I'm sure we all have a favorite DS9 episode so as my first thread I decided to ask the question that I'm sure has been asked before but is probably lost deep in the archives of this website. Which episode is your personal favorite and why? I'm also probably going to be doing one or two more of these "favorite" threads just for fun so keep you're eyes out if you're interested.
Trials and Tribble-ations is very high on my list of favorites. It's a whole lot of fun, and i love how Odo responds to the tribbles. As well, the episode is a tribute to TOS that's fond and respectful without going over the top or being cloying (as I think it could have been in lesser hands.) I was just talking about Trials and Tribble-ations this morning to a Trekkie friend who hasn't seen very much DS9. He shocked me when he said he's never seen it. How could any self-respecting Trek fan miss such a magnificent treat? Needless to say, he's going to be getting my copy of Season 5 as soon as possible!
I have a hard time narrowing it down. Emissary Duet In the Hands of the Prophets The Circle Necessary Evil The Search, Parts I and II Heart of Stone Second Skin Explorers The Way of the Warrior The Visitor Indiscretion Rejoined Return to Grace Accession Hard Time To the Death A Call to Arms Rocks and Shoals Behind the Lines Statistical Probabilities Far Beyond the Stars In the Pale Moonlight Chrysalis The Siege at AR-558 It's Only a Paper Moon Chimera Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges Tacking into the Wind What You Leave Behind
1. The Visitor. I would argue this is the best Star Trek episode ever. Cried the first time I saw it, and upon each subsequent viewing. 2. Far Beyond the Stars. Avery Brooks is awesome in it. Confronts the ugliness of racism head-on. 3. In the Pale Moonlight. Never get tired of this one. Starfleet officers fabricating evidence in order to justify pulling the Romulans over to the losing side in a war. Again, Brooks at his best.
The Way of the Warrior is very good, especially when you have the subtitles for when they speak Klingon.
Trials and Tribbleations is a good episode but I think it's a bit overrated. Embraces the camp just a bit too much for me to rank it among best of series. Chronolically: Emissary Dax Duet Whispers Civil Defense The Die is Cast The Adversary The Visitor Homefront Hard Time The Quickening The Ship Nor The Battle to The Strong The Assignment Call To Arms Rocks and Shoals Who Mourns For Morn? In The Pale Moonlight The Siege of AR-558 Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges
Well I have to say my two favorites are Far Beyond the Stars and Nor the Battle to the Strong. I have so many others that I love but I will never get tired of re-watching these two. Far Beyond the Stars makes me cry every time but it also lifts my spirits when I see how far we've come in the last half century. And Nor the Battle to the Strong. Well. I'm not even quite sure why that one gets me. Maybe it's the fact that Bashir is my all time favorite and you really get to see him in circumstances you don't always get to see him in or maybe it's the fact that Jake (another great character) is looking within himself and finding out a lot about life. Either way, they're both amazing episodes
The Visitor Call to Arms Sacrifice of Angels Emissary Duet The Search Far Beyond the Stars In the Pale Moonlight The Adversary The Way of the Warrior Apocalypse Rising In the Cards The Final Arc (I can't separate these episodes to rank them against each other) The Occupation Arc (Ditto)
There are so many... and some I can't recall the titles too since I'm tipsy but: In the Pale Moonlight (sort of universal isn't it?) Siege of Ar558 (something about it that is just so poignant) The Visitor (just a nice personal episode) Explorers (the one eppie that really got me into this series. I was overseas and this was that one that made me so mad I couldn't see it regularly) And so many Klingon centric eppies... Sons of MOgh is a standout as well as Worf getting a place in the House of Martok. It's just really hard to narrow this series down like this since there are only one or two "not as great" eppies. I mean, there isn't one episode I'd say is unwatchable or below the standard of almost any other television show. In fact, only two other series hold that distinction where even the "worst" episode is better than many other series period: MASH and Chuck. DS9 is just one of those special series.