The DS9 Runabout Rio Grande, with Major Kira and Dr. Bashir onboard, responds to a distress call from a Kobliad ship. The Major and Doctor are able to save one of the three passengers. The surviving Kobliad, a security officer, requests that the body of one of the dead be thoroughly examined to verify beyond a reasonable doubt that the man, Vantika, is indeed dead. Vantika had been headed to DS9 to intercept a shipment of deuridium arriving at the station from the Gamma Quadrant before he had been captured by Kobliad security.
s01e01 - Emissary, Part I
s01e02 - Emissary, Part II
s01e03 - Past Prologue
s01e04 - A Man Alone
s01e05 - Babel
s01e06 - Captive Pursuit
s01e07 - Q-Less
s01e08 - Dax
s01e09 - The Passenger
s01e10 - Move Along Home
s01e11 - The Nagus
s01e12 - Vortex
s01e13 - Battle Lines
s01e14 - The Storyteller
s01e15 - Progress
s01e16 - If Wishes Were Horses
s01e17 - The Forsaken
s01e18 - Dramatis Personae
s01e19 - Duet
s01e20 - In the Hands of the Prophets
When the Cardassian occupation of Bajor ended in 2369, the mining space station Terok Nor was left abandoned, its systems ripped out. By invitation of the Bajoran provisional government, Starfleet stepped in to oversee the rebuilding and day-to-day operations of the newly christened Deep Space Nine.
The years of Starfleet's nonintervention into Cardassian matters, however, had taken its toll on relations with the Bajorans. Consequently, Starfleet's position was a tenuous one; many Bajorans, suspicious and hostile as a result of decades of Cardassian oppression and brutality, did not greet the Federation's presence with open arms. The Federation's assistance is put to the test as DS9 becomes a center of travel and commerce that stretches into the Gamma Quadrant.