Equilibrium
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Equilibrium
This Story: Season 3 Episode 4 (production code 450)
DS9 Overall: Episode 50
Trek Overall: Story 314, Episode 330
Airdate: 17 Oct 1994
Story by Christopher Teague
Teleplay by René Echevarria
Directed by Cliff Bole
Notes
- Sisko is revealed to be from New Orleans here. He’s also shown to be a cook, something that happened again with Chris Pike in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.
- The first episode in Star Trek to show the Trill homeworld.
- The first episode to show that a Trill’s spots go all the way down their body to their feet.
- Joran Dax would return in the season 7 episode “Field of Fire“, but he’s played by a different actor there (Leigh McCloskey).
- O’Brien is not seen in this episode.
Links
[ Wikipedia | Memory Alpha | IMDB | Amazon US DVD ]#StarTrekMarathon #StarTrek Deep Space Nine Ep 50 - Equilibrium - 17 Oct 1994 1/2 Dax is acting weird, threatening people, and seems sick until we find out it's repressed memories from a former (unknown) host. That's Joran, who had murdered someone. In the end Dax survives when the memories
— Joe Siegler (@joesiegler.blog) July 1, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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#StarTrekMarathon #StarTrek Deep Space Nine Ep 50 - Equilibrium - 17 Oct 1994 2/2 surface. In figuring that out, we learn a lot about Trills. Like their spots go all the way to their feet, their concepts of surnames with changing hosts, etc. A good mystery that I did not remember the answer for.
— Joe Siegler (@joesiegler.blog) July 1, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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