Extreme Measures is an episode from the seventh season of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, the seventh of the ten final chapters. The production code of the episode is 573. First aired May 19, 1999. Written by Bradley Thompson and David Weddle. Directed by Steve Posey. 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. ... May 19 is the 139th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (140th in leap years). ... 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ...

Plot summary

In the previous episode, Worf killed Gowron and Martok became Chancellor, and Damar stole a Jem'Hadar ship equipped with the Breen weapon. Worf (worIv in the Klingon language) is a Klingon in the Star Trek fictional universe. ... Gowron is a fictional character of the Star Trek universe. ... Martok in Captain Siskos office General Martok of the Klingon Empire on the eve of battle. ...

Sloan shows up in Julian Bashir's quarters, baited by the fake announcement of a cure to the changelings' plague. When Sloan sees no way to get out of Bashir's interrogation, he kills himself. Bashir, with Miles O'Brien, use a gizmo called an "optronic engrammatic interpreter" to infiltrate Sloan's mind. Minutes before total brain death, Bashir and O'Brien escape, having obtained the chemical formula for the cure. Aside from some brief discomfort, Odo is completely cured. Dr. Julian Subatoi Bashir (played by Alexander Siddig) is a fictional character in the science fiction television series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. ... Miles OBrien Miles Edward OBrien is a character in the fictional Star Trek universe, played by Colm Meaney. ...

Guest stars

• Andrew Robinson as Garak
• William Sadler as Sloan

Andrew Robinson, from Hellraiser. ... William Sadler as Luther Sloan on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine William Sadler (born April 13, 1950 in Buffalo, New York) is an American actor. ...

External links

• Extreme Measures article at Memory Alpha, a Star Trek wiki