Battle Lines
Kai Opaka visits Deep Space Nine for the first time. Commander Sisko offers to take her through the wormhole in the Yangtzee Kiang. She accepts his offer. Major Kira and Doctor Bashir accompany them.
The Yangtzee Kiang picks up a message. Sisko decides to investigate. The ship is shot down by one of many satellites orbiting the moon. Sisko, Kira and Bashir survive the crash landing but Kai Opaka dies from internal injuries.
The team from DS9 are captured by the Ennis, one of two groups that occupy the moon on which they have landed. Shel-la, leader of the Ennis wants to know who they are and what they are doing on this moon. The questioning is interrupted by an attack by the Nol-Ennis, the other group. Several people on both sides are killed.
Minutes later the dead return to life. Kai Opaka experiences a similar miraculous recovery. Sisko learns from Shel-la that this is normal. No one ever dies permanently. The two groups just keep on fighting. Sisko tries to broker a peace treaty between the two groups but it falls apart once the two groups have come together.
Chief O'Brien and Lieutenant Jadzia Dax travel through the wormhole in search of Sisko and the others when they don't return as scheduled. They locate their missing friends but due to some satellites orbiting the moon they have some trouble getting through to them or beaming them out of there.
Doctor Bashir uses the ship's computer to run an analysis. He determines that the miraculous recoveries are due to nanites in the bloodstreams of the people who have come back to life. The nanites won't work if they leave the moon. Sisko goes to tell Kai Opaka but she has already decided that she is going to stay.
Chief O'Brien finally finds a way to get through to Sisko and the others. He beams Sisko, Kira, and Bashir up from the moon's surface, leaving Kai Opaka behind with the Ennis and Nol-Ennis.
Thoughts
Quark and Jake are not in this episode. Odo is in it but does not play a significant part in the story.
Shel-la was played by Jonathan Banks. I know him best from Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul but I can also remember seeing him in movies at least as far back as Beverly Hills Cop (1984).
Kai Opaka says something about seeing Sisko again. According to my research this is her last appearance in this season and she only appears in two more episodes of this show.
I wasn't that crazy about this episode. I can see why it might be an important episode but I didn't find the story to be particularly novel or compelling. It was very convenient how incompetent Sisko and his group were and how capable Chief O'Brien proved to be. I wasn't terribly impressed with the Ennis and the Nol-Ennis. Their story felt like one that I have seen before in other iterations of Star Trek.
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