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chacusha ([personal profile] chacusha) wrote in [community profile] quodo2025-10-26 11:22 am

Quodo in Every Episode discussion: "The Homecoming"

Hi everyone! Welcome back to Quodo in Every Episode. Not sure if people are caught up, but I just wanted to get started again, because I miss having a bit of ST:DS9 in my life. But we can go slow and take breaks as needed!

This week we're discussing... episode 2x01 "The Homecoming"!

Episode synopsis: The first episode of season 2 and a three-episode mini-plot arc: Quark brings the earring -- found on a Cardassian planet -- of a presumed-dead Bajoran war hero to Kira, prompting her to initiate a rescue mission. Li Nalas returns to a fragmented and unstable Bajor struggling with a growing extremist xenophobic movement and looking to him for leadership. He reluctantly decides to shoulder this role only to find out the Bajoran provisional government has decided to assign him to replace Kira as Bajoran liaison officer on DS9.

What The Boys are up to in this episode: The episode opens with a friendly/antagonistic conversation between Quark and Odo. Quark and Odo each have several scenes throughout the episode -- Odo responding to security incidents and doing crowd control on the station, and Quark meeting with the Boslic captain, giving the earring to Kira, and then being branded by Circle extremists and later treated in the infirmary.

One screencap from this episode:


Transcript: http://chakoteya.net/DS9/421.htm

Quodo fics tagged with this episode: None (https://archiveofourown.org/works?work_search%5Bsort_column%5D=revised_at&work_search%5Bother_tag_names%5D=Episode%3A+s02e01+The+Homecoming+%28Star+Trek%3A+Deep+Space+Nine%29&work_search%5Bexcluded_tag_names%5D=&work_search%5Bcrossover%5D=&work_search%5Bcomplete%5D=&work_search%5Bwords_from%5D=&work_search%5Bwords_to%5D=&work_search%5Bdate_from%5D=&work_search%5Bdate_to%5D=&work_search%5Bquery%5D=&work_search%5Blanguage_id%5D=&commit=Sort+and+Filter&tag_id=Star+Trek%3A+Deep+Space+Nine)

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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