"Emissary" was the first episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. It was a double-length episode, and is usually shown in two parts in repeats. The episode features Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the Starship Enterprise in a handing-the-torch guest appearance. It is not to be confused with the second-season Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "The Emissary (TNG episode)". Space station Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (ST:DS9 or STDS9 or DS9 for short) is a science fiction television series produced by Paramount and set in the Star Trek universe. ... Jean-Luc Picard is a character in the Star Trek fictional universe, the captain of the USS Enterprise-D and the USS Enterprise-E. He was played by British actor Patrick Stewart in the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation and resulting films. ... The starship Enterprise (NX-01). ... The title as it appeared in most episodes opening credits. ... The Emissary is an episode from the second season of Star Trek: The Next Generation. ...

The episode begins in the wake of the Cardassian withdrawal from Bajor, after an occupation of some decades. While the Cardassians have sabotaged most of the Bajoran infrastructure, they left a mostly-working space station in orbit; which the Bajorans have requested Starfleet help in running. Cardassians, a spacefaring race in the fictional Star Trek universe, and the Cardassian Union were introduced in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode The Wounded. Cardassians were one of the main parts of the storyline in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. ... This article is about the fictional planet. ... Starfleet Command In the Star Trek fictional universe, Starfleet is the defense, research, diplomacy, and exploration force of the United Federation of Planets. ...

Benjamin Sisko

Commander Benjamin Sisko arrives at the station; persuades the Ferengi bartender and 'community leader' Quark to stay; and starts to investigate the mystery of the 'orbs', or the 'Tears of the Prophets'. Sisko is proclaimed the 'Emissary', a figure in Bajoran religion. They track the source of these to a previously undiscovered wormhole in the Bajoran system, and investigate. They discover what may be the Bajoran prophets, called by the Starfleeters, the 'wormhole aliens', living within the wormhole, and discover that it links to the Gamma Quadrant. Download high resolution version (589x718, 81 KB)Captain Benjamin Sisko This work is copyrighted. ... Download high resolution version (589x718, 81 KB)Captain Benjamin Sisko This work is copyrighted. ... Benjamin Lafayette Sisko (Born 2332, New Orleans, Louisiana) is a character in the fictional Star Trek universe, the star of the Star Trek spinoff series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. ... Ferengi is an Arabic name for European traders, or for Westeners in general. ... Quark, son of Keldar and Ishka, is a fictional character in the television series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, played by Armin Shimerman. ... 2D analogy to a wormhole. ... In the fictional Star Trek universe, the Bajoran Prophets are non-corporeal beings who inhabit the artificially constructed Bajoran wormhole which connects a distant point in the Gamma Quadrant to the Alpha Quadrant, near the planet of Bajor and the space station Deep Space Nine. ... In the fictional Star Trek series, the Milky Way Galaxy is divided into four quadrants, which are further subdivided into sectors. ...

The Cardassians, annoyed that this should happen barely days after they withdrew, arrive to claim the wormhole for themselves, but are foiled. The station is relocated to very close to the wormhole.

External link

• Emissary at Memory Alpha, a Star Trek WikiWiki