A member of the Bajoran terrorist group, Kohn Ma, comes on board the space station and Major Kira's loyalties are divided between her old loyalties to the Kohn Ma and her new loyalties to Bajor and the Federation. Tahna Los has a plan to obtain a bomb to destroy the wormhole in the belief that if the wormhole is destroyed, neither the Cardassians or the Federation would be interested in Bajor or the station any longer.