The Circle

Episode aired Oct 3, 1993
TV-PG
46m

IMDb RATING

7.6/10

2.4K

YOUR RATING

Avery Brooks in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993)

Action Adventure Drama Sci-Fi Thriller

Kira spends time with Vedek Bareil on Bajor just as the Circle begins receiving arms from an unknown source.Kira spends time with Vedek Bareil on Bajor just as the Circle begins receiving arms from an unknown source.Kira spends time with Vedek Bareil on Bajor just as the Circle begins receiving arms from an unknown source.

See production info at IMDbPro

IMDb RATING

7.6/10

2.4K

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Photos6

Storyline

Edit

Did you know

Edit

Trivia
Director Corey Allen shot the scene in Kira's quarters in one continuous uninterrupted take. When the episode was edited together, the scene was intercut with various close-ups and reverse angles, but the master shot of the scene was one long take, something of which Allen was extremely proud.

Goofs
Previously, it's revealed that the most a runabout can beam is two people simultaneously. However, in this episode, several people are beamed to the Circle headquarters and back out from a runabout.

Quotes
Odo: You're not...!
Major Kira: Leaving? I really don't have much choice, do I?
Odo: You're not just leaving, Major, you're surrendering.
Major Kira: You break the rules, you pay.
Odo: Wait a minute, I wanna be sure I heard that correctly. Because it doesn't sound like the Kira Nerys who has made a career out of breaking the rules.
Major Kira: Well, I guess I broke one too many.
Odo: [incensed] Major, you've been breaking one too many for fourteen and a half years! Cardassian rules, Bajoran rules, Federation rules, they're all meaningless to you. Because you have a personal code, that's always mattered more. And I'm sorry to say, you're in slim company.
Major Kira: [softly] I'll miss you too, Odo.

Connections
Referenced in Inglorious Treksperts: Creating the Dominion w/ Robert Hewitt Wolfe (aka Don't Go Changeling to Try And Please Us) (2023)

Soundtracks
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Main Title
(uncredited)
Written by Dennis McCarthy
Performed by Dennis McCarthy

User reviews9

Review

Featured review

7/10

What a web of intrigue

In this second part of the 2nd season opener we find Nana Visitor at Vedek Philip Anglim's retreat and Prime Minister Frank Langella tightening his grip on Bajor.

Louise Fletcher as head of the fundamentalist sect is busy working herself into Langella's confidence. There is enough intrigue in here for about six episodes.

An encounter with a Bajoran orb gives Visitor some interesting insights into who is behind what. It gets her taken prisoner by the nativists.

And Avery Brooks gets an order from StarFleet that this Bajoran internal matter might necessitate abandoning Deep Space 9. Not an order he likes.

This is a stay tuned episode for the 3rd installment.