S2E15: Paradise

Sisko and Bashir are flying around and discover human lifesigns on a remote planet. They beam down and immediately discover that no electricity is working on the planet. They run into two of the locals who take them to their village. It takes about 2 minutes to make it clear that they are a cult, with a leader holding a clearly pre-written speech that seems to be addressed more to the other locals than the visitors. They tell Sisko and O'Brien that they were flying to their new colony when they had to make an emergency landing and couldn't leave without the ship working. They are given a place to stay and Sisko takes a look at the books, some of which are written by the leader and sound exactly what you expect from the head of a cult. I already suspect that they didn't land on the planet by accident and the leader took them to the planet so that nobody would be tempted to consider leaving and nobody would ever come looking for them.

Kira and Dax realize that the two are missing and go searching for them. Somehow Siskso's shuttle was remotely auto-piloted to fly into a star but it missed. They catch it and see where it had been.

Sisko and O'Brien are working in the fields and see one of the local being released from the torture shed. Because he was breaking the rules and it's all for his own good. More cult stuff happens and Sisko starts arguing with the leader. O'Brien is caught trying to repair a tricorder, but Sisko insists that he gave him that order and so he is going into the torture shed himself. O'Brien builds a little compass to search for a magnetic anomaly and finds the machine that turned of all energy. The cultists don't take it too well that they were dumped on a planet without medical supplies, which caused a number of them to die from disease. They decide to stay, but the leader gets arrested.

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Meh. Sisko and O'Brien knew that someone would come and rescue them in a few days. They could simply have played along for that long. It's decently well done, but I found it cringy as hell and didn't enjoy watching it at all.