Stardate 48521.5: Returning from a frontier Bajoran colony, Major Kira and Constable Odo pick up a signal of a ship being attacked by a Maquis vessel. They trace the Maquis ship to the moon of a gas giant whose atmosphere blocks sensor readings. Venturing onto the moon in search of the Maquis, the Major is trapped in a substance that slowly begins to cover her body. On DS9, Commander Sisko is approached by Nog, who has a request to make.
s03e01 - The Search, Part I (2)
s03e02 - The Search, Part II (3)
s03e03 - The House of Quark
s03e04 - Equilibrium
s03e05 - Second Skin
s03e06 - The Abandoned
s03e07 - Civil Defense
s03e08 - Meridian
s03e09 - Defiant
s03e10 - Fascination
s03e11 - Past Tense, Part I
s03e12 - Past Tense, Part II
s03e13 - Life Support
s03e14 - Heart of Stone
s03e15 - Destiny
s03e16 - Prophet Motive
s03e17 - Visionary
s03e18 - Distant Voices
s03e19 - Through the Looking Glass
s03e20 - Improbable Cause (1)
s03e21 - The Die is Cast (2)
s03e22 - Explorers
s03e23 - Family Business
s03e24 - Shakaar
s03e25 - Facets
s03e26 - The Adversary
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.