“Resurrection” is episode eight of season six of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
Dax and Major Kira are on the way to Ops discussing men that Kira can bring with her to Dax’s for dinner. Kira’s tastes are a little more tame than Dax’s, as she rejects the man with the transparent skull that Dax used to date and the one with three eyes. Finally Dax suggests Odo, as a friend; even though Kira and Odo seemed to have talked things out in the previous episode, “You Are Cordially Invited…”, Kira is not ready for that – and, she says, nor is Odo.
In Ops, O’Brien notices a build-up of energy in the transporter buffer, even though there are no ships in range. The transporter activates and someone who looks just like Bareil, who died in “Life Support”, transports in and pulls a gun on Kira. The Bareil lookalike takes Kira as a hostage and asks for a ship. A way is supposedly cleared to a runabout on a landing pad, so the two leave – with the man taking an item of food on the way. Which is slightly odd.
Bareil, for it is Bareil (but he’s not a Vedek), is from the Mirror Universe and is running from the Alliance. He deliberately tried to come to this universe and, of course, Kira had realised that as well, having spent some time in his universe. When they get to the landing pad, Kira points out that Bareil isn’t going to shoot her with his disruptor, as she noticed when they left Ops that the power cell was cracked. She disables him, but Odo and security were in the runabout anyway.
Bareil has an interdimensional transporter, but he wants it destroying so that he can’t be sent back. Kira doesn’t want to press charges and is feeling a little uncertain and Sisko understands this, because he, too, met someone he loved from the mirror universe who was dead in his. Kira starts getting very close to this new Bareil, but he is not what he seems, although his newest experiences may be changing him.