Apparently when your society is falling apart due to internal struggles the best thing to do is to contain all those struggles, including the quirks of the individuals involved, in psychic spheres to use to destroy those that would try to discover what happened to you in the future. Oh, and said psychic spheres (note: we only see them as a gas cloud or something but everyone keeps calling them spheres for some reason) don't do anything to changelings but knock them out and make them turn their faces inside out despite not being able to affect a non-humanoid brain. This episode has lazy end of season "bottle show" written all over it.
The episode opens with Kira confronting Sisko about a potential smuggler docking at DS9. Kira doesn't have any proof they are illegally smuggling but is just sure of it. Sisko refuses to let her interfere but suddenly a A Klingon ship comes through the wormhole unannounced. It explodes before they can get any answers but the one survivor is beamed to Bashir's office where he declares victory before dying. No one can figure out what killed him despite weapon burns all over (too bad Worf isn't here, he could tell you the brand of weapon based on those marks alone) but that isn't the real problem. The real problem is Kira is suddenly no longer putting up with Sisko. Odo tries to get some answers from Quark and eventually discovers the Klingons were after some ultimate weapon, but this never comes up again and is in fact contradicted by a statement in the Klingon logs later. As he leaves the bar Odo falls down in pain and wakes up in Bashir's office, but this too is a red herring.
Sisko is becoming increasingly aloof and O'Brien is taking over station command duties for him. Kira is working hard to recruit allies and seems to have recruited Dax but she seems to really only be interested in telling stories from her past, over and over. Things keep spiralling out of control and Odo finally figures out something is going on after Kira tries to recruit him a few times. He goes to see Sisko but finds O'Brien in his office. Sisko is in his quarters surrounded by security personnel building a clock for some reason. Odo manages to get Bashir working on a plan to drive out the psychic energy with a resonance something or other. Things come to a head in ops when a Bajoran tries to kill Sisko. O'Brien and Sisko escape using a transporter but are trapped in a cargo bay. Kira shows up with a gun along with Dax and Odo arrives with Bashir just in time to turn on the resonance thing and drive the evil right out of them. They then hold on to loose objects around the cargo bay as Odo opens the door and sucks the evil out into space or something.
Review: It is fun to see everybody acting out of character, but there is some seriously lazy script writing going on. Many of the characters actions make no sense even assuming they have been psychically taken over and the so call sphere are never seen other than as a diffuse cloud. Not unwatchable, but not great either.
4 out of 10
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