Hard Time

Episode #91

SPELLINGS
[Argrathi]




CAST
Captain Benjamin Sisko	Avery Brooks
Odo	Rene Auberjonois
Lieutenant Commander Worf	Michael Dorn
Lieutenant Commander Jadzia Dax	Terry Farrell
Jake Sisko	Cirroc Lofton
Chief Operations Officer Miles O'Brien	Colm Meaney
Quark	Armin Shimerman
Dr. Julian Bashir	Alexander Siddig
Major Kira Nerys	Nana Visitor




GUEST STARS

Keiko	Rosalind Chao
Rinn	Margot Rose
Molly	Hana Hatae
Muniz	F.J. Rio

and

Ee'char	Craig Wasson




*Teleplay by:	Robert Hewitt Wolfe




*Story by:	Daniel Keys Moran & Lynn Barker




Directed by:	Alexander Singer

* Final writer credit has not been determined as of 3/13/96.

PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS: STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE: "Hard Time" - After an alien race implants false memories of a twenty-year prison sentence into O'Brien's brain, he has trouble readjusting to station life.
TV GUIDE AD: HARD TIME
The punishment was only hours -
but will O'Brien's recovery take a lifetime?
TV LOG LISTING: O'Brien prisoner inside his own mind/STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE.

Though held captive for only a few hours, O'Brien has memories of a twenty-year imprisonment.

Visions of Ee'char haunt O'Brien long after his imaginary jail term ends.

Keiko is disturbed by her husband's strange behavior when O'Brien returns from what he believes was a twenty-year prison sentence.

Living false memories of incarceration over decades, O'Brien attacks his cell mate and only friend, Ee'char.

Keiko consoles O'Brien after he returns with the artificial memories of twenty years in prison.