I don't know if this has been discussed/voted on before, but it certainly hasn't lately, so...
How would you rank DS9's seasons? And here's also a poll about the best season in your opinion.
I am not 100% sure until I do a rewatch, but I remember I found seasons 5 and 6 the best. This kind of poll on startrekmovie. com forums resulted in a landslide win for season 6, but I don't think I could give it no.1 spot - it had some of the most awesome episodes of the show and the great war 6-parter, but it also started some plotlines that plagued season 7: the whole Dukat & Pah-wraiths stuff, which made no sense at all in "Tears of the Prophets". I actually retroactively take away points from season 6, since I hoped at the time that the whole thing would end up making sense, but, having seen the ending, I know that it does not.
Overall, I'd probably go for season 5 as the most consistent - I can't think of an episode that I found really awful, even the weak ones were at least bearable (I don't mind "Let He Who is Without Sin...") even though it did introduce us to the Pah-wraiths, but it was a one-shot thing.
I also think season 2 was excellent, with many good episodes and some of my favorites ("Necessary Evil", "The Maquis") and great development of Cardassians, Bajorans, the Maquis and the introduction of Dominion. But, it also had a few very lame episodes reminiscent of season 1. So, season 2 and season 4 would compete for place 3 adn 4, with season 3 close behind. (That one had more episodes I hated.)
Season 7 had some amazing stuff in it (the Cardassian rebellion, a couple of great war episodes liek "The Siege of..", Section 31, "Treachery, Faith and the Great River", "Chimera"..) but it also had a rather uneventful and average stretch of episodes in the beginning - right in the middle of the Dominion war - and don't get me started on the Sisko's mom retcon and the entire Pah-wraiths plot.
Therefore, I consider it the secodn weakest season, with season 1 being the weakest, despite a few great episodes.
How would you rank DS9's seasons? And here's also a poll about the best season in your opinion.
I am not 100% sure until I do a rewatch, but I remember I found seasons 5 and 6 the best. This kind of poll on startrekmovie. com forums resulted in a landslide win for season 6, but I don't think I could give it no.1 spot - it had some of the most awesome episodes of the show and the great war 6-parter, but it also started some plotlines that plagued season 7: the whole Dukat & Pah-wraiths stuff, which made no sense at all in "Tears of the Prophets". I actually retroactively take away points from season 6, since I hoped at the time that the whole thing would end up making sense, but, having seen the ending, I know that it does not.
Overall, I'd probably go for season 5 as the most consistent - I can't think of an episode that I found really awful, even the weak ones were at least bearable (I don't mind "Let He Who is Without Sin...") even though it did introduce us to the Pah-wraiths, but it was a one-shot thing.
I also think season 2 was excellent, with many good episodes and some of my favorites ("Necessary Evil", "The Maquis") and great development of Cardassians, Bajorans, the Maquis and the introduction of Dominion. But, it also had a few very lame episodes reminiscent of season 1. So, season 2 and season 4 would compete for place 3 adn 4, with season 3 close behind. (That one had more episodes I hated.)
Season 7 had some amazing stuff in it (the Cardassian rebellion, a couple of great war episodes liek "The Siege of..", Section 31, "Treachery, Faith and the Great River", "Chimera"..) but it also had a rather uneventful and average stretch of episodes in the beginning - right in the middle of the Dominion war - and don't get me started on the Sisko's mom retcon and the entire Pah-wraiths plot.
Therefore, I consider it the secodn weakest season, with season 1 being the weakest, despite a few great episodes.
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Hmmm....
