A Man Alone Stardate 46421.5: Odo is enraged when he meets Ibudan, a Bajoran who was convicted of murdering a Cardassian but was released from prison by the new Bajoran government. When Ibudan is murdered in a holosuite, Odo is the main suspect because evidently no other humanoid entered the holosuite. As a restless mob of the station’s denizens gather to confront Odo, Bashir makes the startling discovery that the murder victim is in fact a clone, created and subsequently murdered by the real Ibudan in order to implicate Odo. In a final twist of irony, Ibudan is swiftly apprehended by Odo, and is accordingly charged with the murder of his own clone. Meanwhile, after Jake and his new Ferengi friend, Nog, are caught playing pranks on the promenade, Keiko O’Brien decides to open a school on the station.

The basic idea of this episode reminds me a tad too much of "Past Prologue": A Bajoran troublemaker with a hidden agenda comes to the station, by which the loyalty of a non-Starfleet officer is tested. Only that Odo, for a change, has a motive to kill the unpleasant guest rather than to support him. The concept of the challenged loyalty worked with Kira because we knew a bit about her history with the Cardassians and her present problems with subordinating to Captain Sisko. It was just enough to make her motivation clear. Odo, on the other hand, is still a mystery at this point of the series. He is a non-humanoid who, for some reason, has always been on the station and is still there and who appears to have a special idea of justice. We wouldn't really expect a principal character to be guilty of murder even though DS9 is arguably a "darker" series than TNG. But it appears that either Odo's character is yet unfinished at the time of the episode or was even twisted to appear less sincere and a bit sinister just to make his involvement more interesting. In any case his hostility and even violence towards Ibudan is out of character in hindsight. And the later, refined Odo wouldn't have insisted on enforcing his own way of justice at any rate. Also, we have to wonder anyway how the Odo of this episode could have possibly worked for the Cardassians for years.
In terms of character development other than Odo's, this episode attempts to accomplish just too much. We have Julian still with a crush on Jadzia, but the Trill nonchalantly defies his awkward attempts to be close to her. Bashir is jealous of Sisko, who is Dax' friend. Sisko, on the other hand, admits that he feels uncomfortable with Dax' new appearance after there didn't seem to be a problem in "Emissary". At least, that's what he says, while it still doesn't look embarrassing how he interacts with Dax. There is interaction among most principal characters, and these little plot threads are just too many for just one episode. I only like the idea of Keiko setting up a school, but the path to this decision and most of the other characters' problems to adjust to life on the station and with each other come out as too trivial.
On a more serious note, we can see a big deal of intolerance on the station. Sisko has preconceptions about "that Ferengi boy" and doesn't want Jake to hang around with him. Vice versa, Rom does not want to sit Nog beside "that human boy". This conflict will be gradually resolved as Jake's and Nog's friendship develops. But most importantly the Bajoran mob is xenophobic, and they apparently only take the opportunity that Odo is a suspect in a case of murder to try to get rid of the "Shifter". I doubt the crowd would renounce their preconceptions so easily only because they proved wrong in one case. However, it will be the last time in the series that Odo's being different is a problem to the general public until the Founders show up.
With so much else going on, the murder mystery is not always as much in the focus as it perhaps should be. The investigation should have been conceded more screen time, and there should have been stronger involvement of the characters aside from Odo. I like the discovery that Ibudan killed his own clone and I was quite amazed by it the first time I watched the episode. But with only a few minutes left the conclusion is rushed and the consequences are just notes in Sisko's log. I find it sad that it is mentioned only in a brief note that the clone of Ibudan that Bashir created is kept alive and will live a normal life. We don't learn far he was developed in the end, how he would gain the necessary knowledge and experience and whether Bashir has a bad conscience for playing god, even if it was unwittingly.
Nitpicking: I wonder, is it possible to grow organic tissue without knowing what is growing?
Remarkable dialogue: "I can't believe you're defending him, Quark. You're his worst enemy." - "Yes, that's the closest thing he has in this world to a friend." (Zayra and Quark, about Odo)
Remarkable facts: Jadzia says she has been trying to solve the Altonian brain teaser for some 140 years. She likes to eat steamed azna. Cold hands a peculiarity of the Trills, as Jadzia says (while cold feet are a peculiarity of human women ;)). -- Odo has to return to his natural liquid form every 18 hours to regenerate. -- The name "Lamonay" that Ibudan is using is an anagram of "anomaly". -- Nog buys something on the promenade that will be known as a jumja stick. He and Jake release Garanian bolites on a restaurant that make their victims' skin flash in alternating colors.
Rating: 4

Babel Stardate 46423.7: In the midst of being inundated by a spate of maintenance requests, O’Brien inadvertently triggers a device that releases a virus, causing an advanced form of aphasia in his brain that makes him unable to communicate with anyone. As the virus keeps spreading through the food replicators and then mutates into an airborne strain, the station’s officers gradually become incapacitated. Even worse, the virus turns out to be lethal. Bashir still finds out that not the Cardassians but the Bajorans created the virus before he is affected too. Kira travels to Bajor and kidnaps the co-creator of the virus, Surmak Ren, by beaming him into her runabout and infecting him as well. When Captain Jaheel tries to escape from the quarantined  station and overloads his ship's engines, Odo and Quark have to work together to remove his ship from the docking ring. Surmak Ren soon manages to develop a cure based on Bashir's research.

The idea of "Babel" is reminiscent of a couple of TOS and TNG episodes where McCoy or Crusher, respectively, were in a hurry to develop a cure against a spreading disease that would otherwise kill everyone on board. While it is overall not the most original premise, I like the concept of the aphasia that disables any communication with the patients in "Babel". This effect, however, only serves to make the disease more interesting in the first place and doesn't really have further consequences. Once a character has contracted the disease, it wouldn't matter in this story whether he or she remains aphasic, is paralyzed or falls into a coma. The episode should have explored the phenomenon of aphasia better, even at the expense of more technobabble. But most of all it should have kept the focus on the condition of the patients instead of reducing them to babbling idiots and switching only occasionally to them. Who knows, perhaps Jadzia's intact mind might have found something to help cure her and it may have been interesting to see how she tries to communicate that to Bashir. Also, it wouldn't have needed the pending explosion of Jaheel's ship as another race against time - and with the extremely unrealistic premise that the second of the explosion is exactly known in advance.
The execution of the episode is fair and overall too conventional. It becomes a bit boring after a while how one crew member after the other is affected by the virus, usually with a melodramatic cut on the patient's helpless looking face.
I really feel with O'Brien in this episode. First everyone bugs him with repairs, then he is the first victim of the aphasia virus, and the probably most embarrassed. It would have been better to involve his family in some fashion though; I find it hard to believe that no one would stand at his bed and be worried about his condition.
I like the B-story about Quark, who accesses a command level replicator because his own devices are malfunctioning. It is nicely tied into the main story of the spreading aphasia virus. The only omission is that the episode doesn't show Quark operate that replicator before the station is already quarantined. I would have appreciated an according cue that Quark inadvertently helps distribute the virus. Overall, it is appropriate to involve Quark in a bigger role than as the resident bar owner. But his and Odo's characters and the subtle irony in their relationship still have to develop, it is all still a bit crude here.
Surmak Ren comes across as an unnecessarily unsympathetic character. He denies Kira any help, even when it is clear to him that she knows he helped in its creation and even though it would now affect his own people and not the Cardassians. He only agrees to assist when he learns that he himself is infected too. What a dick!
There is one minor issue with how the development of the aphasia is shown. Whenever yet another crew member falls victim to the virus, everything is shown from the perspective of those who are not yet affected. However, when it strikes in Julian's brain, we can see how his computer display changes to something nonsensical in his eyes. While this is about how Julian perceives it, the depiction is not consistent.
Inconsistencies: I have two gripes with the way the disease is being handled. Firstly, no one even attempts to communicate with the patients through some sort of sign language, with symbols on a tricorder or anything like that. If the aphasia leaves the process of thinking intact, there is no reason why it shouldn't be possible to "talk" in the same fashion as between two people who don't know one another's language. As already mentioned, it would also have involved the patients in a more appropriate fashion. Secondly, I wonder why at no point anyone only considers a simple countermeasure such as masks against the virus. Even after it is evident that the virus has become airborne and probably everyone is infected, there would be still a chance to save at least a few people. 
Remarkable quote: "You claimed Rom fixed your replicators. Rom is an idiot. He couldn't fix a straw if it was bent." (Odo)
Remarkable shapeshifting: Odo morphs into a trolley table (the one Quark wanted to transport the replicated meals with).
Remarkable fact: Odo says the station was built 18 years ago. That would have been in 2351, but will be contradicted in "Wrongs Darker than Death or Night".
Remarkable behind-the-scenes fact: The picture in Dekon Elig's file is actually one of visual effects supervisor Dan Curry.
Rating: 3

Captive Pursuit Stardate not given: The station receives its first visitor from the Gamma Quadrant, an unannounced ship carrying a single lifeform, who happened to spot another ship going through the wormhole and followed it. As the visitor's starship is damaged and requires help in repairs, Sisko sends O'Brien to make first contact with the alien, who calls himself Tosk and seems to be nervous about something. When Tosk attempts to break into the station's weapons storage, Odo arrests the alien. Another starship from the Gamma Quadrant arrives and promptly scans the station. The crew of the new ship transport over and attempt to take Tosk forcibly. After a skirmish with station security the leader locates Tosk in his cell. After further negotiations Sisko learns that a "Tosk" is a lifeform bread to be hunted by the other aliens, the "Hunters". Under the terms of the Prime Directive, he agrees to hand over Tosk to the Hunters, knowing that they would display him in a cage for his failure to escape. O'Brien, however, frees Tosk, so the hunt can continue to everyone's satisfaction.

Just for a change, it is a nice nod to have O'Brien in charge of establishing the first contact with an alien species. It doesn't always have to be a formal procedure, and if an alien such as Tosk here needs to have his ship repaired above everything, he wouldn't care very much anyway if Sisko came to greet him personally. But that is about the only special thing about the plot, which is overall a too conventional incidence of the theme "Aliens coming to the station and stirring up trouble".
I like Colm Meaney's performance as O'Brien, who is neither familiar with Tosk's technology nor his culture and stays open-minded all the time but who is also torn between duty and conscience. I think the story focuses a bit too much on him though and still doesn't show the character in much depth, but he definitely makes the best of it. It becomes clear that it was a great idea to transfer O'Brien to DS9 from the Enterprise, where he was never allowed to play such an important role. And this episode also sort of compensates for O'Brien's disability in "Babel". Even more praise goes to Scott MacDonald as Tosk, a very alien character in every respect and perhaps the actual principal character. He not only endured wearing the heavy costume all day but also managed to show subtle facial expressions through his thick mask.
I also like the directing that maintains a comparably (for the first season) fast pace but never gets bumpy. Especially the scenes when O'Brien is investigating the shuttle while Tosk is cloaked and when the Hunter locates the cloaked Tosk in the prison cell are quite thrilling.
This episode could be over after two thirds of the time when O'Brien is hanging around at Quark's and lamenting about his inability to help Tosk. I'm glad that it continues after this point, because otherwise it would have been just another bland "We're bound to the Prime Directive" episode. They way it is resolved, after O'Brien's interference, everyone can be content. O'Brien has saved his friend Tosk from being publicly dishonored, Tosk has the prospect of dying with honor some day, the Hunters can carry on with what they love much more than anything, Sisko has helped an alien in distress without a stain on his record. I have mixed feelings about the ending though, because it comes with even more violence. It was rather reckless of O'Brien to endanger the people on the station like that.
Inconsistency: I find it hard to believe that an individual that is bred as a slave and doesn't even have a name can be dishonored in any fashion. But that may be just one more peculiarity of the Hunter-Tosk culture.
Remarkable quotes: "I am sorry. I have no vices for you to exploit." (Tosk, to Quark), "Hell. Those guys wanted a hunt. I just gave them one." (O'Brien)
Remarkable shapeshifting: Odo morphs into a painting.
Remarkable facts: Odo says he has never used a weapon. -- Tosk needs 17 minutes of sleep per "rotation" (day). He can make himself invisible. He can store nutrients in the plasmic fibers of his body. In several ways Tosk is the prototype of the Jem'Hadar that would appear at the end of the second season.
Remarkable ships: Tosk's ship is a re-use of the Vulcan freighter T'Pau in "Unification", while the Hunter ship initially appeared as the Tarellian vessel in "TNG: "Haven".
Rating: 5

Q-Less Stardate 46531.2: The runabout Ganges returns to the station with hardly any power and its crew and passenger in danger from lack of life support. Jadzia Dax and another crewman have returned with Vash after finding her in the Gamma Quadrant. With her is Q, who has been hounding Vash as a traveling companion for two years. Vash brings several artifacts to the station that she has acquired in the Gamma Quadrant, among them a remarkable crystal. She makes fast friends with Quark and agrees with the Ferengi profiteer to auction them off. Unbeknownst to the crew, however, the crystal draws energy from the station's power systems, leading to a massive build-up of gravitons that pushes the station towards the wormhole. Using ionized tritium, Dax is able to pinpoint the origin of the gravitons, and Sisko has the artifact beamed into space. There an embryonic lifeform frees itself from the crystal and vanishes into the wormhole.

This episode attempts to draw on the established characters of Q and Vash, which are both so wonderfully antithetic to the goals of Starfleet. There is good continuity with TNG: "QPid", the mediocre Robin Hood-themed episode, at the end of which Q took Vash on something like a tour of the galaxy. But other than Picard's nemesis enticing away Picard's girl-friend there was nothing particularly interesting in their relationship, and not really anything that would have called for a sequel. In the course of the DS9 episode it still doesn't become more palpable what Q possibly finds attractive about Vash, other than her being an unconventional woman by 24th century standards, and why Vash was putting up with the obnoxious Q for so long, other than being able to obtain valuable artifacts from places she could never have visited on her own. Their motives for staying together two years have been quite blunt, and so are their conversations that are lacking profundity, that rely on clichés and that are getting boring soon. The involvement of Bashir with his unusually corny pick-up attempts and Quark with his usual infallible lobes doesn't really make Vash's presence more enticing.
But that was already supposed to be the more interesting part of the episode. The potential of the characters is simply not exploited. Only Sisko's encounter with Q is really entertaining and a bit enlightening too. Right, Jean-Luc would never have permitted Q to drag him into a boxing match in the same fashion as Sisko. But the possibilities that lie in their confrontation are not further explored. Deep Space Nine is quite obviously not a place interesting enough for Q, and other than providing a bit of diversion in the form of legerdemain his role is mostly limited to that of a cue provider.
Questions that bug me: Why doesn't O'Brien suggest earlier that Q may have taken Vash to the Gamma Quadrant? And even if he is not familiar with the details, were there no records from the Enterprise that Sisko could have requested instead of marveling at Vash's unlikely journey? -- Dax reports a "massive build-up of gravitons" inside the Gamma Quadrant crystal that endangers the station. Why does Sisko order to beam it just "500 meters off the docking ring"? Why not 500 kilometers? They could safely observe the artifact with sensors instead of the naked eye.
Remarkable quote: "There's still the Delta Quadrant to explore." (Q, almost prophetic, as he would visit Voyager right there in the second season)
Remarkable dialogues: "You hit me. Picard never hit me." - "I'm not Picard." - "Indeed not. You're much easier to provoke. How fortunate for me." (Q and Sisko), "An abysmal place." - "Tartaras Five?" - "Earth. Oh, don't get me wrong. A thousand years ago it had character. Crusades, Spanish Inquisition, Watergate. But now it's just mind-numbingly dull." (Q and Vash)
Remarkable alien: the one who signals six hundred bars of gold-pressed latinum at the auction with the six fingers of his hand
Remarkable decoration: In Vash's quarters we can see the Bajoran decoration consisting of a rotated image of the DY-100 sleeper ship.
Remarkable guest appearances: This is the last of three appearances of Jennifer Hetrick as Vash. -- Q has its only appearance on DS9.
Rating: 3

Dax Stardate 46910.1: Dr. Bashir attempts in vain to avoid the kidnapping of Jadzia Dax by a group of Klaestrons. Only the station's tractor beam can stop their departing ship. Ilon Tandro claims that Curzon Dax committed for treason and was responsible for the killing of his father, General Ardelon Tandro, 30 years ago in the civil war on Klaestron IV. He demands the extradition of Jadzia Dax, which to decide about is up to a Bajoran arbiter, Els Renora. Sisko, however, argues that already the warrant is incorrect because if anyone, the former host Curzon or the symbiont Dax but not Jadzia committed a crime. Meanwhile on Klaestron IV, Odo finds out that Curzon was in bed with General Tandro's wife at the time he is said to have sent transmissions to the enemy.

I always liked this episode but I think that was mostly because of its similar theme as the great TNG: "The Measure of a Man". And indeed, the discussion whether Jadzia Dax is only another incarnation of the Dax symbiont or a totally new person is just as enlightening as the debate on Data's right of self-determination. The legal ramifications, that Deep Space Nine is a Bajoran station and there would be no extradition without a hearing, are worked out nicely as well. Overall, however, "Dax" winds up as just a decent episode without real highlights. The philosophical aspects and, to lesser degree, the murder mystery are in the focus, rather than the characters. Ironically, the one character most talked about is never even present: Curzon Dax (if we follow Sisko's argumentation that, if anyone, he would have to be accused). Jadzia, on the other hand, remains totally passive all the time and looks really miserable and in many ways out of character. Even in the end, when Enina Tandro has broken the silence, Jadzia remains unusually silent, the whole story isn't wrapped up in any fashion, which I find rather unsatisfactory.
On a side note, Miles and Keiko travel to Earth to celebrate her mother's 100th birthday. Either Mrs. O'Brien is a lot older than she looks, or her mother has become pregnant at about 65 years (which raises the question, would this be desirable?). But I really wonder why not a similar explanation for Keiko's absence was made up in "Babel" where she should otherwise have been present.
On another note, Bashir's newly gained nonchalance in flirting with women is becoming a nuisance. The old Bashir was too shy and awkward to even talk to his female colleagues and he had a crush particularly on Jadzia, the new one has no trouble hitting on three women in two episodes (not counting in the Klaestron woman who hits him ;-)). 
Finally, I wonder why of all places the hearing has to take place in Quark's. As if the five people would need so much room. It could have been in the wardroom or in a makeshift courtroom in the habitat ring just as well.
Remarkable dialogue: "How can you be so sure that the symbiont was the criminal influence? What if it were the Curzon host that was responsible? Then the surviving symbiont would be completely innocent." - "No. They'd both be guilty. You yourself have argued that the two personalities, once joined, function as one. Your own Doctor Bashir confirmed it. When you put salt in water, the two become indistinguishable and inseparable." - "I think you've just made my point for me. When the water boils off, the salt returns to its original state. Pour that same salt into another liquid, and you have something completely different. Jadzia Dax is an entirely new entity." (Sisko and Ilon Tandro)
Remarkable ship: The Klaestron ship is the first re-use of the Tamarian ship from TNG: "Darmok" (which itself started its life as the Talarian observation craft)..
Rating: 5

The Passenger Stardate not given: Major Kira and Dr. Bashir are aboard the Rio Grande when they respond to a distress signal sent by another ship. While Kira puts out fires, Bashir tends to the remaining lifesigns reviving first a female security official and the other, her prisoner. After applying a hypospray, the prisoner assaults Bashir briefly then dies. Kira, Bashir and the female beam back to the runabout with the body of the prisoner, heading back to DS9 with the damaged ship in-tow. The prisoner turns out to be an arch-villain and after several twists and turns almost succeeds at commandeering a starship arriving from the Gamma Quadrant filled with rare deuridium, for his own nefarious purposes.

Move Along Home Stardate not given: A Vulcan ship has made contact with a new species in the Gamma Quadrant and Sisko and his senior officers don their dress uniforms to greet them when the arrive at DS9. Highly interested in games, the newcomers gamble at Quark's where they catch the Ferengi cheating. As a penalty, Sisko and his senior officers are trapped inside a game world controlled by the Wadi, while Quark and Odo watch helplessly, reacting to the game as they go, in an attempt to free their comrades. When Quark thinks that the officers are lost because of his fault, the Wadi leader declares that it was all just a game.

The Nagus Stardate not given: DS9 is invaded by the Ferengi, come to hold a business conference at Quark's to discuss their future in developing the virgin Gamma Quadrant. Grand Nagus Zek feels that he is too old to lead and names Quark to take his place as Nagus, who accepts and shortly learns of the title's pitfalls and benefits. Zek's son Krax allies himself with Quark's brother Rom to assassinate the new Nagus. But Odo and Zek, who feigned his death, thwart the plan. Zek, now knowing that Krax is no worthy successor, decides to exploit the business opportunities in the Gamma Quadrant himself.

Vortex Stardate not given: A Miradorn raider docks at DS9, bringing plunder to sell behind the scenes at Quark's. The transaction is interrupted by an alien from the Gamma Quadrant who tries to steal an item but ends up killing one of the two Miradorn. Odo, after capturing him, finds out that the alien named Croden is wanted on his homeworld for previous crimes, but also discovers the man knows something about Changelings. During transport to Croden's homeworld the Miradorn's twin brother comes after the pair. They land on an asteroid, evade their pursuer and, after discovering that Croden was just going to take care about his daughter in stasis, Odo lets the wanted man go.

Battle Lines Stardate not given: DS9 receives a visit from Kai Opaka, the spiritual leader of Bajor, whom Sisko offered a tour of the station. Sisko also takes her and members  of his senior staff through the wormhole, where they find trouble. The runabout is attacked and it crash-lands on a moon, killing Opaka and leading the survivors into a strange netherworld where the dead seem to rise and live, and die, and live, and die... The asteroid is a penal colony where microbes keep the prisoners alive, causing them to wage an eternal war. Kai Opaka too is revived by the microbes. As she can't survive in the outside world she decides to stay behind and attempt to mediate.

The Storyteller Stardate 46729.1: While the station is hosting a diplomatic conference, Dr. Bashir and Chief O'Brien are sent to Bajor for a medical emergency. The two discover that an energy form of some type periodically attacks the village, and does so while the pair are there. Aiding the dying sirah, a "storyteller", O'Brien helps back away the strange phenomenon the locals call "Dal'Rok". After saving the village the locals proclaim O'Brien as their new sirah, angering Hovath, the old sirah's apprentice. The Dal'Rok is in reality a manifestation of the village's anger and can be defeated only with unanimity. When O'Brien fails during another attack of the Dal'Rok, the young Hovath, who was always meant to be the successor but lacked the necessary determination so far, successfully takes over the task.

Progress Stardate 46844.3: The station is assisting the Bajoran government in an energy transfer, tapping the molten core of Bajor's fifth moon in an attempt to provide energy for the main world. The moon holds some settlers and Kira and Dax are dispatched with a runabout to make sure the evacuation is complete before the transfer can begin. Sensors pick up lifeforms and Kira beams down to find a group of Bajoran farmers who refuse to leave their home. After spending some time with an old man named Mullibok with whom she sympathizes Kira eventually decides that there is no way back and destroys his house.

If Wishes Were Horses Stardate 46853.2: Various manifestations of the crew's imagination come to life and threaten the station, such as Buck Bokai, a 21st century baseball player, Rumplestiltskin, a fairy-tale character, a sensual version of Dax that so far existed only in Bashir's mind and other strange effects. Everything is actually the result of a new race making first contact with the Federation, without their knowledge.

The Forsaken Stardate 46925.1: A group of Federation ambassadors arrive on the station, proceeding with a fact-finding mission concerning the wormhole. A pompous and demanding group, Sisko has the foresight to assign Dr. Bashir to escort them about the station while he tends to business. Among the ambassadors is Lwaxana Troi who develops an interest for Odo. Shortly afterwards a probe comes through the wormhole and the station begins to experience strange technical difficulties. O'Brien manages to contain the alien program which he thinks of as a "pup" in what he calls a "doghouse".

Dramatis Personae Stardate 46922.3: A Klingon ship explodes just after exiting from the wormhole. The vessel's first officer is able to beam aboard the station, but dies after cryptically uttering the phrase "Victory!". In addition, a Valerian ship has put into port and Kira suspects they are dealing with Cardassia as they did during the occupation. She and Sisko butt heads initially, as the Federation has no reason to challenge the Valerian's purpose. Slowly, cracks develop between the various factions and alliances of the station staff, escalating and dividing the station into several opposing camps each scheming to eliminate the other. Odo and Quark manage to remove the cause for the tensions, the Saltah'na energy spheres which were responsible for the destruction of the Klingon vessel as well.

Duet Stardate not given: A freighter docking at the station requests medical help for a passenger it is transporting. The passenger turns out to be a Cardassian with a case of Kalla-Nohra syndrome, a rare disease obtainable only from those who were located at labor camps during the Bajoran occupation. Kira Nerys has the man placed under arrest and delves into his background. The man then admits to be Gul Darhe'el, the notorious commandant of the labor camp at Gallitep. But it turns out that he is actually just a low-ranking executive named Marritza. By posing as one of the biggest war criminals in Bajoran history he wanted to make the case public and help alleviate Cardassia's and his own guilt. When Marritza is released and about to return to his home planet, a Bajoran appears from the crowd and stabs him - apparently just because Marritza is a Cardassian.

In the Hands of the Prophets Stardate not given: Keiko O'Brien is conducting class when Vedek Winn shows up and confronts her about her non-religious teachings. Using this as platform she then foments fervor against the Federation and Commander Sisko in particular. Tensions rise on the station, culminating in an attempted assassination by Neela, a member of Chief O'Brien's staff, who is foiled in the last moment. While Winn's involvement in the scheme remains obvious yet unproven, the events bring the Bajorans and the Federation closer together rather than driving them apart.

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