The Best ... and the Worst

[Bad Thoughts]

I'm not sure if anyone will find this interesting, let alone helpful, but I would love running thread looking at how DS9 fits into various best and worst lists, whether about the series itself, in the franchise, or in general.

First Entry:
Title: My Top 10 Worst Secondary Star Trek Characters
Source: TriAngulum Audio Studios
Date: 8/26/2019
Entries:

• (Dis)honorable mentions: Melora
• 10. Michael Eddington (actor too wooden, no sense of inner conflict in performance)
• 6. Admiral William Ross (actor doesn't portray authority)
• 5. Cal Hudson (leadership seemed lacking in character,no good reason to turn against Federation)
• 3. Vedek Bareil (wish washy, over the top)

Bad showing for DS9 on this list, but I think that it is an instance in which long term development for recurring characters. I don't think Ross would have appeared if he were only one time, and I'll bet they were looking to jettison Philip Anglim sooner.

 

[Bad Thoughts]

Second Entry
Title: Top 10 Space Stations from Movies and TV
Source: Watch Mojo
Date: 9/1/2015

Entry: 4. Deep Space Nine

Sort of obvious. I have to ding the list for including the Death Star, which in spite of what it is called, is not a space station.

 

[Kate Nichols]

I thought that Eddington was great, but yeah, after the fact. After the Marquis revelation. Before, he was rather wooden, except for a few seconds here and there which only served to confuse the audience, but not Sisko.

 

[Kate Nichols]

As for Vedek Bereil, he was was a good-looking man for sure, and there were some spiritual moments between him and Kira in nature on Bajor . . .

 

[Nakita Akita]

I thought that Eddington was great, but yeah, after the fact. After the Marquis revelation. Before, he was rather wooden, except for a few seconds here and there which only served to confuse the audience, but not Sisko.

I liked his character. ( Eddington)
I thought he acted all wooden on purpose because he was hiding a huge aspect f his life from everyone. He couldn't let on to how he really felt. But from almost the first time you saw him you knew that he was up to something, but that's how they always do tv shows, it's obvious to the viewer but the characters are oblivious.

 

[GulBahana]

The only character I didn't like out of those is Bareil. I always found him bland and boring.

 

[Prax]

Third Entry?

Best Sci fi characters of all time (top 100)

#58 Elim Garak, Deep Space 9

#86 Benjamin Sisko, Deep Space 9

1. The Doctor, Doctor Who
2. Ellen Ripley, Alien saga
3. Darth Vader, Star Wars saga
4. Kerr Avon, Blake’s 7
5. Captain Malcolm Reynolds, Firefly / Serenity
6. G’Kar, Babylon 5
7. HAL-9000, 2001: A Space Odyssey
8. Rick Deckard, Blade Runner
9. Han Solo, Star Wars saga
10. Spock, Star Trek saga
11. John Crichton, Farscape
12. Roy Batty, Blade Runner
13. Captain Jack Harkness, Torchwood
14. Captain James T Kirk, Star Trek saga
15. Captain Jean-Luc Picard, Star Trek: The Next Generation
16. Londo Mollari, Babylon 5
17. The Alien, Alien
18. Dana Scully, The X Files
19. Ianto Jones, Torchwood
20. Yoda, Star Wars saga
21. Aeryn Sun, Farscape
22. Kara ‘Starbuck’ Thrace, Battlestar Galactica
23. Sarah Connor, The Terminator saga
24. Doctor Emmet Brown, Back to the Future trilogy
25. Fox Mulder, The X Files
26. Professor Bernard Quatermass, Quatermass and the Pit
27. The Terminator, The Terminator saga
28. Susan Ivanova, Babylon 5
29. Captain John Sheridan, Babylon 5
30. Delenn, Babylon 5
31. Jack O’Neill, Stargate SG-1
32. Daleks, Doctor Who
33. Data, Star Trek: The Next Generation
34. Luke Skywalker, Star Wars saga
35. Gort / Klaatu, The Day the Earth Stood Still
36. Maria the Robot, Metropolis
37. Judge Dredd, Judge Dredd
38. E.T., E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial
39. Ben ‘Obi-Wan’ Kenobi, Star Wars saga
40. Neo, The Matrix trilogy
41. Robbie the Robot, Forbidden Planet
42. Marvin the Paranoid Android, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
43. Marty McFly, Back to the Future trilogy
44. Rose Tyler, Doctor Who
45. Samantha Carter, Stargate SG-1
46. Donna Noble, Doctor Who
47. Walter Bishop, Fringe
48. Admiral William Adama, Battlestar Galactica
49. River Tam, Firefly / Serenity
50. Arthur Dent, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
51. Wall-E, Wall-E
52. R2-D2, Star Wars
53. Boba Fett, Star Wars
54. Arnold J Rimmer, Red Dwarf
55. Sam Bell, Moon
56. Leeloo, The Fifth Element
57. Roj Blake, Blake’s 7
58. Elim Garak, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
59. Scorpius, Farscape
60. Thomas Jerome Newton, The Man Who Fell to Earth
61. Captain Kathryn Janeway, Star Trek Voyager
62. Gaius Baltar, Battlestar Galactica
63. Chiana, Farscape
64. Kaylee, Firefly / Serenity
65. Sarah-Jane Smith, Doctor Who
66. David, Prometheus
67. Q, Star Trek saga
68. Dave Lister, Red Dwarf
69. Amy Pond, Doctor Who
70. Flash Gordon, Flash Gordon
71. Princess Leia Organa, Star Wars saga
72. RoboCop, RoboCop
73. River Song / Melody Pond, Doctor Who
74. Snake Plissken, Escape from New York
75. Alfred Bester, Babylon 5
76. Barbarella, Barbarella
77. John Sheppard, Stargate Atlantis
78. Seven of Nine, Star Trek: Voyager
79. Daniel Jackson, Stargate SG-1
80. R.J. MacReady, The Thing
81. Dave Bowman, 2001: A Space Odyssey
82. Commander Jeffrey Sinclair, Babylon 5
83. Lyta Alexander, Babylon 5
84. Tetsuo Shima, Akira
85. The Predator, Predator
86. Benjamin Sisko, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
87. Gwen Cooper, Torchwood
88. Kryten, Red Dwarf
89. Servalan, Blake’s 7
90. The Master, Doctor Who
91. Vala Mal Doran, Stargate SG-1
92. Bo Dennis, Lost Girl
93. Michael Garibaldi, Babylon 5
94. Number Six, Battlestar Galactica
95. Hoban ‘Wash’ Washburn, Firefly / Serenity
96. C3PO, Star Wars
97. Riddick, The Chronicles of Riddick
98. Motoko Kusanagi, Ghost in the Shell
99. Laura Roslin, Battlestar Galactica
100. Doctor Ellie Arroway, Contact

 

[Prax]

Also, Comicvine does a similar top 100(https://comicvine.gamespot.com/prof...science-fiction-and-fantasy-characters/38638/)

#59 Benjamin Sisko
#86 Gul Dukat

The list also features Data, Kirk, Picard, McCoy, Scotty, Q, and the original "Number One" from The Cage.