 With Deep Space
Nine in disrepair, O'Brien is unable to replicate the Cardassian
materials he needs to fix it. He assembles a team of engineers
and leads a salvage mission to Empok Nor, an abandoned
Cardassian space station, bringing along Garak to foil any
security measures. They soon enter the eerie, deserted station
and begin to work. Garak is disturbed to find two stasis tubes
have recently been activated, each large enough to contain a
Cardassian adult. Meanwhile, Nog, sent back to the runabout, is
shocked to see the ship drift away and explode.
The two Cardassian occupants of
the stasis tubes are apparently on the loose. O'Brien and the
group must modify some of Empok Nor's systems to send out a
distress signal — forcing the team to split up and make
themselves more vulnerable. The Cardassians soon locate two of
O'Brien's crewmembers and kill them.
Garak decides to track down the Cardassians. Killing one of
them, he returns to the group and reports that the dead
Cardassian was under the influence of a drug designed to make
him aggressive. O'Brien speculates that the drug made the two
uncontrollable, forcing their former comrades to leave them
behind in the stasis tubes. The wary group returns to work in
teams, but two of them are soon attacked. Garak eliminates the
remaining Cardassian just after one of the two crewmembers is
killed. Then Garak turns to the surviving man, Amaro, and stabs
him viciously.
With his dying breath, Amaro tells O'Brien that Garak stabbed
him. Grimly, O'Brien realizes that Garak has also been exposed
to the drug. Left alone with Nog, they must find and stop Garak,
even if it means killing him. But Garak soon captures Nog and
challenges O'Brien to save him.
O'Brien is forced to take on Garak, man-to-man. Both initially
bring weapons, but discard them and begin the battle, with the
bound Nog watching helplessly. O'Brien is soon overpowered, and
it looks as if he will lose the fight and his life. But a simple
tap to his com-badge makes him the winner — the signal triggers
a phaser he has rigged to explode, knocking Garak unconscious.
He survives the explosion, however, much to O'Brien's relief.
The drug is removed from Garak's system and Deep Space Nine is
repaired.
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