Stardate 48481.2: The crew of Deep Space Nine proceed on the Defiant to Earth to attend a Starfleet symposium on the Gamma Quadrant. As Commander Sisko, Doctor Bashir, and Lieutenant Dax beam down, they are caught in a temporal fluxuation. They do make it to San Francisco, but they wind up there in the year 2024.

Stuart Best returns to Washington as a congressman and he humiliates Murphy at an inaugural party. To get her revenge, Murphy gets him on FYI to see where he stands on the issues, only Stuart didn't find out who was contributing to his campaign.