Before the agents leave, Gowron sternly tells Worf that he won't get a second opportunity to kill him.īack on the station, Sisko is happy to return to his human form, though he "misses the fangs." Odo is up next, and Bashir tells him that he can give the former changeling any face he desires, but Odo opts to return to his old face. The best thing to do would be to end it and join forces against their common enemy, but Gowron warns that once Klingons go to war, they never want to back down and "talk." Sisko points out that this is exactly the attitude desired by the Founders, so Gowron reluctantly agrees to use all his influence over the High Council to push for a ceasefire. Martok was the one who pressed for war, not Gowron. In the aftermath, Gowron and the agents discuss how the Founders attempted to manipulate both their nations into destroying each other. The crowd of Klingons promptly kill the spy in a barrage of disruptor fire. As Odo gets tossed to the ground, the Changeling reveals its nature by lassoing his throat with a liquid appendage. As Worf defeats Gowron and has the emperor at his mercy, Odo and Martok brawl their way into the chamber, and Odo shouts that Martok is the true spy. He also notes that Gowron, in dueling Worf honorably, is behaving exactly like a Klingon rather than a Changeling impersonator. However, Odo begins to pick apart Martok's story, noting how odd it is for a Klingon general to refuse to duel a suspected spy. Martok forbids Odo from entering the chamber, claiming to be unsure of the former Changeling's loyalties. As the crowd draws weapons, Gowron orders them back and duels Worf man to man. Sisko suggests challenging Gowron to a duel, but Martok has another idea: He breaks the four out of prison and carves a path back to the ceremony chamber so that Worf can attack Gowron. In fact, Martok has suspected that he might be a Changeling for months. In spite of himself, Martok admits that Gowron's warmongering behavior has been out of character. Martok confronts the agents, and Sisko reveals the purpose of his mission. The room is sealed, and all four agents are thrown in a cell. He takes the stage and accepts his commendation, but as he's about to leave, Martok clubs him and exposes him as a Starfleet spy. With the four transmitters in place, Sisko prepares to activate them, but then his cover identity's name is called. As Gowron begins handing out commendations, Odo squabbles with the Klingon and finally tosses him away. Odo still needs to place a transmitter, but a Klingon is standing right in the way. Odo fumbles with his transmitter, but Worf passes it off as a toy won in battle and snatches it away from a suspicious bystander. Gowron's second in command, Martok, arrives and nearly recognizes O'Brien, but some fast talking allays the general's suspicions, for now. Along the way, they must plant the four polaron emitters around the room. The event is an endurance test as much as a ceremony, and they're expected to drink, celebrate, and fight all day and night until Gowron arrives. The crew arrives at Ty'Gokor, and Dukat says he's going to leave them there, since they won't need a ride back from him whether they succeed or not.Īt the ceremony, the four agents mix into the crowd and attempt to adopt Klingon personas. They're confronted by another Bird-of-Prey, but Dukat simply blasts it out of space rather than try to talk them down. Worf coaches the other three on how to act like a Klingon, and only Sisko takes to it with gusto. On the way there, Dukat arranges to insert the four new Klingons into the roster for commendations. To get at him, they'll modify their appearances to look like Klingons and hitch a ride in Dukat's Bird-of-Prey so they can meld into a ceremony recognizing new commendations into the Order of the Bat'Leth. They will use modified polaron emitters to force Gowron to revert to liquid form. The pair then join O'Brien and Worf in a debriefing session to go over the attack. Sisko tells him that he needs his security skills for the upcoming mission in spite of his lack of shapechanging. Sisko goes to meet Odo, who is drowning his sorrows over having been turned into a human. Sisko tells Kira that Starfleet has cooked up a mission to infiltrate the Klingons and expose Gowron as a Changeling. Dax and Sisko narrowly escape a Klingon attack as they return to the station. Relations between the Federation and the Klingon Empire have degraded to open hostility.
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