When Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (ST:DS9) premiered in 1993, I had just started my PhD program. By the time the series concluded in 1999, I was a husband, a father, and a tenure-track assistant professor of English.
During DS9 Season 6—home to episodes like Sacrifice of Angels and Far Beyond the Stars—I moved to a city without a local station airing Deep Space Nine.
I remember thinking I should someday make time to rewatch the series, from the pilot episode Emissary through the finale What You Leave Behind. Now, years later, that “someday” has arrived—and I’m revisiting Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode by episode (with reviews that poke fun at the technobabble and celebrate great writing). For a series that I remember for its dysfunctional ensemble, with deep character arcs, and expansive world-building, I’m delighted by the writing, the acting, and the production values (in an age when CGI was the exception, not the rule).
It took me about three years to get through my ST:TNG rewatch. I hope to get through my ST:DS9 rewatch a lot faster.
Season One
Season Two
- The Homecoming
- The Circle
- The Siege
- Invasive Procedures
- Cardassians
- Melora
- Rules of Acquisition
- Necessary Evil
- Second Sight
- Sanctuary
- Rivals
- The Alternate
- Armageddon Game
- Whispers
- Paradise
- Shadowplay
- Playing God
- Profit and Loss
- Blood Oath
- The Maquis, Part 1
- The Maquis, Part 2
- The Wire
- Crossover
- The Collaborator
- Tribunal
- The Jem’Hadar
Season Three
- The Search, Part 1
- The Search, Part 2
- The House of Quark
- Equilibrium
- Second Skin
- The Abandoned
- Civil Defense
- Meridian
- Defiant
- Fascination
- Past Tense, Part 1
- Past Tense, Part 2
- Life Support
- Heart of Stone
- Destiny
- Prophet Motive
- Visionary
- Distant Voices
- Through the Looking Glass
- Improbable Cause
- The Die is Cast
- Explorers
- Family Business
- Shakaar
- Facets
- The Adversary
Season Four
- The Way of the Warrior
- (double-length episode)
- The Visitor
- Hippocratic Oath
- Indiscretion
- Rejoined
- Starship Down
- Little Green Men
- The Sword of Kahless
- Our Man Bashir
- Homefront
- Paradise Lost
- Crossfire
- Return to Grace
- Sons of Mogh
- Bar Association
- Accession
- Rules of Engagement
- Hard Time
- Shattered Mirror
- The Muse
- For the Cause
- To the Death
- The Quickening
- Body Parts
- Broken Link
Season Five
- Apocalypse Rising
- The Ship
- Looking For Par’Mach…
- Nor The Battle To The Strong
- The Assignment
- Trials and Tribble-ations
- Let He Who Is Without Sin
- Things Past
- The Ascent
- Rapture
- The Darkness and The Light
- The Begotten
- For The Uniform
- In Purgatory’s Shadow
- By Inferno’s Light
- Doctor Bashir, I Presume
- A Simple Investigation
- Business As Usual
- Ties of Blood and Water
- Ferengi Love Songs
- Soldiers of The Empire
- Children of Time
- Blaze of Glory
- Empok Nor
- In The Cards
- Call To Arms
Season Six
- A Time To Stand
- Rocks And Shoals
- Sons And Daughters
- Behind The Lines
- Favour The Bold
- Sacrifice of Angels
- You Are Cordially Invited
- Resurrection
- Statistical Probabilities
- The Magnificent Ferengi
- Waltz
- Who Mourns For Morn?
- Far Beyond The Stars
- One Little Ship
- Honour Among Thieves
- Change of Heart
- Wrongs Darker Than Death Or Night
- Inquisition
- In The Pale Moonlight
- His Way
- The Reckoning
- Valiant
- Profit and Lace
- Time’s Orphan
- The Sound of her Voice
- Tears of The Prophets
- Image In The Sand
- Shadows And Symbols
- Afterimage
- Take Me Out To The Holosuite
- Chrysalis
- Treachery, Faith And The Great River
- Once More Unto The Breach
- The Siege Of AR558
- Covenant
- It’s Only A Paper Moon
- Prodigal Daughter
- The Emperor’s New Cloak
- Field Of Fire
- Chimera
- Badda Bing Badda Bang
- Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges
- Penumbra
- Till Death Do Us Part
- Strange Bedfellows
- The Changing Face Of Evil
- When It Rains…
- Tacking Into The Wind
- Extreme Measures
- The Dogs Of War
- What You Leave Behind
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