Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Rewatch

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 Six

  1. A Time To Stand
  2. Rocks And Shoals
  3. Sons And Daughters
  4. Behind The Lines
  5. Favour The Bold
  6. Sacrifice of Angels
  7. You Are Cordially Invited
  8. Resurrection
  9. Statistical Probabilities
  10. The Magnificent Ferengi
  11. Waltz
  12. Who Mourns For Morn?
  13. Far Beyond The Stars
  14. One Little Ship
  15. Honour Among Thieves
  16. Change of Heart
  17. Wrongs Darker Than Death Or Night
  18. Inquisition
  19. In The Pale Moonlight
  20. His Way
  21. The Reckoning
  22. Valiant
  23. Profit and Lace
  24. Time’s Orphan
  25. The Sound of her Voice
  26. Tears of The Prophets
Season Seven
  1. Image In The Sand
  2. Shadows And Symbols
  3. Afterimage
  4. Take Me Out To The Holosuite
  5. Chrysalis
  6. Treachery, Faith And The Great River
  7. Once More Unto The Breach
  8. The Siege Of AR558
  9. Covenant
  10. It’s Only A Paper Moon
  11. Prodigal Daughter
  12. The Emperor’s New Cloak
  13. Field Of Fire
  14. Chimera
  15. Badda Bing Badda Bang
  16. Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges
  17. Penumbra
  18. Till Death Do Us Part
  19. Strange Bedfellows
  20. The Changing Face Of Evil
  21. When It Rains…
  22. Tacking Into The Wind
  23. Extreme Measures
  24. The Dogs Of War
  25. What You Leave Behind

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  1. Pingback: Things Past #StarTrek #DS9 Rewatch (Season 5, Episode 8) Trivial Time Travel Tribble Tribute -- Jerz's Literacy Weblog (est. 1999)

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  9. Pingback: Broken Link #StarTrek #DS9 Rewatch (Season 4, Episode 26) Odo gets drippy, must visit Changeling homeworld -- Jerz's Literacy Weblog (est. 1999)

  10. Pingback: Body Parts #StarTrek #DS9 Rewatch (Season 4, Episode 25) Quark announces he’s dying; Kira becomes “Aunt Nerys” -- Jerz's Literacy Weblog (est. 1999)

  11. Pingback: The Quickening #StarTrek #DS9 Rewatch (Season 4, Episode 24) Bashir visits a planet where plague victims “worship death” -- Jerz's Literacy Weblog (est. 1999)

  12. Pingback: To the Death #StarTrek #DS9 Rewatch (Season 4, Episode 23) The Defiant’s pursuit of disloyal Jem’Hadar raiders leads to an unlikely alliance -- Jerz's Literacy Weblog (est. 1999)

  13. Pingback: For the Cause #StarTrek #DS9 Rewatch (Season 4, Episode 22) Eddington and Odo suspect Sisko’s smuggle-buddy Kassidy; Ziyal offers friendship to Garak -- Jerz's Literacy Weblog (est. 1999)

  14. Pingback: The Muse #StarTrek #DS9 Rewatch (Season 4, Episode 21) Jake meets his muse; pregnant runaway newlywed Lwaxana asks Odo for help -- Jerz's Literacy Weblog (est. 1999)

  15. Pingback: Shattered Mirror #StarTrek #DS9 Rewatch (Season 4, Episode 20) Jake Meets Mirror Jennifer Sisko -- Jerz's Literacy Weblog (est. 1999)

  16. Pingback: Hard Time #StarTrek #DS9 Rewatch (Season 4, Episode 19) O’Brien deals with the implanted memories of a 20-year prison sentence -- Jerz's Literacy Weblog (est. 1999)

  17. Pingback: Rules of Engagement #StarTrek #DS9 Rewatch (Season 4, Episode 17) Worf is tried for destroying a Klingon civilian ship -- Jerz's Literacy Weblog (est. 1999)

  18. Pingback: Accession #StarTrek #DS9 Rewatch (Season 4, Episode 17) Sisko rethinks his role as Emissary when a poet from Bajor’s past claims the title -- Jerz's Literacy Weblog (est. 1999)

  19. Pingback: Bar Association #StarTrek #DS9 Rewatch (Season 4, Episode 16) Rom Inspires Quark’s Employees to Strike -- Jerz's Literacy Weblog (est. 1999)

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  21. Pingback: Return to Grace #StarTrek #DS9 Rewatch (Season 4, Episode 14) Kira supercharges Dukat’s clunky freighter to fight Klingon raiders -- Jerz's Literacy Weblog (est. 1999)

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  24. Pingback: Homefront #StarTrek #DS9 Rewatch (Season 4, Episode 11) Sisko Investigates a Changeling Incursion on Earth -- Jerz's Literacy Weblog (est. 1999)

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  26. Pingback: Indiscretion #StarTrek #DS9 Rewatch (Season 4, Episode 5) Kira teams up with a rival to track down a Cardassian prison ship -- Jerz's Literacy Weblog (est. 1999)

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  43. Pingback: Life Support (#StarTrek #DS9 Rewatch, Season 3, Episode 12) Bashir keeps the gravely injured Bariel alive to help Kai Winn secure a treaty with the Cardassians -- Jerz's Literacy Weblog (est. 1999)

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  81. Pingback: The Homecoming (#StarTrek #DS9 Rewatch, Season 2, Episode 1) War hero rescued by Kira has feet of clay -- Jerz's Literacy Weblog (est. 1999)

  82. Pingback: In the Hands of the Prophets (#StarTrek #DS9 Rewatch, Season 1, Episode 19) Keiko’s science lesson sparks a religious protest -- Jerz's Literacy Weblog (est. 1999)

  83. Pingback: Duet (#StarTrek #DS9 Rewatch, Season 1, Episode 18) Kira is convinced an ailing Cardassian is a notorious war criminal -- Jerz's Literacy Weblog (est. 1999)

  84. Pingback: The Forsaken (#StarTrek #DS9 Rewatch, Season 1, Episode 17) Lwaxana Troi and the station computer harass Odo and O’Brien, respectively -- Jerz's Literacy Weblog (est. 1999)

  85. Pingback: If Wishes Were Horses (#StarTrek #DS9 Rewatch, Season 1, Episode 16) -- Jerz's Literacy Weblog (est. 1999)

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  88. Pingback: The Storyteller (#StarTrek #DS9 Rewatch, Season 1, Episode 14) A Bajoran village mystic names O’Brien his successor; Jake and Nog try to impress a teenaged faction leader -- Jerz's Literacy Weblog (est. 1999)

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  90. Pingback: Vortex (#StarTrek #DS9 Rewatch, Season 1, Episode 12) Rogue spins a tale about meeting other changelings like Odo -- Jerz's Literacy Weblog (est. 1999)

  91. Pingback: The Nagus (#StarTrek #DS9 Rewatch, Season 1, Episode 11) Quark is named the financial leader of all Ferengi -- Jerz's Literacy Weblog (est. 1999)

  92. Pingback: Move Along Home (#StarTrek #DS9 Rewatch, Season 1, Episode 10) Hopscotch Cringe Shenanigans -- Jerz's Literacy Weblog (est. 1999)

  93. Pingback: The Passenger (#StarTrek #DS9 Rewatch, Season 1, Episode 8) Dead criminal keeps committing crimes -- Jerz's Literacy Weblog (est. 1999)

  94. Pingback: Dax (#StarTrek #DS9 Rewatch, Season 1, Episode 7) Jadzia Dax faces the legal consequences of Curzon Dax’s actions -- Jerz's Literacy Weblog (est. 1999)

  95. Pingback: Q-Less (#StarTrek #DS9 Rewatch, Season 1, Episode 6) Shenanigans with Vash and Q -- Jerz's Literacy Weblog (est. 1999)

  96. Pingback: Q-Less (#StarTrek #DS9 Rewatch, Season 1, Episode 6) Shenanigans with Vash and Q -- Jerz's Literacy Weblog (est. 1999)

  97. Pingback: Captive Pursuit (#StarTrek #DS9 Rewatch, Season 1, Episode 6) O’Brien Befriends a Nervous, Hunted Alien -- Jerz's Literacy Weblog (est. 1999)

  98. Pingback: Babel (#StarTrek #DS9 Rewatch, Season 1, Episode 5) Virus Garbles Everyone’s Speech -- Jerz's Literacy Weblog (est. 1999)

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  100. Pingback: Emissary (#StarTrek #DS9 Rewatch, Season 1, Episodes 1 & 2) Cmdr. Sisko establishes a Federation presence on a former Cardassian station orbiting recently liberated Bajor -- Jerz's Literacy Weblog (est. 1999)

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