Season Number: 4	Production (Airing) Number: 475 (75)
Guest Stars:	Tony Todd - Aged Jake Sisko Galyn Gorg - Korena Aron Eisenberg - Nog Rachel Robinson - Melanie
Director:	David Livingston
Writing:	Michael Taylor
Summary:	Decades into the future, an elderly Jake Sisko is visited at his New Orleans home by a young, aspiring author named Melanie, who is curious to know why he stopped writing at forty. Jake reveals how years ago he had gone along on the Defiant to witness a rare inversion of the wormhole that happens just once every fifty years. During the trip, Captain Sisko was hit by a bolt of energy from the malfunctioning warp core, after which he dematerialized, eventually given up for dead. Months later, Sisko appeared for several moments near Jake, then dematerialized again. Knowing that he was still alive somewhere, young Jake began a quest to bring his father back, an obsession that has continued into his old age...