The most disliked episode of DS9 - Part Seven

[Quinton O'Connor]

Chrysalis
Prodigal Daughter
The Emperor's New Cloak
Penumbra
Til Death Do Us Part
Extreme Measures

"When It Rains..." for upping the ante in the tense final arc. Man, what I wouldn't give for VOY and ENT to have had 'finales' this lengthy, too.

 

[Rush Limborg]

Saving Afterimage. A really touching episode that made me love Ezri as a character.

My hero. It's probably my all-time favorite DS9 ep...or at least it's in the top five.

Now, down to bid-ness....

Chrysalis
The Emperor's New Cloak
Penumbra
Til Death Do Us Part
Extreme Measures


I saved Prodigal Daughter. Nice to see Ezri caught in a Shakesperian tragedy, of sorts. Her Shindler-type "I should have done more" speech at the end is perfect.

And of course, her choice of civvies show her off quite nicely....

 

[Quinton O'Connor]

I was worried that episode would get left in the dust. A lot of people hate it but I'm OK with it. Ezri's just that cool.

 

[DevilEyes]

The Emperor's New Cloak
Penumbra
Til Death Do Us Part
Extreme Measures

Chrysalis, because it is actually one of the best one-off 'romance' episodes of Trek, exactly because, for once, it completely recognizes and points out Bashir's immaturity and stupid relationship behavior. Sarina's story is pretty sad, and I love the moment with O'Brien going "um...." and not knowing whether to say what he thinks or not.
And I assume that the Final Chapter episodes, except Extreme Measures, will get saved by someone else anyway.

 

[Quinton O'Connor]

The Emperor's New Cloak
Penumbra
Extreme Measures

"Til Death Do Us Part" because... well, frankly for the same reasons others have saved the Final Chapter episodes.

 

[Fang66]

The Emperor's New Cloak
Penumbra


Extreme Measures: The representation of Sloanes mind was pretty poor but I liked the theme of mates breaking the rules, taking chances for each other.

 

[Quinton O'Connor]

I'm glad someone saved it. I consider it the weakest link in the Final Chapter but still a passable episode. Now I just hope "Penumba" doesn't somehow wind up voted the worst.

Honestly though, there isn't a single episode from the seventh season I'd score lower than two-and-a-half stars except "The Emperor's New Cloak", which is definitely two stars and not less.

I know between that one and sometimes "Prodigal Daughter" I'm speaking a minority line here, but that's how I feel!

 

[Thestral]

The Emperor's New Cloak

Saving Penumbra because, well... duh.

 

[DevilEyes]

This is a good outcome. The Emperor's New Cloak is one of the worst episodes of DS9 and the absolute low point of the MU.

 

[Thestral]

I'm just shocked that Penumbra lasted so long. I really like S7, but there's definitely worse episodes.

 

[Quinton O'Connor]

Weird things happen in this contest. I saved like half the Final Chapter episodes myself because I was concerned some finale-hater would try to orchestrate their fall.

The thing about that big final arc is that since there are a bunch of episodes dedicated to it people sometimes seem to view many of them as weaker individually than I personally believe they are, and instead focus on everything else.

 

[MacLeod]

Well it's not a shock which episode won or rather lost this round. It's definatly one of the weaker episodes of the series and one of the weaker MU episodes.

 

[Quinton O'Connor]

I would agree that it's the weakest Mirror Universe episode but I think I like it a good bit more than DevilEyes. Ridiculous though it may be, I still prefer it to somewhere in the vicinity of fifteen or so previous episodes.

 

[Seven of Five]

This is why I shouldn't sleep! How did Penumbra fall into the bottom 2!

I agree that Emperor's New Cloak is the worst of the season - unfortunately by this point the Mirror Universe had become a bad joke. It's the only real turkey of the year though. I didn't like Prodigal Daughter either, and I thought that Covenant was a bit boring and went against the grain of Dukat's character. Oh yeah, Extreme Measure was a big letdown. None of these were as bad as 'Cloak' though.

 

[Quinton O'Connor]

See, my opinions on this one are kind of rare. You just listed pretty much all the episodes a lot of fans would agree are at the bottom of the (overall great) yardstick here but I happe to like 'em all quite a bit!

 

[DevilEyes]

Weird things happen in this contest. I saved like half the Final Chapter episodes myself because I was concerned some finale-hater would try to orchestrate their fall.

The thing about that big final arc is that since there are a bunch of episodes dedicated to it people sometimes seem to view many of them as weaker individually than I personally believe they are, and instead focus on everything else.

I saved Chrysalis instead of the remaining Final Chapter episodes because it has its haters and I was afraid that someone would save vote it the worst and save The Emperor's New Cloak instead. I didn't think this could ever happen with any of the Final Chapter episodes.

 

[Geck]

I probably would have had Extreme Measures as the loser. The Emperor's New Cloak is stupid, sure, but it was just a fluff episode, so it can be easily ignored. Extreme Measures, was not just bad, it was horribly disappointing, and ground the whole final 10 hours of the series to a sudden halt. That was a far greater sin than some silly MU episode.

 

[Thestral]

^ Legit point, but "Cloak" was soooooo bad...

 

[Rush Limborg]

I will say, though the ep itself was pretty...not-too-deep, I did like the characters of Mirror Brunt and Mirror Ezri. It's a shame--they were pretty well crafted, the high points in an otherwise...

And it was a nice moment when Rom first drives Mirror Garak to the breaking point, leaving the Cardassian slowly curling his hand into a fist...and slowly lowering it, saying, "I'm...SORRY...!!!"

 

[Quinton O'Connor]

Yeah, DevilEyes, "Chrysalis" is pretty underrated. As I've stated before I'm usually not a big fan of romance-of-the-week stories but that one was surprisingly good. And Bashir's love interest wasn't completely out-of-left-field, either -- it was a character we'd seen before. And personally, someone I'd already found to be interesting.