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Winn Adami - The Reckoning

Winn vocally objected to the removal of a stone tablet addressing the Emissary from the sacred city of B’Hala which Sisko had discovered previously. When the wormhole began to behave strangely and various natural disasters occurred on Bajor, Winn met with Captain Sisko and insisted that these phenomena were signs of the Prophet’s anger at the removal of the tablet and asked as Bajor’s spiritual leader for him to return it. Sisko responded by asking as the Emissary for more time to study it. Winn disagreed and presented Sisko with a formal request from First Minister Shakaar to give it to her. Sisko concedes and agrees to give it back but he is compelled, presumably by the Prophets, to smash the tablet, which releases both a Prophet and a Pah Wraith locked inside it. Winn immediately declares that Sisko smashed the tablet out of pettiness rather than give it to her.

Eventually the Prophet takes over the body of Major Kira and appears on the promenade and announces that it is time for the Reckoning and that “she” awaits Kosst Amojan, “the Evil One”. When Winn attempts to get the Prophet to speak to her, Kira states that she awaits the vessel of Kosst Amojen and then ignores Winn.

Sisko decides to evacuate the station and allow the battle to take place. Dax offers a plan to protect the station by slowly flooding it with chroniton particles which would drive out both the Prophet and the Pah Wraith. Sisko refuses, citing the Prophets’ help in stopping the Dominion reinforcements from the Gamma Quadrant from coming through the wormhole after the minefield around the entrance had been destroyed.

As the evacuation neared completion, Odo reported a group of Bajorans refusing to leave. This group is Winn holding a prayer service in front of Kira. Sisko tells her she has to leave and he and Winn get into another exchange. During their argument, Kira announces that Kosst Amojan has selected its vessel and Jake Sisko, Captain Sisko’s son, appears on the promenade.

Sisko offers himself to the Pah Wraith instead of Jake but is hurled back by it. Dax tries to convince Sisko to let Worf initiate the chroniton emitters and end the Reckoning but Sisko again refuses saying he has faith that the Prophets will not let anything happen to Jake and orders Dax and Winn to leave.

While escorting Winn to a shuttle, Dax stops to help some children escape. Winn takes advantage of this and goes to Ops and initiates the emitters forcing both the Prophet and the Pah Wraith to leave Kira and Jake’s bodies.

As Kira is escorting Winn to her shuttle, Winn makes a remark about how she thinks Sisko would want to thank her for preventing the destruction of the station and for saving both his and Jake’s life. Kira confronts her about and tells her not to pretend that her actions were benevolent. Winn attempts to justify her actions as being for Bajor by citing that the natural disasters on Bajor have subsided and that is a sign she did the right thing.

Kira then tells Winn that she defied the will of the Prophets because she resented the fact that Sisko, a human and an “infidel” had more faith than she did as Sisko was ready to sacrifice his son if he had to. Winn asserts that her faith is as pure as Sisko’s, to which Kira responds that Winn is confusing faith with ambition. Winn retorts by telling Kira that just because she was chosen by the Prophets as their vessel did not give her the right to speak for them. Kira shrugs it off and tells Winn that because of her interference, the Reckoning was stopped, the Evil One was still out there, and no one knew what that would mean for Bajor.

Adapted from the Wikipedia article "The Reckoning", under the G.N U Free Docmentation License. Please also see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki