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Image in the Sand
Season 7 Premiere

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Production Number: 551
Original air week: 9/28/98
Written by: Ira Steven Behr & Hans Beimler
Directed by: Les Landau

Guest Stars:

Jeffrey Combs as Weyoun
Casey Biggs as Damar
Barry Jenner as Admiral Ross
J.G. Hertzler as General Martok
Megan Cole as Cretak
Aron Eisenberg as Ensign Nog
Special Guest Stars: James Darren as Vic Fontaine
And: Brock Peters as Joseph Sisko

Spellings:
Tyree (possibly as in TOS "A Private Little War")

Notes:

First episode of the seventh season, part one of two. Filming started 7/7/98.
Introduces the new main character, Ezri Dax, played by Nicole de Boer. Ezri, a female, is the next host of the Dax symbiont, and a Starfleet officer, but not of Jadzia Dax's rank.
Rene Auberjonois (Odo) mentioned at a convention that Major Kira will be receiving a promotion in this episode to Colonel. This gives her an equivalent rank to Captain Sisko; logical, since she's now in charge of the station.
In part, explored the relationships of Sisko and Worf to this new Dax, and addresses the changes in relationships.

The Writer's Keyboard:

[[6/4]] Ron Moore:
Could you please give us some insight into the current state of DS9? Is the seventh season, for the most part, already mapped out?
We're mapping things out right now. We have a general sense of where we're going over the course of the year and we have a bunch of shows that we know for sure that we'll do. The rest did us all good and I can happily report that the staff is excited and having a lot of fun.
[[6/4]] Ron Moore:
Will Leeta be in more episodes in season 7?
We'll definitely be seeing more of Leeta in season seven, but I can't relay any details at this point. In fact, you should all be forewarned that I'll be giving very little information about what we have planned for the last season at this point--after all, the final episode of this season hasn't even aired yet! I'll be happy to talk about year six, but you'll be seeing a lot of maybes, could-bes, possiblies, and you-never-knows in my responses about our future plans.
[[6/5]] Ron Moore:
Will Gowron be in season 7?
Maybe. Could be. Possibly. You never know.
[[7/9]] Ron Moore:
We will definitely be dealing with Worf and his reaction to Jadzia's death in the opening two-parter and other episodes during the year. Worf will not simply forget about her.
[[7/9]] Ron Moore:
Tell us about the new Dax!
She will be in Starfleet, but will not have Jadzia's rank. By the way, we have officially cast the role and we'll be releasing the actress's name shortly.
[[7/9]] Ron Moore:
We felt very strongly that we needed another female regular on the show so that it didn't become "The Boys and Major Kira". We also felt excited by the possibilities of exploring the next Dax host and how our characters would deal with her. However, we're very aware of this being our last season and we're not going to let this new element swamp everything else.

Three months after a possessed Gul Dukat killed Jadzia Dax and sealed the wormhole, life on Deep Space Nine has changed. Kira, the acting commander, is upset when Admiral Ross informs her that the Romulans will set up a station office, while Sisko has retreated to Earth to contemplate a way of contacting the Bajoran Prophets -- the aliens who reside within the wormhole. When the vision of a woman's face, buried in the sand, appears to Sisko, he sketches her, and Jake recognizes her from one of his grandfather's photos.

Program Highlights
STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE: "Image in the Sand" -- With the wormhole closed, Sisko struggles to find a way to re-establish contact with the Bajoran Prophets.
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DETAILED REPORT

Three months after a possessed Gul Dukat killed Jadzia Dax and sealed the wormhole, life on Deep Space Nine has changed. Kira, the acting commander, is upset when Admiral Ross informs her that the Romulans will set up a station office, while Sisko has retreated to Earth to contemplate a way of contacting the Bajoran Prophets -- the aliens who reside within the wormhole. When the vision of a woman's face, buried in the sand, appears to Sisko, he sketches her, and Jake recognizes her from one of his grandfather's photos.
Meanwhile, at the station, Kira meets Cretak, the Romulan Senator, and agrees to let her set up a hospital on an uninhabited Bajoran moon to care for wounded Romulan soldiers. Back on Earth, Sisko asks his father about the woman in the photo, but Joseph, upset, refuses to identify her. Sisko persists and Joseph acquiesces: the woman was his wife, and Sisko's mother.
Joseph explains that the woman, Sarah, left him when Sisko was a baby and later died. Because Sisko's stepmother raised him as her own, Joseph never revealed the truth. He gives Sisko a locket that once belonged to Sarah, and Sisko finds upon it an ancient Bajoran inscription that reads "The Orb of the Emissary." This causes him to wonder if another Bajoran orb exists, which would allow access to the Prophets.
Sisko realizes he must go to the planet Tyree, the setting of his original vision. But while preparing, he is stabbed by a Bajoran who is determined to stop Sisko's quest. Back on Deep Space Nine, Odo shows Kira data indicating that the Romulans are arming the Bajoran moon with plasma torpedoes. Kira demands that Cretak remove the torpedoes -- or she will.
Meanwhile, a healed Sisko explains to Jake and Joseph that his attacker was a member of a cult that worships the Pah-wraiths -- the enemies of Bajor's Prophets. Joseph realizes that if the attacker knew of Sisko's discovery, the Pah-wraiths must know as well, and Sisko could be in grave danger. He and Jake decide to accompany Sisko to Tyree. But just as the three generations of Siskos are about to leave, a young female Trill arrives at the restaurant. She is Ezri -- the new host of the Dax symbiont. -->

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