History Recap / StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS05E05TheAssignment

* SmarterThanYouLook: Rom begins to show his true talents, now that he decided to stop trying to be a "good Ferengi", caring about nothing but profit. O'Brien puts him to work on some modifications to the station's deflector array that the Pah Wraith gave him. Rom instantly puts it together saying "Why are we trying to kill the wormhole aliens?"

** Rom's knowledge of Bajoran religion and folklore, which he acquired from his regular conversations with Leeta, leads to Miles realizing what the Pah Wraith is up to as well. To a lesser extent, Rom stumbling across O'Brien during the latter's "assignment", basically forcing O'Brien to enlist Rom's help.

* TemptingFate: O'Brien dreads having to tell Keiko that he failed to take proper care of her plants. Well, "Keiko" doesn't care about that--prompting a relieved O'Brien to say everything's fine. Then he learns that everything is most definitely not fine.

* ExactWords: O'Brien lets the Pah-Wraith know that he knows what it's up to, but he doesn't care about the conflict between the Prophets and Pah-Wraiths; he just wants his wife back. The Pah-Wraith thinks this means that he's done as the Pah-Wraith asked. Instead, the chroniton array O'Brien has just finished targets the runabout instead of the wormhole, driving out the Pah-Wraith possessing Keiko.

Another "O'Brien must suffer" episode dealt with in a unique fashion. Keiko returns from Bajor possessed by a dangerous and malicious entity. And O'Brien is stuck fighting the clock to make sure he can get it out of his wife without killing her. This marks the first appearances of the Pah-Wraith

* AlienLunch: Or rather, breakfast for Rom. Eager to be accepted by the engineering crews, he tries emulating them to their meal choices. First he picks Chief O'Brien but later finds out bacon disagrees with him. He later picks another crewman to copy.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Later episodes would show that those possessed by the Pah-Wraiths get RedEyesTakeWarning. Of course, this Pah-Wraith may have suppressed that in order to blend in.

* SmarterThanYouLook: Rom begins to show his true talents, now that he decided to stop trying to be a "good Ferengi", caring about nothing but profit. O'Brien puts him to work on some modifications to the station's deflector array that the Pah Wraith gave him. Rom instantly puts it together saying "Why are you trying to kill the wormhole aliens?"

** Rom's knowledge of Bajoran religion and folklore, which he acquired from his regular conversations with Leeta, leads to Miles realizing what the Pah Wraith is up to as well.

Another "O'Brien must suffer" episode dealt with in a unique fashion. Keiko returns from Bajor possessed by a dangerous and malicious entity. And O'Brien is stuck fighting the clock to make sure he can get it out of his wife without killing her.

* BrickJoke: Rom promises that if he's caught, he won't even reveal his own name (which everyone knows anyway). Later Odo grumbles that after being arresting Rom refused even to give his name.

Keiko returns from Bajor possessed by a dangerous and malicious entity. And O'Brien is stuck fighting the clock to make sure he can get it out of his wife without killing her.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Jake says that he'd like to see a Pah-Wraith. [[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS06E21TheReckoning A year later, he gets possessed by one.]]

* INeedToGoIronMyDog: Rather than help O'Brien tell Keiko that her plants died while she was away, Bashir claims that he has to be in the infirmary performing an operation.
--> '''O'Brien:''' On who?\\

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Jake says that he'd like to see a Pah-Wraith. A year later, he gets possessed by one.

* OutGambitted: The Pah-Wraith, once Rom helps O'Brien figure out what's going on.

* DemonicPossession: If you consider the Wormhole Aliens spirits, anyway.