Stardate: 46379.1. A new crew is assigned to a former Cardassian space station: Deep Space Nine. It is a joint Federation/Bajoran force, with Commander Sisko in charge, but his life is dramatically changed when he is declared the Emissary to the Prophets by a Bajoran priest.

Stardate: Unknown. Tahna Los, a former Bajoran terrorist during the Occupation, asks Sisko for asylum on DS9. Meanwhile, the station's last Cardassian inhabitant, Garak, possibly a former spy for the Cardassian government, proves an interesting mystery to Dr. Bashir.

Stardate: 46421.5. Ibudan, a criminal/murderer Odo has dealt with before, returns to DS9 only to be murdered shortly after. . .leaving Odo to be the prime suspect. Meanwhile, Jake and Nog's trouble making prompt Keiko to do something helpful for the station's children.

Stardate: 46423.7. The crew and civilian population of Deep Space Nine begin to gabble when a plague, engineered by the Bajorans as a weapon against the Cardassians, accidentally gets released into the station's atmosphere.

Stardate: Unknown. For the first time an alien comes from the other side of the wormhole. He has ship trouble and seems very reluctant to accept any help. Chief O'Brien quickly finds out he has a secret.

Stardate: 46531.2. Q, the Enterprise-D's consistent omnipotent annoyance, comes to harass the DS9 crew when his traveling companion, Vash, refuses to travel with Q any longer.

Stardate: 46910.1. Sins of the Host indeed, as Jadzia Dax is accused of a murder her previous host, Curzon, supposedly committed.

Stardate: Unknown. Rao Vantika, a captured criminal, is badly burned and dies in Bashir's arms. . .but the criminal's captor believes he is still alive.

The Wadi from the Gamma Quadrant are to make first contact and decide to visit DS9. When they catch Quark cheating they let him off by playing a special game.

Stardate: Unknown. The Ferengi's greatest politician and leader, the Grand Nagus, comes to the station. He seems very interested in Quark's bar.

Stardate: Unknown. A man named Croden tells Odo he can take him to a place where aliens much like Odo himself exist, which would help Odo find out where he truly comes from.

Stardate: Unknown. After showing Bajoran spiritual leader Kai Opaka the wormhole, she, Sisko, Bashir and Kira crash land on a moon. Kai Opaka dies and the three meet the unfriendly locals.

Stardate: 46729.1. While Sisko tries to negotiate an agreement between two Bajoran factions, he orders O'Brien to escort Bashir to an emergency that endangers a village.

Stardate: 46844.3. Kira must convince an old Bajoran farmer to leave a moon becoming uninhabitable due to mining operations. Jake and Nog try to trade off Cardassian yamok sauce.

Stardate: 46853.2. Dax investigates if an unusual energy reading is dangerous for the station when all of the sudden people's imaginations really come alive, causing chaos.

Stardate: 46925.1. Lwaxana Troi comes for a political visit and instead hounds Odo for romantic attention. Meanwhile, an alien probe wrecks havoc with the station's computer, leaving Odo and Lwaxana trapped together.

Stardate: 46922.3. Out of nowhere the entire station's command staff, apart from Odo, become power hungry and vie to defeat each other by forming secret alliances and plotting assassinations. Needless to say, Odo tries to figure out how this mysterious behavior was influenced.

A Cardassian suffering from Kalla-Nohra, a disease that indicates he served in a labor camp, visits DS9. Kira is determined to convict him as a war criminal.

Stardate: Unknown. Vedek Winn, a candidate in the race for the open Kai position, stirs up trouble on DS9 when she attempts to boycott Keiko's school for not teaching Bajoran religious beliefs.

Stardate: Unknown. Word that a previously thought dead Bajoran resistance legend is still alive sends Kira and Chief O'Brien to Cardassia IV to rescue him; meanwhile "The Circle", a sect of the Bajoran provisional government that is intent on wiping out alien influence, is sneaking into power.

Stardate: Unknown. Kira spends time with Vedek Bareil on Bajor just as "The Circle" begins arming themselves from a mysterious source.

Stardate: Unknown. As a "Circle"-led Bajoran military tries to occupy the station, a skeleton crew led by Sisko fight to reveal "The Circle's" big secret before they are forced to evacuate themselves. Meanwhile, Kira and Dax lead a mission to reveal the truth about "The Circle" on Bajor.

Stardate: 47182.1. A jealous Trill, who had waited his entire life to receive a symbiont but never had, decides to steal one. . .Dax's!

Stardate: 47177.2. Political heat rises on the station as Bajorans enter the station with orphaned Cardassians they have adopted.

Stardate: 47229.1. A new arrival to the station with a special gravity-based disability appeals to Bashir's heart; meanwhile an old associate of Quark's comes to the station to kill the barkeep.

Stardate: Unknown. A female Ferengi, posing as a male to be available to participate in business (a rule STRICTLY forbidden by the Ferengi government), falls for Quark during very important negotiations between the Ferengi and a Gamma Quadrant race.

Stardate: 47282.5. Odo relives some terrible and tragic memories of a past investigation when he was the constable on Cardassian-occupied Deep Space Nine, then named Terok Nor.

Stardate: 47329.4. While noted scientist Gideon Seyetik is preparing for an ambitious project, re-igniting a star, Sisko is intrigued by a woman who keeps disappearing.

Stardate: Unknown. Quark meets his match when a new rival opens a casino opposite Quark's Bar on the Promenade; meanwhile the station is suffering issues of high improbability.

Stardate: 47391.7. Odo and Dr. Mora Pol, Odo's 'father', discover a life form similar to Odo on a Gamma Quadrant planet.

Stardate: 47529.4. Chief O'Brien, who still doesn't like the good Doctor Bashir, must rely on him when the two are stranded on a planet and O'Brien is infected with a deadly, fast moving disease.

Stardate: 47581.2. Chief O'Brien's world is turned upside down when for no reason whatsoever he is being ignored by his family and friends and is being closed out of every essential job on the station.

Stardate: 47573.1. Sisko and Chief O'Brien discover a colony that lives without technology.

Stardate: 47603.3. Odo and Dax investigate the mysterious disappearance of people from a village. Kira tries to keep a close eye on Quark, while Vedek Bareil unexpectedly visits.

Stardate: Unknown. A Trill named Arjin comes to DS9 to learn what it is to be a Trill with a symbiont but finds his teacher, Dax, to be less than he expected.

Stardate: Unknown. A Cardassian woman, who was once a former flame of Quark's, visits the station under dubious circumstances.

Stardate: Unknown. Three legendary Klingons come to DS9 to see if Jadzia Dax will participate in a Blood Oath they made with Jadzia's previous host Curzon.

Stardate: Unknown. The destruction of a Cardassian ship leads Sisko, Dukat, and Sisko's old friend Cal Hudson to the fact that there is an unofficial war between the Maquis and the Cardassians.

Stardate: Unknown. Sisko tries to resolve the Maquis crisis by preventing a war, freeing Gul Dukat and offering the defected Hudson the chance to return.

Stardate: Unknown. Dr. Bashir fights to save Garak's life when a device implanted in his brain, designed to alleviate pain in the event of torture, begins to malfunction and is slowly killing him.

Stardate: 47879.2. Kira and Bashir find themselves in an alternate universe.

Stardate: Unknown. Vedek Bareil is targeted by fellow Kai candidate Vedek Winn as having been a collaborator with the Cardassians during the Occupation.

Stardate: 47944.2. Chief O'Brien goes through the horrific Cardassian judicial system when he is charged for an unknown crime.

Stardate: Unknown. Sisko and Quark and a strange telepathic woman are arrested by Jem'Hadar, soldiers of the Dominion.