Megan Cole

Sisko meets Ezri, the new host of the Dax symbiont, before departing Earth for the planet Tyree with his father, Joseph, and son Jake as he begins his search for Bajor's mythical Orb of the Emissary.

Sisko's search for a way to contact the Bajoran Prophets leads him to a startling revelation about himself.

Riker enters into a dangerous liaison with a member of the androgynous J'naii race, who considers herself to only have one gender, a crime in J'naii society.

Benton's complicated surgery goes awry; Scott faces more chemotherapy; Del Amico learns she is a match for bone-marrow donation; annual ER banquet is held.

Still on crutches, John Carter returns for a tough first day in the ER since the attack and treats an attempted suicide with uncharacteristic harshness. Mark Green is angered when his father both refuses treatment for his lung cancer, and then chooses Elizabeth as his physician when he is admitted with breathing difficulties.

Abby comes close to having a breakdown when her mentally-challenged mother resurfaces, Pratt accompanies paramedics, Weaver confronts the man who stole her purse, and Lewis has a teenaged admirer.