answers him. "Everything."

Act Two

When Sarina realizes that Bashir and Dax can hear her speech, she smiles for the first time, amazed that she can interact with the world again.

In the infirmary, Bashir scans Sarina with a medical tricorder, noting that her norepinephrine levels are elevated, which Sarina quickly explains is due to limbic overcompensation for the new thalamic connections. Bashir quickly realizes that she is absolutely right, and Sarina thanks him for having cured her.

Later in the cargo bay, Sarina is reintroduced to her fellow mutants, and after fawning over her, they lead her into singing scales to help her regain a normal speaking voice, which Sarina does quickly. In minutes, the four of them are singing complex harmonies. Looking on from a corner, Doctor Bashir marvels atthe rapid transformation she has made from an uninteractive mute to a fully functional genetically-enhanced woman, as he later recounts to O'Brien at Quark's: "Yesterday, she was silent as a stone. Today, she's laughing and singing".

Returning to his quarters, Bashir finds Sarina waiting inside on his couch; having broken his six-digit access code, she is reviewing the diagram of the virus he has been researching for months. Sarina explains that she is unable to sleep as she fears awakening in her former cataleptic state. Bashir assures her that this will not happen, that her life is different and now full of possibilities. Her fears put to rest, Sarina has quickly drifted off to sleep with her head on Bashir's shoulder. Not wishing to disturb her, Bashir accepts this