By Inferno's Light
| "By Inferno's Light" | |
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| Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode | |
| Episode no. | Season 5 Episode 15 |
| Directed by | Les Landau |
| Written by |
Ira Steven Behr Robert Hewitt Wolfe |
| Production code | 513 |
| Original air date | February 17, 1997 |
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"By Inferno's Light" is the 113th episode of the television series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, the 15th episode of the fifth season.
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".
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 he is trying to make a heroic stand against the entire fleet, Kira tells him to stand down, but Dukat informs her that he has been secretly negotiating with the Dominion for several months now, and that the Dominion has accepted Cardassia as a member, with Dukat as the leader of the new government.
At the internment camp, the prisoners are told of Cardassia's new allegiance, and all Cardassian prisoners at the camp are set free. As Garak walks off with the other Cardassians, he is told that he is to remain in prison, at the personal request of Dukat. Dukat himself appears in a video transmission to all of Cardassia, and pledges to expel Klingons and Maquis from Cardassian space and reclaim "all that was lost".
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