When It Rains...
- FIRST SHOWN (US)
- 3 May 1999
- ON
- First-run syndication
- STARDATE
- 52684.3
- DIRECTED BY
- Michael Dorn
- PRODUCTION NO.
- 571
WRITTEN BYTeleplay by René Echevarria; story by René Echevarria & Spike Steingasser
Kira is sent to train Damar's fledgling rebels, Gowron arrives to take personal charge of the Klingon war effort, and Bashir makes a troubling discovery.
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With the Breen weapon making allied ships helpless, only Klingon vessels can be adapted to fight on. Sisko sends Kira, with Odo and Garak, to teach Damar's rebels guerrilla tactics, and Starfleet gives her a commission so the Cardassians will respect her rank. The Cardassians struggle to accept lessons from a Bajoran who once fought them. Chancellor Gowron arrives and takes command of the Klingon forces from Martok, more interested in his own glory than in sound strategy. Bashir discovers that Odo has the disease that is killing the Founders, and Odo hides the news from Kira. Bashir comes to suspect that Section 31 deliberately infected Odo during medical tests years earlier, so he would carry the disease to the Great Link. On Bajor, Dukat tries to read the forbidden Pah-wraith texts and is struck blind. Winn casts him out.
- 01Directed by Michael Dorn, who plays Worf.
- 02Damar was originally to work as a double agent, but that kept him away from the main cast, so the writers made his resistance open instead.
- 03Odo caught the virus during the medical tests seen in “Homefront” and “Paradise Lost”, and passed it to the Great Link in “Broken Link”.