Star Trek: Deep Space Nine 2.19

Blood Oath

Three Klingons come to Deep Space Nine, old friends of Dax, Curzon Dax. Together Kor , Koloth, and Kang (along with Curzon) swore a blood oath to get vengeance on the Albino, a criminal who killed the sons of the three Klingons. Curzon was the godfather to Kang's son who was named Dax in his honor.

The Klingons have some doubts about Jadzia Dax accompanying them on this mission. She proves herself to them while sparring with Koloth in a holo-suite. Together the four friends use their skills and the intelligence they have gathered to complete their mission although is costs two of them their lives.

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Profit and Loss

A Cardassian ship that is experiencing major problems with it's life support systems arrives at the space station. Natima Lanf, the leader of the three people aboard the space ship, is an old acquaintance of Quark. She explains that her two companions are her students. Quark tries to get close to Natima. She is hostile at first but eventually warms up to the point that she is at least interested in rekindling what they had seven years before.

Garak warns Commander Sisko that it wouldn't be wise to help the three Cardassians as they are wanted by the Cardassian high command. Sisko helps the fugitive Cardassians, despite the warning, until he finds out that the Bejorans government wants to turn them over to the Cardassians as part of a prisoner exchange.

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Playing God

Arjin, a Trill host candidate, comes to Deep Space Nine to be mentored and evaluated by Jadzia Dax. Chief O'Brien deals with an infestation of voles aboard the space station. Jake admits to his father that he's in love with a Dabo girl.

Jadzia's initial evaluation of Arjin is that he isn't a good candidate to be a host. He seems to just be telling her what he thinks she wants to hear. Together they go into the wormhole, aboard the Mekong and pick up something on the outer hull of the runabout that Jadzia describes as space seaweed.

Jadzia studies the thing attached to the Mekong once they get back. It seems to be a proto-universe. It is expanding and threatens to destroy Deep Space Nine. There is some debate over what to do about it. Ultimately, despite not knowing what will happen, Sisko decides that it needs to be returned to the Gamma Quadrant.

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Shadowplay

Dax and Odo investigate a planet in the Delta Quadrant where they discover omicron particles. The particles interfere with their scanning devices aboard the runabout. They beam down to the planet and discover a town of people living there. The people at first suspect that Dax and Odo have something to do with the recent disappearance of some of the people of the village. Dax and Odo convince the villagers that they are not responsible for the disappearances and then start to work on trying to figure out what happened to the missing people.

Benjamin Sisko insists that Jake get a job. He assigns him to be Chief O'Brien's assistant. Benjamin expects that Jake will one day join Starfleet. Jake isn't so sure about that but he doesn't say anything to his father about his feelings about joining Starfleet.

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Paradise

Sisko and O'Brien are on a runabout, looking for a planet that is suitable for settlement when they come across one that already seems to be populated. They decide to beam down, despite getting some weird readings. Once on the planet they discover that all of their technological devices no longer work.

They are greeted by some of the locals, who are also human. Alixus, the leader, explains to them that they are stuck there and that they may as well get used to it. Alixus and the others have been there for 10 years. Sisko and O'Brien don't accept what they are being told and start to look for ways to get a message out.

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Whispers

Chief O'Brien knows that something is wrong but he can't figure out what it is. What he knows is that everyone is acting strange. Everyone includes Keiko, Sisko, Odo, Kira, Jake, Julian, and Quark. He tries running scans but nothing comes up as reading unusual. Things that should be in proper working order are not. Keiko prepares a meal that she hates, but that she knows he loves.

Chief O'Brien can't figure out what's causing the problem. He becomes increasingly paranoid. It leads him to eventually flee the space station and head through the wormhole. He's convinced that whatever is going on has something to do with the Paradas, a race with whom they recently made first contact. Eventually he gets his answer.

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Armageddon Game

Chief O'Brien and Doctor Bashir help the T'Lani and the Kelleruns, two races that have recently ended a war that lasted for centuries, destroy the Harvesters, their most deadly weapons. They are ready to celebrate when two armed Kelleruns break into the facility where the work was done and kill everyone except O'Brien and Bashir, who just barely manage to beam out of there.

O'Brien and Bashir beam down to the surface of T'Lani III because they are unable to contact the Ganges, the runabout in which they traveled to the T'Lani system. The planet is abandoned but it was once inhabited. They take shelter in a building and immediately take start trying to contact the T'Lani.

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The Alternate

Doctor Mora, who has a history with Odo, visits Deep Space Nine. Mora is amazed at the progress that Odo has made, the way he handles himself but he isn't there for a social call. He has found something in the Gamma Quadrant that resembles Odo's genetic structure that he wants to investigate further.

Doctor Mora, Odo, Dax, and one of Mora's associates go to the Gamma Quadrant to a planet where they find something alive that seems to be metamorphic, like Odo. They bring it back to the Alpha Quadrant, to the space station. They proceed to examine it. During the night it escapes from the lab in which it was kept. Chief O'Brien tracks it through the ducts and finds what looks like the remnants of the life form but it is no longer alive.

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Rivals

Chief O'Brien gets annoyed when he learns that Doctor Bashir is better than him at racquetball. Quark feels threatened by Martus, who opens up a casino on the Promenade. Sisko and Dax discover that something is causing people to experience big swings of good and bad luck aboard the space station.

Thoughts

This episode doesn't do it for me. Nothing about it pulled me in, touched me, or gave me a reason to care. There was an attempt to explain the whole luck aspect of the episode but it felt very unscientific.

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Sanctuary

A group of people come through the wormhole in a badly damaged ship. Commander Sisko orders them beamed off their ship and aboard the space station. They are Skrreeans. The universal translator has some trouble with their language. Sisko and Major Kira learn, once the translator issue has been resolved, that the four people they rescued are just the tip of the iceberg. There are another three million Skrreeans hoping to come through the wormhole and get away from something known as the Dominion.

Deep Space Nine helps more Skrreeans make their way through the wormhole. Haneek, the leader of the first small group to come through the wormhole educates Sisko and Kira about their ways. The Skrreeans are farmers. Their society is run by women. They are looking for a new home, a planet that they call Kentanna.

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Second Sight

Sisko meets Fenna, a mysterious woman, on the fourth anniversary of the death of his wife at the Battle of Wolf 359. Fenna disappears on more than one occasion before he can learn very much about her. The third time she disappears it is right before his eyes.

Dax and Chief O'Brian help Professor Gideon Seyetik, a visiting scientist, prepare to reignite Epsilon 119, a dead star. Sisko gets a bit of a shock when he meets Nidell, Seyetik's wife, and she looks just like Fenna. Sisko confronts Nidell but she doesn't recognize him.

Sisko and Dax accompany Seyetik and Nidell aboard the Prometheus, the ship that takes them to Epsilon 119. Fenna appears aboard the Prometheus after Nidell falls into a coma. Gideon recognizes her. He saw her once before, a few years prior. Dax believes that she is the unconscious manifestation of Nidell's mental energies.

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Necessary Evil

A Bajoran woman pays Quark to retrieve a box hidden aboard the space station. She says it only has sentimental value.

Quark and Rom retrieve the box. Quark breaks it open and finds a piece of paper inside with eight names on it. He sends Rom to get an imager. A Bajoran man shows up before Rom returns with the imager. The Bajoran shoots Quark and takes the paper.

Odo investigates what looks like murder. He gets some information from Rom. Odo recalls another investigation he conducted when the Cardassians ran the space station. He was pressed into conducting the investigation by Gul Dukat.

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Rules of Acquisition

Quark a call from the Grand Nagus while playing cards with Pel (one of his employees), Rom, and Jadzia.

Grand Nagus Zek arrives on Deep Space Nine. He negotiates a deal with Commander Sisko to allow him to hold meetings there. The Geand Nagus also asks Quark to lead the Ferengi negotiations with the Dosi, a group that hails from the Gamma Quadrant. Quark asks Pel, who seems very adept at business, to be by his side during the negotiations.

The Dosi arrive on Deep Space Nine and the negotiations begin. The Dosi are very intimidating and push back on all of Quark’s demands. Quark gets flustered but with some help from Pel he pushes back hard enough to get the Dosi to consider his offer. 

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Melora

Ensign Melora Pazlar joins the crew of the space station. She comes from Elaysia, a world with considerably lower gravity than that on Deep Space Nine. She is forced to get around in a motorized wheelchair. She takes great offense when anyone tries to preemptively step in and help her or treat her as different.

Ensign Pazlar is scheduled to do some survey work in the Gamma Quadrant. She wants to go alone but Commander Sisko insists that Lieutenant Dax go with her. 

Doctor Bashir takes Ensign Pazlar out for dinner at a Klingon restaurant. She demonstrates her command of Klingon and appreciation for Klingon cuisine. 

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Cardassians

Garak interrupts his conversation with Doctor Bashir to try and talk to a Cardassian teen who is traveling with a Bajoran man. The teen bites Garak’s hand when he touches him on the shoulder. 

Doctor Bashir reports the incident to Commander Sisko. It quickly becomes clear that Rugal, the teenage Cardassian, is a war orphan who was left behind on Bajor when the Cardassians cleared out. The Bajoran with whom he is traveling is his adoptive father. Sisko sends Rugal to live with Chief O’Brien and Keiko, his wife, after Gul Dukat calls Sisko and expresses an interest in having Rugal repatriated to Cardassia.

Doctor Bashir questions Gul Dukat’s sincerity when it comes to the repatriation of Cardassian war orphans. Chief O’Brien is forced to interact with Rugal while he is quartered with himself and Keiko.

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Invasive Procedures

A skeleton crew remains aboard Deep Space Nine while most everyone else has been evacuated due to a plasma storm. A ship arrives bearing four people. They take over the station. It soon becomes clear that Quark helped them get aboard and provided them with information about the crew of Deep Space 9.

Verad, a Trill and the leader of the group, feels as though he should be joined with Dax. He doesn't care that removing Dax from Jadzia's body will kill her within hours of the procedure. Jadzia submits to the procedure after Verad threatens to kill her friends. Dax is removed from her body and implanted in Verad's.

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The Siege

Sisko gives a pep talk to the crew of Deep Space Nine. He warns them that things are about to get worse on board the space station.

Quark comes up with a scheme to sell seats on the evacuation ships. There is a bit of a panic. Quark gets left behind (with a trunk full of latinum) after Rom gives Quark's place to a dabo girl.

A Bajoran team led by General Krim boards Deep Space Nine. They start looking for signs of life but the search is hampered by the sensors which have been sabotaged.

Kira and Jadzia find a spare runabout on one of the moons of Bajor. They get it up and running but they are spotted by Bajoran ships.

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The Circle

Kira departs Deep Space Nine and accepts an invitation from Vedek Bareil to stay at his order's monastery. Li Nalas takes over Kira's role on Deep Space Nine. Kira has a vision after looking into the Orb of Prophecy and Change. She seems to have trouble processing the contents of the vision but she keeps it to herself. She tries to find a place for herself in the monastery but it doesn't feel like the right place for her to be.

Odo and Quark work together to track down the source of arms that are being smuggled to Bajor. The source turns out to be Cardassian in origin. Odo suspects that the Bajorans receiving the weapons don't realize who is selling them the weapons as they are going through a middleman.

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The Homecoming

Quark passes a Bajoran earring on to Major Kira Nerys. She identifies it as belonging to Li Nalas, a leader of the Bajoran resistance who was reported killed in action and hasn’t been seen in years. The earing came from Cardassia IV, according to the person who gave it to Quark. Kira asks Commander Sisko for a runabout so that she can go to Cardassia IV and rescue Li Nalas.

Sisko consults with Dax about Kira’s request. He decides to let Kira take a runabout but he insists that Chief O’Brien go with her. Nerys and O’Brien make it to Cadassia IV and rescue Li Nalas and several other Bajoran prisoners. Gul Dukat contacts Commander Sisko and apologizes for the incident and agree to return a few more prisoners who were unable to make it on to the runabout.

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In the Hands of the Prophets

Vedek Winn, an orthodox Bajoran spiritual leader objects to the way that the children on the space station's school are being taught. Keiko O'Brien, the instructor, refuses to go along with the suggestions made by Vedek Winn. Keiko takes the issue to Commander Sisko who tries turning to Kira but she isn't very supportive of Keiko's insistence that Vedek Winn back off and not insist that she teach Bajoran theology.

Ensign Aquino, one of the technicians aboard Deep Space Nine disappears. What's left of him is found in a maintenance tunnel. Chief O'Brien and Neela, another technician try to figure out what happened.