The least disliked episode of DS9 - Season Four

[MakeshiftPython]

Broken Link

I liked seeing Worf get his ass kicked by a tailor. Aside from that, not one of the stronger finales.


The Way of the Warrior
Starship Down
Little Green Men
Our Man Bashir
Homefront
Paradise Lost

 

[Farscape One]

This is getting to be impossible. Of the episodes left, I will remove "HOMEFRONT". I just prefer Sisko in his station uniform instead of the TNG uniform.

The Way of the Warrior
Starship Down
Little Green Men
Our Man Bashir
Paradise Lost

 

[kkt]

We already got rid of Homefront, so Paradise Lost might as well go too. As much fun as it was to see Earth, it seemed way too easy for the Federation to slide down the slope to fascism, out of character. I wonder how Layton got to be a Starfleet officer, let alone an admiral. Maybe he missed Picard's "the first duty is truth" speech.

The Way of the Warrior
Starship Down
Little Green Men
Our Man Bashir

 

[Garth Rockett]

Man, stay off the BBS for most of a weekend and miss almost two whole seasons of the game! I'm bummed to see The Visitor already gone (it's my favorite episode of any television show, ever). I'll drop off Our Man Bashir. As a Bond fan, it's fun to see the characters play in that genre but it's not the most outstanding Bond takeoff I've seen.

The Way of the Warrior
Starship Down
Little Green Men

 

[BigDaveX]

I'll take down Starship Down. An overall good story, but it does drag a bit during the Sisko/Kira section, which is something taken straight from a cheesy Hurt-Comfort fanfic.

The Way of the Warrior
Little Green Men

 

[DonIago]

No more Little Green Men for us.

"The Way of the Warrior", perhaps more than any other single episode of the series except "The Jem'hadar", did a great job of altering the course the series had been heading in and setting the shape of things to come. I also think it took the VFX of Trek in general to the next level.

Oh, that's two seasons now where I've dealt the final killing blow. Am I being greedy?

 

[Sakonna]

Heh! I wrote a post eliminating "Little Green Men" 6 or 7 slots back, then got distracted and wandered away from the computer before actually hitting "Post." Ah well! LGM has never done it for me, and I'm generally of the belief that a lot of the Ferengi episodes are under-rated, so I should be open to it's charms, but for whatever reason...

But "Way of The Warrior" is a great winner. They really handled the whole integration of Worf into the series fantastically well. That could have gone badly awry so many different ways.

 

[JirinPanthosa]

Little Green Men is one of the more effective comedy episodes in the series.

 

[DonIago]

^I can agree with that.

 

[Qonundrum]

I'm taking out The Visitor, it's an irrelevant reset button episode showing an alternate future, it replaces Cirroc Lofton with Tony Todd which shouldn't have happened, everyone else gets old people make up, Lofton gets slapped with a recast. Sisko's behavior is completely unbelievable, from his perspective he watches his son age to an old man in a matter of ... a day or two? But instead of being panicked or worried he seems to be oddly calm.
I know this episode gets a lot of love from others but I don't know why, every remaining episode is way more enjoyable.

Waaah, I wanted to vote that one down!!!!! /LennyHenryAsDoctorWhoChanneling

Todd is quite great in it IMHO; but what gets me from that episode is that geezer-Jake tells a complete and total stranger, who rang his chimes out of pure happenstance as I recall, he's going to commit suicide with the most (from what would be her perspective) bizarre of reasons. And she, this hawt total stranger, sits there in full non-incredulity at (what otherwise amounts to senility on his part when discussing the bizarre situation he's said to have experienced) and she doesn't bugger to call the 24th century version of 911 or anything and believes him without question, as if this sort of thing happens to all her friends on a regular schedule or something. It's a HUGE and just as contrived plot hole that diminishes the relevance of the lives involved... which didn't stop me from shedding a tear despite it all but come on, it's a huge plot hole and a tremendously bad one at that.

* cough *

So anyway, my pick is:

Starship Down

It's a remake of TNG's disastrous "Disaster".

And DS9 did a much better job at the trope.

I didn't care for "Starship Down" at the time, but on a recent re-viewing I was able to appreciate a lot more as well as a lot more nuances within.

I actually quite like "Starship Down", but of the episodes left it's one of the weaker entries and I hate it when that happens.

That and I've not seen "Broken Link" yet so maybe that episode is worse.


What's left:

The Way of the Warrior
Little Green Men while typing my novella, LGM got voted down
Our Man Bashir
Homefront
Paradise Lost
Broken Link

 

[DonIago]

^Re-read the thread...we already finished this...

 

[Sakonna]

^Re-read the thread...we already finished this...

Uh oh, we're caught in another time loop!

And she, this hawt total stranger, sits there in full non-incredulity at (what otherwise amounts to senility on his part when discussing the bizarre situation he's said to have experienced) and she doesn't bugger to call the 24th century version of 911 or anything and believes him without question, as if this sort of thing happens to all her friends on a regular schedule or something.

She lives in the world of Star Trek. This sort of thing does happen to all her friends on a regular basis.

 

[retroenzo]

Uh oh, we're caught in another time loop!



She lives in the world of Star Trek. This sort of thing does happen to all her friends on a regular basis.

We're Starfleet officers. Weird is part of the job.

Wait, what?