Past Prologue (Episode 3)
When an old friend of Major Kira from her days in the Bajoran resistance requests asylum on Deep Space Nine, the Bajor-Starfleet liason finds herself examining her loyalties to her people and the new Federation officers she’s now working with.
Deep Space Nine starts strongly with its interest in Kira’s interiority, an exploration that will continue even as she becomes more firmly entrenched in her relationship with the station’s Starfleet crew. But this is a good early exploration of the friction points between the new Bajoran government and the Federation that comes to define a lot of the conflict in season one. Also: this is where Garak debuts, as does the very subtextually gay relationship between the simple Cardassian tailor and Dr. Bashir.
