History Recap / StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS04E24TheQuickening

* YouExclamation: Worf, when he confronts Quark over a mug of prune juice that is basically an advertisement for Quark's bar.

* MoodWhiplash: The cold open is Kira, Sisko, and Worf acting as though Quark sneaking an annoying advert into the ship's systems is a crime equivalent to high treason.[[note]]While this could be a legitimate security threat, it's far lighter than other things Quark has been EasilyForgiven for.[[[note]] This hilarious introduction soon segues into a story about... the protracted genocide of a planet across generations and Julian's largely futile efforts to put an end to it.

[[caption-width-right:350:Ohhh, this one's depressing.]]

* MedievalStasis: Enforced by the blight. Electromagnetic radiation makes the disease rapidly progress, so their once advanced civilization had to regress to survive. Bashir discovers this when all his equipment makes the disease work and he has to go low-tech to continue his work.

* HideYourPregnancy: Nana Visitor started to become visibly pregnant while filming this episode, hence why she is only sitting on the runabout.

* MedievalStasis: Enforced by the blight. Electromagnetic radiation makes the disease rapidly progress, so their once advanced civilization had to regress to survive. bashir discover this when all his equipment makes the disease work and he has to go low-tech to continue his work.

* BittersweetEnding: Bashir fails to cure the people living with the blight, but he accidentally figures out how to immunize their unborn children.

* RealityEnsues: This episode is a {{Deconstruction}} of a common plot in Star Trek--a long-standing medical problem is cured by the miracle of Starfleet medicine. More likely, a disease that has gone uncured for so long won't be so easily resolved--and indeed, Bashir never finds the cure he hoped to find. He still has more success than anyone before, but the full benefits of his discovery won't be felt for another generation or so.

* CodBloodedTorture: {{Implied}} to be the fate of those who have falsely promised help to those dying of the blight.

* MeaningfulName: Trevean is an anagram of "veteran" and Ekorio is an anagram of "rookie." The writer, Naren Shankar, said that kind of thing helps him with characterization.

* WhatTheHellHero: Dax gives a beautiful one to Bashir, telling him that it's pure arrogance to think that there isn't a cure for the Blight simply because ''he'' couldn't find it. Funnily enough, this is in the wake of Bashir chastising ''himself'' for arrogance of a different kind--thinking that he could find a cure so easily for a disease that had gone uncured for so long.

* MercyKill: Trevean's actual job. Bashir initially mistakes him from a doctor.

* BreakThehaughty: Bashir goes down to the planet expecting to have the blight fully cured in just a few days. Boy, is he wrong...

* WhatTheHellHero: Dax gives a beautiful one to Bashir, telling him that it's pure arrogance to think that there isn't a cure for the Blight simply because ''he'' couldn't find it.

* WastelandElder: Trevean.

* MeaningfulName: Trevean is and anagram of "veteran" and Ekorio is an anagram of "rookie." The writer, Naren Shankar, said that kind of thing helps him with characterization.