 The time: the 24th Century. The setting: Deep Space Nine, a ramshackle space station orbiting the planet Bajor. The mission: to help the Bajorans rebuild their world from wasteland left by their enemies, The Cardassians. For Commander Ben Sisko (Avery Brooks), this will be no easy assignment. Especially when his new crew includes a Bajoran ex-terrorist (Nana Visitor), a curmudgeonly shape-shifter (Rene Auberjonois), a Ferengi theif (Armin Shimerman), and a dual entity (Terry Farrell) whose beautiful human body is inhabited by a 300-year-old slug-like lifeform. Sisko s leadership abilities are soon put to the test as he faces a war with the Cardassians and a fateful encounter with the one man he holds responsible for his wife s death--Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart)!