He secludes himself in his quarters, sleeping most of the day and repeatedly listening to a recording by holographic lounge singer Vic Fontaine of ' I'll Be Seeing You'-the song that was played to keep up crew morale at AR-558. He suffers flashbacks of his injury and feels pain in his new leg.

In this episode, the young Ensign Nog, suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder and phantom pain following the loss of his leg in the earlier episode ' The Siege of AR-558', copes by retreating from the world to live in a holosuite simulation of 1960s Las Vegas.Īfter having his leg replaced after a battle injury during the Siege of AR-558, and following weeks of rehabilitation, Nog returns to Deep Space Nine. This episode centers on a holosuite, a fictional technology that uses holograms to create immersive simulated environments. Set in the 24th century, the series follows the adventures of the crew of the space station Deep Space Nine the later seasons of the series follow a war between the United Federation of Planets and an empire known as the Dominion. Ordover, who had previously written ' Starship Down' from season 4. Moore and based on a pitch by David Mack and John J. Directed by Anson Williams, the episode was written by Ronald D.

' It's Only a Paper Moon' is the 160th episode of the television series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and the tenth episode of the seventh season. 10th episode of the 7th season of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine ' It's Only a Paper Moon'

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