There are times where it feels like they had the story of Sisko and the prophets planned out a bit from the beginning of the show. And then there are times when an actress decides to leave the show and they have to improvise. I don't recall how Sisko fixes the wormhole, but I am sure he will do it somehow. I had forgotten about the twist that the woman who he thought was his mother turning out to be his step mother and that his real mother had a necklace with an ancient Bajoran inscription about the orb of the emissary.
We start three months after the end of the last season and Kira is settling in to running the station. She still has faith in the prophets, but Odo is worried about all the cult of pah-wraith worshipers who have started showing up on the station. Worf is getting bored with escort duty on the Defiant and also clearly really missing Jadzia. Sisko meanwhile is moping about his dad's restaurant until he has a vision from the prophets of himself digging in the desert on the planet Tyree and finding a woman's face hidden in the sand. He wakes up and tells Jake that he realizes now the reason he is on earth is to find the woman from his vision. He starts creating the womans face using a program on his PADD and Jake walks by and recognizes the face. He says he found a photo of her in the store room and returns with the picture. It is her with Ben's father. When Ben asks about her Joseph refuses to talk aobut her.
Back on the station Kira is told that the Romulans will be setting up offices on the station. She isn't pumped about it, but agrees. She meets the Romulan representative who seems friendly and asks permission to set up a hospital on an unoccupied moon of Bajor and Kira gets the council to agree to it. Worf stops by the holosuite to hear Vic sing Jadzia's favorite song and destroys the virtual bar. Quark talks to Bashir and Quark about it and they agree someone needs to talk to Worf. Sisko talks Joseph into talking about the woman in the picture, her name was Sarah and she was his first wife and Ben's mother. She left unexpectedly when he was one year old and had died before he could track her down. O'Brien gets the job of talking to Worf about Dax and while it takes three bottles of bloodwine, he finally gets Worf to tell him that he is worried Jadzia won't be let into Sto-vo-kor because she didn't die in battle. General Martok recruits Worf for a dangerous mission that should qualify Jadzia for the proper afterlife after some prodding from Miles and Julian who come along as well.
Joseph gives Ben a necklace that belonged to Sarah and when he looks at it closely he finds that it is inscribed in ancient Bajoran. Even more interestingly the words say, "Orb of the Emissary," a object never mentioned in the Bajoran religious texts. Sisko decides he has to go to Tyree to find the orb, but before he can get on his way he is confronted by a member of the pah-wraith cult who stabs him after saying he will never find the orb of the emissary. On DS9 Odo figures out that the Romulan "hospital" is actually an arms depot and tells Kira. She confronts the Romulan representative and insists that it be removed. Sisko is finally ready to go and is surprised that both Jake and Joseph have their bags packed as well. He is even more surprised by a young ensign who knocks on the door asking for him. He asks if he knows her, she replies that she is Dax.
Review: More of a middle set up episode than a pay off episode it none the less manages to juggle at least four stories including the bits with Weyoun and Damar that I cut from the summary for not being very well connected. Looking forward to seeing my episode tomorrow night!
6 out of 10
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