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. 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.
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