While on convoy duty the crew of the Defiant pick up a distress call from a Star Fleet officer called Lisa Cusak, who's ship has been destroyed leaving her stranded on a barely habitable planet. Even though she is six days away the Defiant is the closest ship so Sisko orders a change of course and they set off to rescue her. As they race towards her Sisko, O'Brien and Dr. Bashir take turns to talk to her. This might not be enough however as she is running low on oxygen. When they finally arrive on the planet and find Lisa there is quite a surprise which I won't spoil here.
Back on DS9 Quark is trying to get Odo off his back by encouraging him to spend more time thinking about Kira and less worrying what Quark is up to. Jake observes this and asks if he can use Quark as the basis for a character in a novel he is writing; Quark agrees, on condition nothing Jake sees is reported to his father. Quark uses Odo's relationship to arrange for an illegal trade deal on the night of the anniversary of Odo and Kira's first date the problem is Odo decides it would be far more romantic to celebrate a month after his first kiss meaning he will be on duty the night of the dead and Quark can't contact his associate to change the date of the deal.
This was an enjoyable series, I liked the fact that we didn't see Lisa; just heard her calls for help and her conversations with the crew; these conversations helped the crew as much as they appeared to help her. The ending was as brilliant as it was surprising. The secondary story was at least as good as the main plot, it was great to see Odo change his plans to let Quark get away with it just once; especially as Quark had no idea that Odo knew what he was up to.
Back on DS9 Quark is trying to get Odo off his back by encouraging him to spend more time thinking about Kira and less worrying what Quark is up to. Jake observes this and asks if he can use Quark as the basis for a character in a novel he is writing; Quark agrees, on condition nothing Jake sees is reported to his father. Quark uses Odo's relationship to arrange for an illegal trade deal on the night of the anniversary of Odo and Kira's first date the problem is Odo decides it would be far more romantic to celebrate a month after his first kiss meaning he will be on duty the night of the dead and Quark can't contact his associate to change the date of the deal.
This was an enjoyable series, I liked the fact that we didn't see Lisa; just heard her calls for help and her conversations with the crew; these conversations helped the crew as much as they appeared to help her. The ending was as brilliant as it was surprising. The secondary story was at least as good as the main plot, it was great to see Odo change his plans to let Quark get away with it just once; especially as Quark had no idea that Odo knew what he was up to.