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When the ''Defiant'' arrives at Lisa's planet, they find it surrounded by a strange radiation field, forcing Sisko and a rescue party to fly down to surface. There, they discover the badly decays body of Lisa Cusack, who has been dead for about three years. The planetary radiation had caused their communications to time-shift by three years. They take her body back to the station and hold a wake for her. Bashir gives a speech, saying that Lisa died surrounded by friends even though she never met them in person. He then resolves to appreciate his own friends because someday he could lose them without warning. They then all raise a glass "to Lisa, and the sweet sound of her voice."
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When the ''Defiant'' arrives at Lisa's planet, they find it surrounded by a strange radiation field, forcing Sisko and a rescue party to fly down to surface. There, they discover the badly decays body of Lisa Cusack, who has been dead for about three years. The planetary radiation had caused their communications to time-shift by three years. They take her body back to the station and hold a wake for her. Sisko schedules a dinner with Kasidy to explain his behavior. Bashir gives a speech, saying that Lisa died surrounded by friends even though she never met them in person. He then O'Brien resolves to appreciate his own friends because someday he could lose them without warning. They then all raise a glass "to Lisa, and the sweet sound of her voice."
* ContinuityNod: Quark and Odo recall how Quark urged Odo to express his feelings for Kira and how Odo's first date was a disaster, but their first kiss the next day was better. All of this happened in "[[StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS06E20HisWay His Way]]."
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* HopeSpot: The ship arrives with 45 minutes to spare, seemingly able to beat the TickingClock.
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* HopeSpot: The ship arrives with 45 minutes to spare, seemingly able to beat the TickingClock.RaceAgainstTheClock.
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When the ''Defiant'' arrives at Lisa's planet, they find it surrounded by a strange radiation field, forcing Sisko and a rescue party to fly down to surface. There, they discover the badly decays body of Lisa Cusack, who has been dead for about three years. The planetary radiation had caused their communications to time-shift by three years. They take her body back to the station and hold a wake for her. Bashir says that Lisa died surrounded by friends even though she never met them in person. He then resolves to appreciate his own friends because someday he could lose them without warning. They then all raise a glass "to Lisa, and the sweet sound of her voice."
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When the ''Defiant'' arrives at Lisa's planet, they find it surrounded by a strange radiation field, forcing Sisko and a rescue party to fly down to surface. There, they discover the badly decays body of Lisa Cusack, who has been dead for about three years. The planetary radiation had caused their communications to time-shift by three years. They take her body back to the station and hold a wake for her. Bashir says gives a speech, saying that Lisa died surrounded by friends even though she never met them in person. He then resolves to appreciate his own friends because someday he could lose them without warning. They then all raise a glass "to Lisa, and the sweet sound of her voice."
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* CardCarryingVillain: Averted; when Jake asks to tag along and see how a nefarious criminal acts so he can get material for his novels, Quark points out that he's a businessman and no-one ever thinks of themselves as nefarious.
* CrossphaseViewport: A variation. A NegativeSpaceWedgie ping-pongs the communications of the Defiant and Lisa between the same location, but in different time periods.
* DeadAllAlong: In a way, this is Star Trek's spin on a ghost story.
* CrossphaseViewport: A variation. A NegativeSpaceWedgie ping-pongs the communications of the Defiant and Lisa between the same location, but in different time periods.
* DeadAllAlong: In a way, this is Star Trek's spin on a ghost story.
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* CardCarryingVillain: Averted; when Defied. When Jake asks to tag along and see how a nefarious criminal acts so he can get material for his novels, Quark points out that he's a businessman and no-one no one ever thinks of themselves as nefarious.
*CrossphaseViewport: A variation. A NegativeSpaceWedgie ping-pongs DeadAllAlong: Lisa was already dead by the time her communications of caught up with the Defiant and Lisa between the same location, but in different time periods.
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* DeadAllAlong: In a way, this is Star Trek's spin on a ghost story.
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* HopeSpot: The whole story is one big Hope Spot. The rescue party seems poised ship arrives with 45 minutes to reach spare, seemingly able to beat the "damsel in distress" in the nick of time, only to discover that an ill-explained time displacement was in effect, and she's actually been dead for years.TickingClock.
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** One played for laughs in TheTeaser. Odo cites the backless bar stools as dangerous to public safety--listing the various injuries Morn could experience if he were to suddenly slip and fall. A worried Morn stands up at that.
** The big reveal about Lisa Cusak is a dramatic whammy.
** One played for laughs in TheTeaser. Odo cites the backless bar stools as dangerous to public safety--listing the various injuries Morn could experience if he were to suddenly slip and fall. A worried Morn stands up at that.
** The big reveal about Lisa Cusak is a dramatic whammy.
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**OhCrap: One played for laughs in TheTeaser. Odo cites the backless bar stools as dangerous to public safety--listing the various injuries Morn could experience if he were to suddenly slip and fall. A worried Morn stands up at that.
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* PlotHole: Why didn't anyone look up the ship she was from? Perhaps they would have learned sooner that she had been missing for 3 years.
** Possibly justified by them presuming the ''Olympia'' she referred to was the current ship bearing that name as Starfleet is in the habit of reusing ship names often.
** Further justified in that the ship had been sent on a long mission in deep space. When it crashed, it had been on its mission for ''8 years''.
** Possibly justified by them presuming the ''Olympia'' she referred to was the current ship bearing that name as Starfleet is in the habit of reusing ship names often.
** Further justified in that the ship had been sent on a long mission in deep space. When it crashed, it had been on its mission for ''8 years''.
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The crew of the ''Defiant'' picks up a DistressSignal coming from the survivor of a downed Starfleet ship. They race there, leaving the communications open with the woman (she says that she can't sleep due to the medicine she is taking to survive in the harsh atmosphere). Upon arrival, they find her in the cave she had sought out for shelter and bring her home. Her body, at least. It turns out that, thanks to the TimeyWimeyBall, she had crashed 3 years prior, and had been dead the entire time the ''Defiant'' was racing to rescue her.
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At the end of a lengthy mission, the mood is irritable on the ''Defiant'', particularly between Sisko and Yates. They pick up a distress call from a female Starfleet captain who is marooned on a barely habitable planet and begging for a hero to rescue her. Sisko announces that they will be her hero and orders O'Brien to establish communication with her. As O'Brien works, he listens to the woman's ongoing narration of her predicament and seems to connect with her. When Kasidy arrives to get O'Brien's advice on why Sisko seems to have a problem with her on the ship, their conversation gets overheard by the marooned captain. Two-way communication has been achieved.
The captain is Lisa Cusack, who's been out of the Alpha Quadrant for eight years and is now running out of tri-ox treatments for the poisonously high CO2 levels on the planet. Bashir tells her to cut her usage in half so they'll last long enough for the ship to reach her. Until then, she's got nothing to do, so she asks that the crew keep talking to her to keep her morale up. Sisko decides that the crew will take shifts and volunteers for the first shift. After learning about the Dominion war, Lisa starts delving into Sisko's romantic problems.
Others on the ship take their shifts. O'Brien discusses his war experiences and how this war feels different. Bashir initially doesn't pay Lisa much attention, but she calls him on his lack of interest by playing a prank on him, and they soon warm to each other. Everyone seems to enjoy learning about her and having her as a confidant. But her tri-ox treatments have run out faster than expected. Even after taking the risky action of routing phaser energy to the engines, Lisa has already lost consciousness by the time the ship arrives at the planet and has only 45 minutes to rescue Lisa before she asphyxiates.
While all of this going on, Quark has noticed that the love-smitten Odo loses interest in hassling him whenever he's thinking about Kira. He convinces the constable to take Kira on a date for their one-month anniversary and sell some Denevan crystals while the constable is distracted. Jake convinces Quark to let him observe the plot so he can get inspiration for a novel. However, the constable throws a monkey wrench in things by changing the date to Sunday. Quark can't contact the Nausican buyer to come on a different day, so his plan will no doubt get discovered. Odo overhears Quark lamenting to Jake that helping the changeling find love has spelled his doom. Odo changes his date back to Saturday to allow Quark to make his deal.
When the ''Defiant''picks up arrives at Lisa's planet, they find it surrounded by a DistressSignal coming from strange radiation field, forcing Sisko and a rescue party to fly down to surface. There, they discover the survivor badly decays body of a downed Starfleet ship. They race there, leaving the Lisa Cusack, who has been dead for about three years. The planetary radiation had caused their communications open with to time-shift by three years. They take her body back to the woman (she station and hold a wake for her. Bashir says that Lisa died surrounded by friends even though she can't sleep due never met them in person. He then resolves to appreciate his own friends because someday he could lose them without warning. They then all raise a glass "to Lisa, and the medicine she is taking to survive in the harsh atmosphere). Upon arrival, they find sweet sound of her in the cave she had sought out for shelter and bring her home. Her body, at least. It turns out that, thanks to the TimeyWimeyBall, she had crashed 3 years prior, and had been dead the entire time the ''Defiant'' was racing to rescue her.
The B-plot features Quark using Odo's romance with Kira to distract Odo to allow himself to sell some contraband, with Jake observing to get inspiration for a novel.
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The captain is Lisa Cusack, who's been out of the Alpha Quadrant for eight years and is now running out of tri-ox treatments for the poisonously high CO2 levels on the planet. Bashir tells her to cut her usage in half so they'll last long enough for the ship to reach her. Until then, she's got nothing to do, so she asks that the crew keep talking to her to keep her morale up. Sisko decides that the crew will take shifts and volunteers for the first shift. After learning about the Dominion war, Lisa starts delving into Sisko's romantic problems.
Others on the ship take their shifts. O'Brien discusses his war experiences and how this war feels different. Bashir initially doesn't pay Lisa much attention, but she calls him on his lack of interest by playing a prank on him, and they soon warm to each other. Everyone seems to enjoy learning about her and having her as a confidant. But her tri-ox treatments have run out faster than expected. Even after taking the risky action of routing phaser energy to the engines, Lisa has already lost consciousness by the time the ship arrives at the planet and has only 45 minutes to rescue Lisa before she asphyxiates.
While all of this going on, Quark has noticed that the love-smitten Odo loses interest in hassling him whenever he's thinking about Kira. He convinces the constable to take Kira on a date for their one-month anniversary and sell some Denevan crystals while the constable is distracted. Jake convinces Quark to let him observe the plot so he can get inspiration for a novel. However, the constable throws a monkey wrench in things by changing the date to Sunday. Quark can't contact the Nausican buyer to come on a different day, so his plan will no doubt get discovered. Odo overhears Quark lamenting to Jake that helping the changeling find love has spelled his doom. Odo changes his date back to Saturday to allow Quark to make his deal.
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* AllForNothing: Zig zagged. Lisa has been dead for three years, so the crew's efforts never would've made a difference. On the other hand, the fact that Lisa ''believed'' she would be rescued, plus having people to talk to, likely made her final days a little easier. Additionally, the experience has taught Sisko, Bashir, and O'Brien not to push others away during the rough times.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: "Because someday we're going to wake up and we're going to find that someone is missing from this circle." O'Brien had no idea how soon that would be proven true...
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** The editor did though, the exact choice and timing of shots are clearly very intentional.
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* NotSoDifferent: Jadzia describes an Irish wake as a place where attendees drink, sing, laugh, and cry while paying respect to the dead. Worf remarks it's almost Klingon.
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** Watch the visuals on this one too, the exact choice and timing of shots are clearly very intentional.
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* JerkassHasAPoint: Quark rants to Jake about how Odo is an UngratefulBastard who is determined to arrest him despite all he has done for Odo over the years. Odo, who had been listening on the conversation, seems to agree with him and lets him get away with his scheme for the day.
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The B-plot features Quark using Odo's romance with Kira to distract Odo to allow himself to sell some contraband, with Jake observing to get inspiration for a novel.
* BizarreAlienBiology: Odo speculates that falling off a bar stool could result in injury to three or four of Morn's lungs.
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* DistressCall: The Defiant picks up a general distress call from a Starfleet officer in the Rutharian sector.
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* {{Irony}}: O'Brien admits that he felt even lonlier than Lisa despite being surrounded by friends.
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* NegativeSpaceWedgie: The planet has some kind of subspace barrier around it that causes the woman's distress signal to travel over 3 years into the future, and the Defiant's answer to travel into the past.
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* NegativeSpaceWedgie: The planet has some kind of subspace barrier around it that causes the woman's distress signal to travel over 3 years into the future, and the Defiant's ''Defiant'''s answer to travel into the past.
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* OpenSecret: Cassidy Yates knowing full well that the USS Defiant is a warship, despite being a civilian and the Federation using euphemisms to describe its warships (i.e. Defiant Class Starships' type is officially designated "Escort vessel" and [[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS4E13MessageInABottle the USS Prometheus computer described the vessel's design intended for "Deep space tactical assignments" to The Doctor]]) to avoid military parlance with what Starfleet's primary mission is supposed to be an exploration agency of the Federation.
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* OpenSecret: Cassidy Kasidy Yates knowing full well that the USS Defiant ''Defiant'' is a warship, despite being a civilian and the Federation using euphemisms to describe its warships (i.e. Defiant Class Starships' type is officially designated "Escort vessel" and [[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS4E13MessageInABottle the USS Prometheus computer described the vessel's design intended for "Deep space tactical assignments" to The Doctor]]) to avoid military parlance with what Starfleet's primary mission is supposed to be an exploration agency of the Federation.
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* TalkingToTheDead: Literally due to a TemporalParadox. The Defiant receives a distress call in the middle of an interstellar storm and alter their course to the planet in order to help. During the trip, they hold a conversation with a Starfleet officer who only managed to keep herself alive thanks to the recommendations of rationing what few medical supplies she had. By the time the crew finally reaches her on the surface, they find that she had been dead long before the Defiant got the distress call.
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* TalkingToTheDead: Literally due to a TemporalParadox. The Defiant ''Defiant'' receives a distress call in the middle of an interstellar storm and alter their alters course to the planet in order to help. During the trip, they hold a conversation with a Starfleet officer who only managed to keep herself alive thanks to the recommendations of rationing what few medical supplies she had. By the time the crew finally reaches her on the surface, they find that she had been dead long before the Defiant ''Defiant'' got the distress call.
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* CardCarryingVillian: Averted; when Jake asks to tag along and see how a nefarious criminal acts so he can get material for his novels, Quark points out that he's a businessman and no-one ever thinks of themselves as nefarious.
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* CardCarryingVillian: CardCarryingVillain: Averted; when Jake asks to tag along and see how a nefarious criminal acts so he can get material for his novels, Quark points out that he's a businessman and no-one ever thinks of themselves as nefarious.
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* MeaningfulFuneral: When the senior staff hold a memorial service for Cusak, they also come to terms with the fact that the war with the Dominion had caused them to grow more distant from each other, and reaffirm their friendship.
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* CantGetAwayWithNuthin: Inverted in the B-plot. Quark feels this way about Odo, but just for once, Odo lets him get away with smuggling to thank him for setting up Odo's date with Kira.
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* CantGetAwayWithNuthin: Inverted in the B-plot. Quark feels this way about Odo, but just for once, Odo lets him get away with smuggling to thank when he realizes how much Quark has done for him for setting up Odo's date with Kira.over the years, feeling that he owes him a favor after all that.
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* OpenSecret: Cassidy Yates knowing full well that the USS Defiant is a warship, despite being a civilian and the Federation using euphemisms to describe its warships (i.e. Defiant Class Starships' type is officially designated "Escort vessel" and [[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS4E13MessageInABottle the USS Prometheus computer described the vessel's design intended for "Deep space tactical assignments" to The Doctor]]) to avoid military parlance with what Starfleet's primary mission is supposed to be of an exploration agency of the Federation.
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* OpenSecret: Cassidy Yates knowing full well that the USS Defiant is a warship, despite being a civilian and the Federation using euphemisms to describe its warships (i.e. Defiant Class Starships' type is officially designated "Escort vessel" and [[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS4E13MessageInABottle the USS Prometheus computer described the vessel's design intended for "Deep space tactical assignments" to The Doctor]]) to avoid military parlance with what Starfleet's primary mission is supposed to be of an exploration agency of the Federation.
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* AllForNothing: Zig zagged. Lisa has been dead for three years, so the crew's efforts never would've made a difference. On the other hand, the experience has taught Sisko, Bashir, and O'Brien not to push others away during the rough times.
* BatmanGambit: Quark has a deal in mind and seeks to arrange things so Odo is busy in a holosuite on Saturday.
* BatmanGambit: Quark has a deal in mind and seeks to arrange things so Odo is busy in a holosuite on Saturday.
* DueToTheDead: When Lisa's body is found, O'Brien says they should bury her. Sisko agrees, but not about doing so on this barren planet; he wants to take Lisa's body back so that she can get a proper burial and be among friends.
* IOweYouMyLife: Odo tells Kira that he does owe Quark one... but ''just'' this one.
* {{Irony}}: O'Brien admits that he felt even lonlier than Lisa despite being surrounded by friends.
* MoodWhiplash:
** Odo is all stern as he's bringing the hammer down on Quark, but he immediately acts all smitten when Kira appears and asks him out to lunch. Quark notices this, which sets off his B-plot.
** While talking to a disinterested Bashir, Lisa pretends that she's being attacked. Serious stuff, until she imitates an alien claiming to have just eaten her.
* {{Irony}}: O'Brien admits that he felt even lonlier than Lisa despite being surrounded by friends.
* MoodWhiplash:
** Odo is all stern as he's bringing the hammer down on Quark, but he immediately acts all smitten when Kira appears and asks him out to lunch. Quark notices this, which sets off his B-plot.
** While talking to a disinterested Bashir, Lisa pretends that she's being attacked. Serious stuff, until she imitates an alien claiming to have just eaten her.
* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: Quark says this of the grief he gets despite being there for Odo during his anguish over seeing Kira with Shakaar. He even says this trope is the 285th Rule of Acquisition.
* NotSoDifferent: Jadzia describes an Irish wake as a place where attendees drink, sing, laugh, and cry while paying respect to the dead. Worf remarks it's almost Klingon.
* OhCrap:
** One played for laughs in TheTeaser. Odo cites the backless bar stools as dangerous to public safety--listing the various injuries Morn could experience if he were to suddenly slip and fall. A worried Morn stands up at that.
** The big reveal about Lisa Cusak is a dramatic whammy.
* PetTheDog: After hearing what Quark said, Odo decides to let him get away with his latest scam.
* NotSoDifferent: Jadzia describes an Irish wake as a place where attendees drink, sing, laugh, and cry while paying respect to the dead. Worf remarks it's almost Klingon.
* OhCrap:
** One played for laughs in TheTeaser. Odo cites the backless bar stools as dangerous to public safety--listing the various injuries Morn could experience if he were to suddenly slip and fall. A worried Morn stands up at that.
** The big reveal about Lisa Cusak is a dramatic whammy.
* PetTheDog: After hearing what Quark said, Odo decides to let him get away with his latest scam.
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* PoliceAreUseless: Quark says he can easily handle Odo's deputies.
* ThePowerOfFriendship:
** Quark points out that for all his scams, he's been there for Odo when he really needed help (such as Odo's misery when Kira got together with Shakaar), but he gets no regard, gets hassled over minor infractions, and would be sent to prison without a second thought. Odo overhears this, though, and takes it to heart.
** Sisko, Bashir, and O'Brien take turns talking to Lisa. Each bonds with her in their own way, which makes the reveal sting even harder.
** O'Brien's speech at the wake reflects how the group needs to be close and be there for each other again.
* ProperlyParanoid: Quark is certain he can't pull off his scam unless Odo is preoccupied. He's right; Odo was secretly observing things right where Quark was storing his goods.
* RaceAgainstTheClock: The crew have to get to Lisa before she no longer has the means to stave off carbon dioxide poisoning. It turns out they never had a chance.
* SpannerInTheWorks: Just as Quark thinks his deal for Saturday is all set, Odo tells him he wants a holosuite for Sunday rather than Saturday.
* TalkingToTheDead: Literally due to a TemporalParadox. The Defiant receives a distress call in the middle of an interstellar storm and alter their course to the planet in order to help. During the trip, they hold a conversation with a Starfleet officer who only managed to keep herself alive thanks to the recommendations of rationing what few medical supplies she had. By the time the crew finally reaches her on the surface, they find that she had been dead long before the Defiant got the distresscall.call.
* ThisCannotBe: Sisko's reaction to seeing Lisa's corpse.
* TookALevelInJerkass: TheTeaser highlights how Bashir has become more impersonal, while Sisko isn't just joking when insulting him behind his back. While talking to Lisa, O'Brien admits he's been putting on a good front, but he secretly distances himself because people around him might soon die.
* YouAreNotAlone: Part of the reason Sisko wants two-way communication with Lisa.
* ThePowerOfFriendship:
** Quark points out that for all his scams, he's been there for Odo when he really needed help (such as Odo's misery when Kira got together with Shakaar), but he gets no regard, gets hassled over minor infractions, and would be sent to prison without a second thought. Odo overhears this, though, and takes it to heart.
** Sisko, Bashir, and O'Brien take turns talking to Lisa. Each bonds with her in their own way, which makes the reveal sting even harder.
** O'Brien's speech at the wake reflects how the group needs to be close and be there for each other again.
* ProperlyParanoid: Quark is certain he can't pull off his scam unless Odo is preoccupied. He's right; Odo was secretly observing things right where Quark was storing his goods.
* RaceAgainstTheClock: The crew have to get to Lisa before she no longer has the means to stave off carbon dioxide poisoning. It turns out they never had a chance.
* SpannerInTheWorks: Just as Quark thinks his deal for Saturday is all set, Odo tells him he wants a holosuite for Sunday rather than Saturday.
* TalkingToTheDead: Literally due to a TemporalParadox. The Defiant receives a distress call in the middle of an interstellar storm and alter their course to the planet in order to help. During the trip, they hold a conversation with a Starfleet officer who only managed to keep herself alive thanks to the recommendations of rationing what few medical supplies she had. By the time the crew finally reaches her on the surface, they find that she had been dead long before the Defiant got the distress
* ThisCannotBe: Sisko's reaction to seeing Lisa's corpse.
* TookALevelInJerkass: TheTeaser highlights how Bashir has become more impersonal, while Sisko isn't just joking when insulting him behind his back. While talking to Lisa, O'Brien admits he's been putting on a good front, but he secretly distances himself because people around him might soon die.
* YouAreNotAlone: Part of the reason Sisko wants two-way communication with Lisa.
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* NegativeSpaceWedgie: The planet has some kind of subspace barrier around it that causes the woman's distress signal to travel over 3 years into the future, and the Defiant's answer to travel into the past.
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** Possibly justified by them presuming the ''Olympia'' she referred to was the current ship bearing that name as Starfleet is in the habit of reusing ship names often.
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* CantGetAwayWithNuthin: Inverted in the B-plot. Quark feels this way about Odo, but just for once, Odo lets him get away with smuggling to thank him for setting up Odo's date with Kira.
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* DistressCall: The Defiant picks up a general distress call from a Starfleet officer in the Rutharian sector.
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The crew of the ''Defiant'' picks up a DistressSignal coming from the survivor of a downed Starfleet ship. They race there, leaving the communications open with the woman (she says that she can't sleep due to the medicine she is taking to survive in the harsh atmosphere). Upon arrival, they find her in the cave she had sought out for shelter and bring her home. [[spoiler:Her body, at least. It turns out that, thanks to the TimeyWimeyBall, she had crashed 3 years prior, and had been dead the entire time the ''Defiant'' was racing to rescue her.]]
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The crew of the ''Defiant'' picks up a DistressSignal coming from the survivor of a downed Starfleet ship. They race there, leaving the communications open with the woman (she says that she can't sleep due to the medicine she is taking to survive in the harsh atmosphere). Upon arrival, they find her in the cave she had sought out for shelter and bring her home. [[spoiler:Her Her body, at least. It turns out that, thanks to the TimeyWimeyBall, she had crashed 3 years prior, and had been dead the entire time the ''Defiant'' was racing to rescue her.]]
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* PlotHole: Why didn't anyone look up the ship she was from? Perhaps they would have learned sooner that [[spoiler:she had been missing for 3 years.]]
* [[spoiler:TalkingToTheDead]]: Literally due to a TemporalParadox. The Defiant receives a distress call in the middle of an interstellar storm and alter their course to the planet in order to help. During the trip, they hold a conversation with a Starfleet officer who only managed to keep herself alive thanks to the recommendations of rationing what few medical supplies she had. By the time the crew finally reaches her on the surface, [[spoiler:they find that she had been dead long before the Defiant got the distress call]].
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* PlotHole: Why didn't anyone look up the ship she was from? Perhaps they would have learned sooner that [[spoiler:she had been missing for 3 years.]]
* [[spoiler:TalkingToTheDead]]: Literally due to a TemporalParadox. The Defiant receives a distress call in the middle of an interstellar storm and alter their course to the planet in order to help. During the trip, they hold a conversation with a Starfleet officer who only managed to keep herself alive thanks to the recommendations of rationing what few medical supplies she had. By the time the crew finally reaches her on the surface, [[spoiler:they find that she had been dead long before the Defiant got the distress call]].
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The crew of the ''Defiant'' picks up a DistressSignal coming from the survivor of a downed Starfleet ship. They race there, leaving the communications open with the woman (she says that she can't sleep due to the medicine she is taking to survive in the harsh atmosphere). Upon arrival, they find her in the cave she had sought out for shelter and bring her home. [[spoiler:Her body, at least. It turns out that, thanks to the TimeyWimeyBall, she had crashed 3 years prior, and had been dead the entire time the ''Defiant'' was racing to rescue her.]]
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* [[spoiler:TalkingToTheDead]]: Literally due to a TemporalParadox. The Defiant receives a distress call in the middle of an interstellar storm and alter their course to the planet in order to help. During the trip, they hold a conversation with a Starfleet officer who only managed to keep herself alive thanks to the recommendations of rationing what few medical supplies she had. By the time the crew finally reaches her on the surface, [[spoiler:they find that she had been dead long before the Defiant got the distress call]].
* [[spoiler:TalkingToTheDead]]: Literally due to a TemporalParadox. The Defiant receives a distress call in the middle of an interstellar storm and alter their course to the planet in order to help. During the trip, they hold a conversation with a Starfleet officer who only managed to keep herself alive thanks to the recommendations of rationing what few medical supplies she had. By the time the crew finally reaches her on the surface, [[spoiler:they find that she had been dead long before the Defiant got the distress call]].
