History Recap / StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS05E02TheShip

* RememberTheNewGuy: The viewer is supposed to care that a bunch of red-shirts died for a change, so they make sure to kiss their asses from the theme song to the end credits.

* ArtisticLicenseGeography: O'Brien wasn't exaggerating, Muñiz. [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mourne_Mountains Ireland]] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Errigal does have]] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrauntoohil mountains]].

* BrokenAesop: The episode insists that the casualties on both sides could've been avoided if they had all just trusted each other. However, Sisko invokes the runabout crew (who were destroyed the moment Kilana's Jem'Hadar arrived), and T'Lor and Muñiz (killed and mortally wounded, respectively, before any negotiations had begun).

* CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: At the heart of the episode. Neither side is willing to believe the other has anything but the worst intentions, and will not extend any measure of trust towards the other. This results in the deaths of the runabout crew, the Changeling, the Jem'Hadar crew, and probably Kilana after she returns the Founder's remains.

* DrivenToSuicide: The Jem'Hadar kill themselves over allowing a Founder to die.

-->"I know it's hot. We're filthy, tired, and we've got ten isontons of explosives going off outside. But we will never get out of this if we don't pull it together and start to act like professionals!"

* DueToTheDead: At the end of the episode, O'Brien is watching over Muñiz's body. Worf enters and likens the practice to ''ak'voh'', an old Klingon custom of safeguarding the body of those entering Sto-vo-kor. He then sits beside O'Brien.

* WeCouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: Invoked by Sisko when he said this whole thing could have been avoided if the two sides trusted each other a little more.

* ActorAllusion: O'Brien and Muñiz's exchange about Ireland's hills and no mountains references Colm Meaney's role in ''Film/TheEnglishmanWhoWentUpAHillButCameDownAMountain''.

* CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: [[spoiler: At the heart of the episode. Neither side is willing to believe the other has anything but the worst intentions, and will not extend any measure of trust towards the other. This results in the deaths of the runabout crew, the Changeling, the Jem'Hadar crew, and probably Kilana after she returns the Founder's remains.]]

* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:The Jem'Hadar kill themselves over allowing a Founder to die]].

* ObfuscatingStupidity: [[spoiler:Kilana initially says this is her first mission, but Sisko later realizes this was a lie to get him to underestimate her.]]

* PoorCommunicationKills: [[spoiler:The Founder aboard the ship could've been saved if Kilana had been upfront with Sisko immediately]].

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: This was the second time the producers wanted to bring back Eris, the very first Vorta encountered back in "The Jem'Hadar," but her actress, Molly Hagan, was again unavailable.

* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Sisko appears quite offended when Kilana says he would've [[spoiler:killed the Founder or taken it hostage]].

* RedShirt: {{Subverted}}. Several random crew members are killed (including MauveShirt Muñiz), but at the end of the episode Sisko reads off the list of the dead and reminisces about them. It shows that, even if their deaths only serve to excite the audience, for the surviving characters these people's lives and deaths ''matter''.

* RedShirt: {{Subverted}}. Several random crew members are killed (including MauveShirt Muñiz), but at the end of the episode Sisko reads off the list of the dead and reminisces about them. It shows that, even if their deaths only serve to excite the audience, for the surviving characters these people's lives and deaths ''matter''. (This was the first time something like this had been done on ''Franchise/StarTrek''.)

* RedShirt: {{Subverted}}. Several random crewmembers are killed (including MauveShirt Muniz), but at the end of the episode Sisko reads off the list of the dead and reminisces about them. It shows that, even if their deaths only serve to excite the audience, for the surviving characters these people's lives and deaths ''matter''. (This was the first time something like this had been done on ''Franchise/StarTrek''.)
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: This was the second time the producers wanted to bring back Eris, the very first Vorta encountered back in "The Jem'Hadar," but her actress, Molly Hagan, was again unavailable.

* RedShirt: {{Subverted}}. Several random crewmembers are killed (including MauveShirt Muniz), but at the end of the episode Sisko reads off the list of the dead and reminisces about them. It shows that, even if their deaths only serve to excite the audience, for the surviving characters these people's lives and deaths ''matter''. (This was the first time something like this had been done on ''StarTrek''.)

During a planetary survey in the Gamma Quadrant, Sisko and the others find a crashed Jem'Hadar ship. Sisko decides they must return with this ship, which could provide vital information about Dominion technology. But a Jem'Hadar recovery team and their Vorta leader are unusually determined to prevent this, leading Sisko to wonder what further secrets the ship might hold.