The MOST Disliked Episode of DS9 - Season Two...

[JirinPanthosa]

Eliminating Paradise. I like the premise and the villain, and I like the way they got the better of her. The thing that rubs me the wrong way is how at the end, 100% of the colonists decide they love their simpler life *so much* that they don't want to go back. That's not believable. But besides that, a very decent episode.

THE SIEGE
MELORA
RULES OF ACQUISITION
SECOND SIGHT
THE ALTERNATE
PLAYING GOD
THE COLLABORATOR

 

[Bad Thoughts]

I'll save The Siege. It's a messy episode, but there are some good performances from Macht and Beymer, and there is some good banter between Dax and Kira and between Bashir and Odo.

MELORA
RULES OF ACQUISITION
SECOND SIGHT
THE ALTERNATE
PLAYING GOD
THE COLLABORATOR

 

[Bad Thoughts]

Jirin, you were beaten to the punch. Do you want to select another?

 

[tomswift2002]

The Alternate. I still have this one on a VHS tape that I recorded when I was a kid. I've loved it ever since, especially the mystery of who was doing the various crimes.

MELORA
RULES OF ACQUISITION
SECOND SIGHT
PLAYING GOD
THE COLLABORATOR

 

[JirinPanthosa]

Was that an official elimination? He said he loved Paradise but didn't post the new list. Well, if my elimination didn't count, eliminate The Collaborator. It's got interesting themes, its only problem is being dull. And the other options are three really bad episodes and Rules of Acquisition, which is not completely terrible but is one of those episodes where Ferengi cross the line of being too cartoony.

MELORA
RULES OF ACQUISITION
SECOND SIGHT
PLAYING GOD

 

[Farscape One]

I will follow the "RULES OF ACQUISITION". The first time we meet a female Ferengi, and, more importantly, the first mention of the Dominion.

MELORA
SECOND SIGHT
PLAYING GOD

 

[BlueStuff]

I'm giving Second Sight a second chance. It's not good, but the other two are worse.

MELORA
PLAYING GOD

 

[Tosk]

So it falls to me then. I choose Playing God to live another day.

MELORA.

 

[Farscape One]

We have a 'winner' with "MELORA". Interesting how the first two season 'winners' are Bashir centered episodes...

Thank you all for voting. I will be posting season 3 shortly.

 

[JirinPanthosa]

I think the final three were equally deserving of the win here, but Melora will do. One of the 'Bashir creepily falls in love with a patient and tries to transform her into something dateable' episodes.

 

[Tosk]

I don't even care so much about Bashir's questionable ethics, the ep is just boring.

Honestly, why waste a half-way interesting character on yet another tired relationship plot? Feh.

 

[Sakonna]

Season 2 is interesting, in that most of the episodes are basically enjoyable but also have notable flaws that aren't easily ignored. I like almost all of these, but with an asterisk ("Wow, 'Cardassians' was such a great episode! Except for that awful ending...") There's reason to turn on almost any ep, but also something to embrace in each one as well. There's really only two that I would want to junk entirely.

And "Melora" is one of them, so good winner!

("Paradise" is the other. One of very few Trek episodes I hated enough to watch only once -- original air and never again! I was interested to see it's liked enough by others to be saved twice here. I'm rewatching DS9 along with the Greatest Gen podcast, they should be reaching "Paradise" this summer, so I'll be intrigued to reassess then and see if my opinion has changed)

 

[tomswift2002]

I just watched Santctuary. What a boring episode. I didn't even get through a 1/3 of the episode before I had to just shut it off.

 

[JirinPanthosa]

I’m sure Bajoran comedian Jan O’Liver did a thirty minute segment on the rejection of the Skrians.

Not to mention his Emmy winning breakdown of the D’Jara system.

 

[Sakonna]

So I just watched "Melora", continuing my rewatch along with the Greatest Gen podcast, and I was surprised by how much I liked it! Not that it was good exactly, but I remember this ep as painfully bad, and just now I found it totally pleasant and enjoyable. Fun world building with the addition of the Klingon restaurant. The premise of the romance was more believable than most of these ROTW's. They did a good job of pulling off the no-gravity with their syndicated-90's-show budget. Great alien design on the guy who was out to kill Quark.

It ultimately is hard to wrap your head around the logic of the "disability" (also the fact that Quark's plan to stop Kot from murdering him is to offer him -- a free dinner!), but there were some other elements in this episode that were better than I thought...