The most disliked episode of DS9 - Part Five

[BlueStuff]

Okay Trek fans, "least disliked" has concluded, and now it's time for the opposite. 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 favorite or the one you deem the 'best.' 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. Pretty simple. Enjoy!

Losers
Season One - The Passenger
Season Two - Sanctuary
Season Three - Meridian
Season Four - The Muse
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

 

[MacLeod]

Well got to save the 30th Anniversary. "Trials and Tribble-ations" you can tell everyone involved realy cared about making it a real tribute to ST. It looks like they all had fun in doing it.

Apocalypse Rising
The Ship
Looking for par'Mach in All the Wrong Places
...Nor the Battle to the Strong
The Assignment
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

 

[DevilEyes]

Apocalypse Rising
The Ship
Looking for par'Mach in All the Wrong Places
The Assignment
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

...Nor the Battle to the Strong, brilliant little piece about war and people in war, very psychologically realistic.

 

[Quinton O'Connor]

Apocalypse Rising
The Ship
Looking for par'Mach in All the Wrong Places
The Assignment
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
Ferengi Love Songs
Soldiers of the Empire
Children of Time
Blaze of Glory
Empok Nor
In the Cards
Call to Arms

"Ties of Blood and Water" because I know it has its haters but I still enjoy it. Visitor is terrific in it.

 

[Quinton O'Connor]

Wait, I temporarily got that one confused with "The Darkness and the Light" when I said it has its haters. "Ties" is amazing and most agree it's quality. But yeah, I'll keep the vote because I love this one too.

 

[Mr Silver]

Apocalypse Rising
The Ship
Looking for par'Mach in All the Wrong Places
The Assignment
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
Ferengi Love Songs
Soldiers of the Empire
Children of Time
Blaze of Glory
Empok Nor
In the Cards

"Call To Arms" is being saved because it's by far the best episode of the season and it sets up the Dominion War arc.

 

[Thestral]

Apocalypse Rising
Looking for par'Mach in All the Wrong Places
The Assignment
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
Ferengi Love Songs
Soldiers of the Empire
Children of Time
Blaze of Glory
Empok Nor
In the Cards

The Ship gets to be saved for being excellent.

 

[Supernuke]

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

Saving "In Purgatory's Shadow". Would save both of those episodes if I could, they were excellent.

 

[Quinton O'Connor]

Apocalypse Rising
Looking for par'Mach in All the Wrong Places
The Assignment
Let He Who is Without Sin...
Things Past
The Ascent
Rapture
The Darkness and the Light
The Begotten
For the Uniform
Doctor Bashir, I Presume?
A Simple Investigation
Business as Usual
Ferengi Love Songs
Soldiers of the Empire
Children of Time
Blaze of Glory
Empok Nor
In the Cards

Consider it done! I love both episodes as well. And they're now safe.

I'm afraid I might miss the rest of this round -- shame too because it's my second-favorite season. Hopefully I'm here for six and seven!

 

[TrekAlliance92]

Apocalypse Rising
Looking for par'Mach in All the Wrong Places
The Assignment
Let He Who is Without Sin...
Things Past
The Ascent
Rapture
The Darkness and the Light
The Begotten
For the Uniform
Doctor Bashir, I Presume?
A Simple Investigation
Business as Usual
Ferengi Love Songs
Soldiers of the Empire
Blaze of Glory
Empok Nor
In the Cards

Hmm...for me this is easily DS9's weakest season (neck-in-neck with 6), but there are a few good episodes. I'm going to save "Children of Time." It isn't perfect, and I wish the idea of the parallel universe still existing had at least been subtly hinted at, but this was a very Trek-episode involving exploration, time travel, mysterious planet, etc. A great change of pace in a season drowned by the Dominion War, Bajoran politics, etc.

 

[DevilEyes]

Apocalypse Rising
Looking for par'Mach in All the Wrong Places
The Assignment
Let He Who is Without Sin...
The Ascent
Rapture
The Darkness and the Light
The Begotten
For the Uniform
Doctor Bashir, I Presume?
A Simple Investigation
Business as Usual
Ferengi Love Songs
Soldiers of the Empire
Children of Time
Blaze of Glory
Empok Nor
In the Cards

Things Past, another episode that seems to have its haters, but I love it. I'm a sucker for occupation flashbacks, and while Necessary Evil is the best of the flashback episodes, this one is great, too.

 

[Admiral Shran]

Apocalypse Rising
Looking for par'Mach in All the Wrong Places
The Assignment
Let He Who is Without Sin...
The Ascent
The Darkness and the Light
The Begotten
For the Uniform
Doctor Bashir, I Presume?
A Simple Investigation
Business as Usual
Ferengi Love Songs
Soldiers of the Empire
Blaze of Glory
Empok Nor
In the Cards

Rapture - I love the Sisko/Prophets Arc.

 

[Jono]

Apocalypse Rising
Looking for par'Mach in All the Wrong Places
The Assignment
Let He Who is Without Sin...
The Ascent
The Darkness and the Light
The Begotten
For the Uniform
Doctor Bashir, I Presume?
A Simple Investigation
Business as Usual
Ferengi Love Songs
Soldiers of the Empire
Blaze of Glory
Empok Nor

Saved In the Cards because it entertained my cells granting me a longer life.

 

[DevilEyes]

Apocalypse Rising
Looking for par'Mach in All the Wrong Places
The Assignment
Let He Who is Without Sin...
The Ascent
The Darkness and the Light
The Begotten
Doctor Bashir, I Presume?
A Simple Investigation
Business as Usual
Ferengi Love Songs
Soldiers of the Empire
Blaze of Glory
Empok Nor

For the Uniform - great use of Eddington, and it's one of the edgiest DS9 episodes, showing how far Sisko can go.

 

[Admiral Shran]

Apocalypse Rising
Looking for par'Mach in All the Wrong Places
The Assignment
Let He Who is Without Sin...
The Darkness and the Light
The Begotten
Doctor Bashir, I Presume?
A Simple Investigation
Business as Usual
Ferengi Love Songs
Soldiers of the Empire
Blaze of Glory
Empok Nor

The Ascent - absolutely excellent Odo/Quark dynamic in this episode.

 

[Fang66]

Apocalypse Rising
Looking for par'Mach in All the Wrong Places
Let He Who is Without Sin...
The Darkness and the Light
The Begotten
Doctor Bashir, I Presume?
A Simple Investigation
Business as Usual
Ferengi Love Songs
Soldiers of the Empire
Blaze of Glory
Empok Nor

The Assignment, good character dev for Rom and the worm hole aliens get an adversary at last after 4 and a half seasons.

 

[Balok's Head]

Apocalypse Rising
Looking for par'Mach in All the Wrong Places
Let He Who is Without Sin...
The Darkness and the Light
The Begotten
Doctor Bashir, I Presume?
A Simple Investigation
Business as Usual
Ferengi Love Songs
Soldiers of the Empire
Blaze of Glory

Saving Empok Nor, love this episode as it communicates a real sense of fear, I've never been actually scared of Cardassians before this episode. To me the Cardassians in this one are just as scary as the Borg or as intimidating as the Klingons. Great show!

 

[Darth Duck]

Apocalypse Rising
Looking for par'Mach in All the Wrong Places
Let He Who is Without Sin...
The Darkness and the Light
The Begotten
A Simple Investigation
Business as Usual
Ferengi Love Songs
Soldiers of the Empire
Blaze of Glory

Saving Doctor Bashir, I Presume? I liked the revelation, and the Rom/Leeta plot.

 

[DevilEyes]

Apocalypse Rising
Looking for par'Mach in All the Wrong Places
Let He Who is Without Sin...
The Darkness and the Light
A Simple Investigation
Business as Usual
Ferengi Love Songs
Soldiers of the Empire
Blaze of Glory

The Begotten - I found this a really touching Odo story.

 

[Geck]

Apocalypse Rising
Looking for par'Mach in All the Wrong Places
Let He Who is Without Sin...
A Simple Investigation
Business as Usual
Ferengi Love Songs
Soldiers of the Empire
Blaze of Glory

Far and away my favourite season, as I've said before. I'll save The Darkness and the Light out of what's remaining. The final act doesn't quite live up to the first four, and drowns a bit in its attempted poetics, but the first four acts are incredibly tense and creepy, and Visitor gives a fantastically powerful performance despite the giant fake baby strapped to her belly.