The week-long national syndication window opens for the 162nd episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. 
Stardate not given: Odo and O’Brien are returning from a conference when their runabout is boarded by a Changeling – one who has never met another of his kind. Laas, like Odo, is one of the hundred infants who were sent out as explorers by the Founders. However, Laas is full of scorn and distrust for humanoids, and urges Odo to join him in a quest to find the other explorers and form a new Link. Odo is torn between his desire to live “as Changelings were meant to” and his love for Kira; and things become even more difficult when Laas is arrested for killing a Klingon.
written by Rene Echavarria
directed by Steven Posey
music by Jay ChattawayCast: Avery Brooks (Captain Sisko), Nicole de Boer (Ezri Dax), Michael Dorn (Lt. Commander Worf), Rene Auberjonois (Odo), Cirroc Lofton (Jake Sisko), Colm Meaney (Chief O’Brien), Armin Shimerman (Quark), Alexander Siddig (Dr. Bashir), Nana Visitor (Colonel Kira), Garman Hertzler (Laas), John Eric Bentley (Klingon), Joel Goodness (Deputy)
Note: “Garman” Hertzler is, of course, J.G. Hertzler, the same actor behind General Martok’s mask.
LogBook entry by Tracy Hemenover