I'd give DS9 a big fat 10/10 =D

[Triskelion]

No skeevy sexual voyeurism filmed by a sweaty DP with Parkinsons, melodrama that wasn't masquerading as contemporary culture, more character than a lamp store, though they really should have put more room in the budget for light bulbs.

If you want the original DS9 experience watch only one per week and stop every ten minutes to watch Ernest P Worrel commercials. (Another period genius and really nice guy)

 

[DevilEyes]

I'd give it 9/10. There were many problems: romance episodes and plotlines (never Trek's forte), painfully unfunny Ferengi "comedies," a war plotline so badly conceived that a good case could be made that the Federation started it, and so badly paced that it seemed to be put on hold so the crew could play baseball, the destruction of Dukat's character in S7, the illogic of the war's actual end - if the Federation didn't win through genocide, then exactly what the frak happened?

I don't have any problem with the way the war started or the way it ended, and I don't see the moral ambiguity of it as a bad thing. As for romance - some of it was bad, but more often than not, it was good, at least by Trek standards.

But I do agree with the rest: Ferengi comedy episodes (apart from "The House of Quark", "Little Green Men" and perhaps "The Magnificent Ferengi"), the interruption of the war arc for lighthearted standalone episodes, and especially the character assassination of Dukat in S7 - and I add the Jesus Sisko and his Prophet mom plot as well as the entire Prophets vs Pah-wraiths thing, almost all of the Mirror Universe episodes. and the awful space-disease-of-the-week episodes (apart from "Babel").