Deep Space Nine's commanding officer, Benjamin Sisko, is concerned for the safety of his wife, Kasidy Yates, a freighter captain.
Emboldened by the alliance with the Breen, the Dominion launches an offensive to retake Chin'toka, a star system captured by the Federation some months earlier.
As the Federation tries to regroup from this devastating loss, Damar broadcasts a public message announcing that Cardassia will revolt against the Dominion; he begins the rebellion by destroying a Vorta cloning facility.
He was critical of the episode's repetitiveness and the slow progress of the Winn-Dukat subplot, but praised the spectacle of the battle scenes and Damar's turn against the Dominion.
[2] In 2018, Comic Book Resources ranked the sequence of episodes beginning with "The Changing Face of Evil" and leading up to the end of Deep Space Nine as the best multi-episode saga of the Star Trek franchise.