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O'Brien replies that he hardly knows her at all, apart from the one time she was on board the Enterprise. Sisko asks O'Brien how well he knows Vash. O'Brien tells Sisko that it is like something drained the ship dry.
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O'Brien replies that once new power reserves are put into the Ganges, it should be fully operational. The runabout is now in perfect condition, despite what happened to it earlier. While conducting repairs on the Ganges, O'Brien cannot find out why the ship lost power so suddenly. Sisko promises to arrange passage for her. Vash replies that it has been twelve years since she has been on Earth and she thinks she may go back. Sisko hopes she'll make an exception in this case. One of Vash's old professors, Woo, wants to speak with her again, which Vash finds ironic, since Woo suspended her membership, twice. Sisko also discreetly tries to inquire how Vash ended up in the Gamma Quadrant, but she tells him it is a personal matter and she does not want to talk about it. Sisko tells Vash that the Daystrom Institute will be disappointed not to hear from her, as they are anxious to hear what life is like in the Gamma Quadrant. They walk out of the assay office into the Promenade. Sisko walks to the office and begins talking to Vash. In the station's assay office, Vash brings in valuable objects she acquired from the Gamma Quadrant for safe keeping, as she is leaving the next day.
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In Sisko's office, Sisko discusses with Dax how Vash got to the Gamma Quadrant, as she knew nothing about the wormhole and did not use it to get there. Vash tells Bashir that the Gamma Quadrant is hardly uncivilized, as there are cultures that have been around for millions of years. In the infirmary, Bashir scans Vash and finds her to be in perfect health for someone who has been in the Gamma Quadrant for two years and has not had touch with civilization for that long. As everyone leaves for the infirmary, Q turns around and grins. She replies that a friend brought her there. O'Brien asks Vash how she got to the Gamma Quadrant by herself. Sisko advises Bashir to take everyone to the infirmary. Dax replies that they found her in the Gamma Quadrant, where she has been residing for the last two years. O'Brien helps a woman get to her feet and realizes it is Vash, whom he knew from the USS Enterprise-D. The hatch opens, with assistance from Sisko and Kira. O'Brien then tells Kira to hand him an EPI capacitor, which will re-energize the servos and thus open the door hatch. Kira suggests firing her Bajoran phaser at the door, but Sisko tells her the door hatch is made of duranium composite it will take her an hour to burn through. Sisko tells him that there are supposed to be two, but Bashir tells him that he is reading three. Bashir scans with his medical tricorder and asks Sisko how many people are supposed to be inside the runabout. Inside the Ganges are Lieutenant Jadzia Dax and Ensign Pauley. The Ganges has lost all power and oxygen levels have dropped dangerously low since the ship emerged from the Bajoran wormhole. At the docking hatch, Sisko and Major Kira Nerys are desperately trying to open the door to the runabout USS Ganges. Bashir begins to tell her more, but then Commander Benjamin Sisko calls both Bashir and O'Brien to landing pad five. If not for that trick question, Bashir tells her he would have been valedictorian. In response, Bashir tells her that during the exam, he mistook a pre-ganglionic fiber for a post-ganglionic nerve. The Bajoran woman wonders why he only made salutatorian.
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He tells her that it is the stuff that salutatorians are made of. He entered the answer in just before it was too late. Then, he says he closed his eyes, took a deep breath and he remembered the answer, a pericardial membrane. Bashir says that he considered quitting the exam, as he could feel the seconds ticking away. Bashir remembers that during his Starfleet Medical exam, he was the last person in the room and there was no one else he could turn to for help. Julian Bashir recalls when he fought the " toughest battle of my life" to an attractive Bajoran woman, while Chief Miles O'Brien sits in the background, listening and occasionally rolling his eyes.