By Inferno's Light
- FIRST SHOWN (US)
- 17 February 1997
- ON
- First-run syndication
- STARDATE
- 50564.2
- DIRECTED BY
- Les Landau
- PRODUCTION NO.
- 513
WRITTEN BYWritten by Ira Steven Behr & Robert Hewitt Wolfe
With a Dominion fleet heading into the Alpha Quadrant, Dukat makes a dramatic move, while the prisoners of a Jem'Hadar camp risk everything on a desperate escape plan.
Red alert: the full plot, ending included. Haven't watched yet?REVEAL SYNOPSIS
The Dominion fleet bypasses the station and heads for Cardassia, where Dukat reveals that Cardassia has joined the Dominion, with himself at its head. He vows to drive every Klingon and Maquis from Cardassian space. Sisko persuades Gowron to restore the Federation-Klingon alliance, and Romulan ships join the defence. In the prison camp, Worf takes on Jem'Hadar fighters in brutal bouts and refuses to give in, while Garak battles severe claustrophobia to finish a transmitter hidden inside a cramped wall. Their signal is answered, and the prisoners are beamed out just before they are executed. On Deep Space Nine, the Changeling posing as Bashir flies a runabout packed with explosives towards the Bajoran sun, intending to destroy it. Warned by the real Bashir, Sisko has the runabout destroyed and the Defiant saves the system. Afterwards, Martok takes command of a permanent Klingon presence on the station.
- 01Cardassia joins the Dominion in this episode, giving it a foothold in the Alpha Quadrant, and the Klingons rejoin the Khitomer Accords.
- 02Garak's claustrophobic struggle inside the wall was inspired by Charles Bronson's character in the 1963 film The Great Escape.
- 03Robert Hewitt Wolfe based Cardassia's economic slump on Germany's Weimar Republic, and the Dominion takeover on the Anschluss.