The Wire

This Story: Season 2 Episode 22 (production code 442)
DS9 Overall: Episode 42
Trek Overall: Story 307, Episode 322
Airdate: 9 May 1994
Written by Robert Hewitt Wolfe
Directed by Kim Friedman

Notes

• The first time we hear of the Cardassian “Obsidian Order”.  It was originally going to be called the Grey Order, but the name was changed due to a similar name on Babylon 5.
• The first episode for the Cardassian character of Enabran Tain – an important character in later series.
• The first (and only time) we ever get to hear Bashir’s full name – “Julian Subatoi Bashir”.
• The first time the Cardassian homeworld is named – “Cardassia Prime”.
• The first Deep Space Nine episode to be directed by a woman.
• Reference to McCoy here when Bashir says “I’m a Doctor not a botanist”.
• The famed Garak line “…especially the lies.” comes from this episode.

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Of all the stories you’ve told me.. Which ones were true and which ones were lies?

My dear doctor, they’re all true.

Even the lies?

Especially the lies.