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Sisko, Worf, O'Brien, Bashir and few irrelevant officers become trapped in this Jem'hadar fighter when another warship arrives full of Jem'hadar. For some reason the Jem'hadar will not risk entering the downed fighter and killing the Starfleet officer, Sisko realises that there is something inside this ship that is very important to them, if they find it they find they're ticket out of danger!

This is a great episode that shows the tension between Worf and O'Brien, unfortunately one of the irrelevant Ensign-like officers is on his deathbed, unfortunate not because he dies but because we have to put up with everyone mourning his death for 20 minutes. Apart from this small problem the episode is flawless, we see a new side to the Vorta and a weakness in the Jem'hadar! Written by a Star Trek fan who had never had anything commissioned before, this is a pivotal story that would be looked back on in future episodes.

The Ship is an excellent, very enjoyable episode.
I found the Ship to be an excellent, very enjoyable episode, though certain bits I'd have written slightly differently. Definitely feel it to be one worth having on tape in my collection.
However, I feel it has no relevance to the situation in Iraq. No relevance whatsoever. For starters, there is no similarity between Hussein and the Vorta character - the Vorta character has a valid interest and moral stature of some degree in the situation. Hussein has none, therefore the comparison is an empty one.

Sisko has a Jem'Hadar warship and a Vorta wants it back
"The Ship" (Story by Pam Wigginton & Rick Cason, Teleplay by Hans Beimler, Aired October 7, 1996) is actually a much more intimate sort of episode than you would expect for the 100th episode of "Deep Space Nine." While exploring a world in the Gamma Quadrant, Sisko, Dax, Worf, O'Brien and Muniz, one of O'Brien's engineres see a Jem'Hadar ship crash onto the planet's surface. The crew are killed, but the ship is intact enough for Sisko to want to use the Defiant to get it back to DS9 to study and learn some of the military secrets of the Jem'Hadar. However, before that can happen, another Jem'Hadar warship appears and destroys the Federation runabout, killing all aboard. Sisko and the others take refuge in the crashed ship and wait for the Jem'Hadar to attack. But instead a Vorta named Kilana makes contact and demands Sisko give up the ship. Sisko figures out that there must be something aboard the vesel that the Vorta wants, and the negotiations taken on a whole new tack. Meanwhile, Muniz has been seriously wounded and needs medical attention.

"The Ship" is actually an interesting meditation on the problems of negotiating with the enemy, especially if you think in terms of zero-sum games. I am not sure if I agree with the idea that either Sisko or Kilana would have ever accepted a win-win situation, but I can certainly appreciate the notion that each would prefer to have a lose-lose outcome rather than risk having the other side "win." Of course, there is an irony to the final outcome of the situation, and I think there would have been more of an impact to the episode if both sides had lost everything. Still, this is a rather thoughtful episode from the show's fifth season.