Battle Lines story
The spiritual leader of Bajor, Kai Opaka, travels with Sisko on a trip to the Gamma Quadrant but is stranded with him on a world where the dead are resurrected. Directed by: Paul Lynch. Story by: Hilary J. Bader.
12 total · 5 choice · 3 major · 4 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| ethnic hatred | choice | Ennis and Nol-Ennis |
| hate begets hate | choice | prisoners' lesson |
| the desire for vengeance | choice | Zlangco toward Nol-Ennis; Shel-la toward Ennis |
| vendetta | choice | There was an escalating cycle of hate and violence between the Ennis and the Nol-Ennis on the prison moon. |
| what if I had to endure eternal torment | choice | The prisoners' Dantean torment was to have to fight each others to the death over and over forever, on a prison moon. |
| interfactional mediation | major | Benjamin tried to mediate and end to the war between Ennis and Nol-Ennis but he ain't no Jean-Luc |
| pleasure in violence | major | Kira and Oraka had a long discussion about the violence inside Kira and whether or not she took pleasure in all that she had done. |
| the flip side of immortality | major | The prisoners came to despair their immortality because they were trapped fighting an eternal war where casualties revived from the dead. |
| coping with the death of someone | minor | Kira mourned the death of the priestess Kai Opaka. |
| off-world prison colony | minor | shuttledcraft crash landed on Nol-Ennis penal colony moon |