Stardate 48498.4: Kai Winn's and Vedek Bareil's vessel is nearly destroyed on their way to secret peace talks with the Cardassians. While Winn escapes with small injuries, Dr. Bashir can only revive Bareil after extensive stimulation of his damaged brain. He suggests that the Vedek be put into stasis in order to receive a treatment at a later date. But Kai Winn is afraid that the crucial negotiations may fail without him, and Bareil himself insists on staying awake to advise the Kai. The doctor administers a drug that maintains Bareil's brain activity, but towards the end of the negotiations his left brain half fails and can only be kept alive using positronic neural implants. Bareil is not the same any more and he has seemingly lost his feelings for Kira, but he brings the talks to a successful end when the peace treaty is signed. Dr. Bashir, however, has to tell the distressed Kira that he would not attempt to keep Bareil alive using even more implants, and so the vedek eventually dies.

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