"Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges" is the 166th episode of the television series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, the 16th episode of the seventh season. The episode's title is a paraphrase from Cicero's Pro Milone, Latin for "In times of war, the law falls silent."

As Julian Bashir prepares to go to a conference on Romulus, Luther Sloan shows up in his quarters with a Section 31 assignment.

Bashir boards the USS Bellerophon, where Sloan explains that the assignment is to confirm the rumor that Koval, the anti-Federation head of the secretive Tal Shiar Romulan intelligence agency, and a candidate for a seat on a powerful Senate committee, suffers from Tuvan syndrome, a condition that primarily affects Vulcans and Romulans. Bashir discusses the issue with Admiral William Ross. Ross says it would be better if Federation-friendly Senator Cretak gained the empty seat on the continuing committee as she publicly supported the alliance against the Dominion.

Koval seeks out Bashir at the conference and asks about a disease called "the Quickening," which the Dominion introduced to a planet in the Gamma Quadrant, and how that could be induced into a planetary population. Bashir chairs a symposium on the subject and later tells Sloan that he believes Koval does have Tuvan syndrome, although he does express concern that the head of the Tal Shiar is asking so many pertinent questions about "the Quickening." Sloan says he doesn't care about that question but instead asks how the disease could be accelerated. Naturally, Bashir suspects that Sloan wants Koval killed in a way that makes it look like the Romulan's illness took a turn for the worse. Bashir decides to inform Admiral Ross, who plans to have Sloan arrested. Ross muses that Sloan could have an accomplice on Romulus to carry out the plan as they are both watching Sloan, and orders Bashir into silence.

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