I was a big Odo fan, so Necessary Evil was my favorite episode of the series.
I was 13 when it first aired, and was a major geeked-out fan for the first 3-4 seasons. Then I stopped watching. In my mid-twenties I watched through the whole series on Netflix, and was impressed by how good it really was.
I liked the two-parter where they ended up in early 21st century San Francisco. Bashir complaining that many of the mentally ill in the ghetto were treatable - in our time - was an excellent point.
I liked the baseball episode. It was a good break from the grim, yet interesting, war. I liked showing that (some) Vulcans were dicks.
I loved the Vic Damone episodes, especially the one where Vic helps Nog after his war experiences. Also the one where DS9 did a great Las Vegas caper story in one hour. Bonus points for Sisko pointing out that he and Cassidy and Jake wouldn’t exactly have been welcome in the real 1950’s Vegas.
The Dominon War story arc is where DS9 really found its feet, IMO. It was tough, dark, gritty and grim. The Federation was losing the war - despite all their earnestness. The episode where Sisko & co. relieve a Federation outpost where the Jem’Hadar were using teleporting mines was good. I really liked the one where Jake ended up in combat and seeing all sides of it.
Benny the sci-fi writer was good, as was the “home built light sail ship” one.
I even liked most of the Ferengi episodes. I feel so alone here …
I need to win the lottery to have the time to watch all of DS9 again.
Ooo, ooo, and “Children of Time,” where the Defiant crew meets their descendants on a barrier-encircled world, and then must decide if they will save themselves or those who will come after them. Good stuff. Great scene with Odo and Kira at the end.
My favoirte DS9 moment of all time: The Federation has been forced by the Cardasians to abandon the station. Gul Dukat, full of piss and swagger, strides into Sisko’s former office to claim his prize. There he sees on the desk: Sisko’s baseball.
We didn’t really need the dialog that followed, because it was obvious:
“What does it mean?”
“It means… he’ll be back!”
“Rocks and Shoals” - Sisko has just failed to negotiate a truce with a Jem’Hadar leader whom he’s come to respect, and whom he holds an overwhelming tactical advantage over. His victory is inevitable, and he’s about to have to kill this man. O’Brien asks how the negotiation went, and what the Jem’Hadar commander said.
Sisko: “All the wrong things.”
Great line, delivered with a perfect tone of grim resignation. This was after Brooks had learned to act, of course.
That’s “Duet”, by the way, and it’s based on Robert Shaw’s play “The Man in the Glass Booth”, about a man who’s arrested and put on trial for being a Nazi concentration camp commander.
REALLY? I love that movie and never would have made that connection…
I think so. Someone had to keep Quark and his greed from taking over. Odo was always around keeping Quark in line.
House of Quark is my favorite Quark episode. He marries a Klingon woman and has to defend the honor of the house. It was the first time we saw a better, more decent side of Quark. Quark was always greedy and in love of profit. But, underneath that there was some good. Not a lot. But, some.
I waited for 30 years for the final scene in** Call to Arms** when you actually saw Star fleet, awesome scene that had my worked up for days.
I always thought the battles in First Contact and Nemesis were the best I’d seen until I started watching the fleet battles during the war. I’ll finish off season 6 tonight.
I also enjoyed the Ferengi episodes. Particularly the one where Quark steals a cloaking device.
The only good thing about that episode, IMHO, is seeing Quark and Rom carry the invisible gadget through the hallways of DS9, trying to look nonchalant. It was some great physical comedy/mime work.
I just finished Profit and Lace. Yuck.
The Valiant was on the same disc though, that was an alright episode. Just because a Defiant class ship is tough doesn’t mean it can’t be destroyed by a bad crew.
I liked at least one holodeck episode: the one where Dr. Bashir was a spy. Of course, I liked the idea of him being genetically altered.
Also, the one good thing about Season 7 was the replacement Dax. De Boer could wear the spots and not lose her attractiveness, unlike Farrell who was only attractive in Trials and Tribulations. That, and it does well with the MST3K treatment.
Heck, if you don’t mind another Confused Matthew shoutout: try this.
Duet, again.
This is a stance I disagee with, but respect your right to hold.
This however, is unfathomable to me. I spent many a night in my teens and twenties imagining following the trail of Jadzia’s spots. Ezri was a cute girl. Jadzia was a beautiful woman… If I may pollute a Trek thread with a Firefly quote… “I’ll be in my bunk.” 
Incidentally, if I wanted to re-watch the Dominion War arc that occupied the bulk of the series, which episode should I start on?
Well, that man is annoyingly overwrought. I’ve listened to the first video and a half, where he’s bitching about Dukat’s actions in the 6th season finale and first season episode, and he’s making the strange assumption that late 6th season-early 7th season Dukat is rational.
Although there was quite a bit of buildup to it, I’d start with this, at the end of the fifth season: Call to Arms (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) - Wikipedia
Though if you’re including the substantive build-up (and since you refer to this arc as taking up “the bulk of the series”, I assume you are), I’d start no later than the start of the third season.