Duet anyone?

One of my favorite episodes, I remember getting chills watching that one unfold so many years ago.

Watching Kira and the Cardassian circle each other was great drama.

I totally agree. Ron Moore has the ability to flesh out the characters. His work on The Next Generation have provided some of the best storylines in all of Trekdom. It was a crying shame when Moore left Trek because some of that creativity on Battlestar Galactica could have been used to realize Voyager's potential, or save Enterprise.

"Take Me Out to the Holosuite" is a great one. It was one of the few I watched in its original run back in 1999 or whenever, and to this day, my wife and I still say "Death to the opposition!" to each other.

And whoever mentioned the Ferengi episodes gets a from me. Any time an episode focused on Quark I knew I was in for a good hour of television.

I like Worf's suggestion to Nog on what to do with the Vulcan ball player who didn't touch home plate- "Find him and kill him!"

Agreed. Although I am a grown man, I promise you that I will be bawling my eyes out at the end of "The Visitor", every time.

Big honking ditto. Great episode, great series.
When I went through the box sets, all of which I picked up on half.com btw, I was surprised by how much better the first season was than I remembered it but nothing could compare to what followed. Behr, Pillar, Moore and the rest of the writing staff went in some amazing directions not just for Trek but for science fiction TV as well.
Anyone else think that in her day Terry Farrell would have made a kick-ass Wonder Woman?

My favorite episode is "Civil Defense" from season 3. That's where O'Brian and Jake trip a security alarm and an old Cardasian automated defense system kicks in and takes control of the station. That episode had some of the best Garak and Dukat moments from the entire series. I always thought those two played off each other very well.

All this talk has reminded me how much I miss this show...This is easily my fav all time show, and havent seen it in over 3 years. I know they are expensive, but I think Im going to try and get all the season to own now. I have curtailed alot of my dvd spending this year, and not a big fan of owning much tv on dvd, but I think this is now a must own for me.

Love the series. Gul Dukat is one of my favorite Trek characters, hands down. The only fan letter I ever wrote is to the actor that plays him.

She was very nice to the fans however. I remember she was at a Comic-con trying to shop before her appearance. My friend asked her if he could take a picture with her (and he was looking totally ridiculous in a business suit). She was very nice, put her arms around him to take the picture. And this was a place where they charge at the tables for autographs and stuff.

That ep is still saved by Terry Farrell in a swimsuit.

What was the ep where they land(crash?) on a planet on the other side of the wormhole that resurrects you when you die due to some virus? There were two armies at war who kept killing each other and coming back to life only to kill each other again. I remember there being a Bajoran woman who was a religious leader and a regular character. After that ep, she was no longer on the show.

Help?

Battle Lines, season one.

Series: 'Deep Space Nine'
Episode Title: 'Battle Lines'
Episode Number: 112
Synopsis: "A shuttle carrying Bajoran spiritual leader Kai Opaka on a brief tour of the Gamma Quadrant encounters trouble and crashes on a planet where she dies, leaving a devastated Kira and a shocked Sisko and Bashir. Then they discover that people on the planet are resurrected when they die, but can never leave...and the two local warring tribes have been killing one another for decades."

edit: Wasn't quick enough.

Hmmm...I never gave DS9 it's due. I watched the first couple of seasons, but somehow fell out of watching it. Maybe I'll try to pick it back up. I'm a Trek fan, and I've been on a big Sci-Fi kick lately.

It's certainly my favorite in the Star Trek cannon. Watching TNG and TOS on DVD has mostly been an exercise in nostalgia, enjoyable as it is... In costrast, DS9 has a driving arc and plots that kept me rushing through the whole boxsets...

(And if you *really* love it, do yourself a favor and get the DS9 Companion trade paperback, by far the most detailed and fun of the ep-by-ep Star Trek compendium books.)

Agreed. I have watched "The Visitor" no less than 20 times and I still dissolve into a puddle of tears every time. I usually hold it together until Benjamin tells the elder Jake Sisko "Not for me!" and he replies "For you and for the boy I once was. He needed his father." And then I bawl again at the end when Ben holds the young Jake who asks if he is ok and he says "I am now, I am now."

As far as the Terry Farrell departure, the story that I remember from the time was that all the actors were originally signed for 6 seasons. When it was time to re-sign for the final season, Terry was the only one who held out for more money (on the advice of her agent). However, the producers called her bluff so she was out. I seem to recall an interview in which she acknowledged it was a mistake and she would have stayed around for the last season, but she got some bad advice.

It really picks up around 2/3rds of the way through Season 2. From there on, you can't help but to be completely hooked. It's unlike any other Trek series.

It sure does seem like there's a lot of people out there that dropped either DS9 or B5 right before either started getting really good.

I feel for them. Well, not all of them. Anyone who talks about how awesome one of them is once it found its rhythm but refused to give the other the same chance deserves to miss out.

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It really does and a lot of people that I have talked to state the same reason, that it was too slow and didnt interest them but if they had held on they would have had a good ride.

Can someone spoil this episode, give me the breakdown? For the life of me I can't remember how it went.

This and B5's "Sleeping in Light" are the only TV episodes where I bawl like a child. I just finished watching my fav episodes from DS9 S3 and I don't want to start S4 because "The Visitor" is the first ep I'll watch. But I have Rejoined, Home Front, Paradise Lost, and Hardtime to look forward to so I guess I need to grab the tissue and suck it up.

Two interesting facts from tv.com:

This episode was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation but lost to the Babylon 5 episode The Coming Of Shadows.

The Visitor was voted the best episode of any Star Trek series in a TV Guide poll.

Pet peeve: The verb meaning "to cry" is spelled "bawl." "Ball," as a verb, is a slang term, and it does not describe something a child should be doing.