60 free Star Trek: Deep Space Nine trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
This Star Trek: Deep Space Nine trivia quiz covers all seven seasons of the series that ran in syndication from January 1993 to June 1999. It begins with Benjamin Sisko's arrival at a battered Cardassian station and the discovery of the Bajoran wormhole, and ends with the Dominion War and the Emissary's fate in the Fire Caves. You will find questions on the main cast — Avery Brooks, Nana Visitor, René Auberjonois, Armin Shimerman, Terry Farrell, Alexander Siddig, Colm Meaney, Michael Dorn and Nicole de Boer — and on the recurring characters who made the station feel alive: Garak, Gul Dukat, Weyoun, Nog, Rom, Martok, Vic Fontaine and the never-speaking Morn. There are also questions on the Defiant, Section 31, the Mirror Universe, the Ferengi, and landmark episodes like 'Duet', 'The Visitor', 'Trials and Tribble-ations', 'Far Beyond the Stars' and 'In the Pale Moonlight'. BrainPickle also has separate quizzes on The Original Series, The Next Generation and Voyager. Every answer has been checked against Wikipedia and each question carries a citation to the page it came from.
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Q 01Who created Star Trek: Deep Space Nine?
Rick Berman and Michael Piller
It was the first Star Trek series made without Gene Roddenberry's direct involvement.
Q 02How many episodes of Deep Space Nine were made across its seven seasons?
176
The first season began mid-way through the broadcast year, so it was shorter than a usual Trek run.
Q 03Deep Space Nine was the first Star Trek series not set aboard a starship. Where is it set instead?
A station orbiting Bajor
Berman and Piller considered a colony planet, but a station was cheaper than location shooting and avoided competing with TNG's ship.
Q 04Who plays Benjamin Sisko?
Avery Brooks
Brooks also directed episodes, including the acclaimed 'Far Beyond the Stars', in which he starred.
Q 05The station was built by the Cardassians during their occupation of which planet?
Bajor
Under Cardassian rule it was a mining and refinery station called Terok Nor.
Q 06What was the station called under Cardassian rule, before it was renamed Deep Space Nine?
Terok Nor
Gul Dukat commanded it as the last Cardassian prefect of Bajor.
Q 07The wormhole discovered near the station leads to which distant part of the galaxy?
The Gamma Quadrant
The Bajorans regard the wormhole as the Celestial Temple and its inhabitants as the Prophets.
Q 08The Bajorans revere Sisko as what?
The Emissary of the Prophets
The two-hour pilot was titled 'Emissary' for that reason.
Q 09In the pilot, Sisko's wife Jennifer dies aboard the USS Saratoga in which battle against the Borg?
The Battle of Wolf 359
That is why Sisko is so cold toward Picard when they meet in the premiere.
Q 10Which prototype warship was introduced in season three to allow stories away from the station?
USS Defiant
It was originally to be called Valiant, but that was dropped to avoid confusion with Voyager.
Q 11The station's warship was conceived within the story as a prototype built to fight which enemy?
The Borg
After the original was destroyed in season seven, an identical ship, the USS São Paulo, was renamed Defiant.
Q 12Which Next Generation character joined the main cast in season four?
Worf
Michael Dorn's Worf ended up with more Star Trek appearances than any other character.
Q 13Odo, the station's security chief, belongs to which shape-shifting species?
Changelings
The Founders who rule the Dominion turn out to be his own people.
Q 21Who becomes the first Ferengi to join Starfleet?
Nog
'It's Only a Paper Moon' follows his recovery from PTSD after losing a leg in the war.
Q 22Which comedian and Princess Bride actor plays Grand Nagus Zek, leader of the Ferengi?
Wallace Shawn
Quark's mother Ishka eventually engineers a women's-rights revolution on Ferenginar.
Q 23Who plays Quark, the Ferengi bar owner?
Armin Shimerman
Max Grodénchik, who plays Quark's brother Rom, originally auditioned for Quark.
Q 24Which Klingon general succeeds Gowron as Chancellor after Worf kills Gowron?
Q 14Who plays Odo?
René Auberjonois
The 1992 writers' bible described him as a 'middle-aged curmudgeon' found in the Denorios asteroid belt with no memory of his past.
Q 15The Dominion's genetically engineered shock troops are called what?
The Jem'Hadar
Both races worship the Founders as gods.
Q 16In which second-season episode is the Dominion first mentioned?
Rules of Acquisition
The Dominion War itself does not begin until the fifth-season finale, 'Call to Arms'.
Q 17Which recurring DS9 actor played both the Ferengi Brunt and the Vorta Weyoun, both in 'The Dogs of War'?
Jeffrey Combs
Combs had auditioned for Riker on TNG; Jonathan Frakes later recommended him for DS9.
Q 18Elim Garak, the station's Cardassian tailor, is a former agent of which secret police organisation?
The Obsidian Order
Andrew Robinson, who played him, was Scorpio in Dirty Harry.
Q 19Who plays Gul Dukat, Sisko's arch-enemy?
Marc Alaimo
StarTrek.com called Dukat 'possibly the most complex and fully-developed bad guy in Star Trek history'.
Q 20Which Cardassian, introduced as Dukat's aide, eventually leads an insurgency against the Dominion?
Damar
His rebellion is one of the key turning points of the war's final arc.
Martok
'Blood Oath' reunited three Klingons from the original series: Kor, Koloth and Kang, played by their original actors.
Q 25Morn, the regular at Quark's bar, is famous for what?
Never speaking a word on camera
He had a line in the pilot script that was cut for time, which inspired the joke.
Q 26Odo's morphing effects and the show's first CGI starship were built by which effects company?
VisionArt
The Defiant was the first fully CGI starship used in regular Star Trek production.
Q 27To save money on fleet battle scenes, the effects team used what in the background?
Toys, model kits and Christmas ornaments
The station itself stayed a physical model right up to the final scene of the series.
Q 28How much did the physical model of the Deep Space Nine station sell for at Christie's in 2006?
$132,000
The station's Emmy-winning main theme by Dennis McCarthy featured a lonely solo trumpet, later joined by a brass chorus.
Q 29Who composed the Deep Space Nine main title theme, which won an Emmy?
Dennis McCarthy
The theme's solo trumpet was meant to convey the isolation of the outpost.
Q 30In 'Trials and Tribble-ations', the crew are digitally inserted into which original series episode?
The Trouble with Tribbles
It marked the original series' 30th anniversary; Voyager's tribute was 'Flashback'.