Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Season 5, Episode 24 - "Empok Nor"

In the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode, "Empok Nor," a trip to
an abandoned Cardassian space station leads to a bad trip for
Garak which is an even worse trip for O'Brien and Nog and... some
other people.


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