"Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" What You Leave Behind (1999)

Director:

Allan Kroeker

Writers:

Gene Roddenberry (creator: "Star Trek")
Rick Berman (creator) ...

TV Series:

"Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" (1993)

Original Air Date:

2 June 1999 (Season 7, Episode 25)

Genre:

Action | Drama | Sci-Fi

Tagline:

Beyond the farthest star a war rages

Plot:

Sisko leads, what he hopes will be, a final all-out assault on Cardassia Prime, as Kira and Garak mount...

Plot Keywords:

Series Finale | Wormhole | Klingon | Changeling | Emissary

Cast

Avery Brooks	...	Captain Sisko
Rene Auberjonois	...	Odo
Nicole de Boer	...	Lieutenant Ezri Dax (as Nicole deBoer)
Michael Dorn	...	Lt. Commander Worf
Cirroc Lofton	...	Jake Sisko
Colm Meaney	...	Chief O'Brien
Armin Shimerman	...	Quark
Alexander Siddig	...	Doctor Bashir
Nana Visitor	...	Colonel Kira
Rosalind Chao	...	Keiko O'Brien
Jeffrey Combs	...	Weyoun / Patron in Vic's Lounge
Salome Jens	...	Female Shapeshifter
Penny Johnson	...	Kasidy Yates
Andrew Robinson	...	Garak (as Andrew J. Robinson)
James Darren	...	Vic Fontaine

Runtime:

USA:120 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Company:

Paramount Television

Trivia:

After the show aired, an online poll voted What You Leave Behind the second best episode of Deep Space Nine. Trials and Tribble-ations came first.

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes: There's a scene where Weyoun is shown on display screens delivering an address to the Cardassian citizens about a city being destroyed as retribution for sabotage by Cardassian rebels, where the insignia of the Dominion is in the background displayed backwards; a result of a flipped shot.

Quotes:

[first lines]
Cardassian Computer Voice: The time is 0500.
Doctor Bashir: [half asleep] Mmyeahalright.
Lieutenant Ezri Dax: [appearing behind him] Julian?
Doctor Bashir: Yes?
Lieutenant Ezri Dax: We have to get up.
Doctor Bashir: Are you sure?
Lieutenant Ezri Dax: It's a big day.
Doctor Bashir: [sighs] It was a big night. Cleared up a lot of unanswered questions.
Lieutenant Ezri Dax: Such as?
[...]

Soundtrack:

The Way You Look Tonight

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I hope it's not just me but i seem to end up crying every time i watch this episode. Even when I read the book version i couldn't stop myself. The acting in it is so good that I really felt what they were going through as the friends all parted for the final time. The writers did an excellent job and the actors an even better one. The only thing letting it down are the occasional special effects that could do with some work. Cirroc (Jake Sisko) did an excellent job, with the final scene of him looking out into the stars sending me to tears every time. If you have watched any episode of DS9 before you will feel the love oozing off the screen and i just hope you don't come over all girly too. I could undoubtedly watch this episode over and over. I love it!!