History Recap / StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS05E04NorTheBattleToTheStrong

* DudeNotFunny: InUniverse: 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.

* WholePlotReference: To ''Literature/TheRedBadgeOfCourage'', about a soldier in the American Civil War who runs from his first battle and struggles to redeem himself when a wound he picked up causes his regiment to think he heroically fought to the last.
* JustForFun/XMeetsY: ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' meets ''{{MASH}}''.

* XMeetsY: ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' meets ''{{MASH}}''.

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Jake beats himself up pretty good over running away and leaving Bashir.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen
** The issue of Cardassian engineering and medical trades being dominated by women (mentioned in "Destiny") was going to be followed up, with the male Starfleet doctors conflicting with the female Cardassian doctors.
** Jake was originally going to find a wounded Klingon and [[EnemyMine bond with him after they're forced to share a foxhole]]. However when Jake confesses his cowardice in abandoning Bashir, the Klingon throws him out.

* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: After Jake ran away, Bashir managed to make it to the runabout and somehow hauled the generator a kilometer back to the hospital all by himself, picking up serious phaser burns along the way.

* ADayInTheLimelight: Jake Sisko

* FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: Burke's death is rather gruesome by the standards of Star Trek. In a franchise where people tend to simply be vaporized and fade away, Burke chokes to death on his own blood after getting shot.

* '''Odo:''' So much for "Quark-tajino."

* ObliviousGuiltSlinging: When Jake returns to the hospital, he's told that Bashir (despite being wounded and abandoned by Jake) still retrieved the equipment they were sent to get. When a guilty Jake visits Bashir in his sickbed, Bashir doesn't even think of recriminations because he's just glad Jake is alive.
* SpecialEffectsFailure: Jake and Bashir are bombarded by tiny explosions.

* 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.

* DirtyCoward: One of the wounded confesses that he shot himself in the foot with his own phaser to get out of combat.

* 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.

* DudeNotFunny: InUniverse: When the doctors lightheartedly joke about 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.

* XMeetsY: ''StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' meets ''{{MASH}}''.

Jake is exposed to the horrors of war as Bashir reluctantly takes the young writer to the front lines of a battle between Klingons and a Federation .