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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine – The Complete Season Four is a DVD release containing all of the episodes which were broadcast during the series' fourth season.

Summary[]

From the DVD booklet:

Welcome to the fourth year of the adventures of Deep Space Nine, remote and abandoned Cardassian outpost stationed on the very edge of the known universe.
This is the year in which the Klingon Empire joins the struggle against the Dominion in force.
Beset by paranoid Klingon forces led by the ferocious General Martok, Sisko calls for the one man who can deal with the unpredictable ally: Starfleet's first Klingon officer – Lt. Commander Worf.
While the hunt for Changeling infiltrators continues on Cardassia, Qo'noS and Earth, the crew of Deep Space 9 deal with additional complications. Sisko fights a plot to overthrow the leadership of the United Federation of Planets. Dax faces expulsion from the Trill Homeworld and the enforced death of her symbiont.
Kira joins forces with the hated Gul Dukat not once, but twice. Odo must accept Kira's relationship with a powerful Bajoran politician. O'Brien lives through 20 years of hard labor in an alien prison.
After a visit to Roswell, Earth, in 1947, Quark is forced to sell his remains on the Futures Market, despite still being alive. And Julian Bashir lives out his fantasy as a 1960s secret agent.
While Deep Space 9's officers soldier on, the Klingons, the Cardassians, the Maquis and the Jem'Hadar seem determined to bring the battle to Starfleet.
Welcome to 2372. It's going to be a long and eventful year...
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Episodes[]

Disc
Episode
1
"The Way of the Warrior" (feature-length) 
"The Visitor"
"Hippocratic Oath"
2
"Indiscretion"
"Rejoined"
"Starship Down"
"Little Green Men"
3
"The Sword of Kahless"
"Our Man Bashir"
"Homefront"
"Paradise Lost"
4
"Crossfire"
"Return to Grace"
"Sons of Mogh"
"Bar Association"
5
"Accession"
"Rules of Engagement"
"Hard Time"
"Shattered Mirror"
6
"The Muse"
"For the Cause"
"To the Death"
"The Quickening"
7
"Body Parts"
"Broken Link"
Special Features

Special Features[]

Listed is the full array of special features that were standard included on the Region 2 releases:

  • Charting New Territory: Deep Space Nine Season Four – A general season overview where cast and crew discuss developments such as Worf's integration into the series, amongst other topics.
  • Michael Westmore's Aliens, Season Four – Michael Westmore presents an insight into the process of designing aliens for DS9's Fourth Season.

The special features that were lacking on the regular Region 1 releases, were for that region only available as a "retailer exclusive" on a separate disc through the Best Buy retail chain store. [1] [2]

Background information[]

  • The initial US Region 1 release was issued as a transparant five-page hard plastic "booklet" in a carton foldout, with a disc mounted on each of the "pages" and came packaged within a text-imprinted, partially transparant plastic casing (with transparant cutouts to show the foldout imagery), mounted on a cardboard holder which had the release info printed on its back. The Best Buy retailer exclusive back had the bonus DVD extra mentioned. Collected on a cardboard tray it was later reissued in October 2004 as part of the first Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - The Complete Collection, along with the other six DVD season releases.
  • The Region 1 artwork on the discs features a Klingon Bird-of-Prey flying from the wormhole by the station.
  • The Region 2 artwork on the discs features various characters from the season:
  • Region 2 continued for the Deep Space 9 debut season DVD releases with the packaging format as previously introduced for the Star Trek: The Next Generation DVD season releases, and consisted of a stylized hard plastic "Special Premium Box" in which the discs, the accompanying twelve-page foldout booklet and interactive CD-ROM (not included in the Region 1 release) were mounted. This packaging format was utilized for all 2003 Region 2 European and Japanese "Complete Limited Edition" (ASIN B00008Q0BR) releases with only the accompanying booklet and the glued-on backcover release information leaflet translated in the language of the target market.
  • While the hard plastic box case had become the European Region 2 regular release format, it was not in Japan where it was released as a limited edition. The regular 2003 release format in Japan was very differently executed. It consisted of a carton foldout in which the discs were mounted, that came within a cardboard slip-over wrapper ("obi" in Japanese), and whose cover art was actually inspired by that of the hard plastic case. Remarkably, the regular release also came with the interactive CD-ROM.
  • As with the 2003 hard plastic box case, the 2007 Region 2 "slimline" release, consisting of four one/two-disc holding standard plastic snapcases in a hardboard slipcase, became the European 2007 reissue standard, likewise with only the booklet and DVD case inlay sleeves translated in the various languages.
  • Italian and German fans had been on the receiving end of market discrimination with their respective July 2007 and April 2009 reissues of the slimline variant which was split up in two releases, Parts 4.1 (ASIN B0041KWJI6, Italy/ASIN B000QXDI1Y, Germany) and 4.2 (ASIN B0041KWJHW, Italy/ASIN B000QXDI28, Germany), a somewhat dubious practice exercised by the local branches of CBS Home Entertainment for almost all contemporary Star Trek series home video format releases in Italy and Germany at one time or another. Part 4.2 had its cover altered by having Worf replaced with Jake Sisko. Both parts came in the same slimpack packaging as the other Region 2 (complete) releases.
  • The complete German "slimline" variant was finally released in December 2014, over seven years after the rest of Europe had received theirs. (ASIN B00LXUGQUE) Released in November 2013, the Japanese variant had earlier already lagged six years behind the UK release. (ASIN B00F27CP2W) Italy incidentally, had to make do with imports from other European Region 2 territories.
  • The 2007 UK "slimline" reissue, became the motive for Region 4 to concurrently receive its own Season 4 DVD set in the form of the near-identically executed Australasian release.
  • CBS Consumer Products, commissioned renowned British film poster artist Brian Bysouth, who had already provided the service for their preceding Deep Space Nine VHS and The Next Generation DVD UK releases, to provide the cover, disc and booklet artwork to CBS Home Entertainment for its Region 2 2007 "slimline" reissue, [3] reused for the Region 1 reissue of 2017.
Previous release:
DS9 Season 3 DVD 		Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
DVD 		Next Region 1 release:
DS9 Season 5 DVD
Next Region 2 release:
Star Trek: The Next Generation - Jean-Luc Picard Collection
LaserDisc (Vol. 1) • LaserDisc (Vol. 2) • US VHS • UK VHS • DVD • Digital
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