Stardate not given: Quark obtains the salvaged wreckage of a ship
from the Gamma Quadrant and discovers an alien infant
in some kind of container. The child is handed over
to Bashir,
who finds that its metabolic rate is incredibly
accelerated. Within hours, the child seems to be at
least eight years old and can already talk to and
understand others. Later, as the boy evolves even
more rapidly, it is discovered that he is an infant
Jem'Hadar - and a chance encounter with Odo reveals that the boy is genetically
programmed to respect changelings. Odo hopes that he
can demonstrate to the boy that, just as Odo is not
the same as the Founders of the Dominion, the child
does not have to follow in the violent footsteps of
his fellow warriors.
