10 Biggest WTF Moments From Star Trek: Deep Space Nine 

still not as strong as the "fucking solids" line from ST:Picard. 😂

​@@FiXatowhen you need to poop but don't you eat enough fiber

But moogie was not accidentally shot during the sim. He straight up said he was putting her out of her misery

Goatee = evil version of character

@@thebricknerd8599 This is how I know that I have a twin out there and HE'S the good guy.

@@thebricknerd8599 Except for Sisko

@@edwardrhoades6957 you're right.

​@@edwardrhoades6957are you sure? I mean he technically did commit war crimes lol

this is especially important considering he had a certain amount of resentment for Picard after his participation (however unwilling) in the death of his wife at Wolf 359

Yeah siskos plot armor always made since to me since he was the emissary but picards didnt click till i watch picard season 2 and q says picard was one of his favorites making me think he had been watching over picard

Greatest scene ever in star trek!

Agreed. They have Jake staying behind to do his job but not Jadzai's BS death!?! That should be No. One!

It hurts even more when you find out the actress didn't want to leave the show; but just wanted to not be up front and center as much as she had been so the writers got sour and took away any possibility of her returning by just killing her off.

@@ImNtDead it does hurt indeed. Terry Farrell's departure from DS9 was heartbreaking for the stupidest of reasons. Both on and off screen

Add to that she didnt want to leave! They wrote her out. Talk about rude.

​@@christopherlively8477 100% agreed. It was a VERY petty decision on their part. She just wanted a little less screen time, and they got their feathers ruffled, and wrote her out. It was a ridiculous move. It piss-s me off to this day when someone brings it up.

..and "Whispers 2x14"

I dunno, I think the reveal of Changeling Bashir is actually pretty ingenious! It forces the viewer to rethink previous episodes and see them in a new light, like all good plot twists.

​​@@SvanTowerMan yeahhh, the whole Bashir/Changeling arc does intrigue me. One of the things I want to do during my next rewatch binge is to see exactly where/when he was abducted, and see the episodes in-between, to see how he acted. Like, did he still perform surgeries? Did he still play darts with O'Brien? Did he still have that incredible infatuation with Jadzia??? These are questions I need answers to, LoL! I'm sure someone else - probably SEVERAL someone else's - have already done this and can answer those questions, but I want to experience it for myself. Tl;Dr: I wanna see what happened on the station during his abduction.

Honestly, it would have done way better in the age of streaming than 90s syndication.

Oh man, I can't count how many times I've watched DS9, LoL! I tend to watch ALL the older ST series several times a year. DS9, VOY, and TNG, are my top 3 older ST favorites. With the newer ones, my top 3 are SNW, Picard, and LD, though not in any particular order. However, Discovery and Prodigy are also REALLY good. Though not in my top 3, they are in my top 5. I do enjoy the older series' to the newer ones though. I often wish they'd do a reboot of both DS9 and VOY, though. I bet they would both do really REALLY well!

Yeah, Leck basically said he saw that they weren't going to be able to rescue her, so he put her out of her misery.

Honestly? Respect.

Bahahah! The things I'd do if Seán WAS watching me would be HILARIOUS, LoL 🤣 🤣 🤣

What the showrunners were trying to convey was a message that the "Allamaraine: Aliens is that their games are so dangerous that not even children would be safe in their presence. What happened something between absurd and downright disturbing.

Uh they were not related at all.

@@superhayes256 dukat was essentially kira's stepfather while he was with her mother ergo his daughter would've been kira's stepsister.

@@mwallacejam She was raised by her father.

@mikemaricle9941 yes but her mother was with dukat. Absentee Mom's new man is technically step-dad even if you never meet him

Entirely agreed. It is absolutely in alignment with what we know to be true of real human abusers of this sort. It’s one of the things that makes DS9 one of the - if not THE - best of all the ST series. They lean into the darker themes, and don’t shy away from painful truths while still remaining Trek at the core. It gives the characters and stories so much more depth, and allows us to reflect on these darker moments of our own history. Knowing in abstract way that “comfort women” exist/ed is rather different than seeing an “actual” comfort woman, and understanding what the practice did to her and by extension the whole subjugated culture. It creates a valuable opportunity for real empathy and understanding.

💯 Jake staying behind made every kind of sense-storytelling, character consistency, etc. Disagree with you on Q, though. You don't get to be an immortal being without having good relations with your fellow immortals.

Came here to make sure someone was advocating for young idealistic Jake, there was never any doubt in his mind that the federation would regain control of the station. This was probably more similar to a risky away mission in his mind than the actual high stakes situation it was, and let's not ignore the desensitized nature of his life as the son of a commander who regularly lives those experiences.. Bad call on this one trek culture.

Q couldn't be antagonist, Sisko would just hit him again and again.

"He was there with his family" POV: you've never seen DS9 😂

Move Along Home could have been .uch better with just a couple more days of writing... It was obviously rushed.

Personally I dont care if it was a human or hologram, For my money It was SOOO satisfying to see "Vic" get shot. Couldnt stand ANY of the "vic" episodes.

That was my assumption as well, so I'm glad I wasn't the only one

I always assumed that WAS Felix (at least the mirror universe version of Felix) and he modeled the character after himself.

@@ViroVV Even "It Is Only a Paper Moon". A great PTSD ep

@@vahi37 To each their own of course. That said... It is music based, Which is a NO for me. Further, its a musical style I also loathe. So double no. Even if it has some significance to the greater plot I also see a LOAD of problems with it. Like the fact that it is another one of the "We have to give Ezri a problem to fix with her training" episode but they forgot that her training is a counseller. So they had to overhype psychological issues, Like Garaks claustrophobia and Nog having PTSD. So its an artificial construct that they fabricated 2 episodes earlier with the Siege of AR558. So thats definitely 3 strikes for me. Which is a shame for Nicole because They mustered 3 big issues for her and then she was more or less relegated to giving Bashir a girlfriend. Which with how poorly utilized Ezri was in season 7 it does beg the question should they just have let Terry go part time? They did not do much more than part time role for Ezri. So what was really lost? Cause unless I miss my history, Jadzia's run made her one of the shorter hosts in the Dax line. Cause I think she only had the symbiote for 6-8 years by canon timelines. For which I digress. Point is still the same, Not a fan of ANY of the Vic episodes and honestly outside of the battles at the end and the Wynn/Dukat stories coming to a close, Season 7 was perhaps the weakest season since Season 2. And having those vic "Filler" episodes is a large reason why.

That should read Brooks not books. Stupid spell checker always editorializing everything I say!

@@markvaughan653 It's 2023, and you don't realize you can edit your original post?........... Come on, man...

Can't edit comments on my app on kindle fire.

I had the very same thought. Not all Star Trek captains are morally rigid stereotypes. They're only human too, and realize that sometimes the needs of the many do outweigh the needs of the few... or the one.

That's one of the best eps in ST history.

I aggree with both statements. Using real life models for holo-characters as seen by the EMH, first with Dr. Zimmerman and later the awful episode where they were going to make Bashir the model for the EMH.

There’s a million things that make zero sense in trek. You just roll with it

Add to that the fact that both Data and the Doctor were deliberately and literally made in the image of their own human creators.

I harbor some resentment over the recent revelation that Tom is alive while Sito Jaxa is dead, but that has nothing to do with his appearance in this episode, which was a Grade A twist.

@@GSBarlev There's two reasons Sito can't be brought back. For one, it would cheapen her sacrifice. Even though Lower Decks is satire, the show deals with some serious issues like depression, PTSD, and the impact of trauma. It would also make Mariner's struggle to healing less meaningful; sometimes people have to live through long periods of dysfunction to get to a better place. The other reason is that bringing her back would thrust her character into too prominent of a position; she is not only Mariner's idol, she's part of the genesis of the entire Lower Decks theme. For a show that only has 10 episodes a season, bringing her back would be a distraction and would crowd the already limited screen time. I'm much more interested in the revelation of Thomas Riker. Why did he need to be escorted to earth? Is he no longer in prison? I was hoping we would see him in the finale as a co-conspirator with Nick Locarno. Hopefully Jonathan Frakes will be asked to do a revisit in season 5.

@@josephsheranda You're right, of course. But it still hurts a ton. I re-watched _TNG's_ "Lower Decks" after finishing the _LDS_ finale, and I had a big, long, ugly-cry during the whole last ten minutes of the show (and then for half an hour afterwards). Honestly, it helped change my mind about Sito x Mariner-OF COURSE Mariner would have known and idolized her, because who wouldn't?

Out of the whole series, one of the best highlights came early in the first season? I Agree! 👏👏👏👏👏 👍

Doesn't explain why the name is the same unless Felix also used their name as well as their image.

@@mitchellhmartinez Yep, or its a nickname the mirror vic picked up. going by a different name till felix gave him the nick name vic.

I think there are even more scenes where Odo (outside of his humanoid phase) was knocked out. Still makes me cringe.

Yep. We weren't going to rescue her so I put her out of her misery

Hana Hatae was one of the most delightful subjects to be included in the _What We Left Behind_ documentary.

A new record!

Oh, I think you are Being entirely too nice about that plot development. The whole storyline with Ezri in the last half of the final season was just awful! Like first season of TNG Awful! 🤮 Just .... I don't know where to go from "bottom of the barrel" to any lower to explain how bad it was!

@@TheNoiseySpectator Terry Farrell's departure from DS9 really tarnished the final season. Jadzia was to Sisko as Spock was to Kirk.

I don't think Dax was important

I've heard that when they asked Napier if he could do the DS9 role, he said that he didn't want to wear that weird shirt again!

He was 100% human-his mother was _possessed_ by a prophet, she wasn't, say, a avatar of one.