New Zealand television is about to start broadcasting Star Trek after a drought of a couple of years. TOS, TNG and DS9 will all play back to back Saturday nights (and repeated Sunday mornings) on a new (and very awesome) channel on Sky TV. I've never been able to get into DS9, mostly due to scheduling or financial issues. I watched and am very familiar with the first season but once season two hit I started college and never really had chance to follow (in my spare time I picked Voyager and Babylon 5... yeah that's gonna get me fans). So it's starting again from Emissary. Just wondering what the key episodes I should make sure I definitely watch are, either your favourites or ones crucial to the Dominion war. Thanks in advance.
A list of skippable episodes would be much shorter! I'd say these are the absolute must-sees: Emissary Dax Duet In the Hands of the Prophets The Homecoming The Circle The Siege Cardassians The Maquis, part 1 The Maquis, part 2 The Wire The Jem'Hadar The Search, part 1 The Search, part 2 The Abandoned Defiant Destiny Improbable Cause The Die is Cast The Adversary The Way of the Warrior The Visitor Starship Down The Sword of Kahless Homefront Paradise Lost Return to Grace Accession Apocalypse Rising The Ship Trials and Tribble-ations Things Past Rapture For the Uniform In Purgatory's Shadow By Inferno's Light Children of Time Empok Nor In the Cards Call to Arms A Time to Stand Rocks and Shoals Sons and Daughters Behind the Lines Favor the Bold Sacrifice of Angels You are Cordially Invited… Waltz Far Beyond the Stars Change of Heart In the Pale Moonlight The Reckoning The Sound of her Voice Tears of the Prophets Image in the Sand Shadows and Symbols Afterimage The Siege of AR-558 Covenant It's Only a Paper Moon Inter Arma Silent Leges Penumbra 'Til Death Do Us Part Strange Bedfellows The Changing Face of Evil When it Rains… Tacking into the Wind Extreme Measures The Dogs of War What You Leave Behind
These episodes are also integral to your DS9 experience: TNG: The Wounded Ensign Ro Chain of Command, part 1 Chain of Command, part 2 Lower Decks Journey's End Preemptive Strike VOY: Caretaker Hunters Extreme Risk