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Quodo in Every Episode discussion: "The Circle"
This week we're discussing... episode 2x02 "The Circle"!
Episode synopsis: This is the second episode of the three-parter that opens season 2, centered around Bajoran revolutionary hero Li Nalas and the provisional government struggling to contain an extremist group called the Circle. Reassigned by Minister Jaro, Kira leaves the station to spend time at Vedek Bareil's monastery, where she has an orb vision before being kidnapped by the Circle. Meanwhile, with the help of Quark, Odo discovers that the Circle intends to overthrow the provisional government and kick the Federation out of Bajor, and that Cardassians are secretly supplying them arms, intending to reinvade Bajor immediately following Federation withdrawal. Sisko hopes to use this information to stop the coup, but he finds it is too late, and Circle forces are already on their way to take DS9.
What The Boys are up to in this episode: Odo and Quark have several scenes in this one: First, they are both in the scene where Kira is packing, and various officers stop by her quarters to say goodbye. Second, they have a scene together where Odo pressures Quark into doing more investigating for him as one of his deputies. Odo also sneaks aboard a Kressari ship to investigate the source of their munitions. Quark reports his findings on the Circle's headquarters to Ops.
One screencap from this episode:
Transcript: http://chakoteya.net/DS9/422.htm
Quodo fics tagged with this episode: There's one by me in the tag but it's a mix of episodes in a single story so I don't think it counts: https://archiveofourown.org/works/49491202
Tell us:
- What did you think about this episode?
- Have you written a fic set during/after this episode?
- Do you know of any other fics set in or that build off this episode that weren't linked above?
- What do you see as the Quodo potential for this episode?
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Episode synopsis: This is the second episode of the three-parter that opens season 2, centered around Bajoran revolutionary hero Li Nalas and the provisional government struggling to contain an extremist group called the Circle. Reassigned by Minister Jaro, Kira leaves the station to spend time at Vedek Bareil's monastery, where she has an orb vision before being kidnapped by the Circle. Meanwhile, with the help of Quark, Odo discovers that the Circle intends to overthrow the provisional government and kick the Federation out of Bajor, and that Cardassians are secretly supplying them arms, intending to reinvade Bajor immediately following Federation withdrawal. Sisko hopes to use this information to stop the coup, but he finds it is too late, and Circle forces are already on their way to take DS9.
What The Boys are up to in this episode: Odo and Quark have several scenes in this one: First, they are both in the scene where Kira is packing, and various officers stop by her quarters to say goodbye. Second, they have a scene together where Odo pressures Quark into doing more investigating for him as one of his deputies. Odo also sneaks aboard a Kressari ship to investigate the source of their munitions. Quark reports his findings on the Circle's headquarters to Ops.
One screencap from this episode:
Transcript: http://chakoteya.net/DS9/422.htm
Quodo fics tagged with this episode: There's one by me in the tag but it's a mix of episodes in a single story so I don't think it counts: https://archiveofourown.org/works/49491202
Tell us:
- What did you think about this episode?
- Have you written a fic set during/after this episode?
- Do you know of any other fics set in or that build off this episode that weren't linked above?
- What do you see as the Quodo potential for this episode?
Anonymous comments are on, so feel free to chime in even if you don't have a Dreamwidth account! If you prefer, we are also available on Discord:
https://discord.gg/VaCnMYvKu6 (18+ proship Quodo Discord - there is a dedicated channel for this event)
https://discord.gg/Htz4crCdCt (general Quodo Discord)
Event info & rules
Fic masterlist
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- I like Minister Jaro's character. His conversation with Sisko is fun because you can tell Sisko doesn't really buy the bullshit but can't really nail Jaro down on it.
- I'm not sure if I just haven't noticed it, or if it hasn't come up yet, but it's interesting that there are multiple characters who seem to pronounce "Bajor" as like "Bay-JOR" rather than "BAY-jor." I wonder if that was how it was originally pronounced? Huh, it seems like in all of the pronunciation guides, it's always been "BAY-jor" so maybe people are just flubbing it.
- Lmao at Odo looking so embarrassed for Kira to acknowledge he's saying he'll miss her if she leaves. Extremely Odo. In general, I really love this "saying goodbye to Kira" scene because Kira's dynamics with the other characters are so varied and funny, and it just feels very naturalistic, with people coming in when Kira is in the middle of answering someone else's question or in the middle of an argument and stuff like that (Bashir's indignant expression at being called dull by both Dax and Kira, and "Will someone please explain this conversation to me?!" XD). And then ending on a tender note. According to the DS9 Companion (p. 80), they rehearsed and filmed a no-cut take of this scene (I think you can tell it was filmed facing the door to Kira's quarters, because most of the scene uses footage from this angle). However, they ended up not using the whole one-take version in the episode, in favor of a more typical style of cinematography with interspersed close-ups and over-the-shoulder shots and so on.
- "It's also very small..." Odo... 😂 "I thought perhaps an intimate farewell drink, a sympathetic smile, a shoulder to cry on... (interrupting O'Brien to say to Odo) You'd be surprised how often that works with women!" Quark... 😂
- Man, Vedek Bareil's acting is just so wooden, though. ðŸ˜
- I like Kira's civilian look here, where she has bangs instead of having her hair slicked back.
- "We gotta leave. Well, I do anyway -- you can just turn into a couch," is such a funny line. Anyway, a great scene for that particular Quodo dynamic where they're operating on different sides of the law, but work very closely together.
- I also like Li Nalas -- he's so obviously uncomfortable with anyone treating him like a big deal.
- "Who needs Odo, when you've got his number one deputy?" -- I love Quark's entrances. XD
- Great Vedek Winn scene. I love how she's so cagey about supporting Jaro and also super self-interested. She's such a schemer and I love it.
Overall, I really like this three-parter. Part of that is because I think every episode in it has a really good Quodo scene, but I also like the main Bajoran characters introduced in it, and I like how they're clearly drawing inspiration from the Irish Civil War in this plotline, as well as other post-colonial states that tend to be the target of foreign government-backed coups. Very politics-heavy, but it makes for interesting drama.
Quodo potential:
- Their scenes in this episode are very... exes or old married couple... I feel like you can kind of do an established relationship read on their bickering here.
- Regarding that "We gotta leave. Well, I do anyway," line: this interpretation is in my fic above, but I like to interpret Quark as implicitly thinking of him and Odo as a unit and then realizing what he said and hastily trying to recover.
- I feel like you could write a longer version of the Kira goodbye scene here, where Quark gives Odo more seduction advice or they derail the conversation by bickering more or something.