The BEST episodes of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine season 2

Every episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine season 2, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine season 2!

When the Cardassian occupation of Bajor ended in 2369, the mining space-station Terok Nor was left abandoned, its systems ripped out. By invitation of the provisional Bajoran government, Starfleet stepped in to oversee the rebuilding and day-to-day operations of the newly christened Deep Space Nine. DS9 soon became a center of travel and commerce thanks to a newly found stable wormhole leading to the largely unexplored Gamma Quadrant.

Last Updated: 9/16/2024Network: SyndicationStatus: Ended
The Jem'Hadar
star
7.82
1564 votes

#1 - The Jem'Hadar

Season 2 - Episode 26 - Aired 6/12/1994

Sisko, Jake, Nog, and Quark go camping on a Gamma Quadrant world but are captured by mysterious soldiers called the Jem'Hadar and meet a force to rival the Federation.

Directors: Kim Friedman
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The Maquis (1)
star
7.60
1513 votes

#2 - The Maquis (1)

Season 2 - Episode 20 - Aired 4/24/1994

Federation colonists reject a treaty with Cardassia and take matters into their own hands, forming a terrorist group called 'The Maquis'.

Directors: David Livingston
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The Siege
star
7.60
1498 votes

#3 - The Siege

Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/10/1993

Sisko is forced to evacuate the station when the war escalates and turns in favor of the terrorists.

Directors: Winrich Kolbe
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Necessary Evil
star
7.52
1533 votes

#4 - Necessary Evil

Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/14/1993

Quark is injured in an attack which Odo suspects is related to a murder committed five years before, in which Kira was the prime suspect.

Directors: James L. Conway
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The Circle
star
7.47
1615 votes

#5 - The Circle

Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/3/1993

After she is relieved of her post aboard, Deep Space Nine, Kira tries to expose the leaders of the terrorist group known as 'The Circle.'

Directors: Corey Allen
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The Wire
star
7.43
1379 votes

#6 - The Wire

Season 2 - Episode 22 - Aired 5/8/1994

In order to save Garak's life, Bashir must unravel some of the secrets in the Cardassian's past.

Directors: Kim Friedman
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The Maquis (2)
star
7.43
1412 votes

#7 - The Maquis (2)

Season 2 - Episode 21 - Aired 5/1/1994

Sisko's friend, Commander Cal Hudson, resigns from Starfleet to join the Maquis in their fight against the Cardassians.

Directors: Corey Allen
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The Homecoming
star
7.42
1535 votes

#8 - The Homecoming

Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/26/1993

Kira and O'Brien try to rescue a famed Bajoran resistance fighter from a Cardassian slave-labour colony in an attempt to bring peace to the warring Bajoran factions.

Directors: Winrich Kolbe
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Crossover
star
7.42
1398 votes

#9 - Crossover

Season 2 - Episode 23 - Aired 5/15/1994

An accident, which occurs while traveling through the wormhole, leaves Kira and Bashir stranded in an alternate universe where humans are slaves.

Directors: David Livingston
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Blood Oath
star
7.40
1438 votes

#10 - Blood Oath

Season 2 - Episode 19 - Aired 3/27/1994

Jadzia Dax honors an oath made by Curzon Dax to a group of Klingons, and goes with them on a crusade against their sworn enemy.

Directors: Winrich Kolbe
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Whispers
star
7.35
1355 votes

#11 - Whispers

Season 2 - Episode 14 - Aired 2/6/1994

O'Brien returns from an away mission to discover that he has been locked out of every security system on the station, and that everyone has turned against him, including his wife.

Directors: Les Landau
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Cardassians
star
7.32
1572 votes

#12 - Cardassians

Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/24/1993

A custody battle emerges over an orphaned Cardassian boy who was raised by Bajorans.

Directors: Cliff Bole
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Shadowplay
star
7.32
1410 votes

#13 - Shadowplay

Season 2 - Episode 16 - Aired 2/20/1994

Odo and Dax discover a planet where the inhabitants are disappearing.

Directors: Robert Scheerer
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Tribunal
star
7.32
1236 votes

#14 - Tribunal

Season 2 - Episode 25 - Aired 6/5/1994

O'Brien is found guilty and later tried at a tribunal held on Cardassia Prime.

Directors: Avery Brooks
Writer: Bill Dial
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Rules of Acquisition
star
7.31
1458 votes

#15 - Rules of Acquisition

Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/7/1993

A female Ferengi disguises herself as a male in order to help Quark with business deals in the Gamma Quadrant.

Directors: David Livingston
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Armageddon Game
star
7.29
1389 votes

#16 - Armageddon Game

Season 2 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/30/1994

Bashir and O'Brien come under attack from the people they are trying to help on a warring planet.

Directors: Winrich Kolbe
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The Alternate
star
7.19
1392 votes

#17 - The Alternate

Season 2 - Episode 12 - Aired 1/9/1994

Dr. Mora Pol, who first studied Odo as an infant, announces that he may have found Odo's homeworld in the Gamma Quadrant.

Directors: David Carson
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Profit and Loss
star
7.18
1304 votes

#18 - Profit and Loss

Season 2 - Episode 18 - Aired 3/20/1994

Quark puts everything at stake to win back his long love Natima Lang, a Cardassian woman suspected of terrorism on Cardassia.

Directors: Robert Wiemer
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Melora
star
7.17
1507 votes

#19 - Melora

Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/31/1993

Bashir falls in love with a wheelchair-bound woman, who is unable to walk in Deep Space Nine's level of gravity.

Directors: Cliff Bole
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Invasive Procedures
star
7.12
1555 votes

#20 - Invasive Procedures

Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/17/1993

An unjoined trill kidnaps Jadzia and removes the Dax symbiont to implant into himself.

Directors: Les Landau
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Playing God
star
7.06
1235 votes

#21 - Playing God

Season 2 - Episode 17 - Aired 2/27/1994

While hosting a Trill initiate, Jadzia discovers a new universe growing from protoplasm in the science labs.

Directors: David Livingston
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Paradise
star
7.03
1280 votes

#22 - Paradise

Season 2 - Episode 15 - Aired 2/13/1994

Sisko and O'Brien are stranded on a planet with a human colony that has forbidden all forms of technology.

Directors: Corey Allen
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The Collaborator
star
7.01
1168 votes

#23 - The Collaborator

Season 2 - Episode 24 - Aired 5/22/1994

Kira discovers that the man she loves, Vedek Bareil, may have been responsible for the death of 43 Bajoran freedom fighters.

Directors: Cliff Bole
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Rivals
star
6.96
1402 votes

#24 - Rivals

Season 2 - Episode 11 - Aired 1/2/1994

A con artist opens a bar with a gambling machine that can alter the laws of probability.

Directors: David Livingston
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Sanctuary
star
6.90
1392 votes

#25 - Sanctuary

Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/28/1993

A group of refugees from the Gamma Quadrant claims that Bajor is their long-lost homeland.

Directors: Les Landau
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