One Little Ship story
Dax, O'Brien, and Bashir board a Runabout, which is shrunken to four inches long as they investigate a rare subspace compression phenomenon. Directed by: Allan Kroeker. Story by: David Weddle & Bradley Thompson.
10 total · 3 choice · 4 major · 3 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| facing a ship takeover | choice | Defiant taken over by Jem'Hadar |
| rivalry | choice | first of command Kudak'Etan and second in command Ixtana'Rax locked horns over how to run the Defiant |
| what if I shrank in size | choice | Jadzia, Miles, and Julian and shrunken down to one inch in height in order to safely investigate a space anomaly |
| clash of wills | major | first in command Kudak'Etan and second in command Ixtana'Rax locked horns over how to run the Defiant |
| coping with an incompetent coworker | major | Ixtana'Rax felt his commander Kudak'Etan was inexperienced and incompetent |
| intergenerational conflict | major | A new up-and-coming generation of Alpha Quadrant Jem'Hadar warriors were in the processing of replacing their older Gamma Quadrant Jem'Hadar antecedents. |
| miniaturization technology | major | Jadzia, Miles, and Julian are shrunken down to one inch in height |
| husband and wife | minor | Worf and Jadzia |
| poetry | minor | Worf worked very long and very hard on his first poem and did not much appreciate being ridiculed by Jadzia. |
| sacrifice to defeat an enemy | minor | Benjamin was prepared to self-destruct the Defiant with all hands onboard, rather than let the Jem'Hadar comandeer it back into Dominion space. |