Stardate not given: Dr. Mora
Pol, the Bajoran scientist who studied Odo and first discovered that Odo is a
living creature, arrives on DS9 to enlist the shapeshifter's help in
another research endeavor - this time a journey into
the Gamma Quadrant to investigate a world that may
once have harbored beings similar in nature to Odo.
Finding only the ruins of some past civilization at
first, the away team also find some local flora that
appear to bear some resemblance to Odo. A geological
upheaval on the planet sends the members of the away
team scrambling for cover from suffocating natural
gases. After returning to their runabout and going
back to the station, most of them wind up recovering
in the infirmary recovering from gas inhalation. Only
Odo appears to be unaffected, which is fortunate
since something the away team has brought back from
the Gamma Quadrant would appear to be lose aboard DS9
- something with abilities remarkably similar to
Odo's...
