O tema principal desse episódio ( DS9: The Visitor ) é que o pai de Jake ficou preso no tempo. Ao libertá-lo, Jake fez com que aquela linha do tempo deixasse de existir.
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.
Dado que Jadzia morreu como uma consequência direta da rivalidade de Ben com Dukat, parece que o desaparecimento dele resultou em ela não morrer na 6ª temporada