During a field trip in the Gamma Quadrant with Jake and Nog, Sisko and Quark are taken prisoner by soldiers of the Dominion. Plot Summary: When Sisko offers to take Jake to the Gamma Quadrant to do a planetary survey for school, Jake asks to bring Nog along so that Nog doesn’t drop out, and [...] More...
l believe they showed the Alpha quad. how dangerous their soldiers were to intimidate them - you have this dangerous being that can be so effectively controlled at the helm of a ship whose weapons slice through your shields and will willingly just crash into your ships... and that's just a taste. lt may not have been necessary - but they probably felt that showing the AQ wouldn't = a lost edge...