Saturday, December 28, 2013

50 Favourite Episodes of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

I just finished watching Star Trek: DS9 in its entirety so I'll probably be making quite a few posts related to it and I watched to start with a list of my favourite episodes... so in a vaguely particular order:

1. What You Leave Behind ( Phenomenal series finale that ranks among the best)
2. Sacrifice of Angels (The penultimate, jam-packed with emotion & action)
3. In The Cards (Highlight of Nog & Jake's antics, fun episode)
4. Who Mourns For Morn? (I love Morn...)
5. Image in the Sand/Shadows & Symbols
6. The Search Pts. 1 & 2 (excellent introduction to the Dominion)
7. Children of Time (Very well-executed straight sci-fi story)
8. Trials & Tribble-ations
9. Treachery, Faith & The Great River (Never doubt the great material continuum...)
10. Rapture
11. Improbable Cause/The Die Is Cast
12. Shakaar
13. You Are Cordially Invited
14. Waltz
15. The Way of the Warrior
16. The Quickening
17. Til Death Do Us Part/Strange Bedfellows
18. The Magnificent Ferengi (This episode feels like a Marx Brothers routine...)
19. The Reckoning
20. The Circle/The Siege(First mention of the chief's love of field rations & great guest performance by Richard Beymer)
21. Behind The Lines/Favor The Bold
22. Tears of the Prophet
23. Change of Heart
24. Bar Association(I love how hard it is for the Ferengi to even utter the word "union")
25. Life Support
26. Facets (Curzon/Odo is a highlight) 
27. Call To Arms
28. For The Cause
29. Accession
30. Statistical Probabilities
31. Wrongs Darker Than Death or Night
32. Homefront
33. Afterimage
34.  Broken Link
35. The Ascent (Excellent Odo/Quark & Nog/Jake episode)
36. Dogs of War
37. Return To Grace
38. Little Green Men(Time travel done right, Quark's plot to take over Earth...)
39. Equilibrium
40. The Wire
41. Tribunal (Cardassian justice...)
42. In The Pale Moonlight
43. His Way(Introducing Vic Fontaine...)
44. Civil Defense (Good old Cardassian technology & gotta love Gul Dukat as a hologram)
45. The Changing Face of Evil
46. It's Only A Paper Moon
47. Honor Among Thieves
48. Hippocratic Oath
49. Dr. Bashir I Presume? (Love the nod to Voyager/Ricard Picardo guest-spot)
50. A Time To Stand

(Honourable Mentions: Second Skin, The Visitor, Prophet Motive, In The Hands of the Prophets, The Begotten, Fascination, Blood Oath, The Ship, Resurrection, Apocalypse Rising, Heart of Stone, In Purgatory's Shadow/By Inferno's Light, Paradise, The Jem'Hadar & The Abandoned)

Least Favourite Episodes as a side-note: Our Man Bashir, Move Along Home,  Crossfire, Rules of Engagement, The Muse, Distant Voices, Rivals, Time's Orphan, Babble, If Wishes Were Horses, The Nagus, Shattered Mirror, The Darkness & The Light.

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