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5. Getting home does not erase the decision
Back on Deep Space Nine, Bashir neutralizes the psychotropic compound affecting Garak’s nervous system. Treatment reverses the immediate condition, but the deaths and the survivors’ experiences cannot be undone.
Garak recognizes how close the phaser explosion came to killing him. O’Brien offers no reassurance that the blast was always intended to spare his life. Instead, the chief makes his intention explicit: “that was the plan.”
The admission changes the meaning of the rescue. O’Brien did not secretly devise a harmless way to save Nog and his attacker. Garak survived a trap designed to stop him permanently.
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