The Homecoming

"The Homecoming" is the first episode of the second season of the television series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Together with "The Circle" and "The Siege," it was the first three-part story arc in Star Trek history. Quick Overview: Kira rescues a Bajoran prisoner of war; meanwhile, an extremist group begins to take control of Bajor. Quark gives Kira a Bajoran earring, which she immediately recognizes as belonging to Li Nalas, a Bajoran war hero l... more

"The Homecoming" is the first episode of the second season of the television series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Together with "The Circle" and "The Siege," it was the first three-part story arc in Star Trek history. Quick Overview: Kira rescues a Bajoran prisoner of war; meanwhile, an extremist group begins to take control of Bajor. Quark gives Kira a Bajoran earring, which she immediately recognizes as belonging to Li Nalas, a Bajoran war hero long thought dead. Li is being held on the planet Cardassia IV, so Kira requests a runabout for a rescue mission. Sisko tells her he will consider it, but while he considers the matter, O'Brien discovers graffiti from an extremist faction called "The Circle" who want to expel all non-Bajorans from Bajor. Seeing this convinces Sisko that Bajor needs a leader like Li Nalas and he grants Kira the runabout. Kira and O'Brien, disguising their runabout as a Lesseppian transport, travel to Cardassia IV and discover a labor camp with more than a dozen... less