Stardate 50929.4: Jake decides to cheer up his dad who is depressed in the face of the bad news about the ever worse warmongering of the Dominion. In an auction at Quark's he and Nog bid on an ancient baseball card, but a man named Dr. Giger outbids them. When they approach Giger, he tells Jake and Nog that he would trade the card for a variety of supplies that he needs for his cellular regeneration chamber. After collecting the requested items, Jake and Nog are surprised that Giger's quarters are empty and that he allegedly never dwelt there. In a paranoid move Jake suspects that Kai Winn, who is on the station negotiating a non-aggression pact with the Dominion, has something to do with Giger's disappearance and confronts the Bajoran religious leader. Sisko is infuriated, but still with the intention to get that baseball card as a surprise, Jake doesn't tell the truth. On the way to their quarters Jake and Nog are suddenly beamed to Vorta Weyoun's ship where Giger is held captive too. When Weyoun doesn't buy the story about the baseball card, Jake conceives a conspiracy theory so absurd that Weyoun allows them to leave with the baseball card.

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