Huvudtemat för det här avsnittet ( DS9: Besökaren ) är att Jakes far var fångad i tid. Genom att frigöra honom orsakade Jake den särskilda tidslinjen för att upphöra att existera.
JAKE SR: You see, Melanie, after the last attempt to rescue my father failed, I spent months trying to figure out what went wrong. Eventually, I came to understand the nature of what was happening to him. It was as if he was frozen in time at the moment of the accident, and the link between us was like an elastic cord. Every so often the cord would go taut enough to yank him forward into my time. But only for a few minutes. I realised that if my motion through time came to a stop, the cord would go slack and he'd be lost in subspace forever. But if I could cut the cord when the link was at its strongest, while we were together, he'd return to the moment of the accident.
Eftersom Jadzia dog som en direkt följd av Bens pågående fejd med Dukat, verkar det som om hans försvinnande ledde till att hon inte döde under säsong 6