Destiny

This Story: Season 3 Episode 15 (production code 461)
DS9 Overall: Episode 61
Trek Overall: Story 324, Episode 341
Airdate: 13 Feb 1995
Writer: David Steve Cohen & Martin A. Winer
Director: Les Landau

Notes

• Tracy Scoggins is in this episode as Gilora.  I know her well from the last year of Babylon 5 as Commander Lochley.  I also know her from the two “Dallas” reunion movies as Anita Smithfield.
• Erick Avari plays Vedek Yarka.  He was in an episode of TNG (“Unification I“) as well as one of Enterprise (“Terra Nova“).  He was also in one of my favorite movies of all time (“Independence Day“) as the scientist at the start who complains about golf balls.
• The relay station is a re-use of the Amargosa observatory from “Star Trek: Generations“.
• Two rules of acquisition mentioned:
  # 34 – War is good for business
  # 35 – Peace is good for business
• The last appearance of the shuttlepod on the Defiant in the series.
• This episode shows Sisko’s change in behavior about being the Emissary – he’s uncomfortable here, where towards the end of the series he’s quite the opposite.

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