The Most Generic DS9 Episode...

[DonIago]

PAST PROLOGUE
VORTEX
THE STORYTELLER
PROGRESS
THE FORSAKEN

THE CIRCLE
THE SIEGE
INVASIVE PROCEDURES
CARDASSIANS
RULES OF ACQUISITION
NECESSARY EVIL
SECOND SIGHT
SANCTUARY
RIVALS
THE ALTERNATE
ARMAGEDDON GAME
PARADISE
PLAYING GOD
PROFIT AND LOSS
THE MAQUIS, PART II
THE WIRE
THE COLLABORATOR

THE SEARCH, PART I
THE SEARCH, PART II
EQUILIBRIUM
SECOND SKIN
THE ABANDONED
MERIDIAN
PAST TENSE, PART I
PAST TENSE, PART II
HEART OF STONE
DESTINY
VISIONARY
DISTANT VOICES
THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS
THE DIE IS CAST
FAMILY BUSINESS
SHAKAAR
THE ADVERSARY

INDISCRETION
STARSHIP DOWN
THE SWORD OF KAHLESS
HOMEFRONT
PARADISE LOST
CROSSFIRE
RETURN TO GRACE
SONS OF MOGH
ACCESSION
SHATTERED MIRROR
FOR THE CAUSE
BROKEN LINK

APOCALYPSE RISING
THINGS PAST
THE ASCENT
RAPTURE
THE BEGOTTEN
IN PURGATORY'S SHADOW
BY INFERNO'S LIGHT
BUSINESS AS USUAL
TIES OF BLOOD AND WATER
FERENGI LOVE SONGS
BLAZE OF GLORY

A TIME TO STAND
ROCKS AND SHOALS
BEHIND THE LINES
FAVOR THE BOLD
SACRIFICE OF ANGELS
RESURRECTION
STATISTICAL PROBABILITIES

AFTERIMAGE
CHRYSALIS
PRODIGAL DAUGHTER
THE EMPEROR'S NEW CLOAK
PENUMBRA
'TIL DEATH DO US PART
WHEN IT RAINS...
TACKING INTO THE WIND

The "Hippocratic Oath" will cause no harm. Our introduction to the notion that there are Jem'hadar who are not addicted to white, and an episode that takes an established friendship and threatens to destroy it, as well as examining the disparity between experience and rank.

 

[sekundant]

PAST PROLOGUE
VORTEX
THE STORYTELLER
PROGRESS
THE FORSAKEN

THE CIRCLE
THE SIEGE
INVASIVE PROCEDURES
CARDASSIANS
RULES OF ACQUISITION
NECESSARY EVIL
SECOND SIGHT
SANCTUARY
RIVALS
THE ALTERNATE
ARMAGEDDON GAME
PARADISE
PLAYING GOD
THE MAQUIS, PART II
THE WIRE
THE COLLABORATOR

THE SEARCH, PART I
THE SEARCH, PART II
EQUILIBRIUM
SECOND SKIN
THE ABANDONED
MERIDIAN
PAST TENSE, PART I
PAST TENSE, PART II
HEART OF STONE
DESTINY
VISIONARY
DISTANT VOICES
THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS
THE DIE IS CAST
FAMILY BUSINESS
SHAKAAR
THE ADVERSARY

INDISCRETION
STARSHIP DOWN
THE SWORD OF KAHLESS
HOMEFRONT
PARADISE LOST
CROSSFIRE
RETURN TO GRACE
SONS OF MOGH
ACCESSION
SHATTERED MIRROR
FOR THE CAUSE
BROKEN LINK

APOCALYPSE RISING
THINGS PAST
THE ASCENT
RAPTURE
THE BEGOTTEN
IN PURGATORY'S SHADOW
BY INFERNO'S LIGHT
BUSINESS AS USUAL
TIES OF BLOOD AND WATER
FERENGI LOVE SONGS
BLAZE OF GLORY

A TIME TO STAND
ROCKS AND SHOALS
BEHIND THE LINES
FAVOR THE BOLD
SACRIFICE OF ANGELS
RESURRECTION
STATISTICAL PROBABILITIES

AFTERIMAGE
CHRYSALIS
PRODIGAL DAUGHTER
THE EMPEROR'S NEW CLOAK
PENUMBRA
'TIL DEATH DO US PART
WHEN IT RAINS...
TACKING INTO THE WIND

PROFIT AND LOSS is not exactly calculated, since we have a new parity at the game: Cardassian Underground Rebels! And love lets Quark forgets profit, friendship makes Garak honest and DS9 gets again a bizarre episode.

 

[Discofan]

PAST PROLOGUE
VORTEX
THE STORYTELLER
PROGRESS
THE FORSAKEN

THE CIRCLE
THE SIEGE
INVASIVE PROCEDURES
CARDASSIANS
RULES OF ACQUISITION
NECESSARY EVIL
SECOND SIGHT
SANCTUARY
RIVALS
THE ALTERNATE
ARMAGEDDON GAME
PARADISE
PLAYING GOD
THE MAQUIS, PART II
THE WIRE
THE COLLABORATOR

THE SEARCH, PART I
THE SEARCH, PART II
EQUILIBRIUM
SECOND SKIN
THE ABANDONED
MERIDIAN
PAST TENSE, PART I
PAST TENSE, PART II
HEART OF STONE
DESTINY
VISIONARY
DISTANT VOICES
THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS
THE DIE IS CAST
FAMILY BUSINESS
SHAKAAR
THE ADVERSARY

INDISCRETION
STARSHIP DOWN
HOMEFRONT
PARADISE LOST
CROSSFIRE
RETURN TO GRACE
SONS OF MOGH
ACCESSION
SHATTERED MIRROR
FOR THE CAUSE
BROKEN LINK

APOCALYPSE RISING
THINGS PAST
THE ASCENT
RAPTURE
THE BEGOTTEN
IN PURGATORY'S SHADOW
BY INFERNO'S LIGHT
BUSINESS AS USUAL
TIES OF BLOOD AND WATER
FERENGI LOVE SONGS
BLAZE OF GLORY

A TIME TO STAND
ROCKS AND SHOALS
BEHIND THE LINES
FAVOR THE BOLD
SACRIFICE OF ANGELS
RESURRECTION
STATISTICAL PROBABILITIES

AFTERIMAGE
CHRYSALIS
PRODIGAL DAUGHTER
THE EMPEROR'S NEW CLOAK
PENUMBRA
'TIL DEATH DO US PART
WHEN IT RAINS...
TACKING INTO THE WIND

"THE SWORD OF KAHLESS" is cut off. A Klingon quest with a mythical character of the franchise. Kor and Worf get power fever and almost kill one another. One thing that's truly original is their rather extreme behavior was not later blamed on some (technobabble) influence but simply on the perspective of accessing to power. Kor is a wonderful character very well played and the episodes where he appears are much better because of his presence, too bad they're so few of them.

 

[JirinPanthosa]

PAST PROLOGUE
VORTEX
THE STORYTELLER
PROGRESS
THE FORSAKEN

THE CIRCLE
THE SIEGE
INVASIVE PROCEDURES
CARDASSIANS
RULES OF ACQUISITION
NECESSARY EVIL
SECOND SIGHT
SANCTUARY
RIVALS
THE ALTERNATE
ARMAGEDDON GAME
PARADISE
PLAYING GOD
THE MAQUIS, PART II
THE WIRE
THE COLLABORATOR

THE SEARCH, PART I
THE SEARCH, PART II
EQUILIBRIUM
SECOND SKIN
THE ABANDONED
MERIDIAN
PAST TENSE, PART I
PAST TENSE, PART II
HEART OF STONE
DESTINY
VISIONARY
DISTANT VOICES
THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS
THE DIE IS CAST
FAMILY BUSINESS
SHAKAAR
THE ADVERSARY

INDISCRETION
STARSHIP DOWN
HOMEFRONT
PARADISE LOST
CROSSFIRE
RETURN TO GRACE
SONS OF MOGH
ACCESSION
SHATTERED MIRROR
FOR THE CAUSE
BROKEN LINK

APOCALYPSE RISING
THE ASCENT
RAPTURE
THE BEGOTTEN
IN PURGATORY'S SHADOW
BY INFERNO'S LIGHT
BUSINESS AS USUAL
TIES OF BLOOD AND WATER
FERENGI LOVE SONGS
BLAZE OF GLORY

A TIME TO STAND
ROCKS AND SHOALS
BEHIND THE LINES
FAVOR THE BOLD
SACRIFICE OF ANGELS
RESURRECTION
STATISTICAL PROBABILITIES

AFTERIMAGE
CHRYSALIS
PRODIGAL DAUGHTER
THE EMPEROR'S NEW CLOAK
PENUMBRA
'TIL DEATH DO US PART
WHEN IT RAINS...
TACKING INTO THE WIND

Removing Things Past. They go telepathically into Odo's past.

 

[Discofan]

PAST PROLOGUE
VORTEX
THE STORYTELLER
PROGRESS
THE FORSAKEN

THE CIRCLE
THE SIEGE
INVASIVE PROCEDURES
CARDASSIANS
RULES OF ACQUISITION
NECESSARY EVIL
SECOND SIGHT
SANCTUARY
RIVALS
THE ALTERNATE
ARMAGEDDON GAME
PARADISE
PLAYING GOD
THE MAQUIS, PART II
THE WIRE
THE COLLABORATOR

THE SEARCH, PART I
THE SEARCH, PART II
EQUILIBRIUM
SECOND SKIN
THE ABANDONED
MERIDIAN
PAST TENSE, PART I
PAST TENSE, PART II
HEART OF STONE
DESTINY
VISIONARY
DISTANT VOICES
THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS
THE DIE IS CAST
FAMILY BUSINESS
SHAKAAR
THE ADVERSARY

INDISCRETION
STARSHIP DOWN
HOMEFRONT
PARADISE LOST
CROSSFIRE
RETURN TO GRACE
SONS OF MOGH
ACCESSION
SHATTERED MIRROR
FOR THE CAUSE
BROKEN LINK

APOCALYPSE RISING
THE ASCENT
RAPTURE
THE BEGOTTEN
IN PURGATORY'S SHADOW
BY INFERNO'S LIGHT
BUSINESS AS USUAL
TIES OF BLOOD AND WATER
FERENGI LOVE SONGS
BLAZE OF GLORY

A TIME TO STAND
ROCKS AND SHOALS
BEHIND THE LINES
FAVOR THE BOLD
SACRIFICE OF ANGELS
RESURRECTION
STATISTICAL PROBABILITIES

AFTERIMAGE
PRODIGAL DAUGHTER
THE EMPEROR'S NEW CLOAK
PENUMBRA
'TIL DEATH DO US PART
WHEN IT RAINS...
TACKING INTO THE WIND

"CHRYSALIS" (butter)flies away. Bashir falls for his patient, which is unethical. They're both enhanced but she had been deprived of a "normal" life up until then and so she's psychologically weak and lost. Bashir eventually realizes that and decides to let her go her own way. As we know Bashir will not remain inconsolable indefinitely as he'll get together with Ezri Dax eventually.

 

[DonIago]

PAST PROLOGUE
VORTEX
THE STORYTELLER
PROGRESS
THE FORSAKEN

THE CIRCLE
THE SIEGE
INVASIVE PROCEDURES
CARDASSIANS
RULES OF ACQUISITION
NECESSARY EVIL
SECOND SIGHT
SANCTUARY
RIVALS
THE ALTERNATE
ARMAGEDDON GAME
PARADISE
PLAYING GOD
THE MAQUIS, PART II
THE WIRE
THE COLLABORATOR

THE SEARCH, PART I
THE SEARCH, PART II
EQUILIBRIUM
SECOND SKIN
THE ABANDONED
MERIDIAN
PAST TENSE, PART I
PAST TENSE, PART II
HEART OF STONE
DESTINY
VISIONARY
DISTANT VOICES
THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS
THE DIE IS CAST
FAMILY BUSINESS
SHAKAAR
THE ADVERSARY

INDISCRETION
STARSHIP DOWN
HOMEFRONT
PARADISE LOST
CROSSFIRE
RETURN TO GRACE
SONS OF MOGH
ACCESSION
SHATTERED MIRROR
FOR THE CAUSE
BROKEN LINK

APOCALYPSE RISING
THE ASCENT
RAPTURE
THE BEGOTTEN
IN PURGATORY'S SHADOW
BY INFERNO'S LIGHT
BUSINESS AS USUAL
TIES OF BLOOD AND WATER
FERENGI LOVE SONGS
BLAZE OF GLORY

A TIME TO STAND
ROCKS AND SHOALS
BEHIND THE LINES
FAVOR THE BOLD
RESURRECTION
STATISTICAL PROBABILITIES

AFTERIMAGE
PRODIGAL DAUGHTER
THE EMPEROR'S NEW CLOAK
PENUMBRA
'TIL DEATH DO US PART
WHEN IT RAINS...
TACKING INTO THE WIND

I've sacrificed "Sacrifice of Angels" for being perhaps the only Trek episode to contain a literal deus ex machina on a grand scale.

 

[Sakonna]

PAST PROLOGUE
VORTEX
THE STORYTELLER
PROGRESS
THE FORSAKEN

THE CIRCLE
THE SIEGE
INVASIVE PROCEDURES
CARDASSIANS
RULES OF ACQUISITION
NECESSARY EVIL
SECOND SIGHT
SANCTUARY
RIVALS
THE ALTERNATE
ARMAGEDDON GAME
PARADISE
PLAYING GOD
THE MAQUIS, PART II
THE WIRE
THE COLLABORATOR

THE SEARCH, PART I
THE SEARCH, PART II
EQUILIBRIUM
SECOND SKIN
THE ABANDONED
MERIDIAN
PAST TENSE, PART I
PAST TENSE, PART II
HEART OF STONE
DESTINY
VISIONARY
DISTANT VOICES
THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS
THE DIE IS CAST
FAMILY BUSINESS
SHAKAAR
THE ADVERSARY

INDISCRETION
STARSHIP DOWN
HOMEFRONT
PARADISE LOST
CROSSFIRE
RETURN TO GRACE
SONS OF MOGH
ACCESSION
SHATTERED MIRROR
BROKEN LINK

APOCALYPSE RISING
THE ASCENT
RAPTURE
THE BEGOTTEN
IN PURGATORY'S SHADOW
BY INFERNO'S LIGHT
BUSINESS AS USUAL
TIES OF BLOOD AND WATER
FERENGI LOVE SONGS
BLAZE OF GLORY

A TIME TO STAND
ROCKS AND SHOALS
BEHIND THE LINES
FAVOR THE BOLD
RESURRECTION
STATISTICAL PROBABILITIES

AFTERIMAGE
PRODIGAL DAUGHTER
THE EMPEROR'S NEW CLOAK
PENUMBRA
'TIL DEATH DO US PART
WHEN IT RAINS...
TACKING INTO THE WIND

"FOR THE CAUSE" Our sole outing with Tracy Middendorf's Ziyal -- and it really does feel of a separate piece, this feels like a fundamentally different woman from the Ziyal's on either side of her.

To think how much better that arc would have played, had they only gotten the casting right on the first try!

 

[Discofan]

PAST PROLOGUE
VORTEX
THE STORYTELLER
PROGRESS
THE FORSAKEN

THE CIRCLE
THE SIEGE
INVASIVE PROCEDURES
CARDASSIANS
RULES OF ACQUISITION
NECESSARY EVIL
SECOND SIGHT
SANCTUARY
RIVALS
THE ALTERNATE
ARMAGEDDON GAME
PARADISE
PLAYING GOD
THE MAQUIS, PART II
THE WIRE
THE COLLABORATOR

THE SEARCH, PART I
THE SEARCH, PART II
EQUILIBRIUM
SECOND SKIN
THE ABANDONED
MERIDIAN
PAST TENSE, PART I
PAST TENSE, PART II
HEART OF STONE
DESTINY
VISIONARY
DISTANT VOICES
THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS
THE DIE IS CAST
FAMILY BUSINESS
SHAKAAR
THE ADVERSARY

INDISCRETION
STARSHIP DOWN
HOMEFRONT
PARADISE LOST
CROSSFIRE
RETURN TO GRACE
SONS OF MOGH
ACCESSION
SHATTERED MIRROR
BROKEN LINK

APOCALYPSE RISING
THE ASCENT
RAPTURE
THE BEGOTTEN
IN PURGATORY'S SHADOW
BY INFERNO'S LIGHT
BUSINESS AS USUAL
TIES OF BLOOD AND WATER
FERENGI LOVE SONGS
BLAZE OF GLORY

A TIME TO STAND
ROCKS AND SHOALS
BEHIND THE LINES
FAVOR THE BOLD
STATISTICAL PROBABILITIES

AFTERIMAGE
PRODIGAL DAUGHTER
THE EMPEROR'S NEW CLOAK
PENUMBRA
'TIL DEATH DO US PART
WHEN IT RAINS...
TACKING INTO THE WIND

"RESURRECTION" dies out. An MU counterpart of a recurring character (Antos Berail) that died a couple of seasons before appears and takes Kira hostage before being recaptured by her rather easily. Turns out it was done on purpose. Kira's evil twin is associated with him to steal an orb that will ensure her power in the MU (probably?). Faux Vedek B. changes his mind and decides NOT to steal the orb, even at the risk of being killed by MU Kira, who's so nasty that she even kills people who just helped her (like poor dumb MU Nog for example).

 

[Sakonna]

PAST PROLOGUE
VORTEX
THE STORYTELLER
PROGRESS
THE FORSAKEN

THE CIRCLE
THE SIEGE
INVASIVE PROCEDURES
CARDASSIANS
RULES OF ACQUISITION
NECESSARY EVIL
SECOND SIGHT
SANCTUARY
RIVALS
THE ALTERNATE
ARMAGEDDON GAME
PARADISE
PLAYING GOD
THE MAQUIS, PART II
THE WIRE
THE COLLABORATOR

THE SEARCH, PART I
THE SEARCH, PART II
EQUILIBRIUM
SECOND SKIN
THE ABANDONED
MERIDIAN
PAST TENSE, PART I
PAST TENSE, PART II
HEART OF STONE
DESTINY
VISIONARY
DISTANT VOICES
THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS
THE DIE IS CAST
FAMILY BUSINESS
SHAKAAR
THE ADVERSARY

INDISCRETION
STARSHIP DOWN
HOMEFRONT
PARADISE LOST
CROSSFIRE
RETURN TO GRACE
SONS OF MOGH
ACCESSION
SHATTERED MIRROR
BROKEN LINK

APOCALYPSE RISING
THE ASCENT
RAPTURE
THE BEGOTTEN
IN PURGATORY'S SHADOW
BY INFERNO'S LIGHT
BUSINESS AS USUAL
TIES OF BLOOD AND WATER
BLAZE OF GLORY

A TIME TO STAND
ROCKS AND SHOALS
BEHIND THE LINES
FAVOR THE BOLD
STATISTICAL PROBABILITIES

AFTERIMAGE
PRODIGAL DAUGHTER
THE EMPEROR'S NEW CLOAK
PENUMBRA
'TIL DEATH DO US PART
WHEN IT RAINS...
TACKING INTO THE WIND

"FERENGI LOVE SONGS" This is a pretty weird episode with many strange things going on about it, but the one I'm going to pick to highlight is: only appearance of the Ferengi energy whips on DS9!

(A tiny plastic version, anyway, held by the Maurauder Mo action figure )

 

[Discofan]

PAST PROLOGUE
VORTEX
THE STORYTELLER
PROGRESS
THE FORSAKEN

THE CIRCLE
THE SIEGE
INVASIVE PROCEDURES
CARDASSIANS
RULES OF ACQUISITION
NECESSARY EVIL
SECOND SIGHT
SANCTUARY
RIVALS
THE ALTERNATE
ARMAGEDDON GAME
PARADISE
PLAYING GOD
THE MAQUIS, PART II
THE WIRE
THE COLLABORATOR

THE SEARCH, PART I
THE SEARCH, PART II
EQUILIBRIUM
SECOND SKIN
THE ABANDONED
MERIDIAN
PAST TENSE, PART I
PAST TENSE, PART II
HEART OF STONE
DESTINY
VISIONARY
DISTANT VOICES
THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS
THE DIE IS CAST
FAMILY BUSINESS
SHAKAAR
THE ADVERSARY

INDISCRETION
STARSHIP DOWN
HOMEFRONT
PARADISE LOST
CROSSFIRE
RETURN TO GRACE
SONS OF MOGH
ACCESSION
SHATTERED MIRROR
BROKEN LINK

APOCALYPSE RISING
THE ASCENT
RAPTURE
THE BEGOTTEN
IN PURGATORY'S SHADOW
BY INFERNO'S LIGHT
BUSINESS AS USUAL
TIES OF BLOOD AND WATER

A TIME TO STAND
ROCKS AND SHOALS
BEHIND THE LINES
FAVOR THE BOLD
STATISTICAL PROBABILITIES

AFTERIMAGE
PRODIGAL DAUGHTER
THE EMPEROR'S NEW CLOAK
PENUMBRA
'TIL DEATH DO US PART
WHEN IT RAINS...
TACKING INTO THE WIND

"BLAZE OF GLORY" goes down in flames. The last time we see Eddington and the last time we hear from the Maquis. Sisko finally has something nice to say about Eddington... well, the fact that the latter is dead has something to do with it.

 

[Sakonna]

PAST PROLOGUE
VORTEX
THE STORYTELLER
PROGRESS
THE FORSAKEN

THE CIRCLE
THE SIEGE
INVASIVE PROCEDURES
CARDASSIANS
RULES OF ACQUISITION
NECESSARY EVIL
SECOND SIGHT
SANCTUARY
RIVALS
THE ALTERNATE
ARMAGEDDON GAME
PARADISE
PLAYING GOD
THE MAQUIS, PART II
THE WIRE
THE COLLABORATOR

THE SEARCH, PART I
THE SEARCH, PART II
EQUILIBRIUM
SECOND SKIN
THE ABANDONED
MERIDIAN
PAST TENSE, PART I
PAST TENSE, PART II
HEART OF STONE
DESTINY
VISIONARY
DISTANT VOICES
THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS
THE DIE IS CAST
FAMILY BUSINESS
SHAKAAR
THE ADVERSARY

INDISCRETION
STARSHIP DOWN
HOMEFRONT
PARADISE LOST
CROSSFIRE
RETURN TO GRACE
SONS OF MOGH
ACCESSION
SHATTERED MIRROR
BROKEN LINK

APOCALYPSE RISING
THE ASCENT
RAPTURE
THE BEGOTTEN
IN PURGATORY'S SHADOW
BY INFERNO'S LIGHT
BUSINESS AS USUAL
TIES OF BLOOD AND WATER

A TIME TO STAND
ROCKS AND SHOALS
BEHIND THE LINES
FAVOR THE BOLD
STATISTICAL PROBABILITIES

AFTERIMAGE
PRODIGAL DAUGHTER
PENUMBRA
'TIL DEATH DO US PART
WHEN IT RAINS...
TACKING INTO THE WIND

"THE EMPEROR'S NEW CLOAK" All I can say is THANK GOD the nauseating blend of Ferengi comedy and the Mirror Universe is something they only attempted on a single occasion!

 

[Farscape One]

PAST PROLOGUE
VORTEX
THE STORYTELLER
PROGRESS
THE FORSAKEN

THE CIRCLE
THE SIEGE
INVASIVE PROCEDURES
CARDASSIANS
RULES OF ACQUISITION
NECESSARY EVIL
SECOND SIGHT
SANCTUARY
RIVALS
THE ALTERNATE
ARMAGEDDON GAME
PARADISE
PLAYING GOD
THE MAQUIS, PART II
THE WIRE
THE COLLABORATOR

THE SEARCH, PART I
THE SEARCH, PART II
EQUILIBRIUM
SECOND SKIN
THE ABANDONED
MERIDIAN
PAST TENSE, PART I
PAST TENSE, PART II
HEART OF STONE
DESTINY
VISIONARY
DISTANT VOICES
THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS
THE DIE IS CAST
FAMILY BUSINESS
SHAKAAR
THE ADVERSARY

INDISCRETION
STARSHIP DOWN
HOMEFRONT
PARADISE LOST
CROSSFIRE
RETURN TO GRACE
SONS OF MOGH
ACCESSION
SHATTERED MIRROR
BROKEN LINK

APOCALYPSE RISING
RAPTURE
THE BEGOTTEN
IN PURGATORY'S SHADOW
BY INFERNO'S LIGHT
BUSINESS AS USUAL
TIES OF BLOOD AND WATER

A TIME TO STAND
ROCKS AND SHOALS
BEHIND THE LINES
FAVOR THE BOLD
STATISTICAL PROBABILITIES

AFTERIMAGE
PRODIGAL DAUGHTER
PENUMBRA
'TIL DEATH DO US PART
WHEN IT RAINS...
TACKING INTO THE WIND

"THE ASCENT" goes down. The only episode while Odo was a solid that had any significant amount of time with Quark. And their interactions were even more bickery than normal, to the point they actually fight.

 

[DonIago]

PAST PROLOGUE
VORTEX
THE STORYTELLER
PROGRESS
THE FORSAKEN

THE CIRCLE
THE SIEGE
INVASIVE PROCEDURES
CARDASSIANS
RULES OF ACQUISITION
NECESSARY EVIL
SECOND SIGHT
SANCTUARY
RIVALS
THE ALTERNATE
ARMAGEDDON GAME
PARADISE
PLAYING GOD
THE MAQUIS, PART II
THE WIRE
THE COLLABORATOR

THE SEARCH, PART I
THE SEARCH, PART II
EQUILIBRIUM
SECOND SKIN
MERIDIAN
PAST TENSE, PART I
PAST TENSE, PART II
HEART OF STONE
DESTINY
VISIONARY
DISTANT VOICES
THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS
THE DIE IS CAST
FAMILY BUSINESS
SHAKAAR
THE ADVERSARY

INDISCRETION
STARSHIP DOWN
HOMEFRONT
PARADISE LOST
CROSSFIRE
RETURN TO GRACE
SONS OF MOGH
ACCESSION
SHATTERED MIRROR
BROKEN LINK

APOCALYPSE RISING
RAPTURE
THE BEGOTTEN
IN PURGATORY'S SHADOW
BY INFERNO'S LIGHT
BUSINESS AS USUAL
TIES OF BLOOD AND WATER

A TIME TO STAND
ROCKS AND SHOALS
BEHIND THE LINES
FAVOR THE BOLD
STATISTICAL PROBABILITIES

AFTERIMAGE
PRODIGAL DAUGHTER
PENUMBRA
'TIL DEATH DO US PART
WHEN IT RAINS...
TACKING INTO THE WIND

"The Abandoned" has lived up to its name. The first and only episode to show us a Jem'hadar that isn't fully grown, and our introduction to the idea that the Jem'hadar have been genetically modified to have a chemical dependency.

 

[Sakonna]

PAST PROLOGUE
VORTEX
THE STORYTELLER
PROGRESS
THE FORSAKEN

THE CIRCLE
THE SIEGE
INVASIVE PROCEDURES
CARDASSIANS
RULES OF ACQUISITION
NECESSARY EVIL
SECOND SIGHT
SANCTUARY
RIVALS
THE ALTERNATE
ARMAGEDDON GAME
PARADISE
PLAYING GOD
THE MAQUIS, PART II
THE WIRE
THE COLLABORATOR

THE SEARCH, PART I
THE SEARCH, PART II
EQUILIBRIUM
SECOND SKIN
MERIDIAN
PAST TENSE, PART I
PAST TENSE, PART II
HEART OF STONE
DESTINY
VISIONARY
DISTANT VOICES
THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS
THE DIE IS CAST
FAMILY BUSINESS
SHAKAAR
THE ADVERSARY

INDISCRETION
STARSHIP DOWN
HOMEFRONT
PARADISE LOST
CROSSFIRE
RETURN TO GRACE
SONS OF MOGH
ACCESSION
SHATTERED MIRROR
BROKEN LINK

APOCALYPSE RISING
RAPTURE
THE BEGOTTEN
IN PURGATORY'S SHADOW
BY INFERNO'S LIGHT
BUSINESS AS USUAL
TIES OF BLOOD AND WATER

A TIME TO STAND
ROCKS AND SHOALS
BEHIND THE LINES
FAVOR THE BOLD
STATISTICAL PROBABILITIES

PRODIGAL DAUGHTER
PENUMBRA
'TIL DEATH DO US PART
WHEN IT RAINS...
TACKING INTO THE WIND

"AFTERIMAGE" has to achieve something no other episode did, introducing us to a new character who also is sort of the same character we've been seeing for 6 years. And 2 episodes after their actual introduction. And at a fairly awkward point in the larger series narrative.

 

[Discofan]

PAST PROLOGUE
VORTEX
THE STORYTELLER
PROGRESS
THE FORSAKEN

THE CIRCLE
THE SIEGE
INVASIVE PROCEDURES
CARDASSIANS
RULES OF ACQUISITION
NECESSARY EVIL
SECOND SIGHT
SANCTUARY
RIVALS
THE ALTERNATE
ARMAGEDDON GAME
PARADISE
PLAYING GOD
THE MAQUIS, PART II
THE WIRE
THE COLLABORATOR

THE SEARCH, PART I
THE SEARCH, PART II
EQUILIBRIUM
SECOND SKIN
MERIDIAN
PAST TENSE, PART I
PAST TENSE, PART II
HEART OF STONE
DESTINY
VISIONARY
DISTANT VOICES
THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS
THE DIE IS CAST
FAMILY BUSINESS
SHAKAAR
THE ADVERSARY

INDISCRETION
HOMEFRONT
PARADISE LOST
CROSSFIRE
RETURN TO GRACE
SONS OF MOGH
ACCESSION
SHATTERED MIRROR
BROKEN LINK

APOCALYPSE RISING
RAPTURE
THE BEGOTTEN
IN PURGATORY'S SHADOW
BY INFERNO'S LIGHT
BUSINESS AS USUAL
TIES OF BLOOD AND WATER

A TIME TO STAND
ROCKS AND SHOALS
BEHIND THE LINES
FAVOR THE BOLD
STATISTICAL PROBABILITIES

PRODIGAL DAUGHTER
PENUMBRA
'TIL DEATH DO US PART
WHEN IT RAINS...
TACKING INTO THE WIND

"STARSHIP DOWN" goes down. The StarTrek people are often pretty weak in scientific coherence between series and that's due to the fact that they're scientific ignorants or didn't do their homework. But going in the atmosphere of a gas giant is a picnic compared to going in the corona of a sun, which Beverly did with a SHUTTLE!!! Everything is thousands of times worse in a sun's corona than in a gas giant, the pressure, the temperature, the winds... anyway... Sisko's out for the count, Worf gets command lessons from O'Brien which he accepts humbly, Kira tells the most boring story you could imagine to Sisko that she was supposed to KEEP AWAKE!! Bizarrely instead of dying, Sisko asks for more!! And somehow that seems to bring them closer together! Character growth!!

 

[Sakonna]

PAST PROLOGUE
VORTEX
THE STORYTELLER
PROGRESS
THE FORSAKEN

THE CIRCLE
THE SIEGE
INVASIVE PROCEDURES
CARDASSIANS
RULES OF ACQUISITION
NECESSARY EVIL
SECOND SIGHT
SANCTUARY
RIVALS
THE ALTERNATE
ARMAGEDDON GAME
PARADISE
PLAYING GOD
THE MAQUIS, PART II
THE WIRE
THE COLLABORATOR

THE SEARCH, PART I
THE SEARCH, PART II
EQUILIBRIUM
SECOND SKIN
MERIDIAN
PAST TENSE, PART II
HEART OF STONE
DESTINY
VISIONARY
DISTANT VOICES
THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS
THE DIE IS CAST
FAMILY BUSINESS
SHAKAAR
THE ADVERSARY

INDISCRETION
HOMEFRONT
PARADISE LOST
CROSSFIRE
RETURN TO GRACE
SONS OF MOGH
ACCESSION
SHATTERED MIRROR
BROKEN LINK

APOCALYPSE RISING
RAPTURE
THE BEGOTTEN
IN PURGATORY'S SHADOW
BY INFERNO'S LIGHT
BUSINESS AS USUAL
TIES OF BLOOD AND WATER

A TIME TO STAND
ROCKS AND SHOALS
BEHIND THE LINES
FAVOR THE BOLD
STATISTICAL PROBABILITIES

PRODIGAL DAUGHTER
PENUMBRA
'TIL DEATH DO US PART
WHEN IT RAINS...
TACKING INTO THE WIND

"PAST TENSE PART I" There is nothing generic about running off on a random plot tangent like this. First visit to Earth, only visit to Earth's past.

 

[JirinPanthosa]

PAST PROLOGUE
VORTEX
THE STORYTELLER
PROGRESS
THE FORSAKEN

THE CIRCLE
THE SIEGE
INVASIVE PROCEDURES
CARDASSIANS
RULES OF ACQUISITION
NECESSARY EVIL
SECOND SIGHT
SANCTUARY
RIVALS
THE ALTERNATE
ARMAGEDDON GAME
PARADISE
PLAYING GOD
THE MAQUIS, PART II
THE WIRE
THE COLLABORATOR

THE SEARCH, PART I
THE SEARCH, PART II
EQUILIBRIUM
SECOND SKIN
MERIDIAN
PAST TENSE, PART II
HEART OF STONE
DESTINY
VISIONARY
DISTANT VOICES
THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS
THE DIE IS CAST
FAMILY BUSINESS
SHAKAAR
THE ADVERSARY

INDISCRETION
HOMEFRONT
PARADISE LOST
CROSSFIRE
RETURN TO GRACE
SONS OF MOGH
ACCESSION
SHATTERED MIRROR
BROKEN LINK

APOCALYPSE RISING
RAPTURE
THE BEGOTTEN
IN PURGATORY'S SHADOW
BY INFERNO'S LIGHT
BUSINESS AS USUAL
TIES OF BLOOD AND WATER

A TIME TO STAND
ROCKS AND SHOALS
BEHIND THE LINES
FAVOR THE BOLD

PRODIGAL DAUGHTER
PENUMBRA
'TIL DEATH DO US PART
WHEN IT RAINS...
TACKING INTO THE WIND

Statistical Probabilities generic HM HM HM?! Why would you call an episode generic that introduces a concept so DIRECTLY AGAINST STARFLEET IDEALISM HM HM HM?! Why don’t you remove it, dear fellow BEFORE I GO MAD?!

 

[Discofan]

PAST PROLOGUE
VORTEX
THE STORYTELLER
PROGRESS
THE FORSAKEN

THE CIRCLE
THE SIEGE
INVASIVE PROCEDURES
CARDASSIANS
RULES OF ACQUISITION
NECESSARY EVIL
SECOND SIGHT
SANCTUARY
RIVALS
THE ALTERNATE
ARMAGEDDON GAME
PARADISE
PLAYING GOD
THE MAQUIS, PART II
THE WIRE
THE COLLABORATOR

THE SEARCH, PART I
THE SEARCH, PART II
EQUILIBRIUM
SECOND SKIN
MERIDIAN
PAST TENSE, PART II
HEART OF STONE
DESTINY
VISIONARY
DISTANT VOICES
THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS
THE DIE IS CAST
FAMILY BUSINESS
SHAKAAR
THE ADVERSARY

INDISCRETION
HOMEFRONT
PARADISE LOST
CROSSFIRE
RETURN TO GRACE
SONS OF MOGH
ACCESSION
SHATTERED MIRROR

APOCALYPSE RISING
RAPTURE
THE BEGOTTEN
IN PURGATORY'S SHADOW
BY INFERNO'S LIGHT
BUSINESS AS USUAL
TIES OF BLOOD AND WATER

A TIME TO STAND
ROCKS AND SHOALS
BEHIND THE LINES
FAVOR THE BOLD

PRODIGAL DAUGHTER
PENUMBRA
'TIL DEATH DO US PART
WHEN IT RAINS...
TACKING INTO THE WIND

"BROKEN LINK" splits. Odo is sick, very sick. In fact, he needs the Founders' help to recover. Turns out they're the ones who infected him (likely through Weyoun's first clone) to force his return to the "great link" to be judged for his killing of another Changeling. He has only two choices, either he faces his trial or he dies by the disease. His sentence is to become a "solid" with his changeling's face as a reminder. One good thing comes out of it. Now he has tastebuds, which the changelings don't have. I don't know what I would do without mine!!!

 

[Farscape One]

PAST PROLOGUE
VORTEX
THE STORYTELLER
PROGRESS
THE FORSAKEN

THE CIRCLE
THE SIEGE
INVASIVE PROCEDURES
CARDASSIANS
RULES OF ACQUISITION
NECESSARY EVIL
SECOND SIGHT
SANCTUARY
RIVALS
THE ALTERNATE
ARMAGEDDON GAME
PARADISE
PLAYING GOD
THE MAQUIS, PART II
THE COLLABORATOR

THE SEARCH, PART I
THE SEARCH, PART II
EQUILIBRIUM
SECOND SKIN
MERIDIAN
PAST TENSE, PART II
HEART OF STONE
DESTINY
VISIONARY
DISTANT VOICES
THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS
THE DIE IS CAST
FAMILY BUSINESS
SHAKAAR
THE ADVERSARY

INDISCRETION
HOMEFRONT
PARADISE LOST
CROSSFIRE
RETURN TO GRACE
SONS OF MOGH
ACCESSION
SHATTERED MIRROR

APOCALYPSE RISING
RAPTURE
THE BEGOTTEN
IN PURGATORY'S SHADOW
BY INFERNO'S LIGHT
BUSINESS AS USUAL
TIES OF BLOOD AND WATER

A TIME TO STAND
ROCKS AND SHOALS
BEHIND THE LINES
FAVOR THE BOLD

PRODIGAL DAUGHTER
PENUMBRA
'TIL DEATH DO US PART
WHEN IT RAINS...
TACKING INTO THE WIND

"THE WIRE" is cut. I can't believe it's taken this long to get this gem off this list. This episode, at the time it aired, was one of the first to totally center on a guest character. Although at the time we learn almost nothing about Garak, the pieces he gave us here actually painted a pretty good picture of his past. And just having this exchange makes it a unique episode.

"Of all the stories you told me, which were true and which ones weren't?"
"They are all true."
"Even the lies."
"Especially the lies."

Elim Garak, one of the greatest characters in all scifi.

 

[Discofan]

PAST PROLOGUE
VORTEX
THE STORYTELLER
PROGRESS
THE FORSAKEN

THE CIRCLE
THE SIEGE
INVASIVE PROCEDURES
CARDASSIANS
RULES OF ACQUISITION
NECESSARY EVIL
SECOND SIGHT
SANCTUARY
RIVALS
THE ALTERNATE
ARMAGEDDON GAME
PARADISE
PLAYING GOD
THE MAQUIS, PART II
THE COLLABORATOR

THE SEARCH, PART I
THE SEARCH, PART II
EQUILIBRIUM
SECOND SKIN
MERIDIAN
PAST TENSE, PART II
HEART OF STONE
DESTINY
VISIONARY
DISTANT VOICES
THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS
THE DIE IS CAST
FAMILY BUSINESS
SHAKAAR
THE ADVERSARY

INDISCRETION
HOMEFRONT
PARADISE LOST
CROSSFIRE
RETURN TO GRACE
SONS OF MOGH
ACCESSION
SHATTERED MIRROR

APOCALYPSE RISING
RAPTURE
IN PURGATORY'S SHADOW
BY INFERNO'S LIGHT
BUSINESS AS USUAL
TIES OF BLOOD AND WATER

A TIME TO STAND
ROCKS AND SHOALS
BEHIND THE LINES
FAVOR THE BOLD

PRODIGAL DAUGHTER
PENUMBRA
'TIL DEATH DO US PART
WHEN IT RAINS...
TACKING INTO THE WIND

"THE BEGOTTEN" is aborted. Only time we see a baby Changeling. Odo becomes his adoptive parent with Doctor Mora as a co-parent. Odo starts by detesting him and then comes to appreciating him (seems like deja vu? It's the second time we see that. It seems Odo suffers from some odd long term memory lapses...) Anyway, the baby is too damaged (by radiations) to recover and as a parting gift gives Odo his changeling abilities back. Which makes it the last episode of the Solid-Odo arc.