The pair begin their trek out into the wilderness, conversing along the way. As the communications system and signal booster have been destroyed, he uses his Ferengi brain to calculate that they will need to send the signal from somewhere with less atmosphere – namely, from the top of a nearby mountain. Meanwhile, Quark has found a survival suit in the aft section of the Rio Grande, which he plans to wear ("finders keepers"), and a transceiver array, which they can use to send a distress call. While Nog's having made the corrections himself is "sacrilege" to Jake as a writer, Nog doesn't seem to care. However, Nog did not read for "content," but rather to correct grammar and spelling errors. Nog has found one of Jake's PADDs lying around with a story, " Past Prologue," on it, so Jake asks what he thought. As usual, Jake passes on his own workout. On his first morning with Nog, Jake sleepily walks out of his bedroom to find his friend lifting weights. They do have a couple of ration packs, but as Odo points out, they now have a choice between starving to death and freezing to death. Quark awakens to find their situation grim the class L planet on which they have landed is freezing (although the weather is otherwise hospitable), the communications system and most supplies were destroyed in the crash, and the local plants appear poisonous. " Now we either freeze to death or starve to death. Both men lose consciousness during the violent crash. On the way down, Quark mentions the bomb was planted by the Orion Syndicate, to Odo's surprise it seems the lack of information about the charges against Quark was an attempt by Odo, who also knew nothing, to gain information. The Rio Grande limps to a nearby class L planet, where they have to crash-land because the life support systems have been virtually destroyed. Things go from bad to worse when they try to beam the explosive off the ship, which causes it to explode and nearly destroy the ship. A few seconds pass before Quark determines to find what the sound is, and over Odo's impatience, he finds that it is an explosive underneath an access panel. There is also a strange buzzing sound, although Odo does not hear it. In particular, he claims that Odo, who is eating soup, smacks his lips when he eats. The utter lack of conversation and other stimuli has caused Quark's lobes to notice how annoyingly filled with sound the runabout is. They are still best friends, but if Nog's 22:00 "lights out" time and 04:30 workout are any indication, the boys will not see eye to eye on everything. Nog seems to have become more disciplined, while Jake has been indulging himself focusing on his writing. However, when Nog and Jake move into their quarters, it is clear things will not be quite the same. When Nog promises to "take care" of Jake and "keep him out of trouble", the captain sarcastically claims Nog inspires him with confidence. A symbolic moment involving Sisko's baseball, which Nog catches, epitomizes the boy's transition into a model cadet. All he knows for sure is that a Federation grand jury has indicted him for something big.īack aboard Deep Space 9, Nog meets Captain Sisko in his office to take orders. While he is interested by Odo's reading a romance novel, Quark finds the constable unwilling to indulge him in a card game or tell him what has happened. Rom continues to drink his root beer as his brother is led away by Odo.Īlone with Odo aboard the runabout USS Rio Grande now, Quark grows increasingly bored and tries to find ways to pass the time, including him trying to get Odo to play fizzbin. Whatever has happened, it looks like Quark's shady dealings have finally caught up with him. The usual verbal sparring between Quark and Odo turns serious when Odo announces he has come to arrest Quark once and for all. The door chime rings and Rom grows excited, believing it might be his son, but instead it is Odo. Despite his own disapproval of Nog's attending Starfleet Academy, Quark has brought along several dozen bottles of root beer and is disgusted to see Rom at once gleefully drink one. Meanwhile, Quark enters Rom's quarters to find his brother anxiously awaiting Nog's return. The old man reminisces, but Jake is all too eager to move out on his own. Jake will be living with Nog who is due to spend his sophomore year on the station as part of his field studies, but Sisko discovers that the boys' quarters will be not next door but on the other side of the habitat ring. There's a feeling of anticipation in Sisko's quarters as Jake makes final preparations for the move to his own quarters.
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