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PLOT SUMMARY Odo wishes he shared Kira 's belief in the Prophets so he can spend time with her during worship. The sermon that Sunday was given by Vedek Fala, who visits Kira in her quarters later to give her a transponder that beams her off the station. Kira finds herself at Empok Nor, now inhabited by Bajorans who believe that the Pah-wraiths are the true Prophets of Bajor. The leader of their cult is none other than Dukat . The Bajorans' faith in Dukat is so strong that when Kira threatens to kill Dukat with a phaser, many of them place themselves in Kira's line of fire. Kira stands down. Fala introduces Kira to Benyan and Mika. Mika will give birth soon. Benyan works on a mural showing Dukat in a friendly pose with Bajorans, with the Celestial Temple as background. Kira is not convinced. When Mika gives birth, with the whole station's populace waiting in the lobby, the baby turns out to be half-Cardassian. Shocked at first, Dukat improvises a speech in which he calls the baby a "miracle" from the Pah-wraiths, a sign approving their faith in Dukat. But Kira is immediately certain that Dukat is in fact the biological father of the child. Mika and Dukat have a conversation in an airlock in which Dukat promises to stand by her. But as soon as he gets out, Dukat closes the inner door of the airlock and opens the outer door. Mika is nearly sucked out into space, but survives, though with severe damage. The doctor is not sure whether or not Mika will recover. Dukat calls the incident an "accident." After praying to the Pah-wraiths, Dukat decides to have the Bajoran believers commit mass suicide and announces it at a special service. Locked in her quarters, Kira hears Dukat's sermon and MacGyverishly improvises a way to break out. She arrives in the promenade just in time before Dukat swallows his placebo, knocking it out of his hand and down on the floor together with the suicide pills. Dukat can't find his placebo from among the suicide pills. Since Dukat refuses to take a pill, the Bajorans turn against him. Dukat beams out, and Fala takes several of the pills and swallows them. The Defiant arrives and takes the Bajorans back to DS9. GUEST STARS
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