"In Purgatory's Shadow" is an episode of the television series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, the fourteenth episode of the fifth season. It has an average fan rating of 4.7/5 on the official Star Trek website as of September, 2009. The first half of a two-part episode, it is most notable as the beginning of the Dominion invasion of the Alpha Quadrant. It features the return of several familiar faces, drawing on plot lines previously established in ...
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"In Purgatory's Shadow" is an episode of the television series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, the fourteenth episode of the fifth season. It has an average fan rating of 4.7/5 on the official Star Trek website as of September, 2009. The first half of a two-part episode, it is most notable as the beginning of the Dominion invasion of the Alpha Quadrant. It features the return of several familiar faces, drawing on plot lines previously established in the third, fourth and fifth seasons.
When the station picks up a mysterious coded message from inside the Gamma Quadrant that appears to be Cardassian, Garak is asked to analyze it. He reports that the message is insignificant, but is later caught trying to sneak off the station in a runabout. He then admits that the message is some sort of distress call from his mentor Enabran Tain, the former head of the Obsidian Order. Garak convinces Sisko to allow him to travel to the Gamma Quadrant to search for Tain (and possible Starfleet, Romulan, and...
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