looks like he used some kind of encryption program to bypass the access protocols. unbelievable. the nerve. major? you wanted to see me. now don't pretend you don't know what this is about. well, maybe this'll jog your memory. engage monitor. ? come to quark's, quark's is fun ? ? come right now, don't walk, run! ? ((laughing ) oh, i love the part where my name rotates around. tampering with the station's com-system is a class-three offense. it's just a little advertisement. i didn't post one in ops. i'm sure the magistrate will take thatatinto consideratn

as you can see, we're very busy here-- station business. how did you do it? do what? i ordered a glass of prune juice from the replicator in the defiant's mess. this is what it came in. ( mug singing ): ? come to quark's ? ? quark's is fun... ? if all your little advertisements aren't purged fromomur systems by the time i get back from the gamma quadrant i will come totouark's and believe me... i will have fun. uh, let me h hp you with that, chief. according to chief o'brien the scan resolution on the new sensors is amazing. we could practically do the entire bio-survey from orbit. suits me-- the sooner we get

how can you say y at? those little points of light out there-- the great unknown, beckoning to us. i wish i could visit every one. you might want to skip the ones with jem'hadar bases on them. is it my imagination or are the stars a little brighter in the gamma quadrant? is it my imagination or has julian lost his mind? setting course for the gavara system. i'm picking up some kind of emergency signal. it's fragmented. they say their homeworld's been attacked... massive destruction, heavy casualties. they're asking any passing vessel for assistance. looks like the signal's cocong from somewhere in the teplan system. that's just outside dominion space. well, let's hope the jem'hadar know t tt.

what happeped here? h-help me. don't let me die here. take me totorevean. trevean? in hospital... i'll try to find out where it is. i'm going to give you something for the pain. you're not from this world. no. the blight's quickened in her. there's nothing you can do. ( shivering ) you should leave here, now. this place go back to where you came from

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the painkiller isn't having much effect. their physiology is so different from oursr. i doubt the blight will be any danger to us. i got us transportation to the hospital. how did you manage that? these aren't exactly the friendliest people i've ever met. dax: you'd be amazed what they'll do for a latinum hair clip. ( soft music playing ) this is a hospital? she's quickened.

take her to trevean. you're from another world. yes. well, don't worry. we'll take care of her now. i haven't seen a single person that doesn't have lesions on their face. his look inflamed. so do that woman's over there. like the woman we brought in. trevean. thank you... for this. you deserve nothing less. day, when i woke up i... saw that it had finally happened. i'd quickened. i always thougug i'd be afraid but i wasn't... because i knew i could come here.

time in my life. i fell asleep listening to music. this morning, i bathed in hot water dressed in clean clothes. and now, i'm here with my friends and family. thank you, trevean... for making this day everything i dreaead it could be. you brought norva here? how is she? it's too late. if she'd come sooner, i could've helped. then there is a treatment for the blight. there is no cure-- it's always fatatal. i'm sorry. i don't understand. you said you could've helped her.

a distress call. we're here to help in any way we can. i'm a doctor and i have access to sophisticated diagnostic equipment. we had sophisticated equipment once. you think our wowod was always this way? two centuries ago we were no different from you. we built vast cities traveled to neighboring worlds. we believed nothing was beyond our abilities. we even thought we could resist the dominion. i see you've heard of them. to defy them or your people will pay the same price we did. the jem'hadar destroyed our world s. bring me milani's child. more than anything, the dominion wanted my people to bear the mark of their defiance. so...

we're all born with it... we all die from it. when the blight quickens the lesions turn red. death soon follows-- some in childhood most before they can have children of their own. only a few live to be my age. trevean, if you tell us what you know about the blight we m m be able to help. no. you should go. we're willing to take that risk. ( dishes clattering ) make some room. i'm a doctor. can't you see he's dying? of course, he's dying-- he came here to die. people come to me when they quicken. i help them leave this world peacefully-- surrounded by their families and friends. what are you saying?

you poison them. the blight kills slowly. no one wants to suffer needlessly-- not like that woman you brought me. you killed her? i did what she asked. i thought this was a hospital and that you were a healer. i am. i take away pain. now you'u' disrupted tamar's death.

i found the distress beacon in an abandoned building not far from here. it has its own power source. my guess is it's been repeating the same message for over 200 years. well, there's nothing for us to do here. we should go. are you really a doctor? i've never met a doctor before. they say there's a woman in nykalia who makes a medicine that helps people withstand the pain of quickening so... so they can live longer. i'd go there but nykalia is so far away. when are you due? not for ananher two mont. that's not very long. we never know when the quickening will come. i'm julian. what's your name?

i'm jadzia. did you come here to help us? well, nobody around here seems to want our help. i do. and i know others who would welcome it too. kira to away team. go ahead.

the jem'hadar are leaving the kendi system. it looks like they're heading g r the obatta cluster. sounds like they're on a patrol route meaning this systemmis . we'd better go. stand by to get underway. hold on, major. we can't just leave these people. they need our help. and they'll get it. when we get backck we'll notify starfleet.

maybe even months. we're here, now. remember the plague on boranis three? people were dying by the thousands. nobody there knew why. it took us one hour to identify the pathogen and three days to dose the water table and inoculate the population. we might be able to do the same thing here. all right, it's worth a try. we can't risk the jem'hadar detecting the runabout. i'll take it to the jenkata nebula. come back in a week. with any luck, we'll have a cure by then.

um... i'm sorry i can't offer you more space. oh, don't be. this is fine. um, can i use this table to set up my equipment? whatever you need. did you do this? my husband did. he died last winter. it's what he imagined our world used to be like. he painted a mural similar to that on a building near here-- traded a good pair of boots for the paint he needed.

ive them something to work toward. well, maybe later, you can take us to see it. all right. well, it looks like we have ourselves a clinic. the first thing i have to do is run a complete bio-spectral analysis on an asymptomatic individual. loosely translated that means he needs a volunteer. just have a seat the doctor will be with you in a moment. they love to keep you waiting. to see a pictu it, uh, makes them feel important. re

there it is. let me see. wha-- what's happened? we've isolated the virus. is that a good thing? it means we can start analyzing its molecular structure-- look for binding sites to tailor an antigen. dax: yes. it's a very good thing. protein sequence i'm going to start mapping nucleotides.

i think so. i... i hope you two are hungry. starving. good. that looks like a feast. it was supposed to be. what do you mean? nothing. do you like takana root tea? ekoria where did you get all this food? i've been saving it for the hospital... for my death. but something tells me i'm not going to need it anymore. well, thanks anyway. she's not interested either. i hope dax is having better luck. i don't understand why you need people who've quickened to make your curure.

i'm sorry. oh, you're still here. yes. well, i see the blight has spared you. maybe it doesn't like the taste of your blood. unfortunately, it seems to like yours. i'd invite you to my death but we don't know each other that well. what if i told you there was a chance you didn't have to die? i'm a doctor. ( laughing ) now don't tell me-- you have a cure. i'm working on one. yeah, what'll it cost me? a good coat? it won't cost you anything. he can help us. listen to him. i need volunteers, people who have quickened. what will you dodo? see how loud we scream when the blight burns through us? ( laughter ) i have medicines that can dull the pain. i have equipment unlike anything on your world. how would you like me to fix that arm

i'm not going to hurt you. wewe, you have a fracture right here. i bet it hurts. better? how did you do that? ekoria: look, does it matter? he can find a cure for us if we help him. trevean: don't be deceived. fixing a broken bone and curing the blight are two different things. i know that.

they stirred up hope, took food and clothing in exchange for their elixirs but their promises were alwlws lies. and all those who believed them came to me in the end, begging for release. i just want to do what i can to help. i'm not making any promises. take care that you don't. we've dealt with people who give false hope before. believe me-- deaths make the blight

( sighs ) what's wrong? i'd gotten more tissue samples oh, i've been trying to chart the lifecycle of the virus. . maybe you should go home. maybe my people don't deserve your help. oh, they've just been suffering so long it's more than that. we've come to worship death. i used to wake up ananlook at myself in the mirror and be disappointed i hadn't quickened in my sleep. going to trevean seemed so much easier than going on living. yet, you don't feel that way anymore.

my little boy. can your machines tell me what he's going g look like when he grows up? oh, no. not really. maybe he'll l ok like his father. i want to be here for him... to hold his hand when he takes his first step kiss his knee when he scrapes it in a fall. well, with any luck, you'll see him have children of his own. dax: julian? there's some people here whwhd like to see you. i suppose you're going to bleed me. oh, um...

i cancelededy death for you. i was really looking forward to it. all right. everybody gets threremilligrams g you. perfect. there. this'll dull the pain. i like your spots.

i still like them. ( whispering ): julian. epran has stopped responding to the cordrazine. i had to put him in an inhibitor field. he's further along than everyone else. i'm hoping he'll be the first to respond to the antigen. think of it. she may well be holding the cure in her hands. giving them? she's nervous enough about using the hypo. it's better if we wait till we're positive. i suppose. you should take a break.

doctor? oh... dax wanted me to tell you that epran's white blood count is up another 12%. that's great news. it is? trust me. he start i do. . i don't... really know why. well, i'd like to think it's my bedside manner. um... doctors and nurses are supposed to project an air of caring g mpetence. you were doing it in there. me? i was watching you. you're very good with patients. oh, i was just trying to be kind. some people don't like to be around the sick. it reminds them of their own m mtality. it doesn't bother you? sometimes. i prefer to confront mortality rather than hide from it.