Stardate 47573.1: While exploring the Gamma Quadrant for habitable planets to start colonies, Commander Sisko and Chief O'Brien transport down to a Class M planet only to find that they are unable to return to the Runabout that brought them to the new world. On the planet, they come across a group of human colonists who had crashed on the planet ten years ago, and had encountered interference on the planet that rendered useless the technology they had once used to survive.
s02e01 - The Homecoming (1)
s02e02 - The Circle (2)
s02e03 - The Siege (3)
s02e04 - Invasive Procedures
s02e05 - Cardassians
s02e06 - Melora
s02e07 - Rules of Acquisition
s02e08 - Necessary Evil
s02e09 - Second Sight
s02e10 - Sanctuary
s02e11 - Rivals
s02e12 - The Alternate
s02e13 - Armageddon Game
s02e14 - Whispers
s02e15 - Paradise
s02e16 - Shadowplay
s02e17 - Playing God
s02e18 - Profit and Loss
s02e19 - Blood Oath
s02e20 - The Maquis, Part I
s02e21 - The Maquis, Part II
s02e22 - The Wire
s02e23 - Crossover
s02e24 - The Collaborator
s02e25 - Tribunal
s02e26 - The Jem'Hadar (1)
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 Bajoran provisional government, Starfleet stepped in to oversee the rebuilding and day-to-day operations of the newly christened Deep Space Nine.
The years of Starfleet's nonintervention into Cardassian matters, however, had taken its toll on relations with the Bajorans. Consequently, Starfleet's position was a tenuous one; many Bajorans, suspicious and hostile as a result of decades of Cardassian oppression and brutality, did not greet the Federation's presence with open arms. The Federation's assistance is put to the test as DS9 becomes a center of travel and commerce that stretches into the Gamma Quadrant.