A celebration of the Bajoran Gratitude Festival on the station serves as the backdrop for an epidemic of inexplicable romantic attractions among the crew.

Majel Barrett (Lwaxana Troi)
Philip Anglim (Vedek Bareil)
Rosalind Chao (Keiko O'Brien)
Hana Hatae (Molly O'Brien)

• Lwaxana Troi last visited DS9 in the first season episode "The Forsaken".
  
• Keiko is back from her Bajoran survey project for a visit. The survey is taking longer than expected, so she is going to be spending a few more months on Bajor.
  
• This is DS9's third annual Gratitude Festival.
  
• Lwaxana has Zanthi Fever, which strikes "mature" Betazoid women. It causes her to project her emotions (her attraction to Odo) onto the others. Lwaxana wanted Odo, Jake wanted Kira, Bareil wanted Dax, Dax wanted Benjamin, Quark wanted Keiko, and Kira and Bashir wanted each other.