Strange Bedfellows

This Story: Season 7 Episode 19 (production code 569)
DS9 Overall: Episode 169
Trek Overall: Story 426, Episode 450
Airdate: 19 Apr 1999
Writer: Ronald D. Moore
Director: René Auberjonois

Notes

• The third of a ten episode arc that closes out the Dominion War and Deep Space Nine as a series. As far as I know it’s not intended to be a single story with ten parts to it, but it is very tightly wound together (ala Babylon 5), so watching these out of order would be near impossible.  On original broadcast, they were advertised as “The Final Chapter“.
• This episode’s title was originally “Eclipse”.
• The last (of eight) episodes directed by René Auberjonis, and the final one of DS9 directed by a cast member.
• Kai Winn crosses over to full bad guy/evil this episode.  Much in the same way that Anakin Skywalker crossed over and became Darth Vader.
• Damar at the same time ceases to be bad and becomes a good guy (and stops his drinking).
• One of the few times we hear Ezri say her own pre-Dax name – “Ezri Tigan”.

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