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Most purely rewatchable episodes?

Any Garak episode, especially the first scene in Past Prologue when Garak swoops in and hits on Bashir. Gayest. Scene. Ever.

“...if you should require any apparel, or merely wish, as I do, for A BIT OF ENJOYABLE COMPANY NOW AND THEN, I’m at your disposal, Doctor.”

LMAO
 
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Trials and Tribble-ations is, of course, at the top of the list.

I find Our Man Bashir to be ridiculously fun romp every time, and I really wish the looming threat of legal menace hadn't gotten in the way of more Bond send-ups. Also, House of Quark and Looking for Par´mach in all the Wrong Places; I adore Grilka.

For heavier episodes, Improbable Cause + The Die is Cast, The Wire, Cardassians, Dr Bashir, I Presume, In Purgatory's Shadow, and Nor the Battle to the Strong. Also, Shakaar - any episode where Kai Winn gets egg on her face is one I'm inclined to like.

Duet, Far Beyond the Stars, and In The Pale Moonlight are some of Trek's best, but a bit too grim for me to rewatch unless I'm specifically in the mood for them.
 
Is the Bond franchise really threatening people who might want to do spoofs? I really hope that doesn't happen. Satire is fair use, and our culture would be poorer if it stopped being so. That said, the same spoof done more than once per show is usually too much.
 
Is the Bond franchise really threatening people who might want to do spoofs? I really hope that doesn't happen. Satire is fair use, and our culture would be poorer if it stopped being so. That said, the same spoof done more than once per show is usually too much.

You don't need to have a legal leg to stand on to send a C&D letter, just faith that whomever you're targeting won't/can't take the time and money to contest it in court. I don't know if MGM would be more relaxed these days, but, yeah, the rights-holders were not happy at the time.

Per Memory Alpha:

Although Ronald D. Moore attempted to avoid directly referencing any of his primary influences, it seems that some names and situations skated a little too close for comfort. After this episode aired, the producers got an angry letter from MGM, the studio which holds the rights to the James Bond property. The DS9 Companion doesn't reveal the content of the letter other than to say, "apparently MGM did not find imitation to be the sincerest form of flattery." As such, in the fifth season episode "A Simple Investigation", which returns to Bashir's holonovel, the references to Bond are far more subtle.
 
I just rewatched some excellent season 2 episodes which I thoroughly enjoyed. Necessary Evil I thought was brilliant. It plays like a film noir short story. It establishes the history of Odo, Kira, Quark, and Dukat's relationship, and sets the darkness of the occupation period on DS9 nicely against the light of the present Federation era. And it's a good mystery.

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I love any episode that deals full on with the history of the occupation.

For anyone who thing Trek is too dark now it didn't get much more horrible than the creepy Cardies
 
I love "Emissary" the story I found touching and interesting; everything in the episode was a mystery and I was immediately invested to the main characters.
Geez, the entire first 2 seasons for me, I loved the world building done by the creative team, it was definitely set to be entirely different from TNG. "Duet", "The Storyteller", "Progress" , Dramatis Personae", and "In the Hands of the Prophets".

"Whispers" was a fun brain teaser episode which had some invasion of the body snatchers vibe but the resolution was quite satisfying. I thought "Second Sight" was a nice Sisko episode, The three part Season Premiere was an interesting plot for the crew which was different and showed how far away the Federation frontier was to them. I loved that because my heroes had to solve these issues by their own means and not the assistance from Starfleet. Other purely watched episodes were "Tribunal", "The Collaborator", "The Wire", "Playing God", "Armageddon Game", "The Alternate", "Melora", "Cardassians", "Necessary Evil", these episodes are so good, I honestly don't think DS9 got any better when it came to performances and isolated storytelling.

Season 3 had some interesting work like "The House of Quark", "Equilibrium", "Second Skin", "Civil Defense", "Defiant", "Destiny", and my favorite of my list "Explorers" where Sisko takes his son out on an interesting quest where the Cardassians do something which was so enlightening and so showed another facet I loved about that race.

I will add "The Visitor" in my bonus list but that's that.
 
So many!
Progress
Duet
Invasive Procedures
Necessary Evil
Armageddon Game
Blood Oath
Tribunal
The Jem'Hadar
The House of Quark
Civil Defense
Defiant
Visionary
Explorers
The Visitor
Little Green Men
The Sword of Kahless
Hard Time
To the Death
Apocalypse Rising
Trials and Tribbleations
The Ascent
Children of Time
The Magnificent Ferengi
Waltz
Far Beyond the Stars
One Little Ship
In the Pale Moonlight
The Sound of Her Voice
Take Me Out to the Holosuite
Siege of AR-558

Left out anything you couldn't just drop in on bereft of context and not be able to follow what was going on, I think. Probably quite a few more I didn't mention.
 
Emissary
Defiant
Way of the Warrior
The Die is Cast
Homefront/Paradise Lost
 
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Any Garak episode, especially the first scene in Past Prologue when Garak swoops in and hits on Bashir. Gayest. Scene. Ever.

“...if you should require any apparel, or merely wish, as I do, for A BIT OF ENJOYABLE COMPANY NOW AND THEN, I’m at your disposal, Doctor.”

LMAO
Just saw this for the first time since I was too young to understand. Absolutly brilliant first scene from Garek
 
Generally the Vic ones. Fun stories about people (who are dealing with a hologram) in the moments away from the war.
 
You don't need to have a legal leg to stand on to send a C&D letter, just faith that whomever you're targeting won't/can't take the time and money to contest it in court. I don't know if MGM would be more relaxed these days, but, yeah, the rights-holders were not happy at the time.

Per Memory Alpha:
Yep, the cost of fighting a lawsuit is enough to ensure people avoid them.
Some of the - now dead - most awful criminals used the threat of legal actions to keep themselves safe during their lifetimes.
 
Sacrifice of Angels, not just because of the action, but due to the stakes. There's a palpable sense of desperation in this episode, a feeling of time running out.

Image in the Sand/Shadows and Symbols, a compelling opener to season 7, and I got emotional at the final shot of Symbols.
 
Sacrefice of angels
In the pale moonlight
the visitor
what you leave behind
call to arms
the festival
the way of the warrior
the die is cast
..
yeah a lot of good episodes
 
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