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* HarsherInHindsight: [[spoiler: Everything Odo says regarding Eddington, that Starfleet has replaced Odo because Eddington is loyal and they don't trust the shapeshifting Odo becomes this once Eddington is revealed to be a Marquis traitor.]]
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* PermissionToSpeakFreely: Kira, before asking Sisko what the hell Starfleet is thinking by bringing in a new security chief. Sisko agrees with her, but admits that the admirals have valid reasons for not liking Odo.
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* ExplosiveInstrumentation: Damn near every console on the ''Defiant'' blows up during the battle, one of which [[RedShirt takes out the]] DisposablePilot.
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* FlawedPrototype: The ''Defiant''. She nearly flies herself apart because her engines are too powerful, her medical facilities are inadequate by Bashir's standards, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking her replicators can't make a decent cup of coffee]]!
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* CharacterDevelopment: Bajor is definitely starting to grow on Sisko, as he gets his personal effects from storage and brings them to the station.
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* CurbstompBattle: Once again, the Jem'Hadar have Starfleet's number when it comes to combat. Unlike the previous episode, however, where the USS ''Odyssey'' got completely obliterated without so much as scratching any of the Jem'Hadar ships, the ''Defiant'' at least manages to destroy one Jem'Hadar ship before being disabled.
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* CurbstompBattle: Once again, the Jem'Hadar have Starfleet's number when it comes to combat. Unlike the previous episode, however, where the USS ''Odyssey'' got completely obliterated without so much as scratching any of the Jem'Hadar ships, the ''Defiant'' at least manages to [[CurbstompCushion destroy one Jem'Hadar ship before being disabled.disabled]].
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* AbandonShip: Sisko calls for this, but he and his crew are captured before they can escape. Only Odo and Kira make it off the ''Defiant''.
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* AttackPatternAlpha: Evasive Pattern Delta-5.
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* WhamShot: The ''Defiant'' decloaking.
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--> '''O'Brien:''' A Federation ship...with a cloaking device?
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** Odo gets a new uniform, based on Mirror!Odo's outfit from "Crossover." It includes a belt that he would only wear for the next five episodes.
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[[caption-width-right:350:Home sweet home.]]
[[caption-width-right:350:Home sweet home.]]
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* TheWorfEffect: Even the new SuperPrototype USS ''Defiant'' is ''still'' not enough against the Dominion! Somewhat justified, as this was her first outing and Chief O'Brien has a long ways to go to fix ''all'' the problems on board.
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The crew of [=DS9=] eagerly await Commander Sisko's return from Earth while discussing the threat of the Dominion when they get a sudden surprise: a Federation starship decloaking just off the station! Sisko reveals that this is ''his'' baby: the USS ''Defiant'', a prototype of what is officially dubbed an "escort", but is essentially a weapons platform with warp engines. He had designed it to fight the Borg, but it was overpowered and unreliable, and mothballed when the Borg threat became less urgent. With the new threat of the Dominion, however, he's had it commissioned, and instructs Chief O'Brien to help work out the kinks. Its cloaking device is on loan from the Romulans, who have agreed to its use only in the Gamma Quadrant (aside from the stunt arriving at the station) in exchange for all intelligence they gather on the Dominion. And their first mission is to track down the homeworld of the Dominion's mysterious Founders.
Joining the crew for this mission are Subcommander T'Rul, the Romulan representative who will be responsible for the cloak, and Lt. Commander Michael Eddington, a new Starfleet security officer. Odo chafes at the idea of having Starfleet oversight on his job, and prepares to resign. Kira meets with Odo in private and tells him the Bajoran government has requested his presence on the mission, a claim Odo doesn't exactly believe, but Kira convinces him to participate anyway, since this would be a good opportunity to see if they can find more clues about his people. In the meantime, Sisko orders Quark to join the mission as well at the request of Grand Nagus Zek, due to Quark's experience negotiating with members of the Dominion. As the ship prepares to leave, Odo arrives to join up, but is less than thrilled to be stuck sharing quarters with Quark.
The ''Defiant'' apparently succeeds in eluding an anti-proton scan from a Jem'Hadar warship, and proceeds to the Karemma homeworld, where Quark makes inquiries about the Founders. The Karemman minister reveals that all contact with Dominion leadership is handled through a race called the Vorta, and he's reluctant to help them further. Sisko points out that not helping them could threaten the Karemma's trade alliance with the Ferengi, which could potentially upset the Founders, so the minister directs them to an unmanned relay station in the Callinon system. While studying the star chart, Odo is drawn to the Omarion Nebula, which is somehow familiar to him. Having fulfilled his duty to Sisko, Quark opts to stay behind to continue trade relations with the Karemma.
The ''Defiant'' reaches the relay station, but the crew finds it's a trap; Dax and O'Brien are stranded, and the ship is forced to evade the Jem'Hadar again, barely escaping. Odo in the meanwhile confesses his need to seek out the Omarion Nebula, but for the moment the mission comes first. The ship comes under fire as the Jem'Hadar have penetrated the cloak, and the ''Defiant'' is battered and boarded. Kira is knocked out, but Odo is able to rescue her and escape in a shuttlepod. When she comes to, she is chagrined to find that Odo is heading to the nebula instead of the wormhole, but it's too late to complain. Inside the nebula, they land on a rogue planet mostly covered by a familiar-looking fluid. Several humanoid forms who take on an appearance similar to Odo's emerge from the amber ocean; one of these Changelings, taking a female shape, addresses Odo:
-->'''"Welcome home."'''
'''''[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS03E02TheSearchPartII TO BE CONTINUED...]]'''''
Joining the crew for this mission are Subcommander T'Rul, the Romulan representative who will be responsible for the cloak, and Lt. Commander Michael Eddington, a new Starfleet security officer. Odo chafes at the idea of having Starfleet oversight on his job, and prepares to resign. Kira meets with Odo in private and tells him the Bajoran government has requested his presence on the mission, a claim Odo doesn't exactly believe, but Kira convinces him to participate anyway, since this would be a good opportunity to see if they can find more clues about his people. In the meantime, Sisko orders Quark to join the mission as well at the request of Grand Nagus Zek, due to Quark's experience negotiating with members of the Dominion. As the ship prepares to leave, Odo arrives to join up, but is less than thrilled to be stuck sharing quarters with Quark.
The ''Defiant'' apparently succeeds in eluding an anti-proton scan from a Jem'Hadar warship, and proceeds to the Karemma homeworld, where Quark makes inquiries about the Founders. The Karemman minister reveals that all contact with Dominion leadership is handled through a race called the Vorta, and he's reluctant to help them further. Sisko points out that not helping them could threaten the Karemma's trade alliance with the Ferengi, which could potentially upset the Founders, so the minister directs them to an unmanned relay station in the Callinon system. While studying the star chart, Odo is drawn to the Omarion Nebula, which is somehow familiar to him. Having fulfilled his duty to Sisko, Quark opts to stay behind to continue trade relations with the Karemma.
The ''Defiant'' reaches the relay station, but the crew finds it's a trap; Dax and O'Brien are stranded, and the ship is forced to evade the Jem'Hadar again, barely escaping. Odo in the meanwhile confesses his need to seek out the Omarion Nebula, but for the moment the mission comes first. The ship comes under fire as the Jem'Hadar have penetrated the cloak, and the ''Defiant'' is battered and boarded. Kira is knocked out, but Odo is able to rescue her and escape in a shuttlepod. When she comes to, she is chagrined to find that Odo is heading to the nebula instead of the wormhole, but it's too late to complain. Inside the nebula, they land on a rogue planet mostly covered by a familiar-looking fluid. Several humanoid forms who take on an appearance similar to Odo's emerge from the amber ocean; one of these Changelings, taking a female shape, addresses Odo:
-->'''"Welcome home."'''
'''''[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS03E02TheSearchPartII TO BE CONTINUED...]]'''''
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* SkewedPriorities: Quark suggests Rom accompany Sisko on the mission instead. After all, he just has a son. Quark has a ''business''.
* SkewedPriorities: Quark suggests Rom accompany Sisko on the mission instead. After all, he just has a son. Quark has a ''business''.
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* TakingAThirdOption: This trope is directly quoted by Kira after the senior staff (minus Sisko) has run many simulations and found that the station will be overrun by the Dominion very quickly in the event of a full-scale assault. Dax says that that leaves them with two options— abandon the station and make their stand on Bajor, or collapse the entrance to the wormhole. Kira says, "I want a third option" and almost at that very moment, the third option appears in the form of the new USS Defiant.
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* ContinuityNod: The USS ''Defiant'' is named for the ship of the same name in the TOS episode "The Tholian Web". That earlier ''Defiant'' would go on to reappear in the ''Enterprise'' episode "In a Mirror, Darkly".
* EnemyMine: The Federation takes the Dominion threat seriously enough to do a deal with the Romulans, acquiring a cloaking device for the ''Defiant'' at the price of having a Romulan observer on board.
* TakingAThirdOption: This trope is directly quoted by Kira after the senior staff (minus Sisko) has run many simulations and found that the station will be overrun by the Dominion very quickly in the event of a full-scale assault. Dax says that that leaves them with two options— abandon the station and make their stand on Bajor, or collapse the entrance to the wormhole. Kira says, "I want a third option" and almost at that very moment, the third option appears in the form of the new USSDefiant.''Defiant''.
* EnemyMine: The Federation takes the Dominion threat seriously enough to do a deal with the Romulans, acquiring a cloaking device for the ''Defiant'' at the price of having a Romulan observer on board.
* TakingAThirdOption: This trope is directly quoted by Kira after the senior staff (minus Sisko) has run many simulations and found that the station will be overrun by the Dominion very quickly in the event of a full-scale assault. Dax says that that leaves them with two options— abandon the station and make their stand on Bajor, or collapse the entrance to the wormhole. Kira says, "I want a third option" and almost at that very moment, the third option appears in the form of the new USS
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* TakingAThirdOption: This trope is directly quoted by Kira after the senior staff (minus Sisko) has run many simulations and found that the station will be overrun by the Dominion very quickly in the event of a full-scale assault. Dax says that that leaves them with two options— abandon the station and make their stand on Bajor, or collapse the entrance to the wormhole. Kira says, "I want a third option" and almost at that very moment, the third option appears in the form of the new USS Defiant.Defiant.
* WhamLine: "Welcome home."
* WhamLine: "Welcome home."
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* TakingAThirdOption: This trope is directly quoted by Kira after the senior staff (minus Sisko) has run many simulations and found that the station will be overrun by the Dominion very quickly in the event of a full-scale assault. Dax says that that leaves them with two options— abandon the station and make their stand on Bajor, or collapse the entrance to the wormhole. Kira says, "I want a third option" and almost at that very moment, the third option appears in the form of the new USS Defiant.
