the best ever DS9 episode - not Far Beyond the Stars?

[Kira Nerys]

In the Pale Moonlight

 

[JarodRussell]

I've recently saw "The Quickening" again and I thought it was an excellent episode.

I don't care that much for "Far Beyond the Stars", nor do I care about "The Inner Light". I never liked these dream episodes where one character has visions of something that has no influence on anything. I felt TNG: Family had a much stronger impact on me.

 

[Nerys Ghemor]

I don't tend to think TNG aged well, but I must give credit where credit is due: "The Inner Light" was in my opinion MUCH more successful, and that particular episode is timeless. Stewart was IMPRESSIVE the entire way through the episode, whereas Brooks really showed why he is no Stewart or Alaimo at the end.

 

[Apogeal Alpha01]

I love TWOTW, and You Are Cordially Invited, ITPM. Emissary and WYLB are very nice bookends to the entire series. More than I can name really.

Are you ever in a mood to look at particular episodes, like the Feringi episodes, or the arc beginning with A Call To Arms through Sacrifice of Angels? There are many ways to appreciate this series. In The Cards or, Treachery, Faith, and the Great River, and Take Me Out To The Holosuite are very amusing and lighthearted. FBTS, Waltz and ITPM are somewhat unsettling, tense, but riveting.

I've never been able to name just ONE!

 

[Ssosmcin]

It's a popular choice, and I rarely go with the popular, but "The Visitor" is, far and away, the most emotionally involving of all the DS9's for me. The reason is purely personal: I had lost my own father about a year before this episode aired. He and I were as close as Ben and Jake, and I could absolutely see me going to the same lengths to save him (if I had the technology). So when Jake gave his life to undo it all, it really hit home. I was a mess for an hour after, and even the score (released on CD) brought up images of my dad for awhile. The episode still chokes me up, as I miss my dad to this day.

Anyway, that's why.