Episode #22: The Circle
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Episode #22: The Circle
THE CIRCLE / prod. #422 / episode #2 of 2nd season
written by Peter Allan Fields; Directed by Corey Allen
continued from THE HOMECOMING - the 2nd part of a trilogy...
After an informal gathering of Kira's friends (the new ones she acquired at the start of the 1st season - the main personnel) in her quarters, Kira accepts an invitation from Vedek Bareil to spend some time at his monastery until the government decides where exactly to place her (everything here seems a direct continuation of the last episode of the first season, IN THE HANDS OF THE PROPHETS). Bareil soon takes her to the Third Orb - the Orb of Prophecy & Change - and she hallucinates a scenario which suggests that she and Bareil are destined to be lovers (the last time, Sisko hallucinated in EMISSARY). Vedek Winn (Louise Fletcher) pops up here, too.
Meanwhile, violence on Bajor escalates; we're introduced to General Krim (Stephen Macht), the military Bajoran in charge of trying to keep order. Quark lets Odo in on intelligence that the Circle is being supplied by weapons from strange sources - it may signal a planned coup. And, the chaos reaches Kira - she's kidnapped from the peaceful monastery by The Circle so they can question her; we find out who actually leads The Circle. Much of this plot and even dialog recalls the Seven Days in May thriller - the tactic of sneaking up to take over a government rather than employing democratic tools. It gets a bit nasty as certain desperate Bajorans resort to even using Cardassian methods to get answers - a disturbing sample of victims taking on the characteristics of their oppressors.
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