Stardate 47182.1: DS9 is evacuated to avoid endangering any
personnel due to the passage of a plasma storm. A
handful of renegades infiltrates the nearly-abandoned
station with the aid of Quark, who doesn't know what they're really
after. The leader of the intruders is Verad, a
candidate for Trill host who was rejected by the
symbiosis evalutation board as unfit for the joining,
and he intends to steal the symbiont Dax. As the crew is held hostage, Bashir is coerced into performing the
operation to implant Dax into Verad. As Bashir
struggles to keep Jadzia alive long enough to reunite
her with Dax, Sisko
tries to keep the newly integrated Verad Dax talking
in hope of appealing to his mentor's better nature.
