

On their way back to DS9, Worf and Ezri soon grow tense and stand-offish with one another, until Ezri tries to break the ice. Walking down the Promenade, Benjamin asks his son Jake to be the best man at his wedding Jake eagerly accepts, noting with delight that his duties also include planning the groom's bachelor party. She insists on keeping the sickness a secret from the Cardassians, whose suspicions have already been aroused. The latest batch of vaccine failed to accomplish its goal of finding a cure for the sickness infecting the Great Link, so she tears off a piece of herself, giving it to Weyoun as a tissue sample for future experimentation by the next round of Vorta medical clones. However, she seems more concerned with Weyoun's news regarding their search for a vaccine. On Cardassia, the Founder finds the newly-installed communication system adequate. Worf stops her hand and, a little embarrassed, she goes back to pilot the runabout back to DS9. As Ezri helps Worf to a chair and starts to tend to his wounds, getting closer to him, she almost gives in to Jadzia's feelings for Worf. Soon, he realizes she's alone and she admits she came without Sisko's permission. She accepts, and the joyous couple embrace.Įzri's plan succeeds: she locates an escape pod, captures it with a tractor beam, and transports its sole occupant – a disoriented Worf – aboard safely to her runabout. Sisko, who is constructing a scale model of his prospective house on Bajor, is discussing some of its design details with Kasidy, when suddenly he proposes marriage, even producing an engagement ring from a table in the model house. Disregarding the computer's warning that such a maneuver could be dangerous, she even powers down the ship's thrusters, to more closely simulate a drifting pod in the Badlands currents and orders all power diverted to the shields. Assuming Worf made it to a port-side escape pod, Ezri uses the ship's computers to calculate the pod's trajectory, and follows it in the runabout. While studying the ship's logs, Ezri discovers that the six recovered escape pods had all been launched from the starboard side of the ship. Odo asks Sisko if he thinks she has a chance of locating Worf and Sisko responds that he wishes that he could say that she will. Sisko tells Kira to supply Dax with their search logs from the Defiant to improve her chances of finding Worf. She suddenly feels more than ever a part of the Dax symbiont, so she borrows the runabout USS Gander to search for Worf on her own.Īt first, Sisko tries to persuade Ezri to turn back the ship while in Ops, however he eventually lets her go to try to find Worf. She sees the bat'leth given to Jadzia by Worf, and begins to reminisce about Jadzia's relationship and marriage to Worf. Walking past Worf's now-empty quarters, Dax overrides the lock and enters. Weyoun dismisses his queries, and orders the installation of a new subspace, secretly-encoded communication channel for the Founder on Cardassia. When Weyoun questions Damar's drinking of kanar, Damar turns the tables and questions the health of the Founders. Instead of pursuing the Defiant, the Dominion ships are diverted by Weyoun to Devos II to protect the Son'a's ketracel-white facility. Later that evening, Sisko calls Ezri in her quarters and informs her that the Defiant will be calling off the search in the face of a dozen approaching Dominion ships. Searching the area for three days, the USS Defiant can find no trace of Worf back at the station, Quark tries to cheer up a demoralized Ezri, telling her that Worf will be back as he did not pay his bar tab before leaving on his mission and could not enjoy Sto-vo-kor knowing that he owed Quark. Although six of its escape pods were recovered, Worf wasn't aboard any of them. Worf had been in command of the Klingon vessel IKS Koraga, which was destroyed by a Dominion patrol near the Badlands. In the replimat, Ezri Dax is telling Chief O'Brien and Doctor Bashir of her recent dinner with Captain Boday when Kira walks towards them and informs everyone that Worf is missing in combat, and is presumed dead.


He tells Kasidy that his falling in love with Bajor was not in the master plan, but he surmises that he was always meant to come here. They reminisce about the past, marveling at how much has changed in Sisko's seven years on DS9. He plans to build a home there once the war is over, both to visit and for his retirement years. During a quiet evening in his quarters, Benjamin Sisko reveals to Kasidy Yates that he has recently purchased twelve hecapates of land on Bajor, in the Kendra Province.
