History Recap / StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS01E09ThePassenger

After a quick back and forth bantering with Sisko, Jadzia sends a disabling pulse through the tractor beam. Julian beams back aboard, but his act doesn't fool anyone. Sisko quickly stuns him, and wheels him off to sickbay, where the last of Rao's cells are removed and contained. Bashir then is woken up by Dax, no worse for wear. He does admit feeling humiliated but Kajeda, Sisko, and Dax reassure him what happened was not his fault.

* FairCop: Ty Kajada

* NeverTheObviousSuspect: When the protagonists start to realise Vantika has transferred his consciousness, Kajada becomes their main suspect, because she would have been the most obvious target for the transfer, and because of a couple of suspicious things she does. But it turns out Dr. Bashir is actually the one Vantika resides in. FridgeBrilliance: it's Bashir who first mentions her as a suspect.

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After a quick back and forth bantering with Sisko, Jadzia sends a disabling pulse through the tractor beam. Julian beams back aboard, but his act doesn't fool anyone. Sisko quickly stuns him, and wheels him off to sickbay, where the last of Rao's cells are removed and contained.

* CallBack:
** Bashir mentions that Vantika's body is definitely not a clone while investigating whether he's faked his death, referencing a couple episodes ago in "A Man Alone" where a criminal faked their death using a cloned corpse.
** There's also an indirect reference to ''Film/StarTrekIIITheSearchForSpock'' when Bashir notes that Vantika may have used synaptic pattern displacement to transfer his consciousness into another person's mind, but he never heard of that being done in situations where neither of the parties are Vulcan.

* CallBack: Bashir mentions that Vantika's body is definitely not a clone while investigating whether he's faked his death, referencing a couple episodes ago in "A Man Alone" where a criminal faked their death using a cloned corpse.

* ContinuityNod: When talking about ways Rao could have escaped, Bashir mentions and dismisses "Cognitive Brainwave Transfer", because [[Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan no non-Vulcan]] [[Film/StarTrekIIITheSearchForSpock has ever managed it]].

* NeverTheObviousSuspect: When the protagonists start to realise Vantika has transferred his consciousness, Kajada becomes their main suspect, because she would have been the most obvious target for the transfer, and because of a couple of suspicious things she does. But it turns out Dr. Bashir is actually the one Vantika resides in.

'''Sisko:''' [[DeadpanSnarker A question I have]] ''[[DeadpandSnarker always]]'' [[DeadpanSnarker wondered about]].

'''Sisko:''' A question I have ''always'' wondered about.

* CrazyPrepared: According to Kajata, Vantika has faked his death innumerable times in the past, which is why she is so skeptical that he really died on her ship. Considering that he invented a portable brain uploader that he could hide ''under his fingernail'' as an emergency escape route, it's not hard to believe.

* BodySurf: Vsntik's ability.

Turns out it's a prisoner transport ship. And said prisoner, a man named Rao Vantika, perished after setting a fire to attempt an escape.

Turns out her paranoia is well placed. Rao has perfected a [[WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyondReturnOfTheJoker Joker-esque]] method of cheating death. As revealed when he contacts Quark in a new body. Quark himself is masterminding a theft of valuable deuridium, with a group of mercenaries he has ordered Quark to hire. Ty eavesdrops on Quark and his crew, but gets pushed off a high balcony, winding up in sickbay.

The time of the theft comes, and Rao's new vessel is revealed to be Julian. Transferred to him at the episodes start when he grabbed him by the throat.

After he and his men kill the crew shipping the deuridium, they prepare to make off with it. But new security member Lt. Primmin has stopped their attempt to knock power out and allow them to escape.

Ty thanks them for their assistance, and asks if Rao has been transferred into her custody. When confirmed, she vaporizes the containment unit. Ending Rao's existence for good, and taking her leave.

* CallBack: Bashir mentions that Vantika's body is definitely not a clone while investigating whether he's faked his death, referencing a couple episodes ago in ''A Man Alone'' where a criminal faked their death using a cloned corpse.

* JurisdictionFriction: Odo bristles at Starfleet Security officer Primmin's attempt to take over the investigation, and considers resigning. Sisko gives him a RousingSpeech about how no one can do the things Odo can do, that Sisko ''needs'' Odo, and states that in joint operations like this, Odo is actually in charge. This mollifies Odo. They do eventually develop a degree of respect for one another -- it helps that Primmin manages to locate a device Vantika was planning to use to shut down the station, because he listened to and followed up on a line of reasoning Odo gave earlier -- though, as we will see, this doesn't end the friction between them.

* JurisdictionFriction: Odo bristles at Starfleet Security officer Primmin's attempt to take over the investigation, and considers resigning. Sisko gives him a RousingSpeech about how no one can do the things Odo can do, that Sisko ''needs'' Odo, and states that in joint operations like this, Odo is actually in charge. This mollifies Odo. They do eventually develop a degree of respect for one another (it helps that Primmin manages to locate a device Vantika was planning to use to shut down the station, because he listened to and followed up on a line of reasoning Odo gave earlier).

* JurisdictionFriction: Odo bristles at Starfleet Security officer Primmin's attempt to take over the investigation, and considers resigning. Sisko gives him a RousingSpeech about how no one can do the things Odo can do, that Sisko ''needs'' Odo, and states that in joint operations like this, Odo is actually in charge. This mollifies Odo.

* ContinuityNod: When talking about ways Rao could have escaped, Bashir mentions and dismisses "Cognitive Brainwave Transfer", because [[Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan no non-Vulcan]] [[Film/StarTrekIIITheSearchForSpock has ever managed it]]