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The adjustment period aboard Deep
Space Nine continues as transplants from across the galaxy
attempt to come to terms with their new life and each other.
O'Brien's wife Keiko misses the U.S.S Enterprise and her career
as a botanist. Sisko's son, Jake, plagued by loneliness, eases
his boredom by befriending a rowdy Ferengi boy named Nog.
Meanwhile, Odo is faced with a more pressing problem when he
spies Ibudan, a Bajoran he once arrested for murder, gambling in
Quark's. He attempts to rid the station of the criminal, first
by ordering him to leave and later by asking Sisko to throw him
off the station, but neither effort proves successful. However,
Odo soon gets his wish despite this lack of cooperation when
Ibudan is found stabbed to death in a Holosuite.
Sisko orders an investigation
of the killing, only to find his son Jake is also in trouble for
playing pranks around the station with Nog. Strangely, this
awkward situation between father and son creates an opportunity
for Keiko, who volunteers to supervise the children of Deep
Space Nine by starting a school. Later, Odo becomes the prime
suspect in the murder investigation when mounting evidence,
including the fact that the killer was most likely a
shape-shifter, points to him.
Deep Space Nine's residents soon become suspicious of Odo, and
although many officers believe their colleague's claims of
innocence, Sisko relieves him of duty as Chief of Security.
Keiko also faces trouble in her own endeavors when members of
the diverse space station community resist the idea of sending
their children to a Federation school. While she tries to
recruit students, Bashir works to prove Odo's innocence,
experimenting with DNA fragments that were found in the dead
Bajoran's Holosuite.
Discouraged by the public's response to her school, Keiko
considers abandoning her plans but is encouraged to press on by
her husband. Meanwhile, Odo finds himself ostracized by the
public, as angry residents vandalize his office and threaten his
well-being. Bashir continues his investigation of the DNA
patterns found in Ibudan's Holosuite, hoping to solve the
mystery by causing them to replicate into the form of the being
it belongs to.
Responding to the tension aboard ship, Sisko and Kira order more
security to protect Odo. As they confront an angry mob's demand
for justice, Bashir provides a more definite solution to Odo's
problem when he reveals the result of his experiment. The
murdered man was not Ibudan, but a clone he created and killed
in order to frame Odo for his murder. His rank restored, Odo
soon finds the real Ibudan aboard his ship, and since murdering
a clone is still a crime, he is finally able to arrest his man. |
