You Are Cordially Invited...

"You are Cordially Invited..."
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode
Episode no.	Season 6 Episode 7
Directed by	David Livingston
Written by	Ronald D. Moore
Featured music	Dennis McCarthy
Cinematography by	Jonathan West
Production code	531
Original air date	November 3, 1997 (1997-11-03)
Running time	45 minutes (runtime)
Guest appearance(s)
J. G. Hertzler – Martok Marc Worden – Alexander Rozhenko Shannon Cochran – Sirella Chase Masterson – Leeta Aron Eisenberg – Nog Max Grodénchik – Rom Sidney S. Liufau – Manuele Atoa

"You are Cordially Invited..." is the seventh episode of the sixth season of the syndicated American science fiction television series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, the 131st episode overall.

Set in the 24th century, the series follows the adventures on Deep Space Nine, a space station located near a stable wormhole between the Alpha and Gamma quadrants of the Milky Way Galaxy.

Plot

Commanders Worf and Jadzia Dax plan their long-awaited wedding. Since Dax will be joining Worf's surrogate family, the House of Martok, she agrees to endure the traditional evaluation by the mistress of the house, Martok's wife, Sirella. Confident that she will be liked and accepted, Dax is surprised when she learns that as a non-Klingon she will almost certainly fail to gain Sirella's favor. Learning that Sirella disapproves of Dax, Worf asks Martok to intervene. Martok refuses to get involved, but agrees to participate in Kal'Hyah, the traditional Klingon "bachelor party". Captain Sisko, Chief O'Brien, Dr. Bashir and Alexander, Worf's son, join them, but are disappointed when they learn that unlike what they imagined the Klingons' idea of a bachelor part to be, is actually light on fun and heavy on ceremony, fasting, bloodletting and various Klingon forms of torture.

Dax endures her own form of Klingon torture as she struggles to please Sirella. When asked to recite the history of the House of Martok, Dax reveals her discovery that Sirella has no imperial blood, and is descended from a concubine, which infuriates Sirella.

Dax throws herself a pre-wedding party. In the midst of the drinking, debauchery and a fire dance by Dax's Samoan friend Lieutenant Manuele Atoa, Sirella enters, and demands Dax join her for a ritual. When Dax tells her to leave, Sirella threatens to cancel the wedding. The confrontation ends with Sirella declaring Dax an enemy. The next morning, Worf informs Dax that Sirella has forbidden her to join the House of Martok. He asks her to beg Sirella's forgiveness, but Dax refuses to endure any further humiliation just so Worf can have a Klingon ceremony. Worf and Dax call off the wedding.

Martok convinces Worf to apologize to Dax, but she refuses to change her mind. Determined to see the lovers wed, Sisko goes to see Dax. She describes the indignities to which she has been subjected, reminding Sisko that, as Curzon Dax, she was Federation Ambassador to the Klingon Empire. Sisko gently points out that Sirella only sees her as a young woman who wants to marry into her family. He states that Dax knew what she was getting into when she agreed to marry Worf, and she must honor the traditions of his people. Warmed by her deep love for Worf, Dax follows Sisko's advice, and they are married with Sirella's blessing.

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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episodes
Season 1	"Emissary" "Past Prologue" "A Man Alone" "Babel" "Captive Pursuit" "Q-Less" "Dax" "The Passenger" "Move Along Home" "The Nagus" "Vortex" "Battle Lines" "The Storyteller" "Progress" "If Wishes Were Horses" "The Forsaken" "Dramatis Personae" "Duet" "In the Hands of the Prophets"
Season 2	"The Homecoming" "The Circle" "The Siege" "Invasive Procedures" "Cardassians" "Melora" "Rules of Acquisition" "Necessary Evil" "Second Sight" "Sanctuary" "Rivals" "The Alternate" "Armageddon Game" "Whispers" "Paradise" "Shadowplay" "Playing God" "Profit and Loss" "Blood Oath" "The Maquis, Part I" "The Maquis, Part II" "The Wire" "Crossover" "The Collaborator" "Tribunal" "The Jem'Hadar"
Season 3	"The Search" "The House of Quark" "Equilibrium" "Second Skin" "The Abandoned" "Civil Defense" "Meridian" "Defiant" "Fascination" "Past Tense, Part I" "Past Tense, Part II" "Life Support" "Heart of Stone" "Destiny" "Prophet Motive" "Visionary" "Distant Voices" "Through the Looking Glass" "Improbable Cause" "The Die Is Cast" "Explorers" "Family Business" "Shakaar" "Facets" "The Adversary"
Season 4	"The Way of the Warrior" "The Visitor" "Hippocratic Oath" "Indiscretion" "Rejoined" "Starship Down" "Little Green Men" "The Sword of Kahless" "Our Man Bashir" "Homefront" "Paradise Lost" "Crossfire" "Return to Grace" "Sons of Mogh" "Bar Association" "Accession" "Rules of Engagement" "Hard Time" 'Shattered Mirror" "The Muse" "For the Cause" "To the Death" "The Quickening" "Body Parts" "Broken Link"
Season 5	"Apocalypse Rising" "The Ship" "Looking for par'Mach in All the Wrong Places" "...Nor the Battle to the Strong" "The Assignment" "Trials and Tribble-ations" "Let He Who Is Without Sin..." "Things Past" "The Ascent" "Rapture" "The Darkness and the Light" "The Begotten" "For the Uniform" "In Purgatory's Shadow" "By Inferno's Light" "Doctor Bashir, I Presume?" "A Simple Investigation" "Business as Usual" "Ties of Blood and Water" "Ferengi Love Songs" "Soldiers of the Empire" "Children of Time" "Blaze of Glory" "Empok Nor" "In the Cards" "Call to Arms"
Season 6	"A Time to Stand" "Rocks and Shoals" "Sons and Daughters" "Behind the Lines" "Favor the Bold" "Sacrifice of Angels" "You Are Cordially Invited..." "Resurrection" "Statistical Probabilities" "The Magnificent Ferengi" "Waltz" "Who Mourns for Morn?" "Far Beyond the Stars" "One Little Ship" "Honor Among Thieves" "Change of Heart" "Wrongs Darker Than Death or Night" "Inquisition" "In the Pale Moonlight" "His Way" "The Reckoning" "Valiant" "Profit and Lace" "Time's Orphan" "The Sound of Her Voice" "Tears of the Prophets"
Season 7	"Image in the Sand" "Shadows and Symbols" "Afterimage" "Take Me Out to the Holosuite" "Chrysalis" "Treachery, Faith, and the Great River" "Once More unto the Breach" "The Siege of AR-558" "Covenant" "It's Only a Paper Moon" "Prodigal Daughter" "The Emperor's New Cloak" "Field of Fire" "Chimera" "Badda-Bing Badda-Bang" "Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges" "Penumbra" "'Til Death Do Us Part" "Strange Bedfellows" "The Changing Face of Evil" "When It Rains…" "Tacking into the Wind" "Extreme Measures" "The Dogs of War" "What You Leave Behind"

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