When Dax leaves the valley, a device from the village vanishes from her hand. Taya brings Odo and Dax to the edge of the valley. Apparently no one has thought about searching beyond the valley or ever considered leaving it. Rurigan assures Odo that searching beyond the valley would be pointless. The two find common ground in that they are both orphans during the course of their conversation, Taya reveals that the villagers never leave their valley. The next day, Odo interviews Rurigan's granddaughter, Taya, whose mother has disappeared. Odo and Dax offer to help investigate the disappearances but the oldest villager, Rurigan, seems unconvinced that the villagers will ever be found.

The village magistrate, Colyus, tells them 22 people have disappeared without a trace in the past few days.

Plot ĭax and Odo investigate an unusual particle field emanating from a planet in the Gamma Quadrant they discover the field is coming from a small village's power generator. The episode was directed by Robert Scheerer and written by Robert Hewitt Wolfe.

In this episode, Deep Space Nine's shapeshifting security chief Odo and science officer Dax investigate mysterious disappearances of the population of a village in the Gamma Quadrant meanwhile, Major Kira becomes romantically involved with the Bajoran priest Vedek Bareil. Set in the 24th century, the series follows the adventures on Deep Space Nine, a space station located adjacent to a stable wormhole between the Alpha and Gamma quadrants of the Milky Way Galaxy, near the planet Bajor. It is the 16th episode of the second season. ' Shadowplay' is the 36th episode of the science fiction television series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. 16th episode of the 2nd season of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine ' Shadowplay'

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