Stardate not given: Arjin, a young Trill qualifying for receiving a symbiont is uneasy because it will be tough to fulfill the expectations of the famed Dax symbiont in the form of Jadzia Dax, who is going to train and assess him. But he is relieved to see how light-hearted the young woman is. The two discover a piece of protoplasm in a subspace pocket on the other side of the wormhole. They examine the matter in the station's science lab. Jadzia Dax ponders whether to go easy on Arjin or to be as blunt as Curzon Dax once was to her. She decides to do the latter, leaving Arjin angry and disappointed. Unfortunately Cardassian voles, rodents living on the station, damage the containment field. Now the protoplasm, which turns out to be a protouniverse containing life, is expanding. The only solution is to take it back to its origin which Dax and Arjin accomplish thanks to the young Trill's excellent piloting inside the wormhole - which gains him Dax's respect.

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