Poll Favorite Episodes From Season Two

[Oddish]

Odo, maybe, because his consciousness was actually blended with Curzon's. Probably not the others.

The issue with Verad brings up a major inconsistency regarding "Rejoined". Why doesn't an aging Trill who's been exiled for reassociation just find a guy like Verad and pass the slug to him upon death? Not much the symbiosis board could do to stop it...

 

[dupersuper]

Odo, maybe, because his consciousness was actually blended with Curzon's. Probably not the others.

Doesn't Jadzia thank Odo at the end because now she has some memories of shapeshifting?

 

[Farscape One]

She does.

 

[Oddish]

And Odo has some new memories as well.

 

[Ray Hardgrit]

I'm a little surprised that Rivals is the episode with zero votes, my guess would've been Second Sight. Though I'm only a little surprised.

 

[Oddish]

Rivals wasn't like Threshold, Profit and Lace, or Sub Rosa. It was just kind of meh.

 

[Farscape One]

It's saving grace was O'Brien and Bashir.

 

[Oddish]

Who were still rivals themselves at the time.

 

[Farscape One]

My other issue with "RIVALS" was casting Chris Sarandon. This should have been better than it was.

Odo, maybe, because his consciousness was actually blended with Curzon's. Probably not the others.

The issue with Verad brings up a major inconsistency regarding "Rejoined". Why doesn't an aging Trill who's been exiled for reassociation just find a guy like Verad and pass the slug to him upon death? Not much the symbiosis board could do to stop it...

It occurs to me that the secret about only a few Trill can be joined was never made public, so for those exiled joined Trill, it would never occur to them to find someone who failed passing the Symbiosis Commission's stamp of approval.

It's probably also incredibly rare. Even if there were a few out there during the show's run, they likely never found out.

It's also possible that by the 32nd century, the Trill no longer have that tabboo, since symbiotes were rarer.

 

[gweeps]

The scene at the end of Shadowplay when Odo turns into a top for the girl is one of my favourites from the entire series.

 

[Oddish]

The scene at the end of Shadowplay when Odo turns into a top for the girl is one of my favourites from the entire series.

Mine too. It's very sweet.

 

[Lynx]

Ah, there are so many good ones.

So I choose The Jem'hadar which is one of those episodes where the whole story takes a totally unexpected turn and starts a new, exciting scenario which is one of my reasons for loving ths series.

I did also choose the three first episodes about The Cicle and the both Maquis episodes plus Necessary Evil which is a good story.

But most of the episodes in this season are so good!

 

[Trekker09]

Just watched “Cardassians” – new to me, somehow missed it the first time. Now I would have added a vote for it. Not alot of action, but intriguing psychological insights on Garak and others; the dinner scene with the O’Briens was moving, as were Bashir’s passionate inquiries. The end, revealing that 12-year-old Rugal was a pawn in Dukat’s cruel revenge plot, then sent off to live with Pa’Dal, his Cardassian father – not exactly satisfying. The poor kid’s wishes were basically ignored. But the kind of thoughtful, timeless story that only DS9 could do so well.
I did wonder why Rugal never had the option of being surgically altered to look Bajoran.

 

[Oddish]

did wonder why Rugal never had the option of being surgically altered to look Bajoran.

Because he would have done so. And Garak would have just seen another Bajoran kid and not approached him. He would never have been bitten. No incident would gave occured. And voila, no "Cardassians" episode.

 

[Farscape One]

Could be as simple as Bajoran cosmetic surgery is not as advanced as the Federation, or Cardassia, or any other major power.

 

[Oddish]

True. Especially given that Bajor was still in ruins at the time of that episode. Kai Opaka gone, Lee Nollis dead, and a Cardassian backed coup only narrowly stopped. Maybe they didn't have sophisticated cosmetic surgical skills yet.

 

[dupersuper]

Just watched “Cardassians” – new to me, somehow missed it the first time. Now I would have added a vote for it.

I loved that episode except the horrifying end, when Sisko decides - off screen! - to remove the kid from his family and send him to a "home" he's never known. Maybe it's because I'm adopted, but I found that downright chilling.

I did wonder why Rugal never had the option of being surgically altered to look Bajoran.

Why should he? That seems messed up.

 

[Oddish]

I loved that episode except the horrifying end, when Sisko decides - off screen! - to remove the kid from his family and send him to a "home" he's never known. Maybe it's because I'm adopted, but I found that downright chilling.

Pretty awful, all right. Unfortunately, it has parallels in real life.

 

[somebuddyX]

I'm really fond of this season because it's around this time I started becoming a Trek fan and one of the last where I didn't already know ahead of time what was going to happen. I really like the universe at this point, where things are still being setup and it's still mostly just about the area around Bajor.
I voted for "Crossover" because I am a total sucker for alternate universe episodes but I also love where that stuff is still new in a TV shows life and feels weird and off and not routine (ie TNG "Yesterday's Enterprise", "Time Squared", SG1 "There But for the Grace of God go I", Buffy "The Wish", Sliders "Invasion"). I think there's a lot of fun ideas used like being back on a version of Terok Nor, the way the cast are used, and just being back in the Mirror Universe, which I think is an interesting use of that storyline rather than just being a kinda "Mirror Mirror" 2.0. There's nothing wrong with doing that other story, what I assume Diane Duane may have done with Dark Mirror, I just think it's really interesting to see that what happens after one of Kirk's adventures may not be the happy ending we assumed.
One of my favourite background details is the way Mirror-Quark doesn't know what latinum is, implying that Ferengi society is much different, and it's interesting to think that back then this was one of the first major uses of Klingons on DS9, as they were seen more as TNG's aliens and it was an interesting novelty to me.
I like "The Jem Hadar" a lot as well and have probably watched it more times. There's so much to enjoy in it but that moment when the Jem Hadar walked through the forcefield always stood out to me as suddenly revealing how outmatched Starfleet was and how dangerous these guys were.