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In
Purgatory's Shadow
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Production Number: 512
Original air week: 02/08/97
Written by: Robert Hewitt Wolfe
& Ira Steven Behr
Directed by: Gabrielle Beaumont
Guest Stars:
Spellings: [none]
Notes:
- Part 1 of 2, focuses on
Bashir, Worf, and the Changelings.
The Author's Keyboard:
- Robert Hewitt Wolfe:
Characters prominently featured include:
- Worf
- Bashir
- Garak
- Dukat
- Ziyal
- and a few surprises.
Broad Plot considerations
include:
- The Dominion
- Cardassia
- Bajor
- The Klingons
- The fate of the
Alpha Quadrant as we know it
- The Four Horsemen of
the Apocolypse
- Cats and Dogs living
together
- Real Wrath of God
stuff
- Plus... A Breen
Stuff that will happen
includes:
- Treachery
- Betrayal
- Death
- Familial Dysfunction
- Bruises
- Explosions
- Contusions
- Psychological
Disorder
- Machismo
- Testosterone
- Estrogen
- Shocking Revelations
- Daring Plots
- Sudden Reversals
- Brutal
Disintegrations
- Plus someone's hand
will get burnt.
Wow. Sounds exciting.
- Synopsis: A
Cardassian message reaches DS9 from the Gamma Quadrant.
Sisko calls Garak to ask him about it, but the tailor
says it's not important.
Later, Garak tries to steal a
Runabout, but is stopped by Bashir. Garak talks to Sisko,
and reveals that the message is from Enbarin Tain. Sisko
agress to Garak's request to look for Tain, but sends
Worf along with him.
Just before Garak leaves,
Dukat finds out that Ziyal is in love with Garak.
Garak & Worf stumble
across a Jem'Hadar fleet hiding in a nebula. Worf
transmits a distress call just before the Jem'Hadar beam
onboard.
The two men are taken to
a asteriod (guarded by Jem'Hadar) and there they meet
Tain, General Martok (with one of his eyes missing)
and...... *Bashir!* Appartenly, the Doctor was replaced
at least a month ago with a changeling!
Tain dies soon after
(Heart attack), but not before telling Garak that he is
his father! He makes Garak promise that he will avenge
his death.
Meanwhile, Sisko learns
of the Jem'Hadar attack (thanks to Worf's distress call)
and as the Jem'Hadar enter the wormhole, Sisko gives the
order to collapse it - however, the station's weapon
systems go off-line (thanks to the Bashir changeling?),
and the Dominion fleet enters the Alpha Quadrant....
- Robert Hewitt Wolfe:
[About the "Written By" credit, who goes first
with Ira Steven Behr and Robert Hewitt Wolfe]:
Ok, how'd you decide who gets top billing on these two
stories?
We arm wrestle over it. :)
Seriously, Ira and I began alternating first credit last
year. He goes first one episode, I go first the next.
It's the simplest way to do it and not necessarily
reflective of who does the most work (though it's pretty
much 50/50).
- Robert Hewitt Wolfe:
Tell us what's coming in the two-parter
...let's see how vague I can make this and still give you
something: Worf and Garak go into the Gamma Quadrant in
search of Enabran Tain.
- Robert Hewitt Wolfe:
How upset were the DS9 PTB [Powers That Be] that the Defiant
was going to be destroyed in "First
Contact"?
Ira certainly didn't like it. Personally I still maintain
the Defiant would've kicked that Borg ship's [...] if
Sisko had been on board.
In any case, as we all know, the Defiant is still alive
and kicking... at least until the upcoming two-p...
err... never mind.
- Program Highlights
- STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE:
"In Purgatory's Shadow" -- While Worf and Garak
are imprisoned in the Gamma Quadrant, Sisko learns of a
Dominion invasion.
- TV Guide Ad
- SURPRISE ATTACK!
The Dominion is coming.
Will Worf be the first casualty of war?
- TV Log Listing
- Worf prisoner of the
Dominion on STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE.
DETAILED REPORT
When the station picks up a
mysterious coded message from inside the Gamma Quadrant that
appears to be Cardassian, Garak is asked to analyze it. He
reports that the message is insignificant, but is later caught
trying to sneak off the station in a Runabout. He then admits
that the message is some sort of distress call from his mentor
Enabran Tain, the former head of the Obsidian Order. Garak
convinces Sisko to allow him to travel to the Gamma Quadrant to
search for Tain, but Sisko sends Worf along as a
"chaperone." Garak and Worf bicker consistently and
find nothing. Finally, Worf announces that they can go no further
and takes the ship out of warp, explaining that the source of
Tain's signal is deep in Dominion space. Garak, however, is
unwilling to give up, and pushes Worf to travel through the
nebula to avoid detection. Worf reluctantly agrees, and almost
immediately upon entering thenebula, they wind up in the midst of
the Jem'Hadar fleet.
Worf realizes that the entire
fleet can only be assembled for one reason -- they intend to
invade the Alpha Quadrant. He immediately sends a warning message
to the station, but is not confident it will get through. Moments
later, four Jem'Hadar soldiers materialize on the ship and take
Worf and Garak prisoner. Back on Deep Space Nine, the crew is
able to decipher enough of Worf's signal to realize the Dominion
is coming. Sisko sends Kira to find Worf and Garak, but they are
already imprisoned in a Dominion detention center, where they are
told they will remain until they die.
Inside the camp, Worf meets
Martok, the Klingon general who was replaced by a Changeling.
Martok leads Worf and Garak to Tain,himself a prisoner, who is
dying. Instead of being thankful to Garak for coming, Tain
chastises him for allowing himself to be taken prisoner.
Meanwhile, Kira returns with grim news that at least 50 Dominion
ships are headed their way. With reinforcements at least two days
away and only Gul Dukat on hand to help out, Sisko sees only one
choice -- sealing the wormhole. If Worf and Garak don't escape in
36 hours, they will be trapped. Meanwhile, Worf and Garak are
introduced to another prisoner -- Bashir -- meaning the Bashir at
the station is a Changeling.
On the station, the Bashir
Changeling begins making himself useful to Dax and O'Brien while
they work out the technology that will seal the wormhole. In the
internment camp, Garak meets with Tain again, desperate for a
kind word from his mentor before the old man passes on. When Tain
makes Garak promise to escape as a finalrequest, Garak makes a
request in return -- that Tain acknowledge as his son. He does,
and father and illegitimate child share a memory before Tain dies
peacefully. His mission complete, Garak is ready to find a way
out. But he may be too late. On Deep Space Nine, the crew shoots
a particle beam at the wormhole, intending to close it. However,
something goes wrong. The wormhole remains open, and the
Jem'Hadar fleet begins pouring through.
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