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"C or D, Rom?" - Rom modifies a cargo bay replicator to produce authentic gold-press latinum. Quark, stinging from a recent humiliation dealt by Cousin Gaila, attempts to replicate a fortune in latinum ten times that of his cousin. It goes sour, of course, when the process runs away and starts to fill the cargo bays normally reserved for humanitarian supplies. Efforts to make space are complicated when Odo locks down the station because of a Dominion threat. Unable to secretly store their vast horde of wealth for much longer, the brothers enlist Morn to shift it for them on his ship. As the process intensifies, Sisko is alerted to their scheme and offers to solve their problem...for a price. Call Ferenginar and the Grand Nagus with the news of this invention which could destroy their economy or donate it all to Bajoran relief efforts. The brothers agree to donate the lot, each secretly holding onto one bar. A grinning Sisko takes an aluminum baseball bat to the cargo bay housing the runaway replicator...

Meanwhile, Chief O'Brien is in search of the perfect birthday present for Molly.

Next episode - "Walk"
 
Walk

A TNG-DS9 crossover episode

As the excavations on the city of Ba'ala are continuing, another mysterious ancient Bajoran inscription is found. Translation is only partially successful. It seems to talk about the 'cousin's apprentice, soon to be cast out of the heavens, to walk once again, rather than to soar' because of his 'tiresome linguistic communications' . The final line, however, resists all attempts at translation. The enterprise-D happens to be in the system. Picard hears about this mystery and decides to try for himself, with the help of Data and the Federation comparative linguistic database.

Their research is interrupted by Beverly who informs them they really should be going to earth, as the Riker-Troi wedding is only 96 hours away, and that a special mystery guest will be present.

It is then that Picard suddenly realizes that the final line of the prophecy reads

Shut up, Wesley!

In the closing scene, Sisko wonders whether the reputation of this ancient city might be a bit overrated, as this is the second moronic prophecy to come from that location.

Next episode:
Kosst Amojan
 
"C or D, Rom?" - Rom is invited to the will reading of a Ferengi he didn't know in life, where he is told that he has inherited a nominal gift - an ornamental trinket. Confused and pleased by the object, he keeps it, though beset by those who would purchase it (other heirs, station visitors, etc), even though according to Quark's expert appraisal, it's a worthless piece of kitsch. When attempts begin to be made on his life, however, he and the crew work together to determine just what would make it worth killing over. Meanwhile, Rom decides to make out his own will, and tries to figure out who of his friends would get what.

Next episode: "A Thousand Elsewhere" (https://www.biblegateway.com/verse/en/Psalm 84:10)

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This episode is set in the late third season.

The Bajoran Provisional Government has decided its time to set up a permanent court on the station, which is handy because Odo has just busted Quark for trying to sell cheap knock-off inertial dampers to some would-be Bajoran colonists passing through the station. A hard nosed Bajoran arbiter gives Quark 1,000 days in a holding cell, and a smiling Odo hauls him away. Meanwhile, Rom has to do his best to run the bar. Nog and Jake are enlisted to help. For a price. In jail, Quark meets a hot headed Bajoran upset about the recent Bajoran-Cardassian peace treaty. Our Bajoran friend was planning to smuggle an implosion device into Ops whilst pretending to deliver a message. Quark, hoping to procure his own release, duly tells Odo who enlists his help to obtain the full details and foil the plot. Quark is pardoned for his role in saving the station. Whilst all this is going on, Rom has driven Quark's Bar in to the ground by extending generous credit arrangements to all customers. As he looks over the data, Quark is surprised to find Major Kira has run up the largest debt, as Kira has enjoyed sitting in the bar and thinking about Quark being in jail. But she can't afford to pay the money back, and has to work as a dab girl for Quark on her days off. At this rate, it should take about 1,000 days for her to pay the debt. Kira is not happy. But Bashir thinks she pulls off the outfit.
 
Kosst Amojan

Everyone on the station is shocked as they randomly burst out into song and dance numbers embarrassingly revealing their innermost feelings about others on the station. What was merely embarrassing turns deadly as the bodies of individuals begin to turn up burned to a crisp. It is found that people are made to dance so hard that they then spontaneously combust. Eventually it is found that a Pah-wraith named Sweet has been summoned to the station, and he will not leave until he takes the summoner back to the fire caves as his spouse.

(Yes, I stole it from Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Sue me.)

Next episode: Death at Warp Six
 
"Death at Warp Six" - After being challenged to by Jadzia, Kira and Odo take part in a murder mystery holoprogram. Quark's has a popular new cocktail (as per the title) which everyone is ordering. When a visitor drops dead after downing the drink, and others fall ill, Odo investigates whether the drink is to blame, or something far more insidious.

Next episode: "Lost Marbles"
 
Lost Marbles

A Cyrano Jones-like alien merchant comes aboard DS9 selling a wide variety of trinkets and amusements including a set of 12 small round stones each of a different color. 12 inhabitants of DS9 purchase a stone including Kira. Over time each of the inhabitants start to develop disturbing symptoms including headaches, sensory issues, visions and hallucinations. Kira starts to have vivid dreams about an alien woman in white who tries to communicate with her in an alien language she doesn't understand. Kira starts to become obsessed with the stones, and begs, borrows, and steals to acquire the complete set of 12. She then takes a runabout (against orders?) to an alien planet and lands at the site of impossibly old ruins. Exploring the ruins, she sees a place with slots where each of the stones is meant to fit. Kira puts them in place, and the vision of the woman from her dream appears. Now, the woman is able to talk to Kira and explains how these are the ruins of her race that inhabited the system uncounted eons ago but have now died off. The woman explains that these stones provide a means of communicating with others of her race who live on the other side of the galaxy, an interesting future project for the Federation. It's possible that the woman belongs to the ancient race of the Preservers.

Meanwhile, Sisko pesters Jake to play marbles with him, which Jake is reluctant to do, but after playing with his father, Jake decides he likes the game enough to introduce it to Nog, and then to a couple of girls who see them play. Jake and Nog get dates with the girls.

Next episode: Dragon's Heart
 
"Dragon's Heart" - A Bajoran post-occupation rehabilitation colony comes under threat when their secondary star shows sudden signs of instability and imminent supernova. Evacuating the colony becomes impossible when the Radiant, with Bashir, Kira, and several patients on it, becomes trapped in a decaying orbit around the star due to a sudden plasmic riptide. The Defiant must fly into the heart of the dragon to save their people and stop the explosion. Meanwhile, Jake is assigned to tutor a younger girl who doesn't care about her studies.

Next episode: "Salad Days" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salad_days
 
"Salad Days" - When the O’Briens and Odo are set to depart on the visiting USS Lakota, a transporter accident turns Odo into a solid child, Miles into a teenager, while Molly O’Brien is an adult with shapeshifting abilities. Odo must use his detective skills to find Molly after she chooses to run away and use her newfound abilities to hide, while Keiko has to keep watch over a rebellious and unruly Miles.

Meanwhile, an exotic salad Quark introduces to his customers regresses the minds to their younger days. Sisko, Kira, Bashir, and Jadzia are among those impacted after trying the salad.

Next episode: "Parachutes and Stepladders" (a play on Chute and Ladders)
 
"Parachutes and Stepladders" - DS9 prepares to host an engineering fair celebrating advances in new technologies. Nog and Rom help O'Brien set up the exhibit area and wind up meeting two girls who are demonstrating the latest in hologame technology. Kira becomes suspicious of a Cardassian exhibitor whose technology bears the hallmarks of a Bajoran inventor she once knew in the resistance but who disappeared in a firefight, and asks Odo to help her investigate whether he may still be alive, or whether the tech was copied/stolen from him.

Next episode: "Momentum"
 
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Odo suffers from another Changeling illness where if he remains still at any time he loses his ability to keep in a solid shape. It turns out he actually has a contaminant in him that he's trying to flush out. Julian has to concoct a liquid material that's similar to Odo, to use in a transfusion type procedure. When it's injected however, Odo balloons to incredible proportions, threatening to fill the station with his liquid form.

Next Episode: The Profit Prophet
 
The Profit Prophet - Odo investigates the leader of a Bajoran charity he donated funds to. The leader promises donors that they will experience blessings when they donate and be cursed when they withhold their money. Quark at first admires the tactic, but a suspicious Rom refuses to give and tells others not to as well; shortly thereafter, he is almost vaporized by an exploding energy cell. Now it's war - it becomes clear that this leader has cronies who are making his predictions come true. Meanwhile, Sisko dreads supper with an elementary school friend when his ship lays over at DS9 for repairs, as their friendship ended badly.

Next episode: "Scholars"
 
Scholars

Jadzia leads a team of eccentric historians into the Gamma Quadrant. Their goal is to ascertain how old the Dominion really is and to sketch Dominion history in broad outlines, given that the Dominion itself has made conflicting statements about that. Most of them never have been on a field mission like this. In the runabout, they quibble constantly about their viewpoints, the field methods they think are most appropriate, and so on. Tension ratches up a few notches when the Dominion gets wind of their field expedition and isn't exactly enthusiastic about a mission of historians trying to separate fact from myths....

Next episode:

Boundaries
 
"Boundaries" - Bashir finds it difficult to provide medical care to the visiting members of a socially high-ranking family whose society believes in strict separation of social classes - the problem is that there are no suitably educated physicians in their class, and he must work with someone who knows nothing of medicine to "launder" his care. Meanwhile, Worf plays unlikely marriage counselor to a feuding couple whose frequent fights are becoming the subject of amusement on the station, with people picking sides, when it disrupts station functionality. (not the O'Briens)

Next episode: "Special Forces"
 
Special Forces 1: Height of the Dominion War and the Federation is taking losses, morale is dropping, and a huge win is needed.

Admiral Ross is looking for a win - and it needs to be a huge one!

Starfleet intelligence's finest must go behind the lines - rumour is there is an asteroid which is a major producer of Ketracel White but without specs, reports on their defensive posture, and an exact location nothing can be done.

Having had some minor luck decoding the records on the captured Dominion fighter there know the rough grid but that is just not enough.

We follow a team from Starfleet Intelligence as they take on the mission that might just give the Federation a fighting chance - but also knowing they might not make it back...

This leads directly into A Time to Stand

(yes this is very much a Trek take on Rogue One)

Special Forces 2: Life is normal on DS9 - Odo partrols the promenade and stops briefly outside Quarks as someone shouts Dabo...all is well and nothing to see here...

Up in Ops, Julian is trying his luck with Jadzia (set around season 2) and striking out as per usual. She is half listening to him, half checking the sensors and then an alarm goes off!

An unidentified force is straining the stations structural integrity - thankfully O'Brien is on it as always and keeps them together...question is for how long.

As part of his attempts to understand more about his role as Emmisary, and simply to better understand Bajoran culture and history in a bid to reinforce relations following the Circle's attack on DS9 he has been studying historical religious records - in particular the writings of Kai Intero, a legendary Kai from 600 years ago who in a Moses style way is known for saving the Bajorans from plagues, floods, and more.

Reports start coming in from Bajor of tectonic disturbances, animals/insects turning feral, and tsunamis - Sisko thinks this all sounds a little familiar and realises when cross referencing against the Vulcan's records from that era and before that a gravitational eddy passes through the region every 600 years (ish) and now it is back

While the crew search of a scientific solution Sikso returns to the books - right now anything that might help will do

Reference is made to the Orb of the Cosmos - but it hasn't been seen since the start of the occupation.

The scripture says how Kai Intero used to Orb to "speak" to a Special Force beyond corporal beings but not of the Prophets level (angels relative to God) - after meeting these beings and explaining what was ongoing these beings (who exist on a subspace level) realised that their proximity to their side of the anomaly is creating a rupture and moved away ending the issues

Previously reports were of more minor impacts - Sisko realises that in the past these aliens had not been advanced enough to get near the eddy, hence why it was worse last time.

Dukat rocks up conveniently carrying the Orb - seems the Cardassians keep forgetting what they stole...- hoping this will be a step towards Bajor recognising as a hero.

Sisko opens the Orb and again meets members of this species - for years they had kept an exclusion zone but the new generation, inquisitive about the fabled others, thought they could find a technical solution and break through but it is only making it worse

O'Brien and Jadzia though have noticed a pattern to the eddy's quantum signature that if they use the station deflector to transmit the inverse will neutralise the waves hitting Bajor and allow these explorers from another dimension to cross the barrier.

Realising the importance of both Federation science led training coupled with a philosophical understanding of Bajoran scripture (and how it is really their way of understanding science from that era) Sisko begins his journey to full acceptance of his dual life

Next title: A Day without the Badge
 
Not going to write a summary for 'A Day without the Badge' but it does make me think of the possibility of Sisko retiring from Starfleet for a single day, doing all the stuff in In the Pale Moonlight and then rejoining Starfleet. Things like that have happened in the real world, I believe.
 
I tried several times to write an idea for A Day without the Badge, but couldn’t think of a better one after hearing
At Quark’s idea.
Instead, I came up with this:

Quantum Quandry

After breaking the continuum rules again, Q is stripped of his powers (but remains immortal) and is sent to DS9, but is amazed that no one remembers him, or the Continuum.

Garek takes Julian to the replimat to eat lunch and people watch. Garek tests Julian’s observation skills, and tests the conclusions he can draw from them.

Next episode “Self Evident"

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“Self Evident” - While returning from a medical conference, Bashir and Kira, who had accompanied him there to visit an old friend, are summoned to Iquaru, a former Federation colony, now a ghost town. They find it staffed by several transporter doubles of the evacuated crew, re-materialized after years of abandonment, and run by an underling they left for dead, who has enslaved them into doing his bidding. After years of toil, the doubles are disintegrating - some want to be allowed to die peacefully, some want to be reunited with their loved ones, not knowing the originals still live, and others want to depose their ruler, who takes a kind of pleasure in running people ragged who always overlooked or mistreated him. He has a special affection for one woman, however, not knowing that she both loves and wants to overthrow him. Meanwhile, Rom decides to change his image, including *gasp* hair, much to Quark's dismay.

Next episode: "Cabbages and Kings" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Walrus_and_the_Carpenter)
 
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