Was there one episode of DS9 that hooked you?

[Cali]

I didn't actually get into DS9 until earlier this year, and happened to catch 'The Siege of AR-558' on Virgin 1 and thought it was brilliant. Bought all the DVDs and having seen Emissary, I think that would have got me hooked too.

 

[TS-1838-SWATH]

Emmissary

 

[Myasishchev]

The Way of the Warrior.

Yep, either this or Improbable Cause/The Die is Cast. But even even after that, I still think I only watched it intermittently until the WotW TV movie, which just knocked my socks off.

It's odd, though, today I find Improbable/Cast to be significantly better than WotW in terms of narrative structure and all that neat stuff. I guess it just needed more stuff blowing up.

 

[Bones2]

Ah, actually, it may well be Improbable Cause/The Die is Cast for me. Somewhere in season 3 (or The Jem'Hadar) anyway.

 

[PSGarak]

I liked the pilot a great deal, loved the introduction of Garak, but when I knew I was hooked and would stick with the show was Duet. It was so incredibly played between Harris Yulin and Nana Visitor that I was blown away.

 

[Braxton]

I'm not really sure what episode it was that got me hooked on DS9. I had seen TOS reruns and TNG episodes by the time I saw DS9 so I just continued watching DS9 when it was on at a time I could watch as I was like 7 when DS9 debuted. I think it was some episode in season two, possibly season three. Wish I could remember.

 

[BrotherBenny]

I was hooked by Emissary, but there were certain episodes that confirmed to me that this was the greatest show on television. The Circle trilogy was great, The Jem'Hadar/The Search, Way of the Warrior, Improbable Cause/The Die is Cast, A Call to Arms, the Dominion War/Terok Nor arc, Tears of the Prophets, and of course the Final Chapter.

 

[Amaris]

When I went back and watched the show that a very nice fellow had recorded onto VHS tapes (from over the air broadcasts - This was about 2004). I sat down and said "I'm going to give this show a chance to impress me". They were all a bit of fun, but when I got to "Duet", I was hooked. By the time I finally got to "In The Pale Moonlight", I was a Dedicated Niner for life.

J.

 

[Wicca who Wonta]

Duet! That was the episode that made me realize how special DS9 was!

...Nor the Battle to the Strong and The Siege of AR-558 are also two strong episodes that mean a lot to me, but I was already hooked when I watched those.

 

[Kira Nerys]

Duet

 

[tomalak301]

Emissary

Star Trek was reaching it's all time high and I was very excited about it. Emissary, despite coming to appreciate it more in the later years, was such a cool episode and Pilot.

 

[OldManDax]

Heart of Stone: I was still pretty new to episodic television sci-fi, and what i remembered of Trek was that it was that weird show that my local wpix station (pre WB network) would run marathons of every new years eve. Plus my semi-geeky roommate and his annoying geeeky friend would watch certain eps. of this strange shows starring some french guy and a supposedly fascinating robot guy (remember, i knew very little of trek by then).

HOS wasn't that great an episode, at least the a plot wasn't, but i kinda liked the exploration of one's "man's" pent-up feelings, the sci-fi setting, and the unexpected ending. And the b plot, was really great, great performances AND careful exploration from Nog and especially Sisko ("That's the guy who played Hawk!!!"). All the the great stand-alone or semi-serialized eps. that followed - "Destiny", "Defiant", "House of Quark", "Facets", and then, "The Adversary", kept me hooked.

By the way, TOS is my second favorite trek, bar none. And those movies EASILY beat the TNG ones.

 

[Pemmer Harge]

/\ I think that the b-plot of Heart of Stone was better than the a-plot and probably deserved its own episode.

 

[Captain Randy Hall]

Emmissary the flashback to the borg battle at Wolf 359 and seeing what happened with Ben sisko's story and the loss of his wife Jennifer and how it affected him.All. the other characters Like Kira,odo and Dax, Bashir, o'Brienwas what I liked about this series and watch it for all seven seasons.Also characters like Garak, Quark, Rom and Nog, Worf and many other characters I liked and added alot of depth to this series.That confrontation scene Sisko has with Picard about wolf 359 is really powerful moment and shows what a good actor Avery Brooks is.

What this person said. I was hooked the minute Sisko, the teacher of time to the Prophets, became the student and learned something about himself. Classic stuff.

 

[Garm Bel Iblis]

Mine was the Jem Hadar

Mine too, it was the first ep i had watched since the premiere and i was hooked from that point on.

 

[CommanderRaytas]

Past Prologue for me. Garak turned me into a Niner on the second episode.

Me too! (DS9) Cardassians rule in general, but Garak is top class. The only one I like as much as him is Damar.