The Circle
- Episode aired Oct 3, 1993
- TV-PG
- 46m
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.
- Doctor Julian Bashir
- (as Siddig El Fadil)
- Narrator
- (uncredited)
- Security Officer
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaDirector 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.
- GoofsPreviously, 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.
- SoundtracksStar Trek: Deep Space Nine - Main Title
(uncredited)
Written by Dennis McCarthy
Performed by Dennis McCarthy
When the show begins, Major Kira is spending time with Vedek Bareil. She hates meditating and he introduces her to the 'third orb' and she has some goofy visions. Then, the scene switches back to DS9 and Quark, oddly, is quite helpful in uncovering a plot by someone to arm Bajoran dissidents and help perpetuate chaos on Bajor--and considering how annoying and unlikable the Bajorans generally are on the show, this will NOT be hard to do! When the action (such as it is) switches back to Bajor, Kira learns who is behind some of the plotting against the provisional government (hint: he has a really cool voice).
Overall, while I did dislike the Bajorans (as usual), it was a better episode than episode two--mostly because the Commander and his Starfleet staff began to behave sneaky and proactive. Interesting and it does start to get interesting here...that is apart from the silly religious visions at the beginning of the show.
- planktonrules
- Dec 16, 2014