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One Little Ship

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Production Number: 537
Original air week: 2/16/98
Written by: David Weddle & Bradley Thompson
Directed by: Allan Kroeker

Guest Stars:

Aron Eisenberg as Nog
Scott Thompson Baker as First Kudak'Etan
Fritz Sperberg as Second Ixtana'Rax
Kevin Quigley as Gelnon
Christian Zimmerman as Third Lamat'Ukan

Spellings:
unknown

Notes:

Ira Behr on 1.29.98: "'One Little Ship', a story of a tiny, itsy-bitsy runabout that could...what could possibly be wrong with that? I haven't seen all the special effects yet, but I'm told they're going to be great. Every now and then, it seems to me, amidst all the chaos of DS9, we have to have one funky salute to sci-fi classics. So give "One Little Ship" a chance. You won't regret it."
Probably focuses on the Defiant, but might also refer to the Rotarran or the Rio Grande, in a situation supposedly "too big" for the ship.
From AOL: The Defiant is towing a runabout for a survey missin of a plasma cloud they tractor the runabout and let it go onto the cloud but as the runabout continues to go into the cloud it starts to shrink. Then the Jem Hadar out of nowhere come along and attack the Defiant which breaks loose the tractor bema so the runabout pilots itself out of the cloud and on the viewscreen it is totally black no malfunction so they demagnitize it as far as it will go and on the viewer is the I from defIant thats how little hte ship is. The runabout somehow pilots the ship inside the defiant and the Jem Hadar have captured it! So they decide to help the remaining crewmen to get it back and the ship is piloting around firing on the JemHadar with their phasers! It is very hilarious!
Multiple sources have confirmed that this episode deals with the shrinking of a Runabout (perhaps the Rubicon) and her crew. Don't immediately switch the channel, though--DS9 did the "Holodeck goes awry" with flair in "Our Man Bashir" when everybody was predicting doom, so there's a possibility they could pull it off. Maybe.

The Author's Keyboard:

Ron Moore (November 11):
We've just begun shooting episode 13, so we're halfway through the season. How time flies...
What is episode 13 titled?
Episode 13 is entitled "One Little Ship."

DETAILED REPORT

In order to investigate a rare subspace phenomenon, Dax, O'Brien, and Bashir board a Runabout that is shrunken to four inches long. They are assured this effect will be reversed once they leave the anomaly. Suddenly, the Defiant, tethered to the tiny Runabout, is attacked and Sisko and the others are overtaken by the Jem'Hadar. The miniature Runabout and its crew survives, but they exit the anomaly through a different route -- without returning to normal size.
The Runabout cannot enter the anomaly again without help, so Dax, O'Brien, and Bashir pilot their vessel inside the Defiant. Meanwhile, the Jem'Hadar, unable to restore warp drive to the captured ship, force Sisko and his crew to guide them through the mechanical repairs. When the Jem'Hadar leader, First Kudak'Etan, sends away his Vorta's attack ship with assurance that the warp drive will soon be operational, Sisko seizes the opportunity to hatch a plan to retake the Defiant.
The Runabout crew members find themselves in the Engine Room, where they realize the Jem'Hadar have overtaken the ship. Sisko, Worf, Kira, and Nog work at the controls, trying to appear as if they are repairing the warp drive while they secretly retrace each other's steps. Dax sees that Sisko is trying to retake control of the ship from the operations console, but his plan cannot work unless Dax and her crew can pilot the Runabout to the Bridge and help them from there.
They reach the Bridge, but are unable to release the command codes to transfer control to Sisko. O'Brien and Bashir leave the ship to do the job manually, with Dax beaming down oxygen molecules for them to breathe. Unaware of their crewmates' presence onboard, and feeling the time pressure bearing down, Kira continues to stall while Sisko infects the warp drive with a virus.
O'Brien and Bashir release the codes and are beamed back to the Runabout. Just as Nog realizes that command functions have been transferred to Engineering, Kudak'Etan catches on to the crew's act. He prepares to put the ship in warp drive, not knowing about the computer virus. Just then, the Runabout arrives, surprising the unsuspecting Jem'Hadar, and the "full-sized" crewmembers gain the upper hand. After disabling the virus, Sisko floods the ship with poison gas, subduing the remaining Jem'Hadar. The Defiant is liberated thanks to their tiny crewmates, who are soon returned to the anomaly and their normal size.
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