The least disliked episode of DS9 - Season One

[BlueStuff]

This is a game that was played here a couple of years ago, and it proved to be a lot of fun, spanning across each Trek series, as well as a great way to mentally revisit those episodes you may not have thought about in a while. With that in mind, why not play again?

So, 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 eliminate another episode.

No tactical voting! You cannot remove an episode because you feel they would threaten your preferred episode's chance to win. Pretty simple. Enjoy!

Winners
The Original Series - Balance of Terror
The Next Generation - The Measure of a Man
Deep Space Nine -

Season One -

Emissary
Past Prologue
A Man Alone
Babel
Captive Pursuit
Q-Less
Dax
The Passenger
Move Along Home
The Nagus
Vortex
Battle Lines
The Storyteller
Progress
If Wishes Were Horses
The Forsaken
Dramatis Personae
Duet
In the Hands of the Prophets

 

[MacLeod]

Well I'm going to consign "Move Along Home" to the fire caves. As for why I can abrely remember it. I know it was about an Alien game that quark played, with the other characters being the peices but that's about it. A largely forgettable episode.


Emissary
Past Prologue
A Man Alone
Babel
Captive Pursuit
Q-Less
Dax
The Passenger
The Nagus
Vortex
Battle Lines
The Storyteller
Progress
If Wishes Were Horses
The Forsaken
Dramatis Personae
Duet
In the Hands of the Prophets

 

[Bry_Sinclair]

I shall remove Q-Less. As much as I love Sisko hitting Q, it was a totally unneccesary crossover.

Emissary
Past Prologue
A Man Alone
Babel
Captive Pursuit
Dax
The Passenger
The Nagus
Vortex
Battle Lines
The Storyteller
Progress
If Wishes Were Horses
The Forsaken
Dramatis Personae
Duet
In the Hands of the Prophets

 

[BlueStuff]

I'll remove If Wishes Were Horses, a pretty dire effort. It must have been really rough watching this show when it was first airing, after slogging through a run of pretty poor episodes for the last few weeks you get to this one, and it's like "how much more of this can I take?" not knowing how great the show would eventually become.

Emissary
Past Prologue
A Man Alone
Babel
Captive Pursuit
Dax
The Passenger
The Nagus
Vortex
Battle Lines
The Storyteller
Progress
The Forsaken
Dramatis Personae
Duet
In the Hands of the Prophets

 

[MacLeod]

"A Man Alone", your standard murder mystery.

Emissary
Past Prologue
Babel
Captive Pursuit
Dax
The Passenger
The Nagus
Vortex
Battle Lines
The Storyteller
Progress
The Forsaken
Dramatis Personae
Duet
In the Hands of the Prophets

 

[IzzyAtWarp9]

I'll take out duet because I thought the ending was a cop out.

Emissary
Past Prologue
Babel
Captive Pursuit
Dax
The Passenger
The Nagus
Vortex
Battle Lines
The Storyteller
Progress
The Forsaken
Dramatis Personae
In the Hands of the Prophets

 

[MacLeod]

A cop out in what way?

 

[BlueStuff]

 

[R. Star]

This contest is null and void now.

 

[BlueStuff]

 

[Roboturner913]

Moving on....

I'm getting rid of 'The Storyteller.' It was a nice prelude to the Bashir/O'Brien friendship but otherwise, a very boring episode with no real stakes for any of the show's main characters.

Emissary
Past Prologue
Babel
Captive Pursuit
Dax
The Passenger
The Nagus
Vortex
Battle Lines
Progress
The Forsaken
Dramatis Personae
In the Hands of the Prophets

 

[BlueStuff]

I'll get rid of The Passenger for Siddig's awful, awful acting.

Emissary
Past Prologue
Babel
Captive Pursuit
Dax
The Nagus
Vortex
Battle Lines
Progress
The Forsaken
Dramatis Personae
In the Hands of the Prophets

 

[MacLeod]

It's time to forsake, "The Forsaken", featuring everyone's favourite Betazed Ambassador.


Emissary
Past Prologue
Babel
Captive Pursuit
Dax
The Nagus
Vortex
Battle Lines
Progress
Dramatis Personae
In the Hands of the Prophets

 

[jimbotron]

Dax - Jadzia's first featured episode (heck, the ONLY one of the season), and it's about a decades-old murder case and a sexual affair, where she basically spends the whole episode keeping her mouth shut and falling on a sword to protect an old woman. There are better ways to explore Dax's history than that, like Blood Oath.

Emissary
Past Prologue
Babel
Captive Pursuit
The Nagus
Vortex
Battle Lines
Progress
Dramatis Personae
In the Hands of the Prophets

 

[jimbotron]

Duet is DS9's The Measure of a Man. I demand a revote!

 

[Sam_I_Am]

Past Prologue for me. I remember thinking as a six year old how implausible the plot was and aside from that, the episode is pretty forgettable.

Emissary
Babel
Captive Pursuit
The Nagus
Vortex
Battle Lines
Progress
Dramatis Personae
In the Hands of the Prophets

 

[Relayer1]

Glad to see Progress is still there. That was the first episode that made me start to think DS9 was going to be something special.

 

[MacLeod]

You know you should say that because it's time to banish you know what "Progress"

Emissary
Babel
Captive Pursuit
The Nagus
Battle Lines
Progress
Dramatis Personae
In the Hands of the Prophets

only kidding it's "Vortex".

 

[JirinPanthosa]

I eliminate Babel.

I have nothing in particular against the episode. It's the episode where they initially figured out why Quark was a good character. But it's up against a strong crop, only other one I would consider eliminating is In The Hands Of The Prophets.

Emissary
Captive Pursuit
The Nagus
Battle Lines
Progress
Dramatis Personae
In the Hands of the Prophets

 

[dub]

I will put "Duet" back in , then disqualify myself from playing the game anymore.

Emissary
Captive Pursuit
The Nagus
Battle Lines
Progress
Dramatis Personae
Duet
In the Hands of the Prophets

Dub is hereby disqualified from further posts in this thread because he cheated. There!