The Ship ( episode ) Sisko fights to keep the wreckage of a crashed Jem ' Hadar fighter . Summary . Teaser . As the away team conducts their planetary survey , Chief O ' Brien and young Crewman Muñiz tease one another . They appear to be forming a close working relationship . Captain Sisko determines that , despite being a long way from supply lines , the planet is a good place to mine . He and Lieutenant Commander Dax are discussing the matter when a ship of some kind crashes on the planet ' s surface . The runabout beams Sisko and the others to the site of the crash , where they discover a Jem ' Hadar warship . Act One . The crew find that the warship has landed upside down and enter through a hatch that would normally be used to land troops . Inside , they find numerous corpses , but according to Dax ' s tricorder , the troops have been dead for hours . O ' Brien suspects an inertial dampener failure , which means that when the ship sped up , every bone in the men ' s bodies was crushed instantly . Although Sisko is excited about the discovery of the ship , he wonders what it was doing so far from Dominion space . Realizing the runabout ' s tractor beam will be insufficient to tow the ship , he sends for the to tow it back to the Alpha Quadrant . Aboard Deep Space 9 , Odo has arrested Quark and his " co - conspirator , " Dr . Bashir . The trio enter Sisko ' s office , where Major Kira learns that Quark ordered a shipment of Regalian fleaspider s for Bashir without a permit . However , the Ferengi took the opportunity to smuggle illegal Regalian liquid crystal s along with the spiders . An impatient Kira announces she is taking the " Defiant " to the Gamma Quadrant to retrieve Sisko and the others , and she will be back in a week . Meanwhile , Commander Worf informs Sisko that they have buried the bodies of the warship ' s crew , 42 Jem ' Hadar and Vorta field supervisor in all . Suddenly , Ensign Hoya contacts Sisko from the runabout and announces that another warship has just suddenly come out of warp ; within seconds , the runabout is destroyed over Torga IV killing Hoya , , and . Act Two . Jem ' Hadar soldiers beam to the surface . There is a shootout in which another away team member , T ' Lor , is killed and Sisko and the others take shelter inside the crashed ship , but Muñiz is shot along the way . Oddly , the Jem ' Hadar do not follow the Starfleet team into the ship . O ' Brien dresses Muñiz ' s wound while they regroup and formulate a plan . The crew explores the ship and find it minimalistic at best . Among other things , there are two headsets – one for a Vorta and another for the Jem ' Hadar – which seem to be the Dominion equivalent of viewscreen s . They are interrupted when Kilana , the Vorta in charge of the newly - arrived ship who contacts Sisko over the Dominion comm system . She offers to meet Sisko face to face with one guard each . Sisko agrees to meet Kilana , who is quite amicable in person . However , she does not recognize Sisko ' s claim to salvage rights for the ship and wants it back . As she and Sisko talk , a lone Jem ' Hadar beams into the ship . Act Three . The Jem ' Hadar is carrying a piece of surveillance equipment . Meanwhile , Kilana offers to take Sisko and the others back to Federation territory , but Sisko firmly refuses . O ' Brien finds the Jem ' Hadar and there is a brief struggle before Muñiz manages to shoot the soldier , saving the chief from being stabbed . With Kilana aboard her ship and Sisko back inside his , O ' Brien continues to tend to Muñiz , who suspects he is dying . They realize there is an anticoagulant in his blood , an apparent side - effect of the Jem ' Hadar weapon , which is preventing his otherwise minor wound from healing . As a result , Muñiz is bleeding to death and requires immediate attention . Worf and O ' Brien have a difference of opinion over this ; while the Klingon believes Muñiz should be told to prepare for death , O ' Brien is convinced that Muñiz ' s only chance is to keep fighting . Kilana contacts Sisko again and apologizes for her deception , offering to meet him unarmed and alone ( a condition to which she does not hold him ) as a show of good faith . When they meet again , Kilana acknowledges the obvious : there is something aboard Sisko ' s ship she wants . However , neither trusts the other and Sisko refuses to let Kilana retrieve it , while Kilana refuses to tell Sisko what it is . She realizes their conversation is going nowhere , so she beams off the surface as her ship begins to bombard the surface . Act Four . In the meantime , Muñiz has begun to go into shock . Before long , the crew realizes Kilana is not trying to hit the ship , as the ultritium concussion shell s her ship is firing should destroy them in one hit . They continue to search for whatever Kilana wants , while Muñiz ' s condition continues to deteriorate and he becomes delirious . Tensions continue to mount as the Starfleet group , tired , hungry , and filthy , become increasingly apprehensive . Sisko becomes fed up with the bickering between Worf and O ' Brien and Dax ' s misguided attempts to lighten the situation with humor and sharply orders everyone to stop wasting time and start acting like Starfleet officers who know what they ' re doing . He then tells Worf and O ' Brien to try and get the engines and weapons working , and orders Dax to search the ship no matter how many times it takes to find whatever Kilana wants . As the three chastened officers leave to do their work , Sisko turns to Muñiz and orders him to stay alive . O ' Brien does his best to get the ship up and running , but when they attempt to take off from the planet , the power circuits overload and the condition of the ship ' s systems becomes even worse leaving them with no choice but to wait for the " Defiant " to arrive . O ' Brien tells Muñiz they could really use his help , only to find that the young engineer has died from his injuries , causing a deafening silence to wash over the crew . Dax later comforts Sisko , who tells his friend that they need to get the ship back to Starfleet so that the families of the five dead officers won ' t feel that their loved ones died for nothing . The gloomy mood is interrupted when something begins to drip from the ceiling . They look up to realize one of the bulkhead s is actually a Founder . Act Five . The changeling is not attacking , but dying , no longer able to hold its form and apparently injured from the accident that killed the ship ' s crew . As it dies , it cries out , loud enough for Kilana and her men to hear . With the Changeling dead , Kilana beams directly aboard Sisko ' s ship , alone . She informs him that her soldiers killed themselves for allowing one of their god s to die . She says Sisko should have trusted her , but he says she was lying to him from the beginning , this wasn ' t her first mission outside the Dominion . She says she regrets lying , but all that mattered to her was rescuing the Founder . Sisko says she should have told him the truth . She says she was afraid they would kill the Founder if they knew about him . Sisko tells her all he wanted was the ship . Muñiz and all the others died because neither Sisko nor Kilana was willing to trust the other . Dax confirms that the soldiers outside have killed themselves . Sisko allows Kilana to take some of the Founder ' s remains with her . Just before she leaves , Kilana asks Sisko if he has any gods that he believes in . He says he believes in some things . She asks " " Duty , Starfleet , the Federation ? You must be pleased with yourself , you have this ship to take back to them . I hope it was worth it " . " Kilana then leaves , as Sisko can only hope that the ship was worth the lives that were lost for it . The " Defiant " arrives and tows the Jem ' Hadar ship back to DS9 . Starfleet is of course very pleased with the find and awards the crew medals , but Sisko laments the death of Muñiz , Hoya , and the others while writing a report for Starfleet Command in the mess hall . Dax reminds him that , while their deaths are certainly tragic , they all knew the risks when they joined Starfleet , and that while the captured ship might have cost five people their lives , it could help save thousands or millions more . Sisko says he knows , and he would do the same thing all over again . But it is still unfair to those who died so far from home . O ' Brien holds his own vigil over Muñiz ' s casket . Worf enters as he does so and reveals that , in Klingon tradition , O ' Brien ' s activity is called " ak ' voh " , or keeping the body of a warrior who died in battle safe from predators while they make their journey to " Sto - vo - kor " . He offers to help O ' Brien protect Muñiz , to which the chief responds , " " I ' m sure Quique would have liked that . " " Memorable quotes . " " In case you haven ' t noticed Dax , no one is laughing ! ! " " " " We have you completely surrounded . And outnumbered . Would you like something to eat , captain ? Or maybe something to drink ? " " " " How many times do I have to tell you to stop calling me " sir " ? I ' m not an officer . " " " " No , you know more than they do . " " " " Don ' t you " trust " me ? " " " " I ' d like to , captain . But I can ' t , not under these circumstances . There ' s simply . . . too much at stake for us . " " " " We ' ve got a lot at stake , too . I won ' t risk the lives of my crew . " " " " It seems we ' re approaching an impasse . " " " " We ' ve already arrived . " " " " It is only a matter of time . " " " " So we should just kill him , right ? " " " " If you truly are his friend , you will consider that option . It would be a more honor able death than the one he ' s enduring . " " " " I ' m not some bloodthirsty Klingon looking for an excuse to kill my friend . " " " " No . You are just another weak Human , afraid to face death . " " " " Commander . " " " " What is it ? " " " " It may have been the Vorta ' s computer console . I found it in one of the upper compartments , but the power grid is offline in that part of the ship . " " " " So you ripped it out of the wall . Very nice . So , what do we do with it now , use it for a door stop ? " " " " I do not care what you do with it . " " " " I know it ' s hot . We ' re filthy , tired , and we ' ve got ten isotons of explosives going off outside . But we will never get out of this if we don ' t pull it together and start to act like professionals ! " " " " My offer was genuine . All that mattered to me was the Founder . " " " " Then you should have told me about him . " " " " You might have killed him , or made him a hostage . " " " " No ! All I wanted was the ship . " " " " And I was willing to let you take it . " " " " Do you have any gods , Captain Sisko ? " " " " There are . . . things I believe in . " " " " Duty ? Starfleet , the Federation ? You must be pleased with yourself . You have the ship to take back to them . I hope it was worth it . " " " " So do I . " " " " We will both keep the predators away . " " Links and references . 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