DS9 Season 7

The seventh season of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine debuted on 30 September 1998, with twenty-six episodes that concluded with the series finale on 2 June 1999.

Episodes

Title	Episode	Production number	Stardate	US release date
"Image in the Sand"	7x01	40510-551	Unknown	1998-09-30
"Shadows and Symbols"	7x02	40510-552	52152.6	1998-10-07
"Afterimage"	7x03	40510-553	Unknown	1998-10-14
"Take Me Out to the Holosuite"	7x04	40510-554	Unknown	1998-10-21
"Chrysalis"	7x05	40510-555	Unknown	1998-10-28
"Treachery, Faith and the Great River"	7x06	40510-556	Unknown	1998-11-04
"Once More Unto the Breach"	7x07	40510-557	Unknown	1998-11-11
"The Siege of AR-558"	7x08	40510-558	Unknown	1998-11-18
"Covenant"	7x09	40510-559	Unknown	1998-11-25
"It's Only a Paper Moon"	7x10	40510-560	Unknown	1998-12-30
"Prodigal Daughter"	7x11	40510-561	Unknown	1999-01-06
"The Emperor's New Cloak"	7x12	40510-562	Unknown	1999-02-03
"Field of Fire"	7x13	40510-563	Unknown	1999-02-10
"Chimera"	7x14	40510-564	Unknown	1999-02-17
"Badda-Bing, Badda-Bang"	7x15	40510-566	Unknown	1999-02-24
"Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges"	7x16	40510-565	Unknown	1999-03-03
"Penumbra"	7x17	40510-567	52576.2	1999-04-07
"'Til Death Do Us Part"	7x18	40510-568	Unknown	1999-04-14
"Strange Bedfellows"	7x19	40510-569	Unknown	1999-04-21
"The Changing Face of Evil"	7x20	40510-570	Unknown	1999-04-28
"When It Rains..."	7x21	40510-571	52684.3	1999-05-05
"Tacking Into the Wind"	7x22	40510-572	Unknown	1999-05-12
"Extreme Measures"	7x23	40510-573	52645.7	1999-05-19
"The Dogs of War"	7x24	40510-574	52861.3	1999-05-26
"What You Leave Behind"	7x25/26	40510-575	52902.0	1999-06-02

Summary

Benjamin Sisko discovers his mother was a Prophet, a new Dax host arrives on Deep Space 9, Odo discovers that his people have been infected with a fatal disease and Julian Bashir undertakes an assignment for Section 31. Kai Winn turns on the Prophets, and with the assistance of Dukat summons the pah-wraiths. The Breen join the war and side with the Dominion. In the concluding episodes of the season (and the series), the Cardassian-Dominion alliance breaks down, Colonel Kira leads a Cardassian resistance movement involving Legate Damar and Elim Garak, and the alliance of Federation, Klingon and Romulan forces claim victory in the Dominion War.

Background information

Nicole de Boer joins the cast as Ezri Dax.
This season was broadcast concurrent with Star Trek: Voyager Season 5, and Star Trek: Insurrection (featuring Worf) was released during its run, between the episodes "Covenant" and "It's Only a Paper Moon"
Several sources, including an episode guide book of the first six seasons, entitled SFX: The Essential Guide to Deep Space Nine, mentioned an episode called "Dysfunctional", where Ezri was to secretly arrange to have Dax removed. The guide also made predictions for season seven and was right about most of them. The writer accurately predicted the return of Section 31, either Bashir or Jake gets the hots for Ezri, and Sisko will die a hero's death or move onto a higher plane of existence. [1]
In this season, the makers of DS9 were allowed to do what they liked to the show, within reason. "As Rick Berman said to me, 'Look, Ira, I want you to know something. Deep Space Nine might be going off the air, but the Star Trek franchise has to continue on. So you can't destroy the Federation,'" laughed Executive Producer/writer Ira Steven Behr. "Which we weren't planning on doing, but I think what that comment said to me was that there's no limits to what we can possibly do." Speaking just prior to the season beginning, Behr went on to say, "In the seventh season, I want to make sure that no story remains on the sidelines. I've told everyone this should be the strangest season yet. We should do whatever we want, get every story out of our system we want to tell. Go places where people don't expect the show to go. Wrap up as many threads of this series as possible. And end on a satisfying note." Behr also planned for the new season to deal with the death of Jadzia Dax, saying, "It's going to give us a hell of a lot of great Worf and Sisko stories next year." (Sci-Fi Universe, issue 33, p. 47) Not everyone gave the series' creative personnel free reign to do whatever they wanted, though. Behr later commented, "It wasn't like we had everyone saying, 'Oh good – give us serialized episodes, give us anything.' People had definite opinions about the show. It was a journey into the unknown every time we dared to try something different, even in the seventh season, by which time you'd think they'd be saying, 'Oh, just go do what you want already.' That never happened." (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Companion, p. ?)
In terms of the first half of the season being composed of stand-alone episodes, and the second half comprising a single ten-episode arc, co-executive producer/writer Ronald D. Moore comments, "Going into Season 7, we knew everything was canted towards the end. We were seeing plot threads and characters and where they were going. Even in the stand-alones, we could see that the tapestry was getting woven tighter and tighter. So we had to be careful, especially on the stand-alones. Because on these episodes, I wasn't walking into René Echevarria's office telling him, 'I'm doing this on "Once More Unto the Breach",' and I hope it doesn't contradict what you're doing now'." (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Companion, p. ?)
Characters which "crossover" from other incarnations of Star Trek: Neral in ("Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges").

Credits

Starring

Avery Brooks as Captain Sisko

Also starring

The credits for the first three episodes of the season, "Image in the Sand", "Shadows and Symbols", and "Afterimage", all initially credited "Nicole deBoer as Ensign Ezri Dax".

Guest and co-stars

DS9 Season 7 performers

Crew

Executive Producers: Rick Berman, Ira Steven Behr
Co-Producer: Terri Potts
Executive Story Editors: Bradley Thompson, David Weddle
Casting by: Junie Lowry-Johnson, CSA, Ron Surma
Music By

Dennis McCarthy ("Image in the Sand", "Shadows and Symbols", "Once More Unto the Breach", "Prodigal Daughter", "The Emperor's New Cloak", "Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges", "Penumbra", "Extreme Measures", "What You Leave Behind")
Jay Chattaway ("Afterimage", "Chrysalis", "It's Only a Paper Moon", "Chimera", "Badda-Bing, Badda-Bang", "Strange Bedfellows", "The Changing Face of Evil")
David Bell ("Take Me Out to the Holosuite", "Treachery, Faith and the Great River", "Covenant", "'Til Death Do Us Part", "Tacking Into the Wind", "The Dogs of War")
Paul Baillargeon ("The Siege of AR-558", "When It Rains...")
Gregory Smith ("Field of Fire")

Main Title Theme By: Dennis McCarthy (credit appears only in episodes not composed by McCarthy)
Directors of Photography: Jonathan West, ASC, Kris Krosskove
Production Designer: Herman Zimmerman
Editors: Michael Westmore, Jr., Steve Rucker, David Ramirez
Unit Production Manager: Robert della Santina
First Assistant Directors: Joe Candrella, Louis Race, B.C. Cameron
Second Assistant Director: Tamu Blackwell, Joe Candrell
Costume Designer: Robert Blackman
Art Director: Randy McIlvain
Visual Effects Producer: Dan Curry
Visual Effects Supervisors: David Takemura, Adam Buckner, Judy Elkins, David Stipes
Scenic Art Supervisor/Technical Consultant: Michael Okuda
Post Production Supervisor: April Rossi
Make-Up Designed and Supervised by: Michael Westmore
Set Decorator: Laura Richarz, SDSA
Set Designer: Anthony Bro, Fritz Zimmerman
Senior Illustrator: John Eaves
Visual Effects Coordinator: A.Y. Delara, Adam Buckner
Visual Effects Associate: Laura Matz
Script Supervisor: Judi Brown
Wardrobe Supervisor: Carol Kunz
Special Effects: Gary Monak
Property Master: Joe Longo
Construction Coordinator: Thomas J. Arp
Scenic Artists: Denise Okuda, Doug Drexler, Anthony Fredrickson
Hair Designer: Norma Lee
Make-up Artists: Camille Calvet, Karen Westerfield, Sonny Burman, Mark Bussan, Dean Jones, Mary Kay Morse
Hair Stylists: Brian Andrew-Tunstall, Rebecca De Morrio, Gloria Casney
Sound Mixer: Bill Gocke
Camera Operator: Kris Krosskove, SOC, Michael St. Hilaire, SOC
Chief Lighting Technician: Ralph Johnson
First Company Grip: Steve Gausche
Key Costumers: Michael Chapman, Jerry Bono, Phyllis Corcoran-Woods, Cleo Mannell
Music Editor: Stephen M. Rowe
Supervising Sound Editor: Mace Matiosian
Sound Editors: Ruth Adelman, Guy Tsujimoto, Jivan Tahmizian, Eric Williams
Choreographer: Laura Feder Behr ("Badda-Bing, Badda-Bang")
Assistant Editors: Noel A. Guerra, Craig Galloway, Jonathan Paul Ramirez
Visual Effects Assistant Editor: Edward Hoffmeister
Production Coordinator: Heidi Smothers
Post Production Coordinator: Monique K. Chambers
Production Associates: David Rossi, Maril Davis, Robbin L. Slocum
Main Title Design: Dan Curry
Stunt Coordinator: Dennis Madalone
Pre-Production Coordinator: Lolita Fatjo
Science Consultant: André Bormanis
Casting Executive: Helen Mossler, CSA
Assistants to Producers: Nicole Ann Gravett, Philip Kim, Barbara Covington, Michael Gerbosi

Companies

Filmed with: Panavision cameras and lenses
Visual Effects Compositing: POP Television
Special Video Compositing: CIS Hollywood
Motion Control Photography: Image "G"
Computer Animation

Digital Muse ("Shadows and Symbols", "Treachery, Faith and the Great River", "The Siege of AR-558", "Chimera", "'Til Death Do Us Part", "The Changing Face of Evil", "Tacking Into the Wind", "The Dogs of War", "What You Leave Behind")
View Studio, Inc. ("Chimera", "Badda-Bing, Badda-Bang", "Penumbra", "Strange Bedfellows", "Tacking Into the Wind")
Foundation Imaging ("Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges", "What You Leave Behind")
Station X Studios ("What You Leave Behind")

Matte Painting(s): Illusion Arts, Inc. ("Prodigal Daughter", "What You Leave Behind")
Special Visual Effects: Illusion Arts, Inc. ("The Changing Face of Evil")
Miniature: Brazil-Fabrication & Design ("Penumbra", "'Til Death Do Us Part", "Strange Bedfellows", "The Changing Face of Evil", "What You Leave Behind")
Editing Facilities: Four Media Company
Post Production Sound: 4MC Sound Services

External links

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine season 7 at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works
Deep Space Nine Season 7 episode reviews at Ex Astris Scientia

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