Jake and Nog help a state leader act her age, and even give her some of the help she needs to negotiate with the leader of a rival faction.

And when Dr. Bashir fails to save an ailing old man on Bajor from death, O'Brien is roped into fulfilling his role in the village. But who's that staring literal daggers into his back?

Briar and Matt talk about Good Teens (TM), tulpas and Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan, and lament the fact that certain aspects of this show were left unexplored.