Sisko and O'Brien are stranded on a planet inhabited by humans who have rejected any form of technology.

Gail Strickland (Alixus)
Julia Nickson (Cassandra)
Steve Vinovich (Joseph)
Michael Buchman Silver (Vinod)
Erick Weiss (Stephan)

• Alixus artificially created the duonetic field, which prevents any E-M activity in technological equipment. She lied to the colonists for 10 years.
  
• O'Brien says at home he is known as "The Black Thumb" and the only way he can get anything to grow was to marry a botanist. He said he asked Keiko to marry him after she built the arboretum on the Enterprise-D.