Best Episode of Season 1, Part 1

[INACTIVESamusAranX]

Hello.

Garth_Rockket gave me permission to use his concept of finding the worst episode of Trek to find the best episode. So without further ado...

Deep Space Nine, season 1. An okay start to some, strong to many. What is the best episode?

 

[Michael]

I take it I can vote for three, right? However, I clicked ...

Emissary – Great episode. Easily the best Trek pilot. Everything is set up in an intriguing manner. I loved Camille Saviola as Kai Opaka.

Duet – an instant classic. The best episode of the first season and the first sign that Deep Space Nine was more than just "TNG on a space station".

In The Hands Of The Prophets – Finally a Trek series that doesn't shy away from making profound statements about religion. Loved it.

 

[INACTIVESamusAranX]

I take it I can vote for three, right? However, I clicked ...

Emissary – Great episode. Easily the best Trek pilot. Everything is set up in an intriguing manner. I loved Camille Saviola as Kai Opaka.

Duet – an instant classic. The best episode of the first season and the first sign that Deep Space Nine was more than just "TNG on a space station".

In The Hands Of The Prophets – Finally a Trek series that doesn't shy away from making profound statements about religion. Loved it.

On this one at least. I forgot multiple voting on the other two.

 

[chancellorjake]

Captive Pursuit
Progress
Duet

 

[Natural]

Emissary
Captive Pursuit
Duet

 

[MeanJoePhaser]

DUET
DRAMATIS PERSONAE (yeah, a mind frak episode...such a cliche, but I like how it was done...the opening with the Klingon and Sisko's clock.)
CAPTIVE PURSUIT (fairly predictable, but good enough)

 

[Red Ranger]

Emissary -- It set the stage for what was to come, and the wormhole aliens lack of understanding of linear time, and how Sisko uses baseball to help explain it -- are great.
Captive Pursuit -- Our first look at folks from the Gamma Quadrant, and one of the most intriguing. Loved the hunters' defensive weapons.
In the Hands of the Prophets -- Excellent take on religion versus secularism.

RR

 

[AdmiralGarak]

This one's a no-brainer:
Emissary, Duet, & In the Hands of the Prophets are easily the best of the season. (Captive Pursuit is very close, though.)

 

[Lynx]

"Duet" is my favorite episode of the first season of DS9. Brilliant interaction between Marritza and Kira. A bit touchy too.

Other top 5 favorites are:
Emissary
Q-less
The Passenger
Dramatis Personae

Overall a good season with many great episodes.

 

[crouteru]

'Emissary', 'Duet' and 'In The Hands Of The Prophets'. You could probably get away with skipping the rest of the season and not miss all that much.

 

[Geck]

Duet and In the Hands of the Prophets are both in my Top 10 (more likely the Top 7 or 8 even) for the entire series.

 

[Gil T.Azell]

Duet

Marritza breaks down as he speaks, branding himself a coward. He begs Kira to prosecute him, insisting that Cardassia must be forced to admit its wrongdoings (cf. Holocaust denial) and that he is as guilty for remaining silent as Darhe'el was for committing the atrocities. Kira releases him, insisting that another murder is not the answer, but as Marritza is about to depart from the station, he is stabbed and killed by a drunken Bajoran. When Kira demands to know why, the Bajoran echoes her own earlier sentiment: being a Cardassian is reason enough. "No," Kira realizes, "it's not."

Kira's last line is very powerful

 

[Garth Rockett]

This one's a no-brainer:
Emissary, Duet, & In the Hands of the Prophets are easily the best of the season. (Captive Pursuit is very close, though.)

My opinion mirrors yours exactly.

 

[erastus25]

This one's a no-brainer:
Emissary, Duet, & In the Hands of the Prophets are easily the best of the season. (Captive Pursuit is very close, though.)

My opinion mirrors yours exactly.

Thirded. I chose Prophets.

 

[Navaros]

Captive Pursuit all the way. Duet and In the Hands of the Prophets had great acting and were pretty interesting except that they were rehashes of older works whereas Captive Pursuit was facinating, also had great acting, and seemed original to me (if it was a rehash I don't know where from).

I don't think Emissary is all that great of an episode. I find it pretty boring and mediocre.

 

[Emperor-Tiberius]

Emmisary and Duet, by far.

Duet might very well be DS9's best episode, ever.