Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Season 3, Episode 6 - "The Abandoned"

In the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode, "The Abandoned," you
play your money, you take your chances! Quark buys a ship - sight
unseen. The deal comes up snake eyes, or really - Jem’Hadar. He
didn’t just buy a ship. He accidentally bought a Jem’Hadar baby.
Odo will play his hand. Feeling some Founder responsibility, he
tries to raise the Jem’Hadar kid as his own. Or at least NOT as a
soulless killer. Meanwhile, Jake’s playing the love game with the
dabo girl Mardah, though Sisko thinks he’s got an ace up his
sleeve to wreck Jake’s game.


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