History Recap / StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS05E15ByInfernosLight

* FinishHim: Deyos orders Ikat'ika to kill Worf after kicking his ass. Ikat'ita, however, concedes the fight, as he failed to break Worf's spirit.

* RageBreakingPoint: Dukat takes a moment as the Dominion fleet suddenly shifts towards Cardasia to gloat to Kira that he has negotiated for Cardasia to join the Dominion, before adding as a parting shot that the two of them on the same side 'never seemed quite right, did it?' Kira's response (after a minute ago making it clear they were on 'hold fire' orders until Sisko gave the word):
-->"Lock phasers, open fire!"
** Then, later after heading the aformentioned NewEraSpeech she had this [[TranquilFury to say in response]]:

* RedHerring: It was established in the previous episode that Bashir couldn't test the Breen prisoner via blood screenings, because [[BizarreAlienBiology the Breen had no blood to test]]. This set up suspicion that the Breen might have been a Founder spy. Nope; the Breen actually ''was'' a prisoner...and proved it by sneak-attacking a Jem'Hadar guard, [[MutualKill before the Breen and a second guard killed each other]].
* SadisticChoice: Dukat tells Sisko to either surrender the station or that he'll retake it. Sisko basically tells him to BringIt.

* VoiceChangeling: Changeling!Bashir is able to imitate a female voice.

* BadassBoast: Back-to-back:
-->'''Ikat'ika:''' Victory is life.\\
'''Worf:''' Today is a good day to die.
** And immediately before that:
-->'''Ikat'ika:''' Prepare yourself! I found your WorthyOpponent.
-->'''Worf:''' Where is he?
-->'''Ikat'ika:''' [[PreAssKickingOneLiner Right in front of you.]]

-->"Never turn your back on a Breen."

* ApocalypseHow: Attempted by the changelings on a stellar scope; {{Defied}} by Major Kira.

* IWillPunishYourFriendForYourFailure: The Jem'Hadar kill one of Bashir's cellmates each time he lies to them.

* SeeTheWhitesOfTheirEyes: Used and averted. Used in that the Defiant has to get very close to the Yukon in order to use the tractor beam on it. Averted in that they were shooting the Yukon from far enough away that they had to make a brief jump to warp to get close enough to tractor beam it.

* SwissCheeseSecurity: The Dominion did a pretty good job creating an inescapable asteroid prison, but for some reason they left Worf and Garak's runabout in orbit, fully operational and unguarded.

* OhCrap: The look on Garak's face when he finds out who's running Cardassia now:
--> '''Deyos:''' Gul Dukat.

* SwissCheeseSecurity: The Dominion did a pretty good job creating an inescapable asteroid prison, but for some reason they left Worf and Garak's runabout in orbit, fully operation and unguarded.

* EvilIsPetty: Because the Cardassians are now allies with the Dominion, all the Cardassian prisoners are freed. However, Dukat ''explicitly'' forbids Garak from being one of them.

* OhCrap: The Bashir changeling has this look when his runabout gets tractor-beamed short of his target.

* BewareTheQuietOnes: The Breen prisoner does nothing but sit silently on a bunk in the cell for the whole episode until the guards decide to investigate the secret panel behind which Garak is working on an escape mechanism.
-->"Never turn your back on a Breen."

* MutualKill: The Breen prisoner and a Jem'Hadar guard shoot each other fatally.

A disturbing new development forces the Federation and Klingon Empire to put their differences aside and stave off the new threat of a Dominion-Cardassian alliance.

A disturbing new alliance forces the Federation and Klingon empire to put their differences aside and stave off the new threat of a Dominion-Cardassian alliance.

* GodzillaThreshold: Going to warp inside a solar system is portrayed as a dangerous maneuver, but Kira points out that if they don't, there won't be a solar system ''left''. It's worth noting that they're warping directly toward ''a star'', so a slight miscalculation would equal one crispy ''Defiant''.

* StarKilling: The Dominion tries to destroy Bajor's sun with a protomatter device.

* TheWorfEffect: Played with. [[TropeNamer Worf]] defeats several Jem'Hadar in a row (while suffering more and more injuries), but eventually he ends up facing Ikat'ika, [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown wipes the floor with him]]. Worf's {{Determinator}} spirit, however, remains unbroken, and in the end it's ''Ikat'ika'' who yields.

* HopeSpot: The Vorta announces that Cardassia has joined the Dominion and so all Cardassian prisoners are going home. Garak starts to approach the others, until it turns out that Dukat intervened personally to ensure he would not be released.

** Dukat joins the Dominion, installing himself as the leader of Cardassia.

** Bashir is revealed to have been replaced with a changeling for the last ''half-dozen'' episodes.