"captain there's an unidentified ship that just passed through the wormhole the weird thing is, is that it has a Starfleet signature but I thought that the next ship was in two months when colonel Kira Nerys comes back from Cardassia and even though we had high hopes of the JEWEL coming home we lost that when we lost touch with them as they were fighting heck the last sound that was heard was the destruction of that ship" said O'Brian who was very confused at the moment
"you're absolutely right chief on screen"
"sir it appears visual communication is not possible"
"than do audio but make contact with them"
"audio is available, hailing and they're answering my general hail"
"OK this is captain Sisko of DS9 identify yourself please"
meanwhile they were working on communication issues again on the JEWEL
"Parson see if we have visual back" said Jewel "we need them to see us and us to see them"
"sorry admiral still down" said Parson after the fifteenth try
she talks under her breath "stupid screen" she then asks a question "do we at least have audio?"
"yes sir we do"
"than answer the hail back and keep working in visual"
"yes sir"
and so they hear Sisko and Jewel replies back
"this is admiral Jewel of the Federation Starship Jewel"
"I'm sorry but those people are dead, killed in battle"
Jewel gives the signal to cut audio and it is "what now James? they think we're dead and with good reason actually"
"I don't know admiral"
suddenly Parson gives out a shout
"yes!, visual capabilities are back"
"excellent work Parson put them on screen"
"with pleasure admiral"
and so they finally see a friendly face after nine years
"captain request permission to dock" asked Jewel finally able to see him and very glad to see a familiar uniform
"request denied you haven't given me sufficient proof that it's you in fact I think you're imposters after all no Starfleet officer uses whatever it is you have plus we have audio evidence of the JEWEL's destruction"
he then ends communications and is seething
"who do those people think they are?"
"I don't mean to interrupt but what if it's really them sir?" asked O'Brian wondering if it really was them after having actually seeing them
"what proof would they have chief? it's been six months since that battle"
"let me ask the admiral a question with an answer only she would know"
"what for?"
"because I served with her briefly sir so I know certain things that you don't and they're things she knows as well"
"very well but be careful what you ask"
"yes sir"
and so hailing frequencies are reopened and O'Brian asked a very particular question that applied only to the admiral "if you're really admiral Jewel than answer this, didn't I get onto you a hundred times for being distracted on a certain day before I fully comprehended what that day meant to you?"
"no chief you only got onto me twelve times Lt. Commander Data got onto me about fifty times but that was because I was working on some extremely delicate circuitry and Lt. Commander La Forge ultimately had to relieve me because I was too distracted plus later on the bridge while you were giving commander Riker a report on something captain Picard gave me an order and I called him captain Anegal without realizing it"
well O'Brian faints at that answer because it was so detailed that it could only be her five minutes later he woke up
"are you OK Miles?" asked Bashir for a very good reason
"besides a headache yea"
"that would be from the monitor you hit after you fainted"
well O'Brian stands up to see Jewel still on the screen
"are you OK?"
"I'm fine what about you and your crew you've been declared dead for six months"
"we're fine chief very glad to be talking with those in Starfleet and very glad to be home"
"what happened to you anyways why did you make us think you were dead?"
"it wasn't intentional we lost long rang communication abilities during the battle and it's still not back up"
well Sisko interrupts "chief are you telling me that's really admiral Jewel?"
"yes sir I am"
"in that case you're allowed to dock admiral an then if you could come to OPS we have much to discuss you need to report in to Starfleet command oh and uh keep the non regulation weapons behind please"
"fine we will for now"
and so they dock and Sisko actually decides to meet them on the Promenaed and instantly sees how uncomfortable they are in a large crowd.
"come on we're going to the conference room instead of OPS you'd only be worse in there with people crowding you"
and so they go to the conference room and once communications with Starfleet command are established Jewel gives them a full debrief and they debrief Jewel as well and right when that's finished intruder alarms go off