You Are Cordially Invited...
| "You are Cordially Invited..." | |
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| Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode | |
| Episode no. | Season 6 Episode 7 |
| Directed by | David Livingston |
| Written by | Ronald D. Moore |
| Featured music | Dennis McCarthy |
| Cinematography by | Jonathan West |
| Production code | 531 |
| Original air date | November 3, 1997 |
| Running time | 45 minutes (runtime) |
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"You are Cordially Invited..." is the seventh episode of the sixth season of the syndicated American science fiction television series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, the 131st episode overall.
Set in the 24th century, the series follows the adventures on Deep Space Nine, a space station located near a stable wormhole between the Alpha and Gamma quadrants of the Milky Way Galaxy.
Commanders Worf and Jadzia Dax plan their long-awaited wedding. Since Dax will be joining Worf's surrogate family, the House of Martok, she agrees to endure the traditional evaluation by the mistress of the house, Martok's wife, Sirella. Confident that she will be liked and accepted, Dax is surprised when she learns that as a non-Klingon she will almost certainly fail to gain Sirella's favor. Learning that Sirella disapproves of Dax, Worf asks Martok to intervene. Martok refuses to get involved, but agrees to participate in Kal'Hyah, the traditional Klingon "bachelor party". Captain Sisko , Chief O'Brien, Dr. Bashir and Alexander, Worf's son, join them, but are disappointed when they learn that unlike what they imagined the Klingons' idea of a bachelor part to be, is actually light on fun and heavy on ceremony, fasting, bloodletting and various Klingon forms of torture.
Dax endures her own form of Klingon torture as she struggles to please Sirella. When asked to recite the history of the House of Martok, Dax reveals her discovery that Sirella has no imperial blood, and is descended from a concubine, which infuriates Sirella.
Dax throws herself a pre-wedding party. In the midst of the drinking, debauchery and a fire dance by Dax's Samoan friend Lieutenant Manuele Atoa, Sirella enters, and demands Dax join her for a ritual. When Dax tells her to leave, Sirella threatens to cancel the wedding. The confrontation ends with Sirella declaring Dax an enemy. The next morning, Worf informs Dax that Sirella has forbidden her to join the House of Martok. He asks her to beg Sirella's forgiveness, but Dax refuses to endure any further humiliation just so Worf can have a Klingon ceremony. Worf and Dax call off the wedding.
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