After the last few episodes being main plot drivers I guess they felt the need to make a more personal episode, and while it isn't as exciting as the previous two, it does move things forward for Jake and Sisko. I don't recall Bashir's medical school colleague showing up again, but we do meet Leeta, Rom's future wife. Probably most importantly we meet Sisko's new facial hair that he keeps through the rest of the series. At this point he still has hair, but that won't stick around very long.
The episode opens with Leeta trying to convince Bashir she has a cough the needs taking care of, well, mostly she just seems to want him to take care of her. Dax stops by with the news that the Lexington is stopping but the station in a few weeks which throws Julian into hysterics. It seems his medical school rival and possibly romance interest is the chief medical officer on the Lexington and he hasn't seen her since medical school. Sisko returns from a trip from Bajor and can't wait to tell Jake about a Bajoran light sail ship he learned about and is determined to reconstruct. Jake is interested, but there is a girl coming to the station so he declines to go with his father on the trip. Sisko is building the ship with no updates from what the Bajorans a few hundred years ago would have had, other than adding artificial gravity because budgets. Gul Dukat contacts Sisko to express his concern that it may be a dangerous journey, but Sisko is convinced he just doesn't want to admit it is possible ancient Bajorans could have made it to Cardassia.
Jake gets a message from New Zealand which we don't see and decides he does want to join his father. Meanwhile Bashir runs around like a mad man trying to have everything in the best shape he can. Morn and Quark even have a bet going on how well things will go between him and his rival. Sisko and Jake set out on their journey and the ship runs well. Jake then pulls out a story he wrote and gets his dad to read it. They discuss the writing and Jake admits part of the reason he wanted to go on the trip was to discuss that he has been admitted to a writing college in New Zealand after Keiko submitted some of his stories. We also learn he doesn't want to go yet, he is determined to get his father back in the dating game first.
O'Brien and Bashir are drinking in Quarks while his classmate drinks on the far side of the bar. She gets up to walk out and walks right by Bashir without even seeing him apparently. Miles and Julian then head to Julian's quarters and get super drunk and Julian decides he needs to confront her, but Miles convinces him to at least wait until the next day. On the light ship things take a turn for the worse. One of the sails buckles and they are forced to jettison it. They head to bed for the night but are awoken by the ship suddenly rocking and moving violently, it seems they have gone to warp speed which is odd since they don't even have an engine. When they come to a stop they find that they are out of communication range with the station. The next day in Quarks Julian finally talks to her and she admits she thought he was an Andorian, she was so nervous before her valedictorian speech she totally missed his and never saw him. The two head to the infirmary and Quark wins his bet. On the light ship they are startled by the arrival of Cardassian ships, and are even more surprised to get a call from Dukat, they have made it all the way to the Cardassian system and are congratulated. Dukat even tells them that a "recently discovered" crash site seems to be from a similar ship to the one they flew.
Review: A good character episode, but after the big stories lately it seemed like a little bit of a let down. Still better than a lot of the crap in other series.
6 out of 10
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