Stardate not given: One of the
first priorities of the alliance between the
Cardassian and Romulan secret police is to extract
whatever information on the Founders that Odo may possess. At the wormhole, they
briefly appear to the crew of DS9 as
they decloak; Starfleet orders Sisko to keep the Defiant at the ready in the event of Dominion
retaliation against the Alpha Quadrant. Starfleet is
also sending more ships to the station as well.
Sisko, however, deducing that Odo and Garak are
aboard one of the ships, decides to leave DS9 ahead
of schedule and retrieve Odo. What he does not know
is that the Dominion has planned for the
Cardassian-Romulan assault for a long time, and that
he's about to take the Defiant into the biggest space
battle the galaxy has seen since Wolf 359.
