Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (S06E13): Far Beyond the Stars Summary

Far Beyond the Stars Summary

The loss of another friend in the Dominion War is slowly sapping Captain Sisko of his energy and he is becoming frayed around the edges. With his father visiting the station, Sisko begins to question his place in the war. Then, the synaptic problems that almost caused his passing ("Rapture") resurface and he is thrown back in time to Earth in the mid-1950s, to experience the fifties from the point of view of an SF pulp magazine writer, as well as the life of a black man in a still racially segregated culture.

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 6 Episodes...

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Show Summary

When the Cardassian occupation of Bajor ended in 2369, the mining space station Terok Nor was left abandoned, its systems ripped out. By invitation of the Bajoran provisional government, Starfleet stepped in to oversee the rebuilding and day-to-day operations of the newly christened Deep Space Nine.

The years of Starfleet's nonintervention into Cardassian matters, however, had taken its toll on relations with the Bajorans. Consequently, Starfleet's position was a tenuous one; many Bajorans, suspicious and hostile as a result of decades of Cardassian oppression and brutality, did not greet the Federation's presence with open arms. The Federation's assistance is put to the test as DS9 becomes a center of travel and commerce that stretches into the Gamma Quadrant.