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I have been watching ST since I was a small child, going on about 25 years or so now. I saw the original broadcasts of the final two seasons of Next Generation as a child, grew up with the entire runs of both DS9 and Voyager, suffered in silence through Enterprise, and cried alongside my father as JJ Abrams took a colossal dump on the franchise, not once, but twice. While we were all down, Brian Fuller came and started kicking us over and over and over all while laughing about stealing our lunch money.

But, all that aside, I've just completed a re-watch of all of DS9. It was always my favorite of the shows, growing up I had such a great time watching it with my father. You know what I've learned from my reviewing?

Some of the best, written and acted episodes of the entire franchise are set right here in this extension of the show. There is a wealth of personal growth, confrontations on highly charged topics, and well played schemes hiding throughout the show.

From the friendship between Miles and Julian, to the eventual relationship between Odo and Kira, and the friendship between Nog and Jake, we see constant examples of good writing helped only by even better acting. Even the rivalry between Hudson, Sisko and Eddington is something of a cinematic masterpiece.

There are a ton of episodes that come to mind that extol the good writing and acting of the show, but I think there are even more out there than just the most well known ones.

Last night I was watching one of my favorite episodes, "The Magnificent Ferengi" S6 E10. As I watched the episode, I couldn't keep my mind of the humor of the plot and how strange it was that the longer the story went on, the more I found myself rooting for Quark and his little band of misfits in their quest to free their mother from the dominion. At that moment, I realized how wonderfully written this episode is.

Anyone else out there have any examples of underrated trek episodes, from the franchise as a whole or from DS9 specifically?
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Edit: There is another thread on this topic, can my response be merged with the other thread?

no merge option I'm afraid, but feel free to repost this/similar in said thread


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