While exploring a Gamma quadrant world, Sisko, Dax, Worf, O'Brien, and Muniz watch as a Jem'Hadar warship crashes into the planet's surface. It survives the impact, and Sisko's group finds a way into the alien craft. Once inside, they determine that all aboard are dead, and Sisko decides to get the ship back to Deep Space nine for study. He sends for the U.S.S. Defiant to haul the vessel with its tractor beam, while O'Brien and Muniz try to get the ship's systems on line. Then, another Jem'Hadar warship appears in orbit.