"The Quickening" is an episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, the 24 episode of the fourth season. It has an average fan rating of 4.5/5 on the official Star Trek website.
In this episode, Dr. Bashir and Jadzia Dax travel to a planet that was attacked by the Jem'Hadar 200 years earlier. In order to make an example of its people, the Jem'Hadar infected them with an incurable disease called the "blight" that leaves spidery black lesions on the body...
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"The Quickening" is an episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, the 24 episode of the fourth season. It has an average fan rating of 4.5/5 on the official Star Trek website.
In this episode, Dr. Bashir and Jadzia Dax travel to a planet that was attacked by the Jem'Hadar 200 years earlier. In order to make an example of its people, the Jem'Hadar infected them with an incurable disease called the "blight" that leaves spidery black lesions on the body that at a random time (usually before adulthood) will "quicken" into a spreading red form that results in a slow, painful death.
Bashir is distraught when he learns that the closest equivalent to a doctor these people now possess is Trevean, a man who offers a swift and comfortable death through herbal treatments to the recently quickened. Bashir attempts to develop a cure with the help of recently quickened volunteers, but fails when he finds that the electric fields from his equipment are causing the virus to mutate rapidly.
When the others...
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