Stardate not given: Lwaxana Troi surprises Odo with the announcement that she is pregnant. The father, her husband Jeyal, is a Tavnian who demands that the boy be raised by him alone until he is 16, according to his people's tradition. In order to help her keep the baby, Odo agrees to marry Lwaxana in a Tavnian ceremony that would automatically invalidate her current marriage. Odo even manages to convince Jeyal of his sincere feelings for Lwaxana as the Tavnian laws demand. In the meantime Jake Sisko has spent a lot of time with a mysterious woman named Onaya who has apparently inspired him to write better than ever. But Onaya is literally sucking out Jake's life in the process. It turns out that she is actually an energy being who lives from neural energy that she drains while stimulating the victim's neural cortex.

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