The Best Episodes of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 2

Stardate: Unknown. Sisko and Quark and a strange telepathic woman are arrested by Jem'Hadar, soldiers of the Dominion.

Director: Kim Friedman

Writer: Ira Steven Behr

Stardate: Unknown. Dr. Bashir fights to save Garak's life when a malfunctioning Cardassian brain implant threatens to kill him.

Director: Kim Friedman

Writer: Robert Hewitt Wolfe

Stardate: 47282.5. Odo relives some terrible and tragic memories of a past investigation when he was the constable on Cardassian-occupied Deep Space Nine, then named Terok Nor.

Director: James L. Conway

Writer: Peter Allan Fields

Stardate: 47581.2. Chief O'Brien's world is turned upside down when for no reason whatsoever he is being ignored by his family and friends and is being closed out of every essential job on the station.

Director: Les Landau

Writer: Paul Robert Coyle

Stardate: Unknown. As a "Circle"-led Bajoran military tries to occupy the station, a skeleton crew led by Sisko fight to reveal "The Circle's" big secret before they are forced to evacuate themselves. Meanwhile, Kira and Dax lead a mission to reveal the truth about "The Circle" on Bajor.

Director: Winrich Kolbe

Writer: Michael Piller

Stardate: Unknown. Three legendary Klingons come to DS9 to see if Jadzia Dax will participate in a Blood Oath they made with Jadzia's previous host Curzon.

Director: Winrich Kolbe

Writer: Peter Allan Fields

Stardate: Unknown. The destruction of a Cardassian ship leads Sisko, Dukat, and Sisko's old friend Cal Hudson to the fact that there is an unofficial war between the Maquis and the Cardassians.

Director: David Livingston

Writer: James Crocker

Stardate: Unknown. Sisko tries to resolve the Maquis crisis by preventing a war, freeing Gul Dukat and offering the defected Hudson the chance to return.

Director: Corey Allen

Writer: Ira Steven Behr

Stardate: 47879.2. Kira and Bashir find themselves in an alternate universe.

Director: David Livingston

Writer: Peter Allan Fields

Stardate: Unknown. Word that a previously thought dead Bajoran resistance legend is still alive sends Kira and Chief O'Brien to Cardassia IV to rescue him; meanwhile "The Circle", a sect of the Bajoran provisional government that is intent on wiping out alien influence, is sneaking into power.

Director: Winrich Kolbe

Writer: Ira Steven Behr

Stardate: Unknown. Kira spends time with Vedek Bareil on Bajor just as "The Circle" begins arming themselves from a mysterious source.

Director: Corey Allen

Writer: Peter Allan Fields

Stardate: 47177.2. Political heat rises on the station as Bajorans enter the station with orphaned Cardassians they have adopted.

Director: Cliff Bole

Writer: N/A

Stardate: 47944.2. Chief O'Brien goes through the horrific Cardassian judicial system when he is charged for an unknown crime.

Director: Avery Brooks

Writer: Bill Dial

Stardate: Unknown. A female Ferengi, posing as a male to be available to participate in business (a rule STRICTLY forbidden by the Ferengi government), falls for Quark during very important negotiations between the Ferengi and a Gamma Quadrant race.

Director: David Livingston

Writer: N/A

Stardate: 47529.4. Chief O'Brien, who still doesn't like the good Doctor Bashir, must rely on him when the two are stranded on a planet and O'Brien is infected with a deadly, fast moving disease.

Director: Winrich Kolbe

Writer: Morgan Gendel

Stardate: 47603.3. Odo and Dax investigate the mysterious disappearance of people from a village. Kira tries to keep a close eye on Quark, while Vedek Bareil unexpectedly visits.

Director: Robert Scheerer

Writer: Robert Hewitt Wolfe

Stardate: Unknown. A Cardassian woman, who was once a former flame of Quark's, visits the station under dubious circumstances.

Director: Robert Wiemer

Writer: Flip Kobler, Cindy Marcus

Stardate: Unknown. Vedek Bareil is accused of having betrayed his people to the Cardassians during the occupation, and Major Kira is desperate to prove his innocence.

Director: Cliff Bole

Writer: Gary Holland

Stardate: 47182.1. A jealous Trill, who had waited his entire life to receive a symbiont but never had, decides to steal one. . . Dax's!

Director: Les Landau

Writer: John Whelpley

Stardate: 47391.7. Odo and Dr. Mora Pol, Odo's 'father', discover a life form similar to Odo on a Gamma Quadrant planet.

Director: David Carson

Writer: Bill Dial

Stardate: 47573.1. Sisko and Chief O'Brien discover a colony that lives without technology.

Director: Corey Allen

Writer: N/A

Stardate: 47229.1. A new arrival to the station with a special gravity-based disability appeals to Bashir's heart; meanwhile an old associate of Quark's comes to the station to kill the barkeep.

Director: Winrich Kolbe

Writer: Evan Somers

Stardate: 47391.2. A race that has been conquered twice over, one of the conquerors being the mysterious Dominion, comes to the station seeking aid and a new home.

Director: Les Landau

Writer: N/A

Stardate: Unknown. Quark meets his match when a new rival opens a casino opposite Quark's Bar on the Promenade; meanwhile the station is suffering issues of high improbability.

Director: David Livingston

Writer: N/A

Stardate: Unknown. A Trill named Arjin comes to DS9 to learn what it is to be a Trill with a symbiont but finds his teacher, Dax, to be less than he expected.

Director: David Livingston

Writer: Jim Trombetta