Stardate: 51825.4. Jake and Nog's runabout comes under attack from the Jem'Hadar. They are rescued by the Valiant, a ship manned by Red Squad, a elite group of young Starfleet cadets.

Stardate: Unknown. To help find the apparently untraceable murderer of a young ensign, who had recently received a battlefield decoration, Ezri Dax reluctantly calls up the residual consciousness remnant of her symbiont’s past, the psychopathic murderer host, Joran.