Visionary, DS9 3
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O’Brien keeps finding himself flash-forwarding a few hours into the future. Lucky he does, as this is a very eventful day! He gets to stop his own death (twice!) and then the destruction of the entire space station.
There’s a wrinkle with this last one, as he trades places with his future self (three and a half hour future self.) Philosophy students, go nuts: is this the REAL O’Brien for the rest of the series? To the other characters, yes. But to him, no. He’s dead. He died. His consciousness travelled to the future and died and some other dude (who just happened to be him) came back. And that’s the facts, jack. Deal with it.
B-story: Romulans afoot asking questions about the Jem’Hadar and the Founders. Reminding us all at home that there’s a whole other story arc waiting at the other end of that wormhole.