The best episode of DS9 - Part Five

[BlueStuff]

Okay Trek fans, here's the game. The basic idea is your standard elimination game. I'll provide a list of the episodes for each season and you need to eliminate your least favorite or the one you deem the 'worst.' Please provide an EXPLANATION for why you are eliminating your choice and be sure to copy and paste the list with your choice removed. Finally, leave at least 2 eliminations by other posters before you play again. Not a very accurate way of determining the best episode, but a fun game nonetheless. Pretty simple. Enjoy!

Winners
Season One - Emissary
Season Two - Necessary Evil
Season Three - The Die is Cast
Season Four - The Visitor
Season Five -

Apocalypse Rising
The Ship
Looking for par'Mach in All the Wrong Places
...Nor the Battle to the Strong
The Assignment
Trials and Tribble-ations
Let He Who is Without Sin...
Things Past
The Ascent
Rapture
The Darkness and the Light
The Begotten
For the Uniform
In Purgatory's Shadow
By Inferno's Light
Doctor Bashir, I Presume?
A Simple Investigation
Business as Usual
Ties of Blood and Water
Ferengi Love Songs
Soldiers of the Empire
Children of Time
Blaze of Glory
Empok Nor
In the Cards
Call to Arms

 

[TheGodBen]

Apocalypse Rising
The Ship
Looking for par'Mach in All the Wrong Places
...Nor the Battle to the Strong
The Assignment
Trials and Tribble-ations
Things Past
The Ascent
Rapture
The Darkness and the Light
The Begotten
For the Uniform
In Purgatory's Shadow
By Inferno's Light
Doctor Bashir, I Presume?
A Simple Investigation
Business as Usual
Ties of Blood and Water
Ferengi Love Songs
Soldiers of the Empire
Children of Time
Blaze of Glory
Empok Nor
In the Cards
Call to Arms


Let He Who is Without Sin... is gone. No need to thank me, I view it as a public service.

 

[tomalak301]

Apocalypse Rising
The Ship
Looking for par'Mach in All the Wrong Places
...Nor the Battle to the Strong
The Assignment
Trials and Tribble-ations
Things Past
The Ascent
Rapture
The Darkness and the Light
The Begotten
For the Uniform
In Purgatory's Shadow
By Inferno's Light
Doctor Bashir, I Presume?
A Simple Investigation
Business as Usual
Ties of Blood and Water
Soldiers of the Empire
Children of Time
Blaze of Glory
Empok Nor
In the Cards
Call to Arms

Removing Ferengi Love Songs. It's just a dumb episode in a season of awesomeness.

 

[MrBorg]

Apocalypse Rising
The Ship
Looking for par'Mach in All the Wrong Places
...Nor the Battle to the Strong
The Assignment
Things Past
The Ascent
Rapture
The Darkness and the Light
The Begotten
For the Uniform
In Purgatory's Shadow
By Inferno's Light
Doctor Bashir, I Presume?
A Simple Investigation
Business as Usual
Ties of Blood and Water
Soldiers of the Empire
Children of Time
Blaze of Glory
Empok Nor
In the Cards
Call to Arms

Trials and Tribble-ations: No need to thank me.

 

[tomalak301]

^No, I won't thank you, but I'll say "What the heck" instead.

 

[od0_ital]

Apocalypse Rising
The Ship
...Nor the Battle to the Strong
The Assignment
Things Past
The Ascent
Rapture
The Darkness and the Light
The Begotten
For the Uniform
In Purgatory's Shadow
By Inferno's Light
Doctor Bashir, I Presume?
A Simple Investigation
Business as Usual
Ties of Blood and Water
Soldiers of the Empire
Children of Time
Blaze of Glory
Empok Nor
In the Cards
Call to Arms

'Looking for 'par'Mach in all the Wrong Places'

Sure, it gave us Worf/Jadzia, but it also gave us more of Quark/Grilka, and nobody wants that...

Plus, Quark looked silly swingin' a bat'leth around.

 

[Eyes]

Apocalypse Rising
The Ship
...Nor the Battle to the Strong
The Assignment
Things Past
The Ascent
Rapture
The Darkness and the Light
The Begotten
For the Uniform
In Purgatory's Shadow
By Inferno's Light
Doctor Bashir, I Presume?
Business as Usual
Ties of Blood and Water
Soldiers of the Empire
Children of Time
Blaze of Glory
Empok Nor
In the Cards
Call to Arms

A Simple Investigation. This is an awesome season, so it falls on the crime of being average.

 

[Canadave]

Trials and Tribble-ations: No need to thank me.

I guess I'll go with "The Ascent." It's good but not great, which is enough to knock it out at this point in a very, very good season.

Apocalypse Rising
The Ship
...Nor the Battle to the Strong
The Assignment
Things Past
Rapture
The Darkness and the Light
The Begotten
For the Uniform
In Purgatory's Shadow
By Inferno's Light
Doctor Bashir, I Presume?
Business as Usual
Ties of Blood and Water
Soldiers of the Empire
Children of Time
Blaze of Glory
Empok Nor
In the Cards
Call to Arms

 

[Mage]

Apocalypse Rising
The Ship
...Nor the Battle to the Strong
Things Past
Rapture
The Darkness and the Light
The Begotten
For the Uniform
In Purgatory's Shadow
By Inferno's Light
Doctor Bashir, I Presume?
Business as Usual
Ties of Blood and Water
Soldiers of the Empire
Children of Time
Blaze of Glory
Empok Nor
In the Cards
Call to Arms


Although she was not half as anoying in this one then usual, still to much Keiko. Hell, she was only really only Keiko for less then a minute and it was still to much. So, The Assigment has to go.

 

[MrBorg]

I removed Trials and Tribble-ations because:

1. The title makes me gawk.
2. It has Kirk in it.
3. I just plain dislike it.

 

[DevilEyes]

Well, we all know that this is really the "The Least Disliked Episode of DS9" rather than "The best" or "Most loved episode of DS9" game...

Apocalypse Rising
The Ship
...Nor the Battle to the Strong
Things Past
Rapture
The Darkness and the Light
The Begotten
For the Uniform
In Purgatory's Shadow
By Inferno's Light
Doctor Bashir, I Presume?
Business as Usual
Ties of Blood and Water
Children of Time
Blaze of Glory
Empok Nor
In the Cards
Call to Arms

Soldiers of the Empire, because I love all the other episodes. And while it's a decent Klingon episode, I'm not a fan of Klingon episodes, so it would have to be a really awesome episode to make me love it (like Sins of the Father, Reunion, The House of Quark or 1/2 of Tacking into the Wind).

 

[HaventGotALife]

Apocalypse Rising
The Ship
...Nor the Battle to the Strong
Things Past
Rapture
The Darkness and the Light
The Begotten
For the Uniform
In Purgatory's Shadow
By Inferno's Light
Doctor Bashir, I Presume?
Business as Usual
Ties of Blood and Water
Children of Time
Blaze of Glory
Empok Nor
Call to Arms

Taking out In the Cards. Hate that piece of garbage. It's a rip-off of the self-sealing stem bolts. I don't understand why it's so beloved.

 

[KNH]

Apocalypse Rising
The Ship
...Nor the Battle to the Strong
Things Past
Rapture
The Darkness and the Light
The Begotten
For the Uniform
In Purgatory's Shadow
By Inferno's Light
Doctor Bashir, I Presume?
Ties of Blood and Water
Children of Time
Blaze of Glory
Empok Nor
Call to Arms

Business as Usual gets a one-way ticket from yours truly. It's one of the better Ferengi episodes, but the competition's too strong here.

 

[Canadave]

I'll give "Empok Nor" the boot. It's an enjoyable episode, but nothing really elevates it above what's left here.

Apocalypse Rising
The Ship
...Nor the Battle to the Strong
Things Past
Rapture
The Darkness and the Light
The Begotten
For the Uniform
In Purgatory's Shadow
By Inferno's Light
Doctor Bashir, I Presume?
Ties of Blood and Water
Children of Time
Blaze of Glory
Call to Arms

 

[od0_ital]

Apocalypse Rising
The Ship
...Nor the Battle to the Strong
Things Past
Rapture
The Darkness and the Light
The Begotten
For the Uniform
In Purgatory's Shadow
By Inferno's Light
Doctor Bashir, I Presume?
Blaze of Glory
Children of Time
Call to Arms

'Ties of Blood and Water'

I really hated the "Next Time on..." trailer for this one 'cause of the glimpse of Weyoun. That the Vorta are cloned was a cool idea, but since Weyoun was the only we saw over & over again, it made me wish we had seen Eris ('The Jem'Hadar') just one more time.

 

[HaventGotALife]

Apocalypse Rising
The Ship
...Nor the Battle to the Strong
Things Past
Rapture
The Darkness and the Light
The Begotten
For the Uniform
In Purgatory's Shadow
By Inferno's Light
Doctor Bashir, I Presume?
Blaze of Glory
Call to Arms

Goodbye to Children of Time. Like a bad TNG episode.

 

[Canadave]

^ Your tastes are clearly very different from mine.

 

[Geck]

This is the best season of modern Trek, IMO.

Apocalypse Rising
The Ship
...Nor the Battle to the Strong
Things Past
Rapture
The Darkness and the Light
The Begotten
For the Uniform
In Purgatory's Shadow
By Inferno's Light
Blaze of Glory
Call to Arms

I'll take out Doctor Bashir, I Presume?. The Bashir stuff is very good, but the annoying Zimmerman/Leeta stuff brings it down.

 

[PKTrekGirl]

^ Ah, man....I love that episode. Maybe my favorite from this season.


Apocalypse Rising
The Ship
...Nor the Battle to the Strong
Things Past
Rapture
The Begotten
For the Uniform
In Purgatory's Shadow
By Inferno's Light
Blaze of Glory
Call to Arms

I'm taking out The Darkness and the Light. I just never really liked it that much.

 

[Jono]

Apocalypse Rising
The Ship
...Nor the Battle to the Strong
Rapture
The Begotten
For the Uniform
In Purgatory's Shadow
By Inferno's Light
Blaze of Glory
Call to Arms

Taking out Things Past. It is basically a holodeck malfunction episode without the holodeck.