O'Brien stalked by a killer
Garak on STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE. DETAILED REPORT
With Deep Space Nine in
disrepair, O'Brien is unable to replicate the Cardassian
materials he needs to fix it. He assembles a team of
engineers and leads a salvage mission to Empok Nor, an
abandoned Cardassian space station, bringing along Garak
to foil any security measures. They soon enter the eerie,
deserted station and begin to work. Garak is disturbed to
find two stasis tubes have recently been activated, each
large enough to contain a Cardassian adult. Meanwhile,
Nog, sent back to the Runabout, is shocked to see the
ship drift away and explode.
The two Cardassian
occupants of the stasis tubes are apparently on the
loose. O'Brien and the group must modify some of Empok
Nor's systems to send out a distress signal -- forcing
the team to split up and make themselves more vulnerable.
The Cardassians soon locate two of O'Brien's crewmembers
and kill them.
Garak decides to track
down the Cardassians. Killing one of them, he returns to
the group and reports that the dead Cardassian was under
the influence of a drug designed to make him aggressive.
O'Brien speculates that the drug made the two
uncontrollable, forcing their former comrades to leave
them behind in the stasis tubes. The wary group returns
to work in teams, but two of them are soon attacked.
Garak eliminates the remaining Cardassian just after one
of the two crewmembers is killed. Then Garak turns to the
surviving man, Amaro, and stabs him viciously.
With his dying breath,
Amaro tells O'Brien that Garak stabbed him. Grimly,
O'Brien realizes that Garak has also been exposed to the
drug. Left alone with Nog, they must find and stop Garak,
even if it means killing him. But Garak soon captures Nog
and challenges O'Brien to save him.
O'Brien is forced to take
on Garak, man-to-man. Both initially bring weapons, but
discard them and begin the battle, with the bound Nog
watching helplessly. O'Brien is soon overpowered, and it
looks as if he will lose the fight and his life. But a
simple tap to his com-badge makes him the winner -- the
signal triggers a phaser he has rigged to explode,
knocking Garak unconscious. He survives the explosion,
however, much to O'Brien's relief. The drug is removed
from Garak's system and Deep Space Nine is repaired.
