Kai Winn, spiritual leader of Bajor, has been a thorn in the side of Captain Sisko almost since he first took command of Deep Space Nine. So when Sisko is on an away mission with the crew of the Defiant and Cardassian renegades seize the opportunity to mount an attack to try and reclaim the station, Kai Winn may seem an unlikely choice to lead Deep Space Nine's defence.

But for all her ambitious scheming, the Kai is still very much a Bajoran patriot at heart, and she would rather die than see the gateway to the Gamma Quadrant fall into the hands of Bajor's old antagonists...