Battle Lines
- FIRST SHOWN (US)
- 25 April 1993
- ON
- First-run syndication
- STARDATE
- None given
- DIRECTED BY
- Paul Lynch
- PRODUCTION NO.
- 413
WRITTEN BYTeleplay by Richard Danus and Evan Carlos Somers; story by Hilary J. Bader
Kai Opaka asks to see the Gamma Quadrant, but a distress call leads Sisko, Kira and Bashir to a moon where two peoples have been fighting for a very long time.
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Kai Opaka, Bajor's spiritual leader, visits the station and asks Sisko to take her through the wormhole. Answering a distress signal, their runabout is shot down by satellites over a moon, and Opaka is killed in the crash, leaving Kira devastated. The survivors are caught between two factions, the Ennis and the Nol-Ennis, locked in endless war. Then the dead rise: Opaka and the fallen soldiers are revived by nanotechnology that repairs any injury. Dr Bashir learns the catch. The moon is a prison for both peoples, sentenced to die and revive forever, and the technology means those it has revived can never leave. Sisko tries to broker peace, but neither side will stop. Kira confronts the scars of her own years fighting the Cardassians. In the end Opaka chooses to stay behind, hoping to help the two peoples heal, and tells Sisko their paths will cross again.
- 01Kai Opaka's last appearance outside of later Orb visions.
- 02The Yangtzee Kiang becomes the first runabout destroyed in the series. It would not be the last.
- 03Paul Lynch's final Star Trek directing credit. He directed five of the first twelve episodes.