Worst Episode of DS9 Season Five Part One

[Garth Rockett]

Onward to the fifth season. One of the show's best, certainly, and yet some episodes are better than others. Please select your THREE least favorites. The top five advance to the next round.

Previous winners:

Season One: Move Along Home
Season Two: Sanctuary
Season Three: Meridian
Season Four: The Muse

Thanks for voting!

 

[Michael]

Let He Who Is Without Sin ... (which I bet will "win" this)
Ferengi Love Songs
Soldiers of the Empire

 

[Geck]

Far and away, the best season of modern Trek, IMO.

That said, I cast my votes for Let He Who is Without Sin..., Ferengi Love Songs, and...oh crap. Whoops.

I accidentally cast my third vote for Business As Usual, whereas I meant it to go to A Simple Investigation. I presume there's no way of fixing that? I quite like BAU.

 

[Natural]

Maybe the strongest Trek season ever. Let He Who is Without Sin is the obvious clunker, and I guess Ferengi Love Songs is a bit weak. I really had trouble thinking of a 3rd. I went with Begotten arbitrarily because I find it a little boring, but not really a bad episode.

 

[startrekwatcher]

Season Five was a pretty strong season.

My votes:
Looking for Par'Mach awful
Let He Who is Without Sin...
Ferengi Love Songs

 

[Garth Rockett]

I accidentally cast my third vote for Business As Usual, whereas I meant it to go to A Simple Investigation. I presume there's no way of fixing that? I quite like BAU.

I'll keep that in mind if the vote is close.

I voted for Let He Who Is Without Sin (not a very good episode), Ferengi Love Songs (not bad, but not outstanding), and The Darkness and The Light (which is a fine episode, but my least favorite of those remaining).

 

[The Laughing Vulcan]

Could only choose two that I didn't like

Children of Time (reset button hate)

and the runaway winner... Let He Who Is Without Sin.

 

[HoundDog]

Looking for Par'Mach
Children of Time
Ferengi Love Songs

 

[Blueicus]

A good season marred by some really really bad episodes. Let He Who is Without Sin (Far worse, IMO than something like Move Along Home), Ferengi Love Songs, Doctor Bashir I Presume?

 

[Maniarek]

Let He Who is Without Sin might be the worst episode in all of Star Trek? Have the cast members & writers ever discussed that episode publicly? I wonder if they felt the same way fans did in hindsight

 

[Garth Rockett]

The DS9 Companion has some candid comments from the writers on that episode and its failings.

 

[MrPointy]

The Ship
Let Shit Who Is Without Shit
Ferengi Love Songs

 

[AdmiralGarak]

Let He Who is Without Sin might be the worst episode in all of Star Trek?

Not even close. The worst of DS9, maybe, but certainly not of all Star Trek.

Anyway
Let He Who is... Crap, I'm too bored just typing its name out.
The Assignment - Pah-Wraiths! I hate Pah-Wraiths.
Ferengi Love Songs

 

[highlander]

Sin
Par'mach
Love songs

Still was an outstanding season and hard to choose three.

 

[Ro_Laren]

Looking for Par'Mach in All the Wrong Places
The Ascent
Ferengi Love Songs

 

[Mr. Fergy]

Can i vote for all time worst DS9?

 

[MeanJoePhaser]

Go with the crowd...

Par'Mach
Sins
Love Songs

stinkers in a strong season.

Though, THINGS PAST felt forced and unnecessary, and I've mixed feelings about Bashir secert revealed. Plus CHILDREN OF TIME was a trite moral crisis if there was one. Sisko's duty was to Starfleet...period. Was this the same man who risked so much in FOR THE UNIFORM? Wouldn't "A Simple Investigation" have made more sense when Odo was still a solid? I enjoyed "The Assignment" but the Pah Wraiths introduction meant more non-coporeal good vs. evil crapola was to come.

 

[Garth Rockett]

Can i vote for all time worst DS9?

Sure. There will be a poll pitting the worst from each of the seven seasons against each other for the worst of the whole series. Look for that poll when we wrap up the last three seasons, probably in three weeks or so. In the meantime, feel free to vote on the polls for seasons five through seven!

 

[DeafPoet]

Let He Who Is Without Sin...
A Simple Investigation
Ferengi Love Songs

 

[chancellorjake]

Let He Who Is Without Sin... (Not even the excellent Vanessa L. Williams could save this one.)
...Nor the Battle to the Strong
Doctor Bashir, I Presume