History Recap / StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS05E04NorTheBattleToTheStrong

Jake makes it back to the hospital and learns that Bashir heroically recovered the generator himself. Ashamed, Jake lies about what happened to him while cursing himself inwardly for his cowardice. He passes the soldier who wounded himself and commiserates with him, understanding the terror they both felt when confronted by mortal danger. The battle is turning dire, and the medical staff start joking about the method of death they'd most prefer, causing Jake to shout at them and leave. Bashir, how fully healed, tries to get Jake to talk. As much as Jake inwardly wants to confess his actions, he refuses and leaves to cry by himself.

* ObliviousGuiltSlinging: When Jake returns to the hospital, he's told that Bashir (despite being wounded and abandoned by Jake) made it back and even retrieved the generator they were sent to get (despite it supposedly being too heavy to be carried by one man). When a guilty Jake visits Bashir in his sickbed, Bashir is furious...at ''himself'', for bringing Jake into a war zone in the first place. This only makes Jake feel worse.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: A completely inadvertent case; the generator is supposedly too heavy for one human to carry, and yet Bashir somehow manages to transport it back to the hospital by himself ''while seriously injured''. Later in the season, it's revealed that Bashir is genetically engineered, with one of the effects being to make him stronger than an ordinary human. It would almost certainly read as a deliberate hint if not for the fact that the writers hadn't yet come up with this particular plot twist (the idea was ''very'' last-minute).

* {{Foreshadowing}}: A completely inadvertent case; the generator is supposedly too heavy for one human to carry, and yet Bashir somehow manages to transport it back to the hospital by himself ''while seriously injured''. Later in the season, it's revealed that Bashir is genetically engineered, with one of the effects being to make him stronger than an ordinary human. If not for the fact that the writers hadn't yet come up with this particular plot twist (the idea was ''very'' last-minute), it would come across as a deliberate hint.

* AccidentalHero: During the climax, Jake grabs a phaser rifle and starts firing blindly at the Klingons out of sheer panic. It turns out he caused a cave-in that gave the hospital enough time to get everyone out, and he's hailed as a hero.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: While on the runabout Jake laments how boring the medical conference he was supposed to be writing about was, and wishes for something more exciting. He certainly gets it.

* DamnYouMuscleMemory: In a failed OffscreenMomentOfAwesome, Odo jumped off a flight of stairs when pursuing two Yridians, planning to morph in mid-air. Unfortunately, he's no longer a Changeling, and his little stunt landed him in the infirmary.

** Jake sees himself as a coward after running away and leaving Bashir during the attack (although the fact that he's a civilian with no combat training muddles the waters a bit). Eventually he comes to realize that the line between courage and cowardice is far thinner than he ever realized.
* DudeNotFunny: When the doctors lightheartedly joke about [[GallowsHumor how they'd like the Klingons to kill them]], Jake, who had just witnessed Burke die alone in the dirt, doesn't take it well.

** Three veteran medical staff joke about the way they'd prefer the Klingons to kill them. Jake can't understand them.
* HardWorkMontage: Jake helping at the hospital.

* SpecialEffectsFailure: Jake and Bashir are bombarded by tiny explosions meant to be artillery fire.

* ThisIsReality: Burke calls out Jake's wish for redemption, noting that in real life that sort of thing doesn't happen the way it does in books.

On the station, Sisko is trying to keep busy to distract himself from his concern over Jake. Dax tells him a story about how her previous host Audrid dealt with the illness of her child, and Sisko is glad that the story has a happy ending, though Dax admits that Audrid became estranged with her daughter a few years later. Sisko decides that's enough stories for now and returns to making repairs.