"Progress" is an episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, the fifteenth episode of the first season. Kira deals with a stubborn farmer whose home is slated for destruction.
With the Federation's help, Bajor plans to tap the core of one of its moons to provide much-needed electricity. An unfortunate side effect of the process is that it releases gases lethal to humanoids, so the inhabitants of the moon have been evacuated. However, several life form...
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"Progress" is an episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, the fifteenth episode of the first season. Kira deals with a stubborn farmer whose home is slated for destruction.
With the Federation's help, Bajor plans to tap the core of one of its moons to provide much-needed electricity. An unfortunate side effect of the process is that it releases gases lethal to humanoids, so the inhabitants of the moon have been evacuated. However, several life forms are detected after the evacuation date, so Kira visits the planet to investigate.
She finds an elderly man and his two mute farmhands, who are intent on staying. The man, Mullibok, continuously avoids the topic of evacuation - he invites Kira to a farewell dinner before revealing it will take three hours to prepare - and despite his stubbornness, Kira grows fond of him. He tells her he plans to die on the moon and over dinner describes how he escaped to the moon during the Cardassian occupation of Bajor. During the course of their...
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