Stardate: Unknown. Quark meets his match when a new rival opens a casino opposite Quark's Bar on the Promenade; meanwhile the station is suffering issues of high improbability.

Stardate: 47391.7. Odo and Dr. Mora Pol, Odo's 'father', discover a life form similar to Odo on a Gamma Quadrant planet.

Stardate: Unknown. Odo tries to bond with an alien child Quark finds in a load of salvage, while Sisko tries to break his son's relationship with a 20 year old Dabo girl.

Stardate: Unknown. Jake, reporting from the front lines, sees what war truly is.

Stardate: Unknown. Captain Sisko has a full sensory vision of himself as an under-appreciated science fiction magazine writer in 1950s America.

Stardate: 52152.6. Ezri Dax joins Sisko and his family on his quest for the Orb of the Emissary. Jadzia's friends and family seek a glorious battle that will earn her place in Sto-vo-kor. Kira gambles the alliance with Romulans by blockading their weapons installation on Bajor's moon.

Stardate: 52861.3. Odo begins his recovery from the deadly disease as Dr. Bashir informs him of Section 31's intentions of wiping out his race. A resistance mission goes bad for Kira and Garak and they end up hiding in the basement of the house that Garak grew up in, where they learned that Legate Damar has apparently become a casualty of war, despite him also hiding with them. Quark is chosen by the Grand Nagas as his successor upon his impending retirement to Risa.