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Faced with what they feel is the equivalent of a decision to commit suicide, the augments decide to try to leak Starfleet's strategic plans to the Dominion negotiators on board DS9, hoping to shorten the war and minimize the casualties. Bashir rightly sees this as foolhardy, but Jack, Lauren and Patrick overpower him. Bound hand & foot, and left alone with Sarina, Bashir convinces Sarina that her fellow augment's actions will result in their imprisonment and separation. Bashir plays on the fact that he has determined that Sarina is in love with Jack (something the other augments have failed to realize). Sarina frees Bashir in the nick of time, and alerts [[Odo]], who intercepts the augments on their way to the meeting with the Dominion negotiators.

Later, Bashir realizes that [[hubris]] primarily drove their belief that the Federation would lose. Rather than believe they might be wrong about the course of the war, they decided they couldn't possibly be wrong because of their superior intellect. Bashir returnsThe tokey hispoint duties,is that despite all of their intelligence and the augmentspresumed returninfallibility toof their institutionstatistical historical model, the actions of one person (sarina) altered their plan, which in turn completely altered history (changing a turkey shoot by the Dominion into a drawn out slog at worst).

Bashir returns to his duties, and the augments return to their institution, promising to continue work on a plan for defeating the Dominion (albeit without classified information).

The augments would return in a later episode - [[Chrysalis (DS9 episode)|Chrysalis]].