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* PetTheDog: Odon gruffly refuses to demonstrate his shapeshifter abilities for Taya, because it's a reminder of how he used to do so for the entertainment of humanoids. However at the end of the episode he turns into a spinning toy, to her delight.

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* PetTheDog: Odon Odo gruffly refuses to demonstrate his shapeshifter abilities for Taya, because it's a reminder of how he used to do so for the entertainment of humanoids. However at the end of the episode he turns into a spinning toy, to her delight.
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* PetTheDog: Odon gruffly refuses to demonstrate his shapeshifter abilities for Taya, because it's a reminder of how he used to do so for the entertainment of humanoids. However at the end of the episode he turns into a spinning toy, to her delight.
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** After the holographic generator is shut down, everyone vanishes...except Rurigan.

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** After the holographic generator is shut down, everyone vanishes... except Rurigan.
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Back on the station Bareil and Kira finally kiss and admits their feelings for each other. But an offhand comment by Bareil reveals that he was invited to the station by a man who owes a great sum of money to Quark. Kira suddenly realizes that Bareil's presence was all a ploy to distract her, so she storms off to confront Quark, leaving Bareil nonplussed.

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Back on the station Bareil and Kira finally kiss and admits admit their feelings for each other. But an offhand comment by Bareil reveals that he was invited to the station by a man who owes a great sum of money to Quark. Kira suddenly realizes that Bareil's presence was all a ploy to distract her, so she storms off to confront Quark, leaving Bareil nonplussed.
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At the same time, Jake is apprenticing under O'Brien to help him prepare for Starfleet Academy. When O'Brien notices Jake's lack of enthusiasm, the boy admits that he doesn't actually want to join Starfleet, but he doesn't want to let his father down either. O'Brien reveals that he found his calling later and life and tells Jake that his father will support whatever he chooses to do with his life.

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At the same time, Jake is apprenticing under O'Brien to help him prepare for Starfleet Academy. When O'Brien notices Jake's lack of enthusiasm, the boy admits that he doesn't actually want to join Starfleet, but he doesn't want to let his father down either. O'Brien reveals that he found his calling later and in life and tells Jake that his father will support whatever he chooses to do with his life.
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Odo and Dax investigate a strange an uncharted planet, Yadera II, with a strange energy of omicron particles that tampers with their sensors. They beam down and discover a small community with a mysterious reactor in its center. Although initially hostile, the town's elder, Rurigan, explains to them that his community is in the grips of a crisis: their inhabitants are disappearing one by one. Odo volunteers to investigate the problem.

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Odo and Dax investigate a strange an and uncharted planet, Yadera II, with a strange energy of omicron particles that tampers with their sensors. They beam down and discover a small community with a mysterious reactor in its center. Although initially hostile, the town's elder, Rurigan, explains to them that his community is in the grips of a crisis: their inhabitants are disappearing one by one. Odo volunteers to investigate the problem.
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* NotSoDifferent: Kira mentions learning to play springball in an internment camp and Bareil says he did the same, leading the two to realize that they came from very similar circumstances despite ending up in very different places.

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Odo and Dax investigate a strange energy field on on uncharted planet, only to find a settlement whose inhabitants have been mysteriously vanishing. Sisko encourages Jake to work with O'Brien as preparation for applying to Starfleet, but Jake is having doubts. Kira gets a surprise visit from Vedek Bareil, and the two get to know each other better.

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Odo and Dax investigate a strange energy field on on an uncharted planet, only Yadera II, with a strange energy of omicron particles that tampers with their sensors. They beam down and discover a small community with a mysterious reactor in its center. Although initially hostile, the town's elder, Rurigan, explains to find them that his community is in the grips of a settlement whose crisis: their inhabitants have been mysteriously vanishing. Sisko encourages Jake are disappearing one by one. Odo volunteers to work investigate the problem.

He interviews Rurigan's adorable granddaughter Taya, who always seems to be playing
with O'Brien as preparation for applying to Starfleet, a spinning top. She's initially fearful of him but Jake soon warms to him. She reveals that the town has stories of "changelings" being defeated by mythic heroes. She also admits that no one in the community ever leaves the valley in which their village resides.

Meanwhile, on the station, Quark
is having doubts. trying to exploit Odo's absence by getting up to shenanigans. Kira is on his case, but she gets distracted when [[ShipTease her crush]], Vedek Bareil, makes a surprise visit from Vedek Bareil, to the station. Sparks fly between the pair as they go off on various diversions.

At the same time, Jake is apprenticing under O'Brien to help him prepare for Starfleet Academy. When O'Brien notices Jake's lack of enthusiasm, the boy admits that he doesn't actually want to join Starfleet, but he doesn't want to let his father down either. O'Brien reveals that he found his calling later
and life and tells Jake that his father will support whatever he chooses to do with his life.

On Yadera II, Odo interrogates Rurigan. The town elder admits that he is dying but will not speak on why no one in
the two get village ever leaves, saying only that he is sure looking for the missing people outside the valley will not solve anything. Odo goes to know each investigate the edge of the valley with Taya in tow. When the little girl's arm crosses an invisible threshold, it disappears. When she pulls it back, it appears again. Together with Dax, Odo discovers that the town's reactor is actually a holographic generator. Everything and everyone in town is a hologram.

They reveal the townsfolks' true nature to them and say that they can shut down the generator temporarily to fix it. Although shocked by the revelation, the townsfolk agree. When the generator is shut off, everything in town disappears... except Rurigan. He's the one who put the generator in its place and programmed it to recreate the village he lived in on Yadera I, before it was destroyed by the Dominion. Dying and depressed, Rurigan wonders what the point of restoring the village is, since it's all fake anyway. Odo and Dax argue that the town's holographic life forms are no less valid than those of flesh and blood. Rurigan is convinced to continue living out his final days in his holographic village, but only on one condition: Odo and Dax should not tell the
other better.
holograms that he isn't a hologram himself.

Back on the station Bareil and Kira finally kiss and admits their feelings for each other. But an offhand comment by Bareil reveals that he was invited to the station by a man who owes a great sum of money to Quark. Kira suddenly realizes that Bareil's presence was all a ploy to distract her, so she storms off to confront Quark, leaving Bareil nonplussed.

Jake breaks the news to his father that he doesn't want to join Starfleet. Sisko supports him and gives his own condition: that Jake find something he loves and do it to the very best of his ability.

When the village on Yadera II is restored, the holographic villagers wonder who created the generator in the first place. Odo holds to his promise and says only that whoever they were, they did a fine job. Taya bids her changeling friend goodbye, and Odo turns into a spinning top to amuse her before beaming away.



* CallBack: O'Brien mentions that his dad wanted him to become a musician and he got to be good at playing cello, which was shown in TNG's "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS3E2TheEnsignsOfCommand The Ensigns of Command]]."

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* CallBack: ContinuityNod: O'Brien mentions that his dad wanted him to become a musician and he got to be good at playing cello, which was shown in TNG's "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS3E2TheEnsignsOfCommand The Ensigns of Command]]."


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* {{Homage}}: Taya's tale of the folk hero TrickingTheShapeshifter is lifted straight from ''Literature/PussInBoots''. No wonder Odo immediately predicts the ending.
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** The reason why Rurigan is here is because his home was taken-over by the Dominion, the third mention of the massive polity, and emphasizing their highly aggressive nature.
** We find another culture that has [[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS01E12Vortex legends about changelings]]; the story Taya tells features an "[[{{Foreshadowing}} evil changeling]]" getting outwitted by the hero.

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** The reason why Rurigan is here is because his home was taken-over by the Dominion, the third mention of the massive polity, them, and emphasizing their a highly aggressive nature.
** We find another culture that has [[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS01E12Vortex legends about changelings]]; the story Taya tells features an "[[{{Foreshadowing}} evil changeling]]" "evil changeling" getting outwitted by the hero.
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* RelationshipUpgrade: After all the ShipTease they got back at the beginning of the season, Kira and Bareil finally get together -- albeit in no small part thanks to Quark's scheming.

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