For whatever reason, I was bored with this episode. There are two story plots, the one aboard the space station is the most interesting although not suspenseful or intriguing, just fun. Jake Sisko and Nog embark on learning the trade of bartering in a capitalist venture of trading a spicy sauce made for Cardassians and ending up with magnetic bolts to trade with someone else. They end up with land that ends up being of good use to the Federation. But this is not the main story.
It's about an old man, who escaped to an orbiting moon around Bajor during the Cardassian occupation, who is reluctant to move. Major Kira has the unfortunate task of getting him and a couple of farmers, and former victims of Cardassian mutilation and torture, off the moon that is going to be used as a conduit for some experiment involving releasing more electrical energy to Bajor. The process could prove fatal to any inhabitants.
It's a shame there couldn't have been another story line involving coming up with another viable solution rather than taking this old man's land away from him. But in the end, after much getting to know you's between him (played by Brian Keith) and Kira, talks of regrets and wars, Kira sets fire to the man's cottage after he tells her he won't leave as long as it stands.
Not much in the episode by way of science--nor suspense or great conflict---just a less than stellar episode that's easily forgotten.
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