Stardate not given: Months after the abandonment of Deep Space 9 the Federation fleet suffers defeat after defeat in the war against the Dominion. Admiral Ross sends Captain Sisko and his crew on an undercover mission to eliminate the Dominion's biggest Ketracel white supply depot - using the Jem'Hadar fighter that Sisko had recovered the year before. After an unscheduled and almost fatal encounter with an unaware Starfleet vessel, the USS Centaur, Sisko's ship proceeds to the Ketracel white depot. The crew manages to beam down a bomb, but their ship is trapped when the facility raises its shields. In the attempt to outrun the wave of the explosion, the ship is severely damaged.

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