What they find however is that in the last two years the Aschen have managed to use the anti-aging vaccine
as a method to sterilise the population, cutting human reproduction down by 91% in two years.
Despite being somewhat sympathetic to her cause O'Neill refuses to help as he was abandoned by his friends and
colleagues when he raised questions about the Aschen years prior,
preferring to remain in isolation and wait for whatever end comes.
Fraiser however comes back with a diagnosis that Carter is unable to have children,
not understanding how the Aschen doctors could have missed such an obvious diagnosis,
with the two deciding something afoul must be taking place and to find out what it is.