"By Inferno's Light" is an episode of the television series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, the fifteenth episode of the fifth season. It has an average fan rating of 4.6/5 on the official Star Trek website as of September, 2009.
The second half of a two-part episode, it is most notable for featuring the beginning of the Dominion invasion of the Alpha Quadrant. It features the return of several familiar faces, drawing on plot lines from the third-sea...
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"By Inferno's Light" is an episode of the television series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, the fifteenth episode of the fifth season. It has an average fan rating of 4.6/5 on the official Star Trek website as of September, 2009.
The second half of a two-part episode, it is most notable for featuring the beginning of the Dominion invasion of the Alpha Quadrant. It features the return of several familiar faces, drawing on plot lines from the third-season's "Improbable Cause" and "The Die is Cast", the body of the fourth season, and fifth-season opener "Apocalypse Rising".
Gul Dukat aligns Cardassia with the Dominion; meanwhile, the station must deal with a Changeling infiltrator.
Having just come through the wormhole in the closing moments of the previous episode, the Dominion fleet momentarily pauses and faces off with DS9, USS Defiant, several runabouts, and Gul Dukat aboard a Bird of Prey. The fleet then heads to Cardassian space, with Dukat's Bird of Prey following them. Thinking that...
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