 Kai Opaka, the spiritual leader of the Bajorans announces a visit to DS9. She doesn t say much, but makes it implicitly clear she s interested in the wormhole. Sisko, Bashir, Kira take a runabout to show her the wormhole and pass through it to the other side. They receive a strange distress call coming from an unknown source. Sisko wants to return home, but Opaka tells him they should not take notice of her. The signal leads to a mysteries satellite network, which releases an energy burst disabling the runabout. They make a violent crash-down on a moon, Opaka dies almost instantly. It isn t long before the three are picked up by a group of unfriendly locals, the Ennis. They say they are put as prisoners on the moon after a long war with the Nol-Ennis, a war that is continued on the moon. When the Nol attack something strange happens.