O'Brien and Bashir gently tease Worf about his aroma, telling him he has a rather earthy, peaty aroma with a touch of lilac – which only serves to annoy Worf further. He then notices Worf is right there, apologizes to him, and steps away. While he orders a raktajino from the replicator, he tells O'Brien and Bashir about how Cardassians drink hot fish juice in the morning and that after being on Cardassia for a time, he was hoping for a Klingon invasion as they can make good coffee, even if they are foul-smelling barbarians. Waddle says he deals in gemstones, mostly kevas and trillium. He is an elderly, seemingly harmless man.

Worf introduces the man as Barry Waddle, a Human merchant who had been trapped on Cardassia when the Klingons attacked. Bashir, expresses his relief to finally see Humans again. Before leaving Cardassia Prime, they took on a passenger.Ĭommander Worf brings a man into the Defiant's mess hall who, upon seeing Chief O'Brien and Dr. Sisko had security lock the Orb in crew quarters so it could be authenticated on Bajor. Though they were unaware of this at the time they recovered it, they had indeed gained possession of the Orb of Time. Sisko tells them that two weeks prior, the Cardassian government had expressed a desire to return one of the Bajoran Orbs that they had procured during the Occupation, so the Defiant traveled to Cardassia Prime – under cloak to avoid detection by the Klingons – to collect it, without knowing which orb it was or even if it were genuine, as many counterfeit orbs had emerged over the years.

When they ask him to start at the beginning, Sisko tells them this may take some time and then assures them that he's not cracking a joke, something the investigators say they hate as well. Sisko says it was accidental and he confirms that he is not contending their trip back was a predestination paradox, a statement which relieves the investigators, as they hate predestination paradoxes. Dulmur asks Sisko why he took the USS Defiant back in time. Sisko asks if they want anything to drink they say they only want the truth. But this elicits absolutely no response from the apparently humorless investigators, who promptly go into the captain's office. Before they go in, Dax makes a joke about how temporal investigators are always on time.

The investigators ask for Captain Sisko, and Kira directs them to his office. Lucsly and Dulmur from Temporal Investigations arrive on Deep Space 9 aboard the USS Nash and are welcomed into Ops by Major Kira and Lieutenant Commander Dax. Temporal Investigation agents Dulmur and Lucsly 4.9 Stunt doubles appearing in the original Star Trek episode.4.7 Uncredited co-stars appearing in the original Star Trek episode.4.5 Actors appearing in the original Star Trek episode.3.2 Combining the past with the present.

Deep space nine cast and crew