Heart of Stone

This Story: Season 3 Episode 14 (production code 460)
DS9 Overall: Episode 60
Trek Overall: Story 323, Episode 340
Airdate: 6 Feb 1995
Writer: Ira Steven Behr & Robert Hewitt Wolfe
Director: Alexander Singer

Notes

• While hinted at in the past, the foundation of the Odo/Kira relationship is leaned into heavily here.
• Likewise the idea of Nog joining Starfleet is founded here.  Both ideas would be a major driving point through the rest of the series.
• Why Odo has that name is revealed in this episode.  It’s said to originally be “Unknown sample”, and translated to a Cardassian word that means “nothing”.
• Rom is shown to not be a total moron, but an actual engineer, something that was hinted at a few times in the past.
• The appearance of the female changeling is a followup to events in the episode “The Search, Part II“.
• Rule of Acquisition mentioned – #18: A Ferengi without profit is no Ferengi at all.
• The first time we see Odo with a gun.

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