The best episode of DS9 - Part Four

[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 Way of the Warrior (I)
The Way of the Warrior (II)
The Visitor
Hippocratic Oath
Indiscretion
Rejoined
Starship Down
Little Green Men
The Sword of Kahless
Our Man Bashir
Homefront
Paradise Lost
Crossfire
Return to Grace
Sons of Mogh
Bar Association
Accession
Rules of Engagement
Hard Time
Shattered Mirror
The Muse
For the Cause
To the Death
The Quickening
Body Parts
Broken Link

 

[Admiral Shran]

The Way of the Warrior (I)
The Way of the Warrior (II)
The Visitor
Hippocratic Oath
Indiscretion
Rejoined
Starship Down
Little Green Men
The Sword of Kahless
Our Man Bashir
Homefront
Paradise Lost
Crossfire
Return to Grace
Sons of Mogh
Bar Association
Accession
Rules of Engagement
Hard Time
Shattered Mirror
The Muse
For the Cause
To the Death
Body Parts
Broken Link

The Quickening is the first to go. It's a solid episode, just not my favorite.

 

[Photon]

The Way of the Warrior (II)
The Visitor
Hippocratic Oath
Indiscretion
Rejoined
Starship Down
Little Green Men
The Sword of Kahless
Our Man Bashir
Homefront
Paradise Lost
Crossfire
Return to Grace
Sons of Mogh
Bar Association
Accession
Rules of Engagement
Hard Time
Shattered Mirror
For the Cause
To the Death
Body Parts
Broken Link

The Muse is gone b/c is just flat irritating and bordering on creepy

 

[HaventGotALife]

The Way of the Warrior (II)
The Visitor
Hippocratic Oath
Indiscretion
Rejoined
Starship Down
Little Green Men
The Sword of Kahless
Our Man Bashir
Homefront
Paradise Lost
Crossfire
Return to Grace
Sons of Mogh
Bar Association
Accession
Rules of Engagement
Hard Time
Shattered Mirror
For the Cause
To the Death
Body Parts

My favorite season and I love them all, but I'm taking out Broken Link.

 

[TheGodBen]

The Way of the Warrior
The Visitor
Hippocratic Oath
Indiscretion
Rejoined
Starship Down
Little Green Men
Our Man Bashir
Homefront
Paradise Lost
Crossfire
Return to Grace
Sons of Mogh
Bar Association
Accession
Rules of Engagement
Hard Time
Shattered Mirror
For the Cause
To the Death
Body Parts

Damn, this is a good season, the only episode I consider to be truly bad is gone already. I guess I'll remove The Sword of Kahless as it was mainly just three people running around in caves for 40 minutes

 

[DevilEyes]

Wait, where did The Way of the Warrior, part 1 go?


The Way of the Warrior (I)
The Way of the Warrior (II)
The Visitor
Hippocratic Oath
Indiscretion
Rejoined
Starship Down
Little Green Men
Our Man Bashir
Homefront
Paradise Lost
Crossfire
Return to Grace
Sons of Mogh
Bar Association
Accession
Rules of Engagement
Hard Time
For the Cause
To the Death
Body Parts

This is a very consistent season, there aren't really any awful episodes.

I take out Shattered Mirror, because I really don't like the MU episodes, and I think they should have stopped after Crossover. Crossover was an interesting episode, but further MU eps were just diluting the story and getting progressively worse.

 

[TheGodBen]

Wait, where did The Way of the Warrior, part 1 go?

Should The Way of the Warrior even be split into two parts? I think that it should be treated like Emissary and WYLB and be treated as one episode, that's the way it is supposed to be watched.

 

[Admiral Shran]

^ Agreed.

The Way of the Warrior
The Visitor
Hippocratic Oath
Indiscretion
Rejoined
Starship Down
Little Green Men
Our Man Bashir
Homefront
Paradise Lost
Crossfire
Return to Grace
Sons of Mogh
Accession
Rules of Engagement
Hard Time
For the Cause
To the Death
Body Parts

Bar Association. I have so many problems with this episode. If I had been thinking straight, I would have eliminated it before The Quickening. Basically, IMO, this episode goes out of its way to make the "good guys" look bad and some of the "bad guys" look good.

 

[Jerikka Dawn]

The Way of the Warrior
The Visitor
Hippocratic Oath
Indiscretion
Rejoined
Starship Down
Little Green Men
Our Man Bashir
Homefront
Paradise Lost
Crossfire
Return to Grace
Sons of Mogh
Accession
Rules of Engagement
Hard Time
For the Cause
To the Death


Removing Body Parts. All of these are good episodes, I just like this one the least.

 

[DevilEyes]

The Way of the Warrior
The Visitor
Hippocratic Oath
Indiscretion
Rejoined
Starship Down
Little Green Men
Our Man Bashir
Homefront
Paradise Lost
Return to Grace
Sons of Mogh
Accession
Rules of Engagement
Hard Time
For the Cause
To the Death

Crossfire, because Kira becomes the supporting character whose love life only serves to produce a reaction in Odo. And Shakaar, the PM of Bajor and former terrorist leader (think of what an interesting character he could have been, if the writing had been better) becomes nothing but The Pablo. (I wish the Television Tropes hadn't deleted that page...)

 

[Geck]

The Way of the Warrior
The Visitor
Hippocratic Oath
Indiscretion
Rejoined
Starship Down
Little Green Men
Our Man Bashir
Homefront
Paradise Lost
Return to Grace
Sons of Mogh
Accession
Hard Time
For the Cause
To the Death

All the episodes I wanted to remove are gone already (and many I would have kept around a lot longer!). So I'll take out Rules of Engagement - it's a pretty blasé courtroom episode. To be honest I can't even really remember what it was about. Forgettable isn't a good quality.

 

[Pseudo]

The Way of the Warrior
The Visitor
Hippocratic Oath
Indiscretion
Starship Down
Little Green Men
Our Man Bashir
Homefront
Paradise Lost
Return to Grace
Sons of Mogh
Accession
Hard Time
For the Cause
To the Death

I'm taking out Rejoined. It's not a bad episode, but I always found the Trill stuff deeply uninteresting.

 

[MrBorg]

The Way of the Warrior
The Visitor
Hippocratic Oath
Indiscretion
Starship Down
Little Green Men
Homefront
Paradise Lost
Return to Grace
Sons of Mogh
Accession
Hard Time
For the Cause
To the Death

Our Man Bashir - Just another lame "trapped in a holodeck" episode. Those get old fast.

 

[Jono]

The Way of the Warrior
The Visitor
Indiscretion
Starship Down
Little Green Men
Homefront
Paradise Lost
Return to Grace
Sons of Mogh
Accession
Hard Time
For the Cause
To the Death

Taking out Hippocratic Oath, nice look at the Jem'Hadar but they set up a bit of angst between two close characters and never did anything with it, it was pretty much as if it never happened.

 

[DevilEyes]

The Way of the Warrior
The Visitor
Indiscretion
Starship Down
Little Green Men
Homefront
Paradise Lost
Return to Grace
Accession
Hard Time
For the Cause
To the Death

Sons of Mogh. I don't hate it as some people do - though the ending really opens a can of worms, I don't think we were ever meant to see it as anything but morally problematic and ambiguous. However, I don't like that it's never addressed again.

 

[Eyes]

Bar Association. I have so many problems with this episode. If I had been thinking straight, I would have eliminated it before The Quickening. Basically, IMO, this episode goes out of its way to make the "good guys" look bad and some of the "bad guys" look good.

Good. I was a bit disappointed that The Quickening of all episodes was eliminated first. It's one of my favourites of the series.

Not that it really matters in this game.

And on to the game.

The Way of the Warrior
The Visitor
Indiscretion
Starship Down
Little Green Men
Homefront
Paradise Lost
Return to Grace
Accession
Hard Time
To the Death

For The Cause goes because it's not as good as the rest. That's all I can come up with.

 

[tomalak301]

The Way of the Warrior
The Visitor
Indiscretion
Little Green Men
Homefront
Paradise Lost
Return to Grace
Accession
Hard Time
To the Death

Dang this is a great season, but I'm eliminating Starship Down. It was a good episode, but it feels like all those other disaster type movies done before it.

 

[Claudia]

The Way of the Warrior
The Visitor
Indiscretion
Little Green Men
Homefront
Paradise Lost
Return to Grace
Hard Time
To the Death

Accession has to go - because I had to look up what it was about, so it didn't leave much of an impression on me.

 

[Supernuke]

The Way of the Warrior
The Visitor
Indiscretion
Homefront
Paradise Lost
Return to Grace
Hard Time
To the Death

Getting rid of Little Green Men. It's a good episode, but not better than the other ones here. Probably the best comedy episode they did though.

 

[Canadave]

Man, I came into this part of the game too late. This is tough. After some waffling, I think I'll go with "Return to Grace." It's a good episode, but the weakest of what's left, I think.

The Way of the Warrior
The Visitor
Indiscretion
Homefront
Paradise Lost
Hard Time
To the Death