Was there an episode of ST: Deep Space Nine that hooked you?

[Distorted Humor]

Well I missed most of DS9 post season 1 on TV, but I ended up listening to a freind and watching season 1 of DS9 again.

The Pilot kept me going, and I was thinking it was lukewarm till Duet and In the Hands of the Prophets, and then I knew it was going to be something special.

 

[bluemoves]

I loved nearly every episode. But the first one that really got me was Move Along Home. I've heard others say that they didn't like this episode. But for me, it was one of my favorite from the entire series.

 

[MacLeod]

Favor the Bold & Sacrifice of Angels were on back to back late night on Spike TV.

I was a hater so I knew it'd help me get to sleep, um..nope got hooked on it

Not the best episodes espically Sacrifice, to choose to get you to sleep. It was DSN at it's best

 

[Nero's Shadow]

I've watched DS9 when it first aired on sky one it did not grab me at first I thought it was to dark and did not like it but as the seasons went on I started to like it more and when worf came on board I was hooked I don't think gene would of liked the war saga but DS9 had some great episodes. I also think that it had some great characters and supporting characters like Martok, garek, rom.

 

[Admiral Shran]

The Circle Trilogy.

Of course, it was the first exposure I had to DS9, so I don't know how much the actual episodes themselves hooked me as opposed to the sheer awesomeness of DS9 in general.

 

[Gary7]

I also developed more appreciation for DS9 with "The Way of the Warrior". The main problem I had with the series is that a lot of episodes dragged on... so much inter-character banter about trivial things, made them slow in comparison to other Star Trek series. But fortunately as the seasons progressed, the pace picked up a bit overall with DS9.

 

[Trek Survivor]

Yep. It was called "Emissary", back in 1993.

 

[Candlelight]

I enjoyed the first season, so probably Emissary. Thing is I ended up moving to Voyager and stopped watching DS9. Then Voyager got to Season Six and I lost interest. I'll catch the odd episode now and then but with the whole arc of the Dominion war I can't really get into it unless I go back and watch it from scratch... and I really don't have time for that (I have 11-month old twins). The Children of Time is one of my favourite episodes of Trek ever. I still haven't seen some key episodes though, like In The Pale Moonlight.

You may now throw tomatoes.

 

[Photon]

I enjoyed the first season, so probably Emissary. Thing is I ended up moving to Voyager and stopped watching DS9. Then Voyager got to Season Six and I lost interest. I'll catch the odd episode now and then but with the whole arc of the Dominion war I can't really get into it unless I go back and watch it from scratch... and I really don't have time for that (I have 11-month old twins). The Children of Time is one of my favourite episodes of Trek ever. I still haven't seen some key episodes though, like In The Pale Moonlight.

You may now throw tomatoes.

I envy you

 

[Greg Cox]

"Duet."

 

[Relayer1]

''Progress''.

It was obvious that something rather special could be done with the show.

 

[TenLubak]

It was the third season episode Civil Defense. The green plasma fire. Then soon after I saw the episode where they went back to concentration camp LA. In the early 2000s Sisko plays the role of a man who started a revolution in these government set up camps. Meanwhile Dax meets a business man that helps her find Sisko (prentendin to be a man named Bell who was important in that time period...he died and thats why Sisko was pretending to be him.) "past tense" was the title of it.
There was another episode on a second season rerun i also saw round that time which O Brien and Sisko were captured on a Gamma quadrent planet that they were stuck on. They were put in boxes. The are my early Deep Space memories

 

[3chordboy]

first DS9 episode i saw was actually Move Along Home, although i had no idea at all that it was Star Trek. i'd only recently discovered Next Gen, knew the original movies but hadn't seen the original series either. this was back in the mid-90s when BBC's treatment of star trek was poor but not as bad as it later got and i lost track of DS9.

a while later i remembered about DS9 and from my local Woolworths bought the VHS volume 3.5 with Defiant and Fascination because i thought an episode with a TNG character would be a good starting point.

whilst the episodes weren't great i really liked the characters and ended up going to my local Blockbuster because i'd seen they were selling off their old DS9 VHS for £2-3 each. never looked back!

 

[Flying Spaghetti Monster]

I was hooked right away, once I realized that in order for Sisko to communicate with the wormhole aliens would require him to face his past on an emotional level - THAT is good scriptwriting. But Duet, In the Hands of the Prophets, as well as feature film scope of the Circle Trilogy (which had NEVER been reached on television Trek prior to that) really started to show that this show was different... but

it was Necessary Evil that truly hooked me like no other episode... as it was keen that the history of what we were seeing was just as important to the story as the future was. The noir look to that episode was a masterstroke, and actually made the context of the series more epic.

Also, in Improbable Cause, the scene where Odo meets his informant, and their discussion, really made DS9 feel more epic than any other televised Trek. Wow.

 

[Therin of Andor]

I think I was merely tolerating DS9 until "Blood Oath". At first, I thought it was a stretch to say that Kirk's three Klingon nemeses were somehow still NOT.DEAD after all this time, and had bumpy foreheads to boot, but the episode was such a lot of fun - and Jadzia Dax finally shone as a well-rounded character.

 

[Ln X]

For me I was hooked from The Die is Cast. This is a masterpiece of an episode that highlights some of DS9's epicness and was the first episode to really build on the Dominion as show in The Search.

 

[Worf'sParmach]

I tried watching DS9 when it started, but it was too different from TNG and since that show was still on I remained loyal. But Once TNG finished airing, I needed to continue my Trek fix so I started watching DS9 in the third season. I want to say it was "The Jem'Hadar" that got me hooked. Over the course of that season, I fell in love. When Worf came onto the station, DS9 surpassed TNG for me (which I thought would never happen)

 

[KeepOnTrekking]

Definitely "The Way of the Warrior." It had a movie feel, an exciting plot, and connected over to the TNG that couldn't be ignored like a cameo.

 

[Dion]

For me it was "the circle trilogy" and "Necessary Evil"

 

[defiantfan]

"Past Prolugue" was the first episode I saw and I was incredibly impressed by the way Kira stood up to Sisko, so different from what I had previously seen on Trek. Then of course the "In the Hands of the Prophets" just made me want to see more and more.