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Deep Space Nine (DS9) Season 2

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The Homecoming Stardate not given: Major Kira receives a cue that Li Nalas, the greatest hero of the Bajoran Resistance, may still be alive in a Cardassian prison camp. She and O'Brien actually find Li in a secret site on Cardassia VIII. But they have to leave the rest of the Bajoran prisoners behind. Gul Dukat surprisingly apologizes for the existence of the camp and promises that all detainees be released soon. Meanwhile on Deep Space Nine, an extremist Bajoran group named "The Circle" demands that all aliens leave Bajor. In order to help pacify his people, Li Nalas, whose role in the fight against Cardassia is vastly overrated, reluctantly accepts his new position as liaison officer on Deep Space Nine, while Minister Jaro recalls Kira to Bajor.

The Circle Stardate not given: Kira Nerys accepts Bareil's invitation to his monastery where she recognizes that she has fallen in love with the Vedek. When Odo, with the help of Quark, investigates weapon shipments from the Kressari to The Circle, he finds out that actually the Cardassians are responsible for the deal because they want to destabilize Bajor. On Bajor, Kira is anesthetized and kidnapped. When she wakes up, Minister Jaro reveals that he is the leader of The Circle. Sisko, Bashir and Li manage to free Kira and take her back to the station, while The Circle in the form of Jaro and Vedek Winn is preparing to seize power on Bajor and to attack the station - unbeknownst of the fact that everything is a Cardassian ploy.

The Siege Stardate not given: Most denizens of Deep Space Nine leave the station in a hurry in order to escape the imminent attack. Soon Bajoran forces arrive to take over the station, unaware that Commander Sisko and a small team of officers are still hiding there. Kira and Dax embark an old Bajoran fighter craft to get to Bajor, but they are shot down above the planet. They are found by two Bajorans sent by Bareil and proceed to the Bajoran Chamber of Ministers. When Kira tells the ministers about the Cardassian involvement, everyone, including Winn, turns against the shattered Jaro. In the meantime on Deep Space Nine, Sisko and his crew have managed to convince General Krim of the occupation forces to retreat. Only Colonel Day refuses to leave. When the fanatic officer aims his phaser at Sisko, Li Nalas leaps into the line of fire and is fatally injured.

Invasive Procedures Stardate 47182.1: During a plasma storm Deep Space Nine is manned only with a skeleton crew, when a transport ship sends a distress call and requests to dock. The Trill Verad, a woman named Mareel and the two Klingon mercenaries T'Kar and Yeto come aboard the station. They pull weapons, confine Odo to a stasis box and take everyone else hostage. Verad's plan is to get hold of the Dax symbiont. Under the threat that otherwise everyone would be killed, but knowing that it will likely kill Jadzia once the symbiont is removed, Dr. Bashir performs the procedure. Ben Sisko attempts to convince his new "friend" Verad Dax and later Verad's lover Mareel (who is disappointed about his change) to return the Dax symbiont. In the meantime Quark and Bashir get rid of their Klingon guard dogs and free Odo. When Verad leaves in a hurry and a struggle between his aides and the crew ensues, Sisko takes a phaser and fires at Verad - allowing Bashir to return the Dax symbiont to Jadzia who now hosts a part of Verad's memories and personality.

Cardassians Stardate 47177.2: Garak makes the unpleasant acquaintance of Rugal, a Cardassian boy who has been raised by Bajorans and who now hates his own race. Gul Dukat insists to investigate the case, when Garak gives Dr. Bashir a cue that the boy, like other Cardassian orphans, was left behind on Bajor on Dukat's orders. Dukat later reveals that the boy is the son of Pa'Dar, an influential politician on Cardassia. Bashir and Garak take a shuttle to the orphanage on Bajor where any record about Rugal is missing. It turns out that Dukat deliberately separated the boy from his father and erased the evidence in the hopes of humiliating his political opponent. Sisko decides that, although the Bajoran foster father named Proka loves Rugal as if he were his own child, the boy should be returned to Pa'Dar.

Melora Stardate 47229.1: The cartographer Ensign Melora Pazlar, an Elaysian who is used to very low gravity, arrives at the station. Although she needs a wheelchair to move in environments with nominal gravity, she insists on being treated like everyone else. But she experiences her limits when she drops to the floor and doesn't manage to get up until help arrives. Julian Bashir, who is romantically involved with the Elaysian, surprises Melora with the proposal to adapt her neuromuscular system to normal gravity, even though then she would have to give up her frequent "flights" in low gravity. When Fallit Kot, a sinister trade partner of Quark's, hijacks her and Dax' runabout, Melora saves the day when she deactivates the gravity generators and overwhelms Kot. She decides to decline the proposed treatment.

Rules of Acquisition Stardate not given: Grand Nagus Zek has great news for Quark: The simple bar owner has been chosen to purchase tulaberry wine from the Dosi from the Gamma Quadrant, as a preparation for a large-scale trade agreement. When his Ferengi waiter Pel advises him to be cautious, Quark is impressed and assigns Pel to be his assistant. But Pel is actually a female who is disguised as a man to escape the strict gender roles in the Ferengi society. The deal with the Dosi fails, however, Pel convinces Zek to let them further pursue their goals. With Zek's blessing, she and Quark head for the Gamma Quadrant where they learn of the Karemma who would bring the Ferengi in contact with the Dominion - which is ultimately more valuable than the wine. Back on the station, Quark faints when he is notified that Pel is a woman who loves him. When Pel reveals her gender to Zek as well, the Ferengi decide to remain silent about it - as it is outlawed for a businessman to take advice from a woman.

Necessary Evil Stardate 47282.5: The Bajoran woman Vaatrik Pallra asks Quark to retrieve a strongbox hidden on the station during the Cardassian occupation. He and Rom sneak about on the promenade deck and find the box when a man named Trazko, obviously sent by Pallra, takes the list of names that was inside and shoots Quark. Odo questions Rom about the incident when he suddenly finds himself in a conversation with Gul Dukat, five years earlier on Terok Nor. At that time Pallra's husband Mr. Vaatrick, a shop owner, had been murdered, and Pallra suspected his alleged mistress, Kira Nerys. Back in the present, Rom remembers just one name from the list which he thinks was Ches'so. But Pallra denies any knowledge of either the list or someone with that name. Yet, Odo is sure that she is blackmailing former collaborators like the said person whose real name is Ches'sarro Seeto. Now Ches'saro has mysteriously died. Five years in the past, Odo interrogates Kira who has paid Quark in order to provide a false alibi for her. She says it was to cover up her sabotage of the ore processors. Odo lies to Dukat about this interrogation in order to save her life. Back in the present, Trazko attempts in vain to assassinate Quark who is still in the infirmary. Odo, however, realizes that Kira did indeed kill Mr. Vaatrick because he was a collaborator and that it was her friends of the Resistance who exterminated Ches'saro.

Second Sight Stardate 47329.4: On the fourth anniversary of the Battle of Wolf 359 in which his wife died, Benjamin Sisko falls in love a woman named Fenna he encounters on the promenade deck. But Fenna suddenly runs away when the commander meets her a second time. The same night, he and his senior staff attend a dinner with Dr. Seyetik on the U.S.S. Prometheus. The famous scientist has developed a method to re-ignite dying stars in order to revive orbiting planets. Much to Sisko's surprise, Seyetik's wife Nidell looks exactly like Fenna, but she doesn't recognize the commander. He is even more taken aback to find Fenna, who says she knows nothing about Nidell, in his quarters, only to see her disappear after a passionate kiss. On their mission to a dead star Dax reveals that Fenna is composed of energy. She is just a projection created by Nidell who is a psychoprojective telepath and obviously bored by her marriage with Seyetik. Stricken with guilt, the scientist takes a shuttle and commits suicide when he heads for the star which he recuperates through his sacrifice. Nidell is now free, but Fenna, the part of her that loved Sisko, is gone.

Sanctuary Stardate 47391.2: When a transport vessel entering through the wormhole breaks apart, its passengers are beamed to Deep Space Nine. After the universal translator initially fails to provide a proper translation, it later becomes clear that the people from the Gamma Quadrant are Skrreeans who lost their home to a race called T-Rogorans and ultimately to the Dominion. There are three million more Skrreeans waiting on the far side of the "Eye", the wormhole, as their leader, a woman called Haneek explains. While Sisko has found an empty planet for the Skrreeans to settle down, Haneek is convinced that their lost home is Bajor. But the Bajorans refuse to let the refugees immigrate. Haneek's son Tumak takes a shuttle to Bajor which explodes due to a radiation leak when Bajoran fighters attempt to stop him. Shattered about the loss, Haneek gives in, but not without accusing the Bajorans of being apprehensive and mistrustful.

Rivals Stardate not given: While in Odo's holding cell, the notorious El-Aurian swindler Martus Mazur acquires a gambling device from a fellow prisoner. So equipped, he opens a casino on the promenade deck when he is released. He gains the widow Roana and Quark's brother Rom as associates. Much to Quark's displeasure the "Club Martus" soon abounds with guests who always seem to win in the casino - whereas occurrences of bad luck are reported from everywhere on Deep Space Nine. When Quark strikes back and wins O'Brien and Bashir for a charity racquetball match, something is strange. O'Brien who normally wouldn't stand a chance doesn't miss a single ball. It turns out that the gaming device is changing the probability for the neutron spin throughout the station. Commander Sisko rules that the devices have to be destroyed.

The Alternate Stardate 47391.7: Dr. Mora, the scientist who took care of Odo after he was found and the prototype for the shapeshifter's hairstyle, visits the station with a possible clue to Odo's origin. Odo, Mora, Dax and the Mora's assistant Dr. Weld take a runabout to a planet in the Gamma Quadrant where they locate a tiny lifeform which may be related to Odo. But then poisonous volcanic gases erupt, and only the seemingly unaffected Odo can save the rest of the away team. Back on Deep Space Nine, the three injured scientists are taken to the infirmary. O'Brien carries on with the studies but then the science lab in which he keeps the lifeform is demolished, apparently by the lifeform itself which is missing. But a more detailed analysis of Dr. Mora comes to the conclusion that Odo must be the culprit. The security chief doesn't believe his mentor until he morphs into the violent creature. Shutting off the power on the station the crew manages to capture Odo and remove the traces of the detrimental gas from his substance.

Armageddon Game Stardate 47529.4: Aboard a T'Lani vessel, Dr. Bashir and Miles O'Brien assist the T'Lani and the Kellerun in the destruction of the Harvester, a biological agent that was used in the long war between the two planets. Suddenly two Kellerun soldiers enter the room and begin firing. The two Starfleet officers manage to beam down to the planet T'Lani III, but O'Brien has been infected with Harvester. Kellerun and T'Lani officials inform Deep Space Nine that the two officers are dead. But Keiko O'Brien notices an inconsistency in the security tape because she insists on her husband never drinking coffee in the late afternoon. In orbit of T'Lani Dax and Sisko discover that the shuttle log has been tampered with as well. Bashir and the ailing O'Brien work on sending a distress call, and they can be beamed up just when T'Lani and Kellerun soldiers arrive to kill them because they know too much about the bioweapon. Sacrificing one of the two runabouts, the four Starfleet officers escape the T'Lani cruiser. Back on Deep Space Nine Miles O'Brien is puzzled about his wife's suspicion because he actually drank coffee that afternoon.

Whispers Stardate 47581.2: When Chief O'Brien returns from a mission to the Parada, everyone reacts strangely on him. His wife Keiko avoids intimacy, Bashir calls him for an unscheduled examination, crucial repairs on the station are carried out without him. He has no access to the station's logs for the time after his arrival, and his personal logs have been reviewed by someone else. When Odo returns from Bajor, O'Brien is glad to have a possible ally, but the security chief appears to be part of the conspiracy. When Kira attempts to disable O'Brien with a hypospray, he escapes to a runabout and heads to the Parada homeworld. Witnessing a meeting of Parada rebels with his fellow officers, he draws a phaser but is fatally wounded by the guards. Before he dies he learns that he is not the real O'Brien but a replicant who was created by the Parada to kill someone on a conference to take place on Deep Space Nine.

Paradise Stardate 47573.1: On a survey mission in a runabout, Miles O'Brien and Benjamin Sisko discover an unknown human colony on a planet. They beam down, only to realize that a duonetic field obstructs all of their technical devices. Alixus, the leader of the colony, welcomes the two officers. When the two attempt to aid a woman who is dying of an ordinary insect bite by contacting their runabout, Alixus angrily insists on no technology being allowed on her planet. In the meantime, the runabout is found adrift in space. Alixus does everything to integrate the two officers into her society. When it becomes obvious that it is in vain, she locks up Sisko in a small metal box fully exposed to the sunlight. O'Brien, determined to overthrow her regime, finally finds the generator which creates the duonetic field and takes a phaser to free Sisko. The two take Alixus and her son with them, while the rest of the colonists decides to stay, now living in a free and open society.

Shadowplay Stardate 47603.3: On an unexplored planet in the Gamma Quadrant the Yaderan village administrator Colyus asks Dax and Odo to investigate the case of 22 people who have vanished. The two interview Taya, the granddaughter of Rurigan, one of the village's founders. She was the last to see her mother. Rurigan, however, says he believes no one will ever return. When Dax notices that a Yaderan scanning device disappears outside the village boundaries, and Taya's arm disappears as well, it is clear that the village is holographic. Dax shuts down the simulation to restart it later. Everything vanishes, and only Rurigan is still there. He recreated what he had lost when the Dominion took over Yadera Prime. He is ready to return to what is left of his homeworld, but Dax and Odo convince him that the simulation may be just as real as he wants it to be.

Playing God Stardate not given: Arjin, a young Trill qualifying for receiving a symbiont is uneasy because it will be tough to fulfill the expectations of the famed Dax symbiont in the form of Jadzia Dax who is going to train and assess him. But he is relieved to see how light-hearted the young woman is. The two discover a piece of protoplasm in a subspace pocket on the other side of the wormhole. They examine the matter in the station's science lab. Jadzia Dax ponders whether to go easy on Arjin or to be as blunt as Curzon Dax once was to her. She decides to do the latter, leaving Arjin angry and disappointed. Unfortunately Cardassian voles, rodents living on the station, damage the containment field. Now the protoplasm, which turns out to be a protouniverse containing life, is expanding. The only solution is to take it back to its origin which Dax and Arjin accomplish thanks to the young Trill's excellent piloting inside the wormhole - which gains him Dax' respect.

Profit and Loss Stardate not given: The Cardassian Professor Natima Lang, Quark's former lover, arrives at the station with two of her students for repairs on their vessel. She lies about the true cause for the damage on the ship which, in actuality, has been attacked by another Cardassian vessel. While Lang claims that they have fled Cardassia for political reasons, Garak insists on them being terrorists and urges Sisko to turn them over to the Cardassian authorities. Quark offers the students a cloaking device for their escape under the condition that Natima Lang stays behind. But Natima refuses. Meanwhile, in the course of a Bajoran-Cardassian prisoner exchange, Sisko is forced to extradite his three guests. They have been betrayed by Garak who is now being urged to kill them as a proof of his loyalty to Cardassia. But he kills the Cardassian officer Gul Toran instead and allows the three refugees to escape.

Blood Oath Stardate not given: The three old Klingons Kang, Kor and Koloth arrive at the station where they expect to meet Curzon Dax. After many decades they have gathered again to fulfill a blood oath to slay the Albino who once murdered the firstborn sons of each of the three men. Curzon, as the godfather of Kang's son, swore to join them. Jadzia feels obliged to obey Curzon's oath, but Kang initially refuses to let her come with them. When he eventually agrees, Jadzia tells the reluctant Sisko that upon her return she would face whatever disciplinary consequences the excursion should have. The three arrive at the Albino's hiding place where Kang reveals that they have come to die with honor. But Jadzia convinces them to fight to win. After Koloth has been mortally wounded, they corner the Albino, and with his last breath Kang kills his mortal enemy when Jadzia hesitates.

The Maquis I/II Stardate not given: The Cardassian freighter Bok'Nor explodes while departing from Deep Space Nine. When Jadzia Dax suspects that it was a terrorist act, Starfleet sends Lieutenant Commander Calvin Hudson, an old friend of Sisko's, to investigate the case which endangers the fragile peace treaty between the Federation and the Cardassians. Gul Dukat claims that Federation colonists are conducting terrorist acts against the Cardassians in the newly established Demilitarized Zone. Soon Sisko and Dukat witness how Federation ships destroy two Cardassian vessels. Moreover, O'Brien finds out that the device that caused the explosion of the Bok'Nor was a Federation device. Then Dukat is kidnapped from Deep Space Nine. When When Sisko, Kira and Bashir follow the traces of the kidnappers into a border region called the Badlands, they find a group of resistance fighters, the Maquis, their leader being no one else but Calvin Hudson. Hudson escapes and Sisko decides not yet to inform Starfleet of his friend's betrayal. Meanwhile, it seems clear that the Cardassians are breaking the treaty by smuggling weapons into the Demilitarized Zone. Sisko manages to free Dukat and take prisoners. He sides with the Cardassian officer who appears to have lost the support of his superiors. Together they prevent a Maquis attack on a Cardassian colony which serves as a weapons depot. When just Sisko's and Hudson's vessels are still operational, Sisko allows his old friend to escape.

The Wire Stardate not given: Julian Bashir witnesses how Garak suffers from unbearable pain. Later, the Cardassian collapses in Quark's bar. Bashir determines that an implant is responsible for the pain attacks, apparently designed by the Obsidian Order, the Cardassian intelligence service, to punish their agents. But Garak reveals the true purpose of the device which he received from Enabran Tain, the head of the Obsidian Order, in order to be able to sustain torture. During his exile he has been overusing the implant and become addicted to it, and now it malfunctions. Saying that he deserves the pain for killing his friend Elim, Garak begins to fantasize. Bashir receives the specifications of the device when he visits Enabran Tain. Tain also tells him that Elim is actually Garak's first name. Upon Bashir's return to the station the convalesced Garak reaffirms that all the stories about his exile were true - especially the lies.

Crossover Stardate 47879.2: After experiencing difficulties in passing through the wormhole, Kira and Bashir find themselves in the Mirror Universe. Here a certain Spock has disposed of the cruel Captain Kirk, and initiated a chain of events which ended in the Terran Empire being subjugated by the Cardassian-Klingon Alliance. Mirror Kira oversees the station Terok Nor of that universe, aided by Mirror Garak and Mirror Odo. Bashir is sent to work in the ore processing where he meets the disillusioned Mirror O'Brien who won't help him. Mirror Kira develops a strange fascination for her look-alike. However, Mirror Garak plans to get rid of Mirror Kira, using Kira to pretend that she is her evil counterpart. He threatens to kill Bashir if she doesn't comply. While Kira attempts in vain to convince Mirror Sisko, who has more privileges than the other humans of this universe, to support their cause, Bashir manages to kill Mirror Odo and to escape. When he is caught and about to be publicly executed, Mirror O'Brien speaks up and tells the crowd about the Mirror Universe. Now Mirror Sisko is moved and helps Kira and Bashir to escape to their universe.

The Collaborator Stardate not given: Bajor is going to elect a new Kai, the religious leader of the planet. The intriguer Vedek Winn runs against the clear favorite Vedek Bareil. But then a Cardassian collaborator named Kubus is offered amnesty by Winn in exchange for information about the Kendra Valley massacre in which the Cardassians murdered 43 members of the Bajoran Resistance, including Kai Opaka's son. The monk Prylar Bek revealed their whereabouts to the Cardassians and then committed suicide. The communication records seem to indicate that it was Bareil who ordered the monk to do so, in order to avert a worse disaster, because the Cardassians would have killed thousands of village inhabitants searching for the resistance cell. Bareil withdraws from the election. After Winn has been declared the new Kai, Kira discovers that Bareil is not the true collaborator. He covers up the decision of Kai Opaka who sacrificed her own son for the benefit of her people.

Tribunal Stardate 47944.2: Briefly after meeting Boone, his old friend from the U.S.S. Rutledge, O'Brien leaves the station with Keiko for a vacation. But the Cardassians kidnap the chief and put him on trial. The Cardassian trial is just a confirmation of a verdict that has been fabricated in advance. Without even knowing the charges against him, O'Brien is told that he is guilty and has been sentenced to death. Under Cardassian law, Odo is allowed to act as O'Brien's nestor during the tribunal, whereas defendant's so-called "lawyer" only attempts to make him confess his guilt. On Deep Space Nine, Bashir and Dax find out that Boone has stolen warheads from a weapons locker and supplied them to the Maquis, using a recording of O'Brien's voice to trick the security system. But Boone is not a member of the Maquis. Bashir discovers that he is a surgically altered Cardassian. With this proof Sisko enters the Cardassian courtroom where Judge Makbar swiftly decides to release O'Brien to spare the Cardassian Union the embarrassment about the feigned criminal case.

The Jem'Hadar Stardate not given: Ben Sisko plans a cozy excursion to a planet in the Gamma Quadrant with his son Jake. But Jake asks Nog to come with them and finally even Quark joins the vacationers. While the unfortunate commander keeps arguing with Quark, the two boys go explore the woods. Eris, a timid humanoid woman appears and tells Sisko and Quark that she is being chased by ruthless soldiers of the Dominion called the Jem'Hadar. The Jem'Hadar take the three people prisoners. While confined in a forcefield, Sisko attempts to remove a collar from Eris' neck that blocks her telekinetic abilities which would allow her to lower the forcefield. In the meantime Jake and Nog have beamed up to the runabout, but they don't manage to disengage the autopilot. Third Talak'talan, the leader of the Jem'Hadar group, announces that the Dominion will no longer tolerate ships traversing the wormhole, and he materializes on Deep Space Nine to announce that Sisko is a prisoner of the Dominion. The U.S.S. Odyssey under Captain Keogh arrives and, escorted by the two other runabouts, enters the wormhole to rescue the commander. O'Brien beams to the third runabout with Jake and Nog, and he beams up Sisko, Quark and Eris who have finally managed to release the lock of Eris' collar. Jem'Hadar ships appear and attack the Starfleet vessels. One of them rams and destroys the Odyssey in a suicide run, while the three runabouts escape through the wormhole. Back on the station Quark discovers that the collar is a fake. Eris' telekinetic abilities were never blocked. She is a member of the Dominion herself and disappears before she can be arrested.

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