Past Prologue

This Story: Season 1 Episode 3 (production code 404)
DS9 Overall: Episode 3
Trek Overall: Story 271, Episode 283
Airdate: 11 Jan 1993
Written by Katharyn Powers
Directed by Winrich Kolbe

Notes

• Quark & Jake Sisko do not appear in this episode.
• The first episode of the series for Andrew Robinson’s Garak.
• The only appearance in the series for Barbara March & Gwynyth Walsh as Lursa & B’Etor.
• Susan Bay plays Admiral Rollman.  Susan was at the time the real life wife of Leonard Nimoy.  She makes one more appearance in the series (“Whispers“).
• The Klingon civil war from TNG’s “Redemption” is mentioned here.
• The first episode of any incarnation of Star Trek where no ship named Enterprise appears.
• The first episode to mention the concept of gold-pressed latinum.
• The first appearance on DS9 for Vaughn Armstrong (Gul Danar).  He’s played a total of 12 different characters spanning multiple series – TNG, DS9, VOY, ENT.
• The opening titles have the wormhole in them for the first time.

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