Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Season 2 (1993)

Costume Design by:

- Robert Blackman ( notable efforts: The Running Man (1987), Star Trek: The Next Generation (Seasons 3 to 7), Voyager (1995 - 2001), Enterprise (2001 - 2005), Pushing Daisies (2007 - 2009), Mockingbird Lane (2012) )

The second season of Deep Space Nine would start to expand the Ferengi bartender Quark's (Armin Shimmerman) wardrobe, with his new outfit being this lovely multicoloured jacket, adorned in a pattern that calls to mind the paintings of Piet Mondrian but in a more muted colourscheme that makes it almost resemble the colour of stained glass. This jacket is worn over a similarly patterned vest, and is worn with blue pants and boots. Quark's wardrone would become increasingly more garish with each season, with the coat tails becoming longer.

Another character whose wardrobe would become expanded would be the Cardassian tailor (how relevant to this blog!) and spy Garak (Andrew Robinson), who now wears a rather bulky tunic fitted with a large panel down the front, as well as patterned material on the sleeves that go up to the shoulders - perhaps one of his more muted costumes compared to some of the others he would sport on the show!

Garak's second outfit introduced in this season would be a sand-coloured tunic with a mottled material used for the shoulders and sleeves, with a dark mauve-brown belt and lining seperating the fabrics of the tunic. The tunic itself has a rather stiff cut, especially around the bottom under the belt, where it is cut in a triangular shape.

The rest of the cast would be in the uniforms that they had been sporting in the previous season, with the exception of Jake Sisko (Cirroc Lofton), who would get another onesie of a brown colour, with sleeves in an aqua coloured fabric, and seperated by mauve lining.

Jake would also wear a more simple jumpsuit of a beige colour, with brown lining around the waist, chest and sleeves.

'The Homecoming'

This episode involved Kira rescuing a former Bajoran resistance hero from a forced labor camp, and for the mission she dons civilian wear, which consists of high-waisted orange trousers worn with a green shirt and red crochet vest.

Alongside Kira is O'Brien, who wears a green jacket with coarse material around the shoulders, worn over a brown jumpsuit.

The prisoner they are rescuing, Li Nalas (Richard Beymer) wears a tan jacket with tweed panelling around the shoulders.

Whilst barely seen in this episode, the alien smuggler Rionoj (Leslie Bevis) would appear occasionally in later seasons, allowing their getup to be seen better! In all her appearances, Rionoj is clad in a tight grey catsuit with the top half covered in a light grey speckled material, specially cut to show the darker material around the shoulders - what really completes the look is her pink hair though!

Another alien that is barely seen at all in this episode is this 'Tygarian' captain, who only appears on a viewscreen! This costume would be reused by various extras in the crowd scenes in many later episodes, but it is only thanks to auction photos that we can see the full design, which has triangular strips of ruffled fabric around the shoulders and sides, with blocks of teal around the sides and elbows.

'The Circle'

Kira also gets to wear another bit of civilian attire, this one consisting of a brown shirt attached to rust colored trousers, and worn with a moss green sweater vest

This episode let us see what the uniform for the Bajoran commanding officers, which are much more bulk than the standard Bajoran uniform, with darker grey panelling over the shoulders - the higher ranks have large futuristic ridged epaulettes.

Also present here is the Bajoran minister Jaro (Frank Langella), who sports a similar 'blocky' jacket, this being an asymmetrical mauve jacket with zips and snaps on the right front and sparkle accents within the fabric on the left, with popped collars.

Also briefly seen is another alien captain, this one being a 'botanical DNA' trader - perhaps that is why his outfit looks a bit like a plant, with leaf-like golden strips over an asmmetrically cut green jacket and trousers. This outfit is barely seen in the episode itself, but is seen worn by extras in a lot more episodes onwards.

'The Siege'

The resolution to the events established in the previous two, this episode had the Deep Space 9 station laid under siege (as per the title!) by the Bajoran extremists, with Sisko having to wear civilian garb, consisting of brown trousers, a caramel coloured shirt and most noticeably a bright red jacket with lighter patches around the shoulders in a curved pattern - sadly, the direction means we never see it on-screen properly.

Similarly barely seen in the episode is Bashir's civilian wear, which is a patterned blue leathery and suede jacket, with the 'leather' patches arranged into an asymmetrical style, which the lapels are also asymmetrical.

'Invasive Procedures'

This episode involved the unscrupulous Verad (John Glover), a member of the Trill species who desires his own symbiote soon - he sports the typical Trill fashion but of a muted green colour scheme, with different fabric over the shoulders.

For this task he has enlisted a group of mercernaries, with the Klingon members wearing bulky leather jackets with furred shoulders, and Mareel (Megan Gallagher) wearing a leather jacket with straps around the collar and cuffs.

'Cardassians'

This episode involved the DS9 crew investigating a case of a Cardassian boy adopted by the Bajorans, with both his Bajoran stepfather and Cardassian father in tunics fitting with panelling - the Bajoran Proka (Terrence Evans) wears a blue outfit with rounded padding. His adopted son, Rugal (Vidal Peterson) wears an orange vest and rounded belt, over a yellow shirt and another crochet vest.

The Cardassian Kotan (Robert Mandan) wears a red outfit with a chevron-shaped panel down the front, with light red lining over it.

Another alien seen briefly in this episode is Zolan (Dion Anderson), whose costume would be reused in a later episode of Deep Space Nine's sister series Voyager, worn by an alien with a much more grotesque visage! Zolan wears a coat made of a material that sort of resembles marble, fitted with various ornaments on the chest and sleeves.

'Melora'

This episode featured Quark trying to make a deal with the unlucky alien trader Ashrock (Don Stark), who wears a tailcoat with red and brown leather-like material, fastened with a large golden buckle

Quark has also involved himself with the even less trustworthy Fallit Kot (Peter Crombie) who wears a brown patterned wraparound jacket with a stiff cut to its tail end, with short sleeves.

Also seen in this episode is a Klingon chef who wears this large wraparound jacket with an angular collar, and a large white band across the waist section as well.

'Rules of Acquisition'

This episode marked the reapparance of Grand Nagus Zek (Wallace Shawn), who this time is wearing a suit made of a mottled blue-ish material with studded black strips along the shoulders and sleeves. The jacket is also worn over a gold-threaded shirt, and is cut to have large collars. Again, I am thankful for the photos that many fans take of these costumes after their auctions, as this isn't really seen in full in the episode itself!

There is also Pel (Helene Udy), who sports a variation on the uniform worn by the waiters at Quark's bar, which is a green jacket fitted with black and green stripes, and worn over a shiny cheetah-pattern shirt as well, with green trousers completing the look as well. This is a bit bulkier in design than the usual Ferengi waiter uniform, thanks in particular to the middle panel.

The most striking costumes in this episode however are worn by the Dosi, the aliens that the Grand Nagus is trying to reach out towards. The Dosi's uniforms are a bit similar in design to the outfit worn by the mercenary Vekor in the episode 'Gambit' of The Next Generation, though the Dosi's are much more elaborate. The black trousers are worn with a complex tunic made of a coarse fabric fitted together with shining strips, that have been also fitted with various metallic segments to indicate rank. Completing this is the shiny hood worn over their heads, though what also helps is the facepaint - I've seen these costumes be compared to the ones worn in New Order's 'True Faith' music video, but I don't see the problem with that!

'Necessary Evil'

This episode involved Quark being nearly assassinated by the former collaborator Vaatrick Pallra (Katherine Moffat), a sort of femme fatale who at first sports a white and silver bodysuit fitted with a trailing cape at the waist, and fitted with silver shoes no less.

Vaatrick's second outfit isn't shown very clearly, but seems to be a blue dress with a special cut at the top, fitted with strips of blue fabric all going down at diagonal cuts down to the bottom of the dress.

Vaatrick's last costume isn't seen in full, which is a shame because it's a rather striking design, that also feels a bit similar to the second main dress worn by the trickers Ardra in The Next Generation episode 'Devil's Due'. Vaatrick's dress differs from Ardra's in that it is fitted with a skirt segment and a cape, as well as no collar and strips of patterned fabric going around one side of the chest.

We also get to see a glimpse of what Quark dressed like under the Cardassian occupation, which is a much more drab outfit than his typical attire, but still with some elaborate touches such as silver strips around the lapels and cuffs, as well as being worn over a mottled shirt, and worn with grey trousers (that are never seen in full sadly).

There is also this Bajoran assassin, who wears a bulky tunic made out blue fabric with leather patches around the shoulders and sleeves. This costume was later reused in the Voyager episode 'Equinox', worn by the Ankari aliens.

'Second Sight'

In this episode, Deep Space 9 (the spacestation, not the television series...) is visited by the egotistical scientist Gideon Seyetik (Richard Kiley), who sports two wonderfully ridiculous patterned costumes consisting of blue patterned jackets, the first covered in white and red triangular patterns, and the second in a more mottled light blue pattern. Both jackets are worn over a blue and red jacket with an angular collar cut.

He is first introduced wearing this white hazmat suit, with grey lining crisscrossing the chest.

Also with Gideon is his unhappy wife Nidell (Salli Elise Richardson), who also keeps presenting a thoughtform named 'Fenna', who in her last appearance wears a bright red spandex dress fitted with straps around the chest, along with a trailing veil-like garment around the shoulders.

The actual Nidell meanwhile wears this pink gown with differently cut sleeves, worn under a grey dress and black sash.

'Sanctuary'

This episode, which involved a group of alien travellers arriving on the DS9 space station and sparking a debate as to whether they should stay, with the Bajoran politician Rozahn (Kitty Swink) sporting a blue and grey jacket and skirt, which have the blue panel to one side in a slightly zig-zagging pattern.

Also seen in this episode is the Bajoran musician Varani (William Schallert) who wears a low cut vest and jumper that has a very rounded design, with trailing ends around the sides.

'Rivals'

In this episode, Quark encounters a competitor in the form of the conman Martus Mazur (Chris Sarandon), who sets up his own bar to take away Quark's customers. In his first few scenes, Martus sports a patterned grey tunic with shiny material down the front, as well as being cut to have pointed tails at the bottom - judging from the auction photo, it seems that the strip was golden, rather than silver as it appeara in the episode.

For most of the episode however, Martus sports a much more striking costume consisting of a buttonless jacket made of a silvery patterned material, with the shoulders being made of a slightly lighter pattern, separated by a thin golden line - like the previous outfit, this is just worn with simple grey trousers.

It's not just Martus who dresses all in silver - the unnamed barkeep also wears a shiny silvery outfit (that is only seen clearly thanks to the costume being put on auction), as well as the turncoat Rom who wears a silvery jacket over his brown trousers and shirt.

Martus' bar even has its own Da'bo girls, with the one seen wearing a slinky dress of a curved black material that is designed to be both very revealing and not that revealing at all! Gotta thank the original show's costume designer William Ware Theiss for that legacy!

Martus' gaming club is opened with the permission of Roana (Barbara Bosson), who always is sporting a gold and black dress fitted with a strip around the collar.

Martus also attempts to trick Alsia (K Callan) who meanwhile is always in a green and gold patterned dress.

The cast are usually just in uniforms, but for this episode Julian Bashir (Alexande Siddig) who for a racquetball match with O'Brien (Colm Meaney) wears a white silver bodysuit with light teal lining around the chest and collar - there's a rumor that O'Brien was also meant to wear the bodysuit as well, but Colm Meaney point blank refused to wear anything than his own sports clothes!

'The Alternate'

This episode introduced the shapeshifter Odo's former teacher, Dr. Mora Pol (James Sloyan), who sports a odd jacket of an angular and asymmetrical design to its cut, and one side being made of a plaid-like pattern.

'Armageddon Game'

In this episode, two species, the Kellerun and T'Lani, are attempt to broker a peace and destroying anything that could ruin that peace - which also includes some of the main characters. The Kellerun are sporting rounded grey tunics with belts worn over them.

Meanwhile, the T'Lani wear rounded brown tunics and tights, and both species' uniforms have pieces cut in them. The T'Lani uniforms also got reused in episodes of Deep Space Nine's sister series, Voyager, which is why there's more clear images of them here!

'Whispers'

In this episode, O'Brien beings to suspect there is something very wrong in the DS9 station, and towards the episode's finale assumes the alien 'Paradan' are responsible - the Paradan's outfits cannot be seen clearly thanks to being shot in shadow, but the costumes were then reused for the Voyager episode 'Nemesis', worn by the alien Kradin. The Paradan uniforms consist of a shiny black top with a vest with pointed tails and holes around the collar, adorned with silver lining - what is odd though is that onscreen the outfits are black, yet the auction photos show that they were actually more of a purple colour!

'Shadowplay'

In this episode, the DS9 crew come across the 'Yaderans', who all wear off-colour pastel gowns with rounded hats - it's faint to make out, but you can see how the shirt is a subtle rainbow hue!

'Playing God'

There wasn't much in the way of notable costumes in this episode, with the exception of this alien wrestler who is only very briefly seen, wearing a multicolored shiny leotard of an asymmetrical design.

'Profit and Loss'

In this episode, Quark meets his former Cardassian lover Natima (Mary Crosby), who is embroiled in political turmoil in the Cardassian government. Natima (Mary Crosby) sports this white dress with ruffled panelling around the shoulders and sleeves, worn with white tights.

Natima is flanked by her two students, Hogue (Michael Reilly Burke) and Rekelen (Heidi Swedberg), the former wearing an asymmetrically designed blue tunic, and the latter in an orange dress with darker panelling over the shoulders, and darker coloured sleeves as well.

'Blood Oath'

This episode marked some new variations in the costumes worn by the Klingons - Robert Blackman's designs for the warlords all followed on from Robert Fletcher's Klingon costume designs for the Star Trek movies, but with some rather striking changes with some of them. Perhaps the most striking is the one worn by Kor (John Colicos), whose outfit seems to made entirely of furs and leathers, resembling the traditional image of a barbarian warrior. Of note especially is the furred sleeves. This particular costume was then reused in the sequel series Enterprise, where it had new more metallic gauntlets added on the sleeves.

The uniform worn by Koloth (William Campbell) isn't terribly striking (being more or less the typical Klingon uniform but with no shoulder board), but it is Kang's (Michael Ansara) uniform that is more striking, with the tunic being made of lined furred strips.

Joining the Klingon warlords is Jadzia Dax, who wears her own unique Klingon armor for the occassion, this version being a bit more simplistic and worn with grey tights as well.

The three warlords are out for the blood of 'the Albino' (Bill Bolender), a treacherous pirate who killed their sons. The Albino wears a blue jumpsuit fitted with diagonal patterned strips, as well as a padded golden vest over it as well - shame it never gets much of a good shot at all.

The Albino also has a personal assistant who dresses similarly, wearing a heavy padded overcoat as well.

The Albino has a personal security force, all of whem are wearing black and silver jumpsuits worn with ridiculous helmets - these jumpsuits were also reused for later episodes of Voyager, where they can be seen more clearly.

'The Maquis'

As per the title, this episode marked a return of the 'maquis' guerrillas introduced in The Next Generation, who dress in the usual assortment of oddly colourful and stiffly cut civilian attire - the most notable oufit here has to be the jacket worn by Kobb (Amanda Carlin), which has rounded grey edges with dots, with the general fabric being a colourful tile pattern.

Another supporter of the Maquis is the Vulcan Sakonna (Bertila Damas), who sports a grey dress coated in filigree pattern, with a shiny block of material going over the shoulders at a slant.

There is also this alien captain, who is only briefly seen on a screen, wearing an elaborate jacket made up of rows of metallic grey patterns.

'The Wire'

This episode introduced the Cardassian spymaster Enabran Tain (Paul Dooley), who wears a stiff brown waistcoat over a yellow shirt with raised collar, and worn over this is a tweed jacket.

'Crossover'

This episode marked the return of the fascistic denizens of the 'mirror universe' first glimpsed in the original 1960s series, with this worlds version of Kira Nerys (Nana Visitor), who is a sadistic 'Intendant' overseeing the operations on the DS9 spacestation, and in almost every subsequent appearance would be wearing the same kinky outfit consisting of a shiny black catsuit with padded material around the chest and sleeves, with a headband completing the look.

In one scene, Kira opts out of the black catsuit for a purple catsuit, made of a ruffled material with trailing fabric and a padded panel over the chest as well.

The mirror universe has its own evil version of Odo as well, whose security uniform is now black with grey shoulder pads and sleeves, thought noticeably the fascist Odo now has a collar to his uniform - it does work better than the original uniform having none, which makes me wonder if this was why it was then replaced with a collared uniform later in the series!

Where there is Odo, Quark is not far away, though the mirror universe Quark is dressed much less flashy than his counterpart, wearing a patterned blue jacket over a shirt made up of a speckled material.

'The Collaborator'

This episode marked the return of the priest Vedek Winn (Louise Fletcher), who from this episode onwards would wear a more formal looking gown of brown, with patterned panels going down the front, as well as being worn with a small peaked hat that slightly resembles an African kufi hat - perhaps the inspiration, considering the mix of various 'Eastern' and African cultures that went into the Bajorans as a concept.

The other priests of Bajor wear outfits rather more similar to Winn's original outfit, the difference being that the robes are orange and golden, with a slightly different shaped headpiece, though this one still looks like the Sydney Opera House! I quite like it regardless.

There is another Bajoran priest uniform briefly seen in this episode that would appear more especially in the later episodes of the series, this one being purple with a tight hood, and the cloak fastened by three hoops worn over the front.

The episode's plot is partly sparked when the former collaborator Kubus Oak (Bert Remsen) is spotted in DS9, wearing a ridged top (or is it a jumper?) with trousers that also have the similar patterns of material at the ends.

'Tribunal'

In this episode, O'Brien is put on trial by the Cardassians for supposed crimes against their state. The guards of the prison wear shiny jumpsuits with raised shoulders, looking rather 'retro' compared to the other Cardassian uniforms seen in the series so far.

Leading the trial against O'Brien is Makbar (Caroline Lagerfelt) who is first seen wearing a blue tunic with grey panels over the shoulders and tail end of the tunic, worn over blue trousers - the moody direction of this prevents the costume from being seen properly.

Makbar's second costume, worn during the trial, is a blue gown with fabric going over the shoulders, and bulky grey panelling over the front in a similar manner to a tabard - again, this outfit isn't seen fully thanks to her always being seated when wearing it. Also I have to admit, some of the shots make me think the chair behind Makbar was actually meant to be part of her costume, like a Dracula collar or something!

Supposedly defending O'Brien's case is Kovat (Fritz Weaver), who wears a shirt with a raided red collar and a plaid top with four holes cut into the front, worn with a cardigan-like garment over it.

There is a 'jury' of several other Cardassians, who wear an array of colourful dresses and tunics - my favorite personally is the one with the aqua coloured tunic with blue chest panelling.

There is also the Cardassian agent, disguised as a human who wears a green tunic with a rounded blue collar, and worn with a vest covered in black markings.

'The Jem'Hadar'

The finale of the season would also set up the conflict with the totalitarian 'Dominion' superpower that the later seasons would become preoccupied with, that all spun out of a space camping trip gone wrong! For the trip, Quark opts into more holiday appropiate gear, wearing a patterned vest with large shoulders over his green shirt.

Also present if Quark's cousin Nog (Aron Eisenberg) who wears a pink shirt with a block of rainbow panelling down the front, and is worn with blue-green suspenders as well - shame the dark lighting of most of the episode doesn't let this be seen clearly!

Also getting to sport a new outfit for this holiday gone wrong is Jake, who wears a brown shirt with lighter reddish fabric around the sleeves, separated with a strip of red lining, and worn with red trousers in later episodes (for this episode, he wears brown trousers with the top).

Lastly for the intergalactic holidaymakers is Sisko, who sports an orange and yellow shirt worn over brown trousers that have rectangular patches over the knees.

The first agent of the Dominion that is encountered is Eris (Molly Hagan), a 'Vorta' who act as the Dominion's bureacrats and technicians. Eris' costume sets the template for the Vorta uniforms seen in later seasons, being of an asymmetrical and wavey cut around the shoulders especially, as well as of a muted colour scheme.

This also introduced the soldiers of the Dominion, the Jem-Hadar, who all wear two-toned grey lined jumpsuits - what makes their uniforms interesting than the usual sort of uniform is how the darker strips tend to made of some sort of pattern as well, though the lining is still a rather pleasing design. Makes them more interesting than a lot of the boring soldier designs seen in in most science-fiction for sure!