The most disliked episode of DS9 - Part Three

[Geck]

The Search (II)
Meridian
Prophet Motive
Family Business

Heading off to bed now....was very very tempted to save Meridian as some strange part of me actually doesn't mind it (especially the B-plot)...but I just can't in good conscience when Through the Looking Glass is still there, which is a fun action romp. Before the mirror universe got too tedious and silly.

[DevilEyes]

Meridian
Prophet Motive
Family Business

The Search (II). The dream resolution might have been a cop-out, but I still don't get the hate. And it's much better than what is left. (And much better than some that have been saved *cough* Fascination *cough*.)

[Seven of Five]

Glad someone saved it, I wanted to save that too but I liked The Abandoned a bit more. The bottom 4 is pretty yukky now. Just missing Fascination really!

[Seven of Five]

Meridian
Family Business

I'll save Prophet Motive. As a Ferengi episode, it sucks slightly less than Family Business, which has Moogie in it.

[DevilEyes]

Seven Of Five wrote:

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Glad someone saved it, I wanted to save that too but I liked The Abandoned a bit more. The bottom 4 is pretty yukky now. Just missing Fascination really!

Me and Geck posted at almost the same time, so which 4 are you referring to? It is 3 now.

Geck wrote:

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Yeah, people often tend to see season 3 as the turning point for the series, when it started to become great, but....aside from a half-dozen highlights, I think it's probably the weakest season of the whole show.

Season 1 is weaker.

[Jeff O'Connor]

I'll take great pleasure in this.

Meridian

Saving "Family Business".

[Jeff O'Connor]

Here's a quick breakdown of my somewhat unconventional (mainly the first-place choice) feelings on DS9:

7 > 5 > 6 > 2 > 4 > 3 > 1.

Sorry, I'm from GameFAQs. We rank things for a living, it feels like. Anyway, they're all solid to me except the first year, which is passable but shaky. Third season being the weakest overall is definitely not something I can get behind.

[Seven of Five]

DevilEyes wrote:

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Me and Geck posted at almost the same time, so which 4 are you referring to? It is 3 now.

I can't keep up. I was replying to you so was including The Search Part 2 in there...

Geck wrote:

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Yeah, people often tend to see season 3 as the turning point for the series, when it started to become great, but....aside from a half-dozen highlights, I think it's probably the weakest season of the whole show.

Posted by DevilEyes:
Season 1 is weaker.

Yeah season 1 is weaker than 3, but I like season 2 a hair more. I guess it depends on how into Bajor you were or not.

The correct () sequence is: 5-7-6-4-2-3-1. Though 6 & 7, and 4 & 2 tend to float around a bit if I'm rewatching.

And woo! Meridian is this season's stinker! Though we all knew this! This episode does have a pretty amazing B-plot though.

[Jeff O'Connor]

I was fingers-crossed someone wasn't going to rush in and feel otherwise about it because I really dislike it! Makes "Family Business" look like "Past Tense" as far as I'm concerned -- in other words, not the best but still pretty damn good. (And "Family Business" is, of course, not exactly stellar.)

[DevilEyes]

Actually I was the one who saved The Search II.

Jeff O'Connor wrote:

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Here's a quick breakdown of my somewhat unconventional (mainly the first-place choice) feelings on DS9:

7 > 5 > 6 > 2 > 4 > 3 > 1.

5 > 6 > 7 > 4 > 2 > 3 > 1

[Seven of Five]

Ha! My pathetic excuse is I've been up since 6am and been to work and it was a bit of a nightmare and and and...

[Jeff O'Connor]

DevilEyes wrote:

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5 > 6 > 7 > 4 > 2 > 3 > 1

Hey, not too far off and I can totally see where you're coming from with everything.

2 and 4 do tend to fluctuate back and forth for me.

[DevilEyes]

Jeff O'Connor wrote:

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Hey, not too far off and I can totally see where you're coming from with everything.

2 and 4 do tend to fluctuate back and forth for me.

4 is higher on my list because it's the first season of DS9 that was really consistent. It didn't have episodes that were the same level of awful and the quality didn't fluctuate that much, which made seasons 2 and 3 pretty frustrating. Season 2 is awesome when you look at the best episodes - overall it has more awesome episodes than 4 - but it has some really weak episodes in the middle.

The best "season" starts with Things Past and ends with Sacrifice of Angels. The opening 6-episode arc of season 6 is great, then it gets diluted, though there are several excellent/great episodes. I can see why you'd put 7 first - it sustains the momentum better with the final arc, because it's longer and because it's the end, and there are several other great episodes, but for me it's too marred by the whole Pah-wraiths and Sisko's Prophet Mom thing.

[Jeff O'Connor]

Yeah, I have to think long and hard about putting 2 above 4 and sometimes it drops anyway. You're absolutely right -- it has more awesome episodes than the fourth year but that middle stretch is pretty painful to get through.

I would say "The Muse" is probably the worst episode of the fourth season but it's not as bad as four or more second-season outings.

That opening arc in the sixth season is terrific.

Everything you said about why the seventh season is at the top for me is exactly how I feel, except of course that those lesser elements don't quite bother me as much as they do most people. I'm also an Ezri fan. It's true that introducing a new cast member in the final year of a dramatic series can (and to some extent did) cause problems but I enjoyed her development enough to let it slide.

[Admiral Shran]

Philistines! Except for Jeff O'Connor, since he's an Ezri fan.

6 > 7 > 5 > 4 > 3 > 2 > 1