On her late mother Meru's birthday, Kira receives a transmission from Gul Dukat in which he tells her that Meru, who supposedly died when Kira was three, was actually his lover for many years and left her family to be with him. When Kira's investigation fails to prove Dukat false, she asks Sisko, as the Emissary, to permit her to consult the Bajoran Orb of Time. He agrees, and Kira finds herself in the past, at a refugee center where she comes face to face with her long-lost family, who does not realize her true identity.

Marc Alaimo (Gul Dukat)
Leslie Hope (Kira Meru)
David Bowe (Basso)
Wayne Grace (Legate)
Tim deZarn (Halb)
Thomas Kopache (Kira Taban)

• Kira goes back in time about 30 years and finds that her mother became Dukat's lover to save her family's life.