Trials and Tribble-ations
©1996 Paramount Pictures. All rights reserved.
The Assignment
©1996 Paramount Pictures. All rights reserved.
Episode 103 Episode 104
Airdate November 4, 1996 Airdate October 28, 1996

Catalog Number LV40510-503
Format Extended Play CLV
Running Time 92 minutes
Side Running Time
1 46 minutes
2 46 minutes
92 minutes

Dolby Surround

Trials and Tribble-ations
Directed by Jonathan West
Teleplay by Ronald D. Moore & René Echevarria
Story by Ira Steven Behr & Hans Beimler & 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 4523.7
No, your eyes aren't playing tricks on you. That really is the USS Enterprise NCC-1701 of Captain James T. Kirk and crew. But what are Captain Benjamin Sisko (Avery Brooks) and several of his crew doing on it?

The USS Defiant is returning from Cardassian space with the Bajoran Orb of Time. A Klingon named Arne Darvin, surgically altered to look human, has come aboard as a passenger. He uses the Orb to send the USS Defiant more than one hundred years into the past. Darvin plots to change history by and killing James T. Kirk, who exposed Darvin as a Klingon spy trying to poison a grain shipment stored on Deep Space Station K-7. Stopping the assassination isn't the only problem facing Sisko and his crew. In fact, they're facing 1,771,561 problems. They've beamed aboard the USS Enterprise when it's awash in those pesky, nettlesome, ever-multiplying critters, called Tribbles.

The Assignment
Directed by Allan Kroeker
Teleplay by David Weddle & Bradley Thompson
Story by David R. Long & Robert Lederman
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
She looks like Keiko (Rosalind Chao). Sounds like Keiko. Yet there's something very different about the wife of Operations Chief O'Brien (Colm Meaney). A mysterious entity has taken control of her consciousness. The entity insists that O'Brien must secretly alter the station's com links and sensors...or it will kill Keiko. The loyalties and skill of DS9's lead engineer are pushed to the breaking point as he confronts a dilemma that puts his wife's life in conflict with the safety of the crew. O'Brien knows that he alone must shoulder the life-and-death burden. Nothing can be left to chance. Yet a chance comment by a co-worker provides a spark of an idea that just might resolve his plight.


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