The Quickening
©1996 Paramount Pictures. All rights reserved.
To the Death
©1996 Paramount Pictures. All rights reserved.
Episode 95 Episode 96
Airdate May 20, 1996 Airdate May 13, 1996

Catalog Number LV40510-495
Format Extended Play CLV
Running Time 92 minutes
Side Running Time
1 46 minutes
2 46 minutes
92 minutes

Dolby Surround

The Quickening
Directed by René Auberjonois
Written by Naren Shankar
Executive Producers Rick Berman & Michael Piller
Starring Avery Brooks
Also Starring René Auberjonois
Michael Dorn
Terry Farrell
Cirroc Lofton
Colm Meaney
Alexander Siddig
Armin Shimerman
Nana Visitor
Stardate Unknown
Murder...or mercy? When Dr. Bashir (Alexander Siddig) and Lt. Commander Dax (Terry Farrell) arrive on a planet in the Gamma Quadrant, they find that all the inhabitants are afflicted with a painful, fatal hereditary illness - and that a local doctor (Michael Sarrazin) eases the victims' anguish through mercy killings. But Bashir believes a more merciful solution exists. He has the unflinching determination and the scientific know-how necessary to search for a cure. But will he have enough time before an entire civilization is lost forever?

To the Death
Directed by LeVar Burton
Written by Ira Steven Behr and Robert Hewitt Wolfe
Executive Producers Rick Berman & Michael Piller
Starring Avery Brooks
Also Starring René Auberjonois
Michael Dorn
Terry Farrell
Cirroc Lofton
Colm Meaney
Alexander Siddig
Armin Shimerman
Nana Visitor
Stardate 49904.2
Returning from a mission aboard the Defiant, Commander Sisko (Avery Brooks) discovers that the station has undergone an assault from the Jem' Hadar. Giving chase, Sisko locates a damaged Jem' Hadar warship and beams aboard the ship's only survivors: six Jem' Hadar soldiers and their Vorta field supervisor, Weyoun (Jeffrey Combs).

Weyoun tells Sisko that the Dominion has located an Iconian Gateway that would allow travel to other planets without the use of starships. But the Gateway has been seized by Jem' Hadar renegades. Weyoun entreats Sisko to help the Jem' Hadar attack the renegades...but is Sisko willing to entrust the safety of his crew to an enemy that has pledged to destroy the Federation?


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