Homefront

Abstract is: "Homefront" is the 83rd episode of the television series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, the 11th episode of the fourth season. It is the first part of a two-part episode, continued by the following episode, "Paradise Lost." The episode was directed by David Livingston, and was written by Ira Steven Behr and Robert Hewitt Wolfe. Set in the 24th century, the series follows the adventures of the crew of the fictional space station Deep Space Nine, managed by the United Federation of Planets, which lies adjacent to a wormhole connecting the Alpha and Gamma Quadrants of the galaxy. The Gamma Quadrant is home to the Dominion, a hostile empire ruled by the shape-shifting Changelings. In this episode, Deep Space Nine's captain Benjamin Sisko is brought to Earth to assist Admiral Leyton with planetary security after a terrorist attack on the planet is apparently perpetrated by Changelings; while there, he visits his father, who runs a restaurant in New Orleans.