Children of Time story
An accident causes the crew to meet their own descendants - and presents them with an ethical dilemma. Directed by: Allan Kroeker. Story by: Gary Holland and Ethan H. Calk.
14 total · 4 choice · 3 major · 7 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| sacrifice for a loved one | choice | future Odo sacrificed 8000 friends for to save Kira |
| time travel | choice | Defiant crew was poised to be tossed 200 years into the past |
| time traveler's dilemma | choice | If Defiant crew did not preserve their descendants |
| what if I found myself in the past | choice | The Defiant crew was on the verge of being tossed 200 years into the past. |
| romantic love | major | future Odo confessed to Kira that he had always loved her |
| the calculus of human life | major | if the Defiant went back to space station to save Kira's life, then 8000 people on the planet stood to wink out of existence |
| what if I met my distant descendant | major | The Defiant crew met their distant descendants from another time line. |
| destiny | minor | Kira argued that letting the colonists die would be cheating fate. |
| euthanasia | minor | Worf was asked to mercy kill his alternate timeline descendants |
| expressing feelings | minor | Odo's trouble with telling Kira his feelings came to a head |