Stardate not given: Ben Sisko plans a cozy excursion to a planet in the Gamma Quadrant with his son Jake. But Jake asks Nog to come with them for a common science project and finally even Quark joins the vacationers. While the unfortunate commander keeps arguing with Quark, the two boys go explore the woods. Eris, a timid humanoid woman appears and tells Sisko and Quark that she is being chased by ruthless soldiers of the Dominion called the Jem'Hadar. The Jem'Hadar appear out of the blue and take the three people prisoners. While confined in a forcefield, Sisko attempts to remove a collar from Eris's neck that blocks her telekinetic abilities, which would otherwise allow her to disable the forcefield. In the meantime Jake and Nog have beamed up to the runabout, but they don't manage to disengage the autopilot. Third Talak'talan, the leader of the Jem'Hadar group, materializes on Deep Space 9 to announce that the Dominion will no longer tolerate ships traversing the wormhole and that Sisko is a prisoner of the Dominion. The USS Odyssey under Captain Keogh arrives and, escorted by the two other runabouts, enters the Wormhole to rescue the commander. O'Brien beams to the third runabout with Jake and Nog, and he beams up Sisko, Quark and Eris, who have finally managed to release the lock of Eris's collar. Jem'Hadar ships appear and attack the Starfleet vessels. One of them rams and destroys the Odyssey in a suicide run, while the three runabouts escape through the wormhole. Back on the station Quark discovers that the collar is a fake. Eris's telekinetic abilities were never blocked. She is a member of the Dominion herself and disappears before she can be arrested.

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