Megan Cole

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.

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.