Not as good as season 6 (or 5). The first quarter of the season isn't very spectacular. Nothing like season 6's start. Mid-season, there are many mediocre episodes. Many of them seem to be leftover scripts from previous years. Honestly, that was expected. They need to fill 25 episodes per year and after seven years fatigue must kick in at one point. Much time is wasted to introduce new Dax. It's not her fault. Ezri is a new character in her own right and de Boer is a talented actress. But it's impossible to introduce a new character that late into the show that should use every episode to conclude the show's story arc. That said, the two episodes telling Nog's PTSD story are a highlight of the franchise. The solid The Siege of AR-558 sets the stage for It's only a Paper Moon which is probably the best holo-episode of the franchise. The late game starting with Penumbra is exciting and quite satisfying. They know what they want to tell (since the season premiere, perhaps since the start of the show) and this pays off. It's a concise story line that once again shows how DS9 refused to focus on the weekly airing scheme and avoided meandering or incoherent story lines like in the final seasons of other shows in the franchise. Every major character gets a well deserved goodbye. Like no other show in the franchise, they celebrate the goodbye to our beloved characters over the course of multiple episodes. Yes, TNG had its wonderful poker scene (forget the subsequent movies) and Neelix (who was anything but likable) got a surprisingly emotional goodbye, but nothing beats DS9. In the end, I'm quite pleased with the "ends" they came up for the major characters. Even minor characters are not forgotten (although their stories tend to be more kitschy). It's not all an emotional goodbye though: the Dominion wars come to an end. And it's really spectacular action TV.
Now, watch the excellent documentary [What we left behind](/movies/what-we-left-behind-looking-back-at-star-trek-deep-space-nine-2018)
:thumbsup: Worst episode: Chrysalis
:thumbsdown:Best episodes: It's Only a Paper Moon (which isn't complete w/o The Siege of AR-558), What you leave behind 1/2 is also great but isn't an isolated story.
:clown:My guilty pleasure: Take me out to the Holosuite
:fast_forward: Guide on how to speed watch the main story: Image in the Sand → Shadows and Symbols → (Treachery, Faith, and the Great River) → (Covenant) → (Chimera) → Penumbra → 'Til death do us apart → Strange Bedfellows → The changing Face of Evil → When it rains → Tacking into the Wind → Extreme Measures → The Dogs of War → What you leave behind 1 → What you leave behind 2
:black_heart: Benjamin, the Civil Rights leader watch list: no such episode. Only Badda-Bing, Badda-Bang has a few lines referring to the civil rights movement.
Review by Alexander von LimbergBlockedParent2023-10-21T18:28:12Z— updated 2023-12-07T07:42:25Z
Not as good as season 6 (or 5). The first quarter of the season isn't very spectacular. Nothing like season 6's start. Mid-season, there are many mediocre episodes. Many of them seem to be leftover scripts from previous years. Honestly, that was expected. They need to fill 25 episodes per year and after seven years fatigue must kick in at one point. Much time is wasted to introduce new Dax. It's not her fault. Ezri is a new character in her own right and de Boer is a talented actress. But it's impossible to introduce a new character that late into the show that should use every episode to conclude the show's story arc. That said, the two episodes telling Nog's PTSD story are a highlight of the franchise. The solid The Siege of AR-558 sets the stage for It's only a Paper Moon which is probably the best holo-episode of the franchise.
The late game starting with Penumbra is exciting and quite satisfying. They know what they want to tell (since the season premiere, perhaps since the start of the show) and this pays off. It's a concise story line that once again shows how DS9 refused to focus on the weekly airing scheme and avoided meandering or incoherent story lines like in the final seasons of other shows in the franchise. Every major character gets a well deserved goodbye. Like no other show in the franchise, they celebrate the goodbye to our beloved characters over the course of multiple episodes. Yes, TNG had its wonderful poker scene (forget the subsequent movies) and Neelix (who was anything but likable) got a surprisingly emotional goodbye, but nothing beats DS9. In the end, I'm quite pleased with the "ends" they came up for the major characters. Even minor characters are not forgotten (although their stories tend to be more kitschy). It's not all an emotional goodbye though: the Dominion wars come to an end. And it's really spectacular action TV.
Now, watch the excellent documentary [What we left behind](/movies/what-we-left-behind-looking-back-at-star-trek-deep-space-nine-2018)