hippocratic Oath" "Indiscretion" "Rejoined" "Starship Down" "Little Green Men" "The Sword of Kahless" "Our Man Bashir" "Homefront" "Paradise Lost" "Crossfire" "Return to Grace" "Sons of Mogh" "Bar Association" "Accession" "Rules of Engagement" "Hard Time" "Shattered Mirror" "The Muse" "For the Cause" "To the Death" "The Quickening" "Body Parts" "Broken Link"
Season 5	"Apocalypse Rising" "The Ship" "Looking for par'Mach in All the Wrong Places" "...Nor the Battle to the Strong" "The Assignment" "Trials and Tribble-ations" "Let He Who Is Without Sin..." "Things Past" "The Ascent" "Rapture" "The Darkness and the Light" "The Begotten" "For the Uniform" "In Purgatory's Shadow" "By Inferno's Light" "Doctor Bashir, I Presume?" "A Simple Investigation" "Business as Usual" "Ties of Blood and Water" "Ferengi Love Songs" "Soldiers of the Empire" "Children of Time" "Blaze of Glory" "Empok Nor" "In the Cards" "Call to Arms"
Season 6	"A Time to Stand" "Rocks and Shoals" "Sons and Daughters" "Behind the Lines" "Favor the Bold" "Sacrifice of Angels" "You Are Cordially Invited" "Resurrection" "Statistical Probabilities" "The Magnificent Ferengi" "Waltz" "Who Mourns for Morn?" "Far Beyond the Stars" "One Little Ship" "Honor Among Thieves" "Change of Heart" "Wrongs Darker Than Death or Night" "Inquisition" "In the Pale Moonlight" "His Way" "The Reckoning" "Valiant" "Profit and Lace" "Time's Orphan" "The Sound of Her Voice" "Tears of the Prophets"
Season 7	"Image in the Sand" "Shadows and Symbols" "Afterimage" "Take Me Out to the Holosuite" "Chrysalis" "Treachery, Faith, and the Great River" "Once More unto the Breach" "The Siege of AR-558" "Covenant" "It's Only a Paper Moon" "Prodigal Daughter" "The Emperor's New Cloak" "Field of Fire" "Chimera" "Badda-Bing Badda-Bang" "Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges" "Penumbra" "'Til Death Do Us Part" "Strange Bedfellows" "The Changing Face of Evil" "When It Rains…" "Tacking into the Wind" "Extreme Measures" "The Dogs of War" "What You Leave Behind"

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