It’s weird, I remember this being slow to start, but that must have been the “getting to know the characters” phase. On a rerun that isn’t an issue, so I enjoyed Emissary and A Man Alone more than the first time I watched them.
Odo and Quark were great from the off.
Kira’s hair in Emissary is god-awful.
Keiko’s character starts out badly.
When does Gul Dukat show up? Ah, how the mighty have fallen!
I just did a rerun of DS9 a few months ago. I’d only seen episodes during it’s original run, it was interesting to watch now that I’m older. Gul Dukat shows up almost immediately, and he gets weirder as the episodes run on.
And continues badly. The only time I enjoyed anything that actress did was when she was possessed by a Pah Wraith. In fact, until that episode I thought the actress simply couldn’t act; I now believe the writers just didn’t have anything interesting for her character to do.
I actually thought her performance in that episode was pretty awful. It was too over-the-top evil supervillainy.
She’s pretty understated in her normal Keiko role, but then she never really has anything interesting happen to her.
I liked the TNG episode “Disaster” where she gave birth to Molly. It was because of Worf though, not her. “Congratulations. You are fully dilated to ten centimeters. You may now give birth.”
I’ve only gone through DS9 once. I’m waiting for it to stream instantly on Netflix so I can do it again. I tried Voyager, but I’ve stalled out in the middle of season 2.
Well, it certainly wasn’t a nuanced performance, but I thought it was fun. 
YMMV.
I always wished there was a spin off show just for Garak. I loved his character. He had the best lines.
Garak is my favorite Trek character of all time. Dukat and Sisko come in as close seconds, although the former is somewhat ruined by his descent into insanity in the seventh season. But up until then, Dukat is one of the most compelling antagonists (I hate the word “villain”) that Trek’s writers ever created.
They should make a new Odd Couple with Garak and Dukat, and their wacky scheming neighbor Weyoun.
“That was the last Weoun clone!”
“I was hoping you would say that.”
Throw Quark in as the other side neighbour and I’ll watch.
I have to +1 on Garak being the best character on that show. I also have to give props to the almost sibling-like Love/Hate relationship that Odo and Quark have.
I would pay good latinum to watch that.
I generally can’t watch Voyager until they’re past the Kazon… they really were awful in my opinion.
My wife and I are huge sci-fi/fantasy fans, but we could never fully appreciate DS9. I think we watched about 4 seasons of it, but it never fully held us.
Our fav. character is Sisko, which should be rather obvious since he is the Captain(eventually). However, it seems like a huge amount of episodes do not revolve around Sisko. We do love that one where Jake ages and we see Sisko visit him a various points of his life.
And Weyoun’s numb-skulled toady, Damar. They could even work in Damar’s development into a Dark Badass Mofo in later seasons.
Oh man. Did I just figure out that Damar = Wesley Wyndam-Pryce?
Don’t forget his simple-minded brother, Rom, and annoying nephew, Nog. Every sitcom is required to have an annoying kid in it. Also, don’t leave Moogie out.
No. Please leave Moogie out.
Please.