Stardate 49962.4: Odo is brought to the infirmary because he can't maintain his solid form any longer. When Dr. Bashir is unable to help him, Odo requests to be taken back to his people, the Founders. On the way to their homeworld, the Defiant encounters a Jem'Hadar vessel with a Founder on board who is already waiting for Odo. The Founders have obviously caused the disease to force Odo to return and to be put on trial for killing one of his kind. While the Defiant is in orbit, Garak attempts to fire at the Founders' Great Link on their homeworld, but Worf stops him. Odo is converted by his people to a "Solid", more precisely to a human being, as a punishment. Upon their return to Deep Space 9, Odo makes an alarming discovery about something the Great Link was attempting to hide from him: Gowron, who is just on a display declaring war against the Federation, is not a Klingon but a Founder!

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