In Purgatory’s Shadow / By Inferno’s Light (DS9)

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Series 5, Episodes 14–15. First broadcast on Monday 10 February 1997 and Monday 17 February 1997. Stardate: 50564.2.

It’s a soap-opera extravaganza on Deep Space Nine this week, as Garak reconciles with his long-lost father, Dukat abandons his long-lost daughter, and Julian discovers a scheming lookalike that he never knew he had. Meanwhile, there is a shift in the balance of power in the Quadrant, as the show rewrites its own premise in the way that we have come to admire and enjoy.