The WORST episodes of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Every episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine!
When the Cardassian occupation of Bajor ended in 2369, the mining space-station Terok Nor was left abandoned, its systems ripped out. By invitation of the provisional Bajoran government, Starfleet stepped in to oversee the rebuilding and day-to-day operations of the newly christened Deep Space Nine. DS9 soon became a center of travel and commerce thanks to a newly found stable wormhole leading to the largely unexplored Gamma Quadrant.
#1 - Resurrection
Season 6 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/17/1997
Stardate: Unknown The mirror universe's Bareil attempts to steal the Bajoran orb of Prophecy and Change. Things are complicated when Kira falls in love with him.
#2 - Move Along Home
Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 3/14/1993
Stardate: Unknown - Quark is forced to play a game by the Wadi, a newly encountered species, and the lives of the crew depend on the outcome.
#3 - Second Sight
Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/21/1993
For the first time since the death of his wife, Sisko falls in love. However, his new interest seems to suffer from a bizarre form of split personality.
#4 - Meridian
Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/14/1994
Jadzia falls in love with a scientist on a planet whose inhabitants shift between this universe and a plane of pure energy every sixty years.
#5 - Fascination
Season 3 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/28/1994
Lwaxana Troi pursues Odo during the Bajoran Gratitude Festival as members of the crew suddenly become infatuated with one another.
#6 - The Storyteller
Season 1 - Episode 14 - Aired 5/2/1993
Stardate: 46729.1 - O'Brien is appointed as the spiritual leader of a Bajoran village when he and Bashir are unable to save the dying predecessor.
#7 - Life Support
Season 3 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/30/1995
Bashir's ethics are put to the test as he keeps Vedek Bareil alive long enough to help Kai Winn complete negotiations for a peace treaty with Cardassia.
#8 - Let He Who is Without Sin...
Season 5 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/11/1996
Stardate: Unknown Worf, Dax, Leeta, Quark and Bashir pay a visit to Risa. Things go bad when a band of rebels gains control of the planet's weather regulator to scare the visitors in an attempt to show them how unprepared the Federation is for the Dominion invasion.
#9 - The Muse
Season 4 - Episode 21 - Aired 4/29/1996
While Odo assists a pregnant Lwaxana Troi, Jake falls under the spell of a mysterious woman.
#10 - Covenant
Season 7 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/25/1998
Stardate: Unknown Dukat tries to persuade Kira to join a cult that worships the Pah-wraiths when she is unexpectedly transported to Empok Nor.
#11 - Sanctuary
Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/28/1993
A group of refugees from the Gamma Quadrant claims that Bajor is their long-lost homeland.
#12 - Equilibrium
Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/17/1994
A secret from Dax's past could mean the end of the current host's life.
#13 - Battle Lines
Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 4/25/1993
Stardate: Unknown - Sisko, Bashir, Kira and Kai Opaka become stranded on a planet ravaged by war where the inhabitants can't die and are unable to leave.
#14 - Progress
Season 1 - Episode 15 - Aired 5/9/1993
Stardate: 46844.3 - While overseeing an evacuation mission, Kira must try to persuade a stubborn old farmer to leave his home.
#15 - The Passenger
Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 2/21/1993
Stardate: Unknown - Bashir is posessed by an alien criminal in an attempt to hijack a Gamma quadrant freighter.
#16 - The Emperor's New Cloak
Season 7 - Episode 12 - Aired 2/3/1999
Stardate: Unknown Grand Nagus Zek is kidnapped by members of the resistance cells from the mirror universe. The mirror universe's Ezri arrives on Deep Space Nine and offers an exchange: a cloaking device for Zek. Quark and Rom accompany the Mirror Ezri back to her universe where they are captured and held prisoner.
#17 - Rivals
Season 2 - Episode 11 - Aired 1/2/1994
A con artist opens a bar with a gambling machine that can alter the laws of probability.
#18 - Rejoined
Season 4 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/30/1995
Dax is reunited with one of her former hosts' mates, and the two struggle with their feelings for one another.
#19 - The Collaborator
Season 2 - Episode 24 - Aired 5/22/1994
Kira discovers that the man she loves, Vedek Bareil, may have been responsible for the death of 43 Bajoran freedom fighters.
#20 - Heart of Stone
Season 3 - Episode 14 - Aired 2/6/1995
Searching for a Maquis raider on an unstable moon, Kira is trapped in an expanding crystal formation that threatens to engulf her if Odo cannot set her free.
#21 - Ties of Blood and Water
Season 5 - Episode 19 - Aired 4/14/1997
Stardate: 50712.5 A Cardassian dissident opposed to the Cardassian/Dominion alliance asks Kira to pose as his daughter so that he may reveal his secrets to use against his enemies as is customary in his culture. Kira must overcome painful memories of her own father's death before she can face him and gain the information.
#22 - Shakaar
Season 3 - Episode 24 - Aired 5/22/1995
Kai Winn needs Kira to convince her former resistance leader, now a farmer on Bajor, to return soil reclamators needed elsewhere.
#23 - Paradise
Season 2 - Episode 15 - Aired 2/13/1994
Sisko and O'Brien are stranded on a planet with a human colony that has forbidden all forms of technology.
#24 - A Man Alone
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 1/17/1993
Stardate: 46421.5 - Mob hysteria grips the station when Odo is suspected of committing a murder after a Bajoran's body is discovered.
#25 - Wrongs Darker than Death or Night
Season 6 - Episode 17 - Aired 4/1/1998
Stardate: Unknown When Gul Dukat reveals to Major Kira that her mother was a 'comfort woman' for him during the occupation, Kira uses the Bajoran Orb of Time to travel to the past and find the truth.