Blaze of Glory (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine)

"Blaze of Glory" is the 121st episode of the television series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, the 23rd episode of the fifth season. The episode aired on television on May 12, 1997.^[1] The episode concludes a three-part storyline started in the episode "For the Cause" and continued in "For the Uniform".

Set in the 24th century, the series follows the adventures of the crew of Deep Space Nine, a Starfleet-run space station near the planet Bajor, as the Bajorans recover from a decades-long occupation by the imperialistic Cardassians. In the middle seasons of the series, the Deep Space Nine crew comes into conflict with the Maquis, a renegade terrorist group who oppose a peace treaty between the United Federation of Planets and the Cardassians. This episode concludes the story of the Maquis and of Michael Eddington (played by Kenneth Marshall), a former Starfleet officer who joined the Maquis, after Cardassia allies itself with a powerful empire known as the Dominion.^[2]