"Marcus isn't a name familiar to me," Julian says carefully, keeping an eye on him. He's getting agitated--being in a closed space with an agitated Augment is not high on Julian's preferred list of places to be. "He may have never attained Admiral here. If he went into Starfleet at all."

"It sounds like something they'd do. They plucked me off my station in the dead of night with none the wiser. If I'd not been able to catch a discrepancy in the simulation they'd put me in, I'd possibly still be there. Or they would have gotten rid of me when they realized I wasn't going to turn to them."

A staged shuttle crash or Jem'Hadar attack would have been all they needed. It wouldn't have been difficult to kill him and have done with it. Captain Sisko and the others might have suspected something, but what would they have been able to prove?

"I'm sorry. Really, I am." He can't even say that nothing of the like is going to happen here, because what protection can he promise against something like that? He doesn't even know if they have a presence on the Enterprise.