"Time's Orphan" is a sixth-season episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
The O'Briens, reunited after Deep Space Nine has been reclaimed, take a family trip to Golana IV. While playing, eight-year-old Molly falls into an abandoned time portal despite Miles's efforts to save her; the portal closes after Molly passes through. The station's staff quickly comes to the O'Briens' help to try to recover Molly, using transporter technology to lock onto h...
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"Time's Orphan" is a sixth-season episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
The O'Briens, reunited after Deep Space Nine has been reclaimed, take a family trip to Golana IV. While playing, eight-year-old Molly falls into an abandoned time portal despite Miles's efforts to save her; the portal closes after Molly passes through. The station's staff quickly comes to the O'Briens' help to try to recover Molly, using transporter technology to lock onto her signal once they are able to open the portal again. However, they find the portal opened at a different time, and the Molly they rescued is now 18 years old and feral after having to survive on her own for the last ten years in the planet's past. Molly is brought back to the station and placed in a special habitat made to resemble the planet, to allow the O'Briens to try to reconnect with their daughter. During this time, Jadzia Dax offers to look after infant Yoshi O'Brien, but when this interrupts her planned scientific ventures, Worf...
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