| Star Trek: DS9 episode | |
| "The Passenger" | |
 Vantika |
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| Episode no. | 9 |
|---|---|
| Prod. code | 409 |
| Airdate | February 22, 1993 |
| Writer(s) | Morgan Gendel Robert Hewitt Wolfe Michael Piller |
| Director | Paul Lynch |
| Guest star(s) | Caitlin Brown as Ty Kajada James Lashly as Lt. Events 1495 - King Charles VIII of France enters Naples to claim the city's throne Year 1993 ( MCMXCIII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1993 Gregorian calendar) Screenwriters or scenarists are Scriptwriters who write the Screenplays from which Films and Television programs are made Robert Hewitt Wolfe is an American Television producer and Scriptwriter. Michael Piller ( May 30 1948 – November 1 2005) was a television scriptwriter and producer, who was most famous for A television director directs the activities involved in making a Television Episode. Paul Lynch is a director and most recently that of the Sci Fi Pictures original film, Savage Planet. Julie Caitlin Brown (born January 27, 1961) is an American actress and musician best known for her role as Na'Toth in the first season George Primmin Christopher Collins as Durg James Harper as Rao Vantika |
| Year | 2369 |
| Stardate | Unknown |
| Episode chronology | |
| Previous | "Dax" |
| Next | "Move Along Home" |
"The Passenger" is the ninth episode in the first season of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Christopher Charles Collins, (born Christopher Lawrence Latta, also known as Chris Latta; August 30, 1949 – June 12, 1994 James W Harper (born October 8, 1948) is an American actor Throughout his career he has acted in many movies and guest-starred in a myriad Television Stardates are a means of specifying absolute dates in the fictional Star Trek universe. The following is a complete list of episode descriptions for Star Trek Deep Space Nine, in broadcast order "Dax" is the eighth episode in the first season of Star Trek Deep Space Nine. "Move Along Home" is the tenth episode in the first season of Star Trek Deep Space Nine.
Quick Overview: A sinister criminal is hiding in the mind of someone on Deep Space Nine.
Plot
Kira and Bashir respond to a distress call from a Kobliad freighter and find Ty Kjiada, a security guard, and her prisoner, Rao Vantika. Kira Nerys, played by Nana Visitor, is a main character in Star Trek Deep Space Nine. Dr Julian Subatoi Bashir, played by Alexander Siddig, is a main character in Star Trek Deep Space Nine. Kajada tells them Vantika started a fire on the ship in an effort to escape. Vantika dies and Bashir and Kira take Kajada back to Deep Space Nine, where she becomes convinced that he is still alive. He has faked his death many times before and Kajada has spent most of her adult life tracking him.
Bashir and Dax come to believe that Vantika's consciousness may be hiding in Kajada's brain without her knowledge. Jadzia Dax, played by Terry Farrell, was a main character during the first six seasons of the science fiction Television series Star Trek Deep Space Vantika has indeed taken on another body, and he contacts Quark to obtain mercenaries to hijack an upcoming shipment of deuridium — a compound Kobliads desperately need to survive. Quark, son of Keldar and Ishka, is a Fictional character in the television series Star Trek Deep Space Nine, played by Armin Shimerman Later, when Quark meets with the mercenaries, they are interrupted as Kajada falls from the second floor of Quark's bar while eavesdropping on them.
In the infirmary, Kajada reveals that the real Vantika pushed her. Dax finds a device under Vantika's fingernails that he used to transfer his consciousness to someone else and tests Kajada for signs of the device's usage. Meanwhile, Quark and the mercenaries meet with the real Vantika, in the form of Bashir.
One step ahead of the crew's investigation, Vantika and the mercenaries manage to gain control of the freighter carrying the deuridium. The station traps the freighter in a tractor beam but Vantika threatens to destroy the freighter, along with Bashir's body. One of the mercenaries objects to such a plan, prompting Vantika to shoot him. Dax is able to disrupt Vantika's control of Bashir's body long enough for a confused Bashir to lower the freighter's shields and allow himself to be transported to the Infirmary. Once Vantika's consciousness is removed from Bashir's brain, Kajada destroys Vantika's body and rids herself of him once and for all.
References
- P. Farrand, Nitpicker's Guide for Deep space Nine Trekkers New York: Dell (1996): 39 - 43
- Star Trek: Deep Space Nine — The Complete First Season DVD boxed set
External links
- The Passenger article at Memory Alpha, a Star Trek wiki
- The Passenger article at STARTREK.COM, the official Star Trek website
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