Nobody except himself and Garak even knows that Vreenak is aboard as his ship docks while cloaked and he has entire sections of the station completely sealed off. Sisko arranges for a secret meeting between himself and Senator Vreenak, the most pro-Dominion voice in the Romulan senate. After making some modifications to have Weyoun and Damar bicker with each other for believability, it’s ready to present. The rod is obtained and the holoprogram created of Weyoun, Damar, and other Dominion leaders discussing a plan of attack on the Romulans. He orders Bashir to prepare and deliver the gel, and Bashir files an official protest on record, but does as he’s ordered anyway. Sisko is about to stop the plan right there, as the gel can be used to create WMDs, but lets the Garak on his shoulder convince him to continue on, haggling the price down to a more reasonable amount of the gel. The other part required for the plan, the optolythic data rod, Garak has found a seller who is demanding a strictly controlled substance (biomimetic gel) as payment for the rod. Quark is fine, but wants to press charges, and the nature of the deception requires that there be no record of Tolar on the station, so Sisko bribes Quark (to Quark’s delight) to refrain from seeking legal recompense. Of course, Tolar wasn’t on death row for nothing, and it’s barely 26 hours before he’s started problems on the station, harassing a Dabo girl and stabbing Quark when he tries to get him to stop. Sisko decides against his better nature and agrees with the plan, getting Gowron to release Grathon Tolar into his custody. He’ll need to obtain an optolythic data rod, a one-time-only recording device used by the Cardassians for official record keeping, and the services of one of the most talented holoprogrammers in the quadrant, who just so happens to be on Klingon Death Row. If they can’t find evidence, they need to fabricate it. Within a day of Garak reaching out to his contacts, they are all dead. He contacts Garak, asking him to pull some favors and see if his remaining contacts on Cardassia can find evidence of a Dominion plan to eventually take over the Romulan Star Empire. But in order to do that, he’d need to convince the Romulans that the Dominion will attack them next after they’ve conquered everyone else. Sisko wants to get the Romulans to join the war their military would greatly help in what has become a losing battle. The Romulans turn a blind eye because they have a non-aggression pact signed with the Dominion and because they’re not that broken up over their territory being violated in order to attack the Federation. It’s usually caused by Dominion ships violating Romulan territory to sneak-attack Federation ships. Every week, someone loses a friend, a family member, an acquaintance, and he’s had enough of it. He talks about the weekly casualty reports he posts in the wardroom on Fridays. We start at the end, as Sisko tries to process what happened over the last two weeks, the actions he took that brought him to this point. Sisko falls as far from grace as he ever will. If you thought that Inquisition was treading over Roddenberry’s ideals of an enlightened humanity, you’d best clench up because we’re full tilt now.
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