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* OnlySaneMan: Mercifully avoided. Quark himself sees the "other" O'Brien while talking to the "original" version.
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** O'Brien and Quark when they see the duplicate O'Brien on the Promenade.
-->'''Quark:''' I think my holosuites can wait. It looks like you have bigger problems.
-->'''Quark:''' I think my holosuites can wait. It looks like you have bigger problems.
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** O'Brien and Quark when they see the duplicate O'Brien on the Promenade.
-->'''Quark:'''Promenade, to which the Ferengi quickly makes himself scarce.
--->'''Quark:''' I think my holosuites can wait. It looks like you have bigger problems.
-->'''Quark:'''
--->'''Quark:''' I think my holosuites can wait. It looks like you have bigger problems.
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* FailedASpotCheck: O'Brien's time-shifting is determined to be caused in part by an quantum singularity somewhere in the area. Somehow, not one person among an experienced Starfleet crew even attempts to make the connection between this and the Romulans visiting the station, who are the only mentioned race in Star Trek to use quantum singularities in their ships, which can also cloak.
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* FailedASpotCheck: O'Brien's time-shifting is determined to be caused in part by an a quantum singularity somewhere in the area. Somehow, not one person among an experienced Starfleet crew even attempts to make the connection between this and the Romulans visiting the station, who are the only mentioned race in Star Trek to use quantum singularities in their ships, which can also cloak.
* FiveSecondForeshadowing: When present-day O'Brien meets his future self for the last time, the latter is confused by the fact the former is suffering from the radiation sickness (thanks to the time-jump) and he isn't. This is dismissed with a PlayedForLaughs grumbling over how the TimeyWimeyBall works. The audience [[RedHerring is primed to assume]] that the reason is simply because once O'Brien completes the mission and returns to the present, Bashir will cure him, so there won't be any radiation to still be affecting O'Brien in the future. But it turns out the real reason is because past O'Brien is going to die from it, and non-irradiated future O'Brien [[TrickedOutTime will take his place]].
* FiveSecondForeshadowing: When present-day O'Brien meets his future self for the last time, the latter is confused by the fact the former is suffering from the radiation sickness (thanks to the time-jump) and he isn't. This is dismissed with a PlayedForLaughs grumbling over how the TimeyWimeyBall works. The audience [[RedHerring is primed to assume]] that the reason is simply because once O'Brien completes the mission and returns to the present, Bashir will cure him, so there won't be any radiation to still be affecting O'Brien in the future. But it turns out the real reason is because past O'Brien is going to die from it, and non-irradiated future O'Brien [[TrickedOutTime will take his place]].
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In O'Brien's next jump, he finds himself, his other self and a throng of people in an escape pod. As they leave, [=DS9=] explodes behind them and the wormhole collapses. He doesn't have any evidence of who or what caused the stations destruction. But he intends to find out. He wants to be sent into the future on purpose this time, so he can save the station. Bashir fixes him up with a TechnoBabble time travel device, and sends him on his way.
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In O'Brien's next jump, he finds himself, his other self and a throng of people in an escape pod. As they leave, [=DS9=] explodes behind them and the wormhole collapses. He doesn't have any evidence of who or what caused the stations station's destruction. But he intends to find out. He wants to be sent into the future on purpose this time, so he can save the station. Bashir fixes him up with a TechnoBabble time travel device, and sends him on his way.
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Sisko and Odo figure out that a food replicator was jury-rigged into a transporter to do the transport work. THe modifications will be the only clue about who did the work. Though the crisis appears averted, O'Brien is still nervous as the time approaches when he saw himself die. In the moment, he's sent on another time-shift. Where he finds his own corpse in the sick-bay. Bashir pops into the room, telling him to tell past-Bashir to perform a basilar arterial scan that will save past O'Brien. He returns to the past and does just that.
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Sisko and Odo figure out that a food replicator was jury-rigged into a transporter to do the transport work. THe The modifications will be the only clue about who did the work. Though the crisis appears averted, O'Brien is still nervous as the time approaches when he saw himself die. In the moment, he's sent on another time-shift. Where he finds his own corpse in the sick-bay. Bashir pops into the room, telling him to tell past-Bashir to perform a basilar arterial scan that will save past O'Brien. He returns to the past and does just that.
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* ObfuscatingStupidity: The three Klingons spend their time drunkenly picking fights and wrecking holosuites but are actually highly trained spies on a covert mission.
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It's an O'Brien episode, so you know what that means: [[RunningGag O'Brien Must Suffer]]. As such, our story begins with him flat on his back.
The good chief got a face full of exploding plasma conduit, which has left him with an easily curable bout of radiation poisoning. He'll be fine, but Bashir tells him to take it easy.
The good chief got a face full of exploding plasma conduit, which has left him with an easily curable bout of radiation poisoning. He'll be fine, but Bashir tells him to take it easy.
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The good chief got
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Taking Bashir's advice, O'Brien is relaxing at Quark' s while trying to explain the appeal of darts when he suddenly finds himself on the promenade in mid-throw. Glancing over at the adjacent catwalk, he sees...''himself''. Talking with Quark about a Klingon damaged holo-suite. Flashing back to Quark's, he passes out on the spot.
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Taking Bashir's advice, O'Brien is relaxing at Quark' s while Quark's, trying to explain the appeal of darts darts, when he suddenly finds himself on the promenade in mid-throw. Glancing over at the adjacent catwalk, he sees...''himself''. Talking ''himself'', talking with Quark about a Klingon damaged holo-suite. Flashing back to Quark's, he passes out on the spot.
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Sisko and Kira meanwhile are dealing with the naturally hardass Romulans. They aren't happy with the minor information they've obtained on the Dominion. Especially since they lent them one of their cloaking devices. Even going so far as to question if Odo is a spy.
Meanwhile, O'Brien is wandering the promenade when Quark approaches him. His holo-suites have been damaged by some rowdy Klingons. In the middle of this discussion, O'Brien realizes this has happened before. When he had his mysterious vision. And indeed, on the adjacent catwalk, is O'Brien. Who vanishes.
Turns out there's a temporal disturbance bouncing around the station. And the residual radiation O'Brien got when the conduit exploded has interacted with this, randomly sending him into the future and back again. And he's about to go again.
This time he's in Quark's, square in the middle of a good old fashioned BarBrawl. After giving his other self a little assistance in the fight, he returns to Sisko's office and passes out again.
Meanwhile, O'Brien is wandering the promenade when Quark approaches him. His holo-suites have been damaged by some rowdy Klingons. In the middle of this discussion, O'Brien realizes this has happened before. When he had his mysterious vision. And indeed, on the adjacent catwalk, is O'Brien. Who vanishes.
Turns out there's a temporal disturbance bouncing around the station. And the residual radiation O'Brien got when the conduit exploded has interacted with this, randomly sending him into the future and back again. And he's about to go again.
This time he's in Quark's, square in the middle of a good old fashioned BarBrawl. After giving his other self a little assistance in the fight, he returns to Sisko's office and passes out again.
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Sisko and Kira meanwhile are dealing with the naturally hardass Romulans. They want the intelligence that the Federation promised in return for their loan of the ''Defiant'''s cloaking device, and they aren't happy with the minor information they've obtained on the Dominion. Especially since what they lent them one of their cloaking devices. Even receive. The ambassadors start interrogating Sisko and Kira, even going so far as to question if Odo is a spy.
Meanwhile, O'Brien is wandering the promenade when Quark approaches him. His holo-suites have been damaged by some rowdy Klingons. In the middle of this discussion, O'Brien realizes this has happened before. When he had his mysterious vision. And indeed, on the adjacent catwalk,is O'Brien. Who vanishes.
there's O'Brien, who vanishes just like before.
Turns out there's a temporal disturbance bouncing around the station.And the The residual radiation O'Brien got when the conduit exploded has interacted with this, it, randomly sending him into the future and back again. And he's about to go again.
again. This time he's in Quark's, square in the middle of a good old fashioned massive BarBrawl. After giving his other self a little assistance in the fight, he returns to Sisko's office and passes out again.
Meanwhile, O'Brien is wandering the promenade when Quark approaches him. His holo-suites have been damaged by some rowdy Klingons. In the middle of this discussion, O'Brien realizes this has happened before. When he had his mysterious vision. And indeed, on the adjacent catwalk,
Turns out there's a temporal disturbance bouncing around the station.
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After Kira has a blow-up with the Romulans, O'Brien is back at Quarks playing darts with Bashir. And down come the instigators of the fight O'Brien saw during his last time-shift. The Klingons have come to pick a fight with the Romulans.
The fight occurs as it did in his previous time-trip. His younger self assists him and vice-versa. As security breaks up the tussle, he heads for another trip in time. This time it's not just some random event. He watches himself get fatally shot by a phaser beam from a wall conduit.
Investigating the corridor where the event is set to occur, Sisko and Odo can find nothing odd about the conduit. They station a camera in the corridor just in case. Dax meanwhile may have found a cure.
After another TechnoBabble explanation, Kira approaches Sisko and informs him that she moved the Romulans quarters to [[DevelopmentGag Section 47]]. The same corridor where O'Brien saw himself murdered.
Sisko and Odo find evidence of a modified food replicator that was jury-rigged into a transporter. Which beamed the weapon into the conduit and killed O'Brien. Though the crisis appears averted, O'Brien is still nervous as the time approaches...and you guessed it, he's sent on another time-shift. Where he finds his own corpse in the sick-bay.
Bashir pops into the room, telling him to tell past-Bashir to perform a basilar arterial scan that will save past O'Brien. He returns to the past and does just that.
His next time-jump is not much funner. He finds himself, his other self and a throng of people in an escape pod. As they leave, [=DS9=] explodes behind them and the wormhole collapses.
He doesn't have any evidence of who or what caused the stations destruction. But he intends to find out. He wants to be sent into the future on purpose this time, so he can save the station. Bashir fixes him up with a TechnoBabble time travel device, and sends him on his way.
The fight occurs as it did in his previous time-trip. His younger self assists him and vice-versa. As security breaks up the tussle, he heads for another trip in time. This time it's not just some random event. He watches himself get fatally shot by a phaser beam from a wall conduit.
Investigating the corridor where the event is set to occur, Sisko and Odo can find nothing odd about the conduit. They station a camera in the corridor just in case. Dax meanwhile may have found a cure.
After another TechnoBabble explanation, Kira approaches Sisko and informs him that she moved the Romulans quarters to [[DevelopmentGag Section 47]]. The same corridor where O'Brien saw himself murdered.
Sisko and Odo find evidence of a modified food replicator that was jury-rigged into a transporter. Which beamed the weapon into the conduit and killed O'Brien. Though the crisis appears averted, O'Brien is still nervous as the time approaches...and you guessed it, he's sent on another time-shift. Where he finds his own corpse in the sick-bay.
Bashir pops into the room, telling him to tell past-Bashir to perform a basilar arterial scan that will save past O'Brien. He returns to the past and does just that.
His next time-jump is not much funner. He finds himself, his other self and a throng of people in an escape pod. As they leave, [=DS9=] explodes behind them and the wormhole collapses.
He doesn't have any evidence of who or what caused the stations destruction. But he intends to find out. He wants to be sent into the future on purpose this time, so he can save the station. Bashir fixes him up with a TechnoBabble time travel device, and sends him on his way.
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After Kira has a blow-up with the Romulans, O'Brien is back at Quarks playing darts with Bashir. And down come They've forbidden the instigators of Klingons from coming to the fight bar to prevent the brawl that O'Brien saw during his last time-shift. The Klingons have saw, but several come to down from the holosuites and immediately pick a fight with the Romulans.
Romulans, instigating the brawl. The fight occurs as much like it did in his previous time-trip. His younger self assists him time-trip, but this time O'Brien is ready and vice-versa.does better in the fight than he saw himself do the first time. As security breaks up the tussle, he heads for another trip in time. This time it's not just some random event. He watches himself get fatally shot by a phaser beam from a wall conduit.
Investigating the corridor where the event is set to occur, Sisko and Odo can find nothing odd about the conduit. They station a camera in the corridor just in case.Dax meanwhile may have found a cure.
After another TechnoBabble explanation,But then Kira approaches Sisko and informs him announces that she moved the Romulans quarters to [[DevelopmentGag Section 47]]. The 47]], the same corridor where O'Brien saw himself murdered.
murdered. Soon, the crew detect that a device was covertly beamed into the conduit.
Sisko and Odofind evidence of figure out that a modified food replicator that was jury-rigged into a transporter. Which beamed transporter to do the weapon into transport work. THe modifications will be the conduit and killed O'Brien. only clue about who did the work. Though the crisis appears averted, O'Brien is still nervous as the time approaches...and you guessed it, approaches when he saw himself die. In the moment, he's sent on another time-shift. Where he finds his own corpse in the sick-bay.
sick-bay. Bashir pops into the room, telling him to tell past-Bashir to perform a basilar arterial scan that will save past O'Brien. He returns to the past and does just that.
His Odo gets the proof he needs that the Klingons are actually Klingon spies. He rounds them up and threatens to let it be known that their mission was a failure, thus incurring the wrath of Klingon Intelligence, unless they fess up and help him. They consider his offer.
In O'Brien's nexttime-jump is not much funner. He jump, he finds himself, his other self and a throng of people in an escape pod. As they leave, [=DS9=] explodes behind them and the wormhole collapses.
collapses. He doesn't have any evidence of who or what caused the stations destruction. But he intends to find out. He wants to be sent into the future on purpose this time, so he can save the station. Bashir fixes him up with a TechnoBabble time travel device, and sends him on his way.
Investigating the corridor where the event is set to occur, Sisko and Odo can find nothing odd about the conduit. They station a camera in the corridor just in case.
After another TechnoBabble explanation,
Sisko and Odo
In O'Brien's next
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* BarBrawl: Drunken Klingons + drunken Romulans = violence. Although to be honest, Klingons = violence almost a hundred percent of the time ''anyway''...
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* {{Blackmail}}: Odo uses his favorite tactic tobe honest, Klingons = violence almost a hundred percent of try to convince the time ''anyway''...Klingon spies to help him or else he'll communicate their failure to Klingon Intelligence.
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* MyFriendsAndZoidberg: Odo delivers this when talking to Sisko about the surveillance device planted in the bulkhead.
-->'''Odo:''' Don't worry. I plan to investigate the Klingons, the Bajorans, Quark, the visiting Terrelians…\\
'''Sisko:''' You think Quark had something to do with this?\\
'''Odo:''' I ''always'' investigate Quark.
* OhCrap: O'Brien and Quark when they see the duplicate O'Brien on the Promenade.
-->'''Odo:''' Don't worry. I plan to investigate the Klingons, the Bajorans, Quark, the visiting Terrelians…\\
'''Sisko:''' You think Quark had something to do with this?\\
'''Odo:''' I ''always'' investigate Quark.
* OhCrap: O'Brien and Quark when they see the duplicate O'Brien on the Promenade.
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* MyFriendsAndZoidberg: Odo delivers this when talking to Sisko about the surveillance device planted in the bulkhead.
-->'''Odo:''' Don't worry. I plan to investigate the Klingons, the Bajorans, Quark, the visiting Terrelians…\\
'''Sisko:''' You think Quark had something to do with this?\\
'''Odo:''' I ''always'' investigate Quark.
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** O'Brien and Quark when they see the duplicate O'Brien on the Promenade.
-->'''Odo:''' Don't worry. I plan to investigate the Klingons, the Bajorans, Quark, the visiting Terrelians…\\
'''Sisko:''' You think Quark had something to do with this?\\
'''Odo:''' I ''always'' investigate Quark.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: The Romulans have concluded the Dominion is a serious enough threat to warrant attacking Deep Space Nine and collapsing the Wormhole. [[spoiler: While the Romulan military's mission fails thanks to O'Brien, the Romulan Tal Shiar will take their own crack at the Dominion very soon...]]
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* SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale: The quantum singularity they detect that's causing the problems is only two kilometers from the station. For comparison the station is one and a half kilometers across and the cloaked Romulan Warbird causing the issue is a kilometer long; it's astonishing there wasn't a colision.
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* PoweredByABlackHole: {{Exploited}}: the crew are able to [[StealthInSpace locate the cloaked warbird]] by hunting for the mass signature of its drive singularity.
* SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale: The quantum singularity they detect that's causing the problems is only two kilometers from the station. For comparison the station is one and a half kilometers across and the cloaked Romulan Warbird causing the issue is a kilometer long; it's astonishing there wasn't acolision.collision.
* SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale: The quantum singularity they detect that's causing the problems is only two kilometers from the station. For comparison the station is one and a half kilometers across and the cloaked Romulan Warbird causing the issue is a kilometer long; it's astonishing there wasn't a
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* DiscoveringYourOwnDeadBody: By the end of the episode, O'Brien -- or, at least, the O'Brien the episode ends with -- has witnessed ''two'' alternate versions of himself die and come upon the sheet-covered corpse of a third. He's understandably somewhat freaked by this.
-->'''O'Brien''': I've had a few brushes with death in my career, but... there was something about watching myself being killed. Feeling my own neck for a pulse that wasn't there.
-->'''O'Brien''': I've had a few brushes with death in my career, but... there was something about watching myself being killed. Feeling my own neck for a pulse that wasn't there.
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* SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale: The quantum singularity they detect that's causing the problems is only two kilometers from the station. For comparison the station is one and a half kilometers across and the cloaked Romulan Warbird causing the issue is a kilometer long; it's astonishing there wasn't a colision.
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* YouCantFightFate: Mostly averted. They fail to prevent the BarBrawl, but they do avoid O'Brien's deaths and the station's destruction. And even when the bar brawl comes to fruition, O'Brien avoids getting sucker-punched like he did the first time.
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* YouCantFightFate: Mostly averted. They fail to prevent the BarBrawl, but they do avoid O'Brien's deaths and the station's destruction. And even when the bar brawl comes to fruition, O'Brien avoids getting sucker-punched like he did the first time.time.
* YouHaveFailedMe: Odo threatens the Klingon operatives with the thought of their superiors pulling this on them if they find out they were caught, and offers to let them go in exchange for a full confession.
* YouHaveFailedMe: Odo threatens the Klingon operatives with the thought of their superiors pulling this on them if they find out they were caught, and offers to let them go in exchange for a full confession.
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After another TechnoBabble explanation, Kira approaches Sisko and informs him that she moved the Romulans quarters to [[DvelopmentGag Section 47]]. The same corridor where O'Brien saw himself murdered.
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After another TechnoBabble explanation, Kira approaches Sisko and informs him that she moved the Romulans quarters to [[The47Society Section 47]]. The same corridor where O'Brien saw himself murdered.
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After another TechnoBabble explanation, Kira approaches Sisko and informs him that she moved the Romulans quarters to [[The47Society [[DvelopmentGag Section 47]]. The same corridor where O'Brien saw himself murdered.
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* The47Society: Kira moves the Romulan delegation to Section 47.
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* The47Society: Kira moves the Romulan delegation to Section 47.
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* TemporalSickness: The radiation that makes O'Brien jump in time causes more damage to him each time. One of his future selves even dies from it.
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* TemporalSickness: The radiation that makes O'Brien jump in time causes more damage to him each time. One Two versions of his future selves even dies him eventually die from it.
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* TemporalSickness: The radiation that makes O'Brien jump in time causes more damage to him each time.
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* TemporalSickness: The radiation that makes O'Brien jump in time causes more damage to him each time. One of his future selves even dies from it.
