The opening feature-lengthed movie "Emissary" is the best starting episode out of all five Star Trek incarnations. Other great episodes in this season include: "Past Prologue", "Babel", "Captive Pursuit", "Dax", "The Nagus", "Battle Lines", "Progress", "Duet" and "In the Hands of the Prophets".

The weaker episodes include: "Q-Less" (DS9 doesn't need Q), "Move Along Home" (A typical alien-of-the-week episode) and "If Wishes Were Horses" (A bit silly really). Other episodes range from ok to middle of the ground, however this season was strong enough to keep me hooked on the series when it first began in 1993.

The second season is the same as this one, with some excellent episodes and some not so excellent ones. It is during season three and beyond that the show really comes into it's own.

At the edge of the Final Frontier
Review date: 2005-06-25 Rating: 10 out of 10

This is something all DS9 mostly agree. The show's first season starts kinda boring (except for the intro) The battle of Wolf defines the show acctually.
Battle, emotion, war, terror, loyalty and honor. I watched the show for about 4 episodes and then quitted because it got soo boring. After a few years i picked it up somewhere at the fourth and I was HOOKED FOR LIFE! I downloaded the entire show and now, Im getting the boxes. If you never watched Star trek before, get DS9 and continue afterwarts with Enterprise. Except for a few Borg episodes from TNG and Voyager these are the best Star Trek has to offer.

Average start to a great series
Review date: 2005-06-01 Rating: 8 out of 10

Despite all the problems DS9 would receive until the beggining of the deminon war arc that would commence in next seasons cliffhanger season 1 was a great series that would get better as it went on despite only having 19 episodes my favourites this season are as follows Emissary the feature length pilot that takes us back to what we didnt see in the next gens best of both worlds i.e the battle at wolf 359 where all 39 starships were destroyed station commander Ben Sisko was the first officer of one of those ships the uss saratoga we see as he starts to come terms of the death of his wife in that battle and the beggining of his title as bejoran emissary the other episode i like is q-less as we see the conclusion to a next gen story which has q and vash come to the station.

All in all an avarage season and a must have for all fans

DS 9 - The Best of Trek
Review date: 2004-09-22 Rating: 10 out of 10

I never caught much of DS9 when it was first shown on TV, mainly due to being out of the country and not having English TV to watch. The episodes that I did catch I enjoyed, although not having senn many episodes much of the back story was a mystery to me. So when the DVDs came out I decided to buy them all and watch it from the beginning.

What can I say but wow! The way the overall story arcs interweave through out the series, such as Dukat and Kai Winn, the emmisary story lines and the Dominion war puts it streets ahead of the "Pick up and Drop" nature of TNG. In a way it reminds me of the Babylon 5 (which is my all time favourite SF show) story lines were something happens and in a few more series it gets referred back to and suddenly it all makes sense.

Also, unlike TNGs "everything always turns out alright in the end" typical Star Trek stories, in DS9 sometimes things go tragically wrong (Duet springs to mind).

The evolution of the characters throughout the series is far superior to other ST franchises. Lets face it in TNG, apart from Data getting a little more human and Worf occasionally smiling, the characters ended the series much as they started it. The fact as well that the characters in DS9 frequently conflicted with each other and had their own agenders other than the perfect idea of Federation paradise added a grittier feel to the series.

Overall DS9 is darker, grittier and dirtier than other ST offerings, which is possibly why a lot of hardened fans didn't like it as it ruined the idea of a utopian Federation, but dont let that put you off. Its a roller coaster of a ride, from the relativley slow begining of series 1 through to the adrenaline pumping close of series 7. Buy them all, you won't be disappointed.

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