SUMMATION
The station has been evacuated because of a violent space storm and left with a skeleton crew. Quark thinks he's about to do the business of trading rare merchandise and arranges, unbeknownst to the crew, to have a shuttle craft dock.
The craft however is carrying two rogue Klingons and a Trill who plans on stealing Jadzia's symbiot. Odo is forced into a container and the rest of the crew is surrounded, and outgunned, by the bandits.
The Trill named Verad is with a woman alien named Mareel who plans on forcing Dr. Bashir to transplant Jadzia's symbiote into Verad. Trouble is, Jadzia could die as a result. If they don't go along and plan another strategy, then the Klingon mercenaries will kill them all.
Quark gets into a scuffle with one of the Klingon's and pretends to be severely injured. As the Klingon looks on in the sick bay, Bashir sneaks up behind and disables him with a hypo.
Meanwhile, Sisko plays on the emotions of Mareel and manages to convince her that Verad is no longer interested in her. It's plain that he was just using her to help him get the symbiote and plans an escape without her. As a result, she helps the crew capture Verad as he leaves to the escape shuttle and the symbiote is put back into Jadzia.
The most annoying thing about this episode was John Glover's performance as the unjoined Trill. He hardly seems capable enough to lead a team of rogues and thieves, let alone be taken seriously by them. He's whiny and lacks confidence. The leader of the pack was obviously Mareel, who in the highlight of the episode, kicks the crap out of Major Kira.
Even as Verad Dax, he's pompous and one dimensional. Seems to me that a symbiote with that much past experience would have been displaying some remorse and guilt through the body of Verdad to create conflict and a multi-dimensional personae. Instead he becomes a fighter for his own sake with no regard for his previous host.
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