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| Season Number: 4 | Production (Airing) Number: 484 (84) |
| Guest Stars: | Robert Foxworth - Admiral Leyton Herschel Sparber - President Jaresh Inyo Susan Gibney - Captain Benteen Aron Eisenberg - Nog David Drew Gallagher - Riley Shepard Mina Badie - Security Officer Rudolph Willrich - Academy Commandant Brock Peters - Joseph Sisko |
| Director: | David Livingston |
| Writing: | Teleplay: Ira Steven Behr & Robert Hewitt Wolfe Story: Ronald D. Moore |
| Summary: | When Dominion sabotage is blamed for a planetwide power outage, Starfleet stations security all over Earth to prepare for an invasion. Sisko, in charge of the effort, becomes suspicious after learning that certain groups of Starfleet troops have been demobilized. Tricking one of the troops into revealing a plot, Sisko determines that members of Starfleet Command are behind the sabotage. While Sisko sets out to prove this insubordination to the Federation President, a Changeling reveals the plans of the takeover to Sisko. Sisko sends for the Defiant while investigating the Starfleet infiltration. But another Starfleet vessel, the U.S.S. Lakota, has been given orders by a Changeling to intercept and destroy the Defiant. Sisko must reveal the full plot to the crew of the Lakota, in order to save Earth and the Defiant. |