[Promenade - upper level] Chief O'Brien.
What is it, Quark? The Klingons just destroyed two of my holosuites.
I need a maintenance crew immediately. Quark, we go through this every time Klingons
come aboard the station. Why don't you just (O'Brien and Quark looks across at the earlier
O'Brien.) (Music)
I think my holosuites can wait. It looks like you have bigger problems.
[Commander's office] I went over the internal sensor logs and I
did find evidence of a minor temporal disturbance in Quark's and another one later on the Promenade.
Both disturbances happened at about the same time as the Chief's experiences.
So it would seem that you did travel into the future and then returned to the same moment
that you left. Have you any idea what might have caused this
time shift? Not yet. I want to go over the medical scans
Julian took of you earlier. That dose of ionising radiation you received might have something
to do with it. How?
I'm not sure, but it's a good place to start. I have heard of a couple of theories that
ambient low level radiation could have a temporal [Quark's]
(The Klingons and the Romulans and Starfleet are fighting. O'Brien 2 has been beaten up
at the bar and a Klingon draws a dagger when our O'Brien intervenes and disarms him.)
Look out! (O'Brien dodges a flying chair)
[Commander's office] Effect on radioactive isotopes
(O'Brien falls over.) Chief!
Mister O'Brien? [Infirmary]
I ran a microcellular scan and detected minute damage to his cerebrospinal nerve cells which
might have been caused by the time shifting. Can you repair it?
Yes, but the effect is cumulative. If you keep time shifting, there may come a point
where the damage becomes irreparable. Eventually, it might even kill you.
Don't worry, Chief. Dax is using every scanner on the station to hunt for any temporal abnormalities.
Well, if anyone can find the cause of the time shifts, it's Dax.
Chief, do you have any idea of how far into the future you travelled?
No, sir. There was nothing to indicate that it was today, tomorrow, next week.
Well, this conference with the Romulans is not supposed to last longer than three days.
In the meantime I'll have Odo tighten security around Quark's.
(Kira enters.) How are you feeling, Chief?
Better. Good. Commander, may I speak with you for
a minute? Of course.
[Promenade] The Romulans want to debrief everyone who
was on the Defiant when it was captured by the Founders. They're also still not happy
with the sensor information collected by the Defiant, so they want unrestricted access
to the Defiant. And they also want complete access to all our personal logs.
Personal logs are out of the question, but they can have limited access to the Defiant.
I'll let them debrief us as well. I know they're pushing us, Major, but consider their position.
There have never been any Romulan ships in the Gamma Quadrant, so they've never encountered
the Dominion. So they're completely dependent on us for information.
Well then maybe they should send their own ships through the wormhole and find out for
themselves. The Romulans generally prefer to sit back
and pull the strings from a distance if they can.
This is one puppet who doesn't like her strings pulled.
I know. But like Ruwon said, they've lived up to their part of the bargain. We have to
do everything we can to live up to ours. All right. I'll draw up a schedule of interviews
and I'll tell everyone to cooperate. And Major, when you're in with the Romulans,
try to be diplomatic. I'm always diplomatic.