Children Of Time

The Defiant enters a barrier surrounding a planet in the Gamma Quadrant, only to find its inhabitants are the crew's descendants from 200 years in the past.


One of my faves from season 5.

There is an Odo with the colonists.

Kiera will die from an injury if she does not get back to DS-9, where Dr. Bashir can treat her.

This other Odo, who looks very human ( " I've had plenty of time to master looking human." ) sabotages the Defiant so that it does not let them go through this time anomaly to make that future happen.. this is after all the Defiant's crew voted to go through it and allow the accident to happen, because they did not want the 8,000 people there to have never existed.

O'Brien, who was against staying, and wanted to get back to his family, did change his mind once he and the Defiant crew helped these people with their " planting day."

He did it because he loves Keira.. he also tells her what his other self could not.. that he loves her.

Gotta love those temporal anomalies!

The possibilities are myriad.

Superb episode.


"I offer you a Vulcan prayer, Mr Suder. May your

death bring you the peace you never found in

life." - Tuvok.