  __notoc__ "the search" is the title of a two-part episode of star trek: deep space nine, the first and second episodes of the third season, the 47th and 48th episodes overall. it marks the first appearance of the starship uss defiant, which plays a large role throughout the rest of the series. it also marks the first appearance of the redesigned communicator badge. ==part 1== the previous episode marked the first occasion that anyone from the alpha quadrant had met the jem'hadar and lived to tell the tale, as the dominion made a very blunt demonstration of their intentions - chiefly by destroying a galaxy-class starship making its way out of the gamma quadrant. this episode starts with major kira leading a discussion in ops about how best to prepare should the dominion launch an attack through the wormhole. while the team comes to the depressing conclusion that deep space nine could only hope to resist being taken over for at best two hours, an unusual starship decloaks 300m from the docking ring. commander sisko has returned from earth in the newly commissioned uss defiant. the commander tells the crew all about the new ship in the conference room. an overpowered prototype originally designed to combat the borg, the defiant has been brought out of the warehouse and fitted with a romulan cloaking device. sisko introduces two new officers: a romulan sub-commander, there to supervise the proper use of the cloaking device, and a lieutenant commander michael eddington, from starfleet security. odo is immediately suspicious of the high ranking security officer. as the briefing concludes he confronts sisko and after an antagonistic conversation promises sisko his res
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