"Behind the Lines" (season six, episode four; 20 October 1997): Wikipedia-link.
Commentary: Kira, shaken by the political suicide of a Bajoran vedek during "Rocks and Shoals," concluded she could not remain on the sidelines & wait for the Federation, which seems to be losing the war, to save Bajor from Dominion occupation & the Cardassians' revenge & launched a resistence cell with Odo, Rom, & Jake Sisko. In "Behind the Lines," we see their first operation, a bit of skullduggery that prompts a lethal brawl between some Cardassians & Jem'Hadar in Quark's. All is not well, however, as Odo is seduced into linking with the Female Changleling.
Elsewhere, Sisko is promoted to adjutant to Admiral Ross, a new recurring character, & Lieutenant Commander Dax takes over as captain of the Defiant. Dax leads the crew on a dangerous mission through a star cluster to destroy a Dominion sensor array. Alas, since space battles require expensive visual effects, we don't see the Defiant's mission after she departs from Starbase 375. Instead, we see Sisko in his new office, communicating with Worf—serving as first office aboard General Martok's Klingon flagship, the Rotarran—about the mission & breaking the news to his father, Joseph Sisko, that Jake stayed being on Deep Space 9 when the Federation withdrew. Those are good scenes, especially the conversation between the Siskos (always good to see the late Brock Peters, who played Joseph), but I like space battles, I like seeing the Defiant in action, & I will not apologive for that! Of course, given the space battles in the next couple episodes, I understand the budgetary need for a less visual-effects-laden episode.
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