Top Rated Episodes of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Explore the highest rated episodes of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine ranked by viewer scores and vote count. Discover fan favorites, standout episodes, and the most popular moments from the series.
#1. Sacrifice of Angels (2)
Stardate: Unknown. The Federation's only hope of stopping massive Dominion reinforcements from entering the Alpha Quadrant relies on Sisko's suicide mission to reach DS9 before the minefield is destroyed.
#2. Far Beyond the Stars
Stardate: Unknown. Captain Sisko has a full sensory vision of himself as an under-appreciated science fiction magazine writer in 1950s America.
#3. Call to Arms
Stardate: 50975.2. Sisko decides to mine the wormhole to prevent further Dominion ships crossing into the Alpha Quadrant. This provokes an attack by the Dominion and the Cardassians, and a desperate last…
#4. In the Pale Moonlight
Stardate: 51721.3. To save the Federation in a critical scheme, Sisko comes to realize that he must violate its fundamental principles to do so.
#5. Trials and Tribble-ations
Stardate: 4523.7. In this celebration of the 30th anniversary of The Original Series, the disgraced Klingon spy Darvin travels back in time to undo his century-old defeat by James Kirk. The DS9…
#6. What You Leave Behind
Stardate: 52902.0. As the war careens toward a final showdown on Cardassia, Sisko's definitive action as the Emissary draws near.
#7. In Purgatory's Shadow (1)
Stardate: Unknown. A coded message from the Gamma Quadrant leads Garak to believe his mentor, Enabran Tain, is still alive. He and Worf seek him out, only to discover something much worse:…
#8. The Die Is Cast (2)
Stardate: Unknown. Now rejoined with his former mentor, Garak is ordered to interrogate Odo about the secrets of his people, while the joined Romulan/Cardassian attack fleet moves towards the Founders' home world…
#9. By Inferno's Light (2)
Stardate: 50564.2. The station readies for a Dominion attack. Worf and Garak meet some unexpected friends in a Dominion Prison camp.
#10. Favor the Bold (1)
Stardate: Unknown. On the eve of Dukat successfully disabling the minefield, Sisko coordinates a massive assault to retake Deep Space Nine.
#11. Duet
A Cardassian suffering from Kalla-Nohra, a disease that indicates he served in a labor camp, visits DS9. Kira is determined to convict him as a war criminal.
#12. A Time to Stand
Stardate: Unknown. As the war between the Federation and the Dominion continues, Sisko and his crew are reassigned from the Defiant, while Kira and Odo cope with the bureaucracy of the station's…
#13. The Jem'Hadar
Stardate: Unknown. Sisko and Quark and a strange telepathic woman are arrested by Jem'Hadar, soldiers of the Dominion.
#14. Broken Link
Stardate: 49962.4. Odo is suddenly struck by illness. He is barely able to hold shape. Bashir and Odo see no other alternative then going to the Founders. Garak wants to come along.
#15. Improbable Cause (1)
Stardate: Unknown. After an attempt is made on Garak's life, Odo conducts the investigation on who tried to murder the Cardassian tailor - and why.
#16. Rocks and Shoals
Stardate: Unknown. Sisko and his crew are marooned on a barren planet with a squadron of Jem'Hadar soldiers and their wounded Vorta overseer. But when the Vorta seeks out Sisko to make…
#17. The Way of the Warrior
Stardate: 49011.4. When the Klingons bring a task force to DS9, Captain Sisko sends for Starfleet's lone Klingon officer, Worf, to uncover the mysterious intentions of their presence.
#18. The Visitor
Stardate: Unknown. Melanie, an aspiring writer, wants to know why Jake Sisko stopped writing at 40. Jake tells how his father died in an accident and then suddenly reappeared.
#19. The Adversary
Stardate: 48959.1. The Defiant is off to show the Federation's presence to the new Tzenkethi government. While underway the ship malfunctions and Bashir is suspected of sabotage.
#20. Paradise Lost (2)
Stardate: Unknown. When Starfleet institutes martial law to combat the Changeling Menace, Sisko begins to question if the Dominion is the real threat.
#21. Inquisition
Stardate: Unknown. Dr. Bashir's plans to attend a medical conference at a breezy resort are canceled when Starfleet Intelligence boards DS9, suspecting the doctor of treason.
#22. The Siege of AR-558
Stardate: Unknown. Sisko's crew is diverted to the front lines, where, alongside war-torn Starfleet officers, they must make a stand against a Jem'Hadar assault.
#23. The Wire
Stardate: Unknown. Dr. Bashir fights to save Garak's life when a malfunctioning Cardassian brain implant threatens to kill him.
#24. Tacking Into the Wind
Stardate: Unknown. As tensions mount within Kira and Damar's resistance cell, Worf realizes he must take action to prevent Gowron from making a key strategic mistake.
#25. Treachery, Faith, and the Great River
Stardate: Unknown. A clone of Weyoun seeking asylum submits himself to Odo as a prisoner, offering invaluable information about the Dominion.
#26. Little Green Men
Stardate: Unknown. Quark and Rom take Nog to Earth and Starfleet Academy, but a malfunction with the ship takes the crew back in time, to Roswell New Mexico in 1947.
#27. The House of Quark
Stardate: Unknown. Quark tries to boost his reputation by taking credit for the accidental death of a Klingon in his bar, but lands himself in the middle of a Klingon political struggle.
#28. Children of Time
Stardate: 50814.2. The DS9 crew discovers a colony that, due to a time travel accident, turns out to be inhabited by the crew's own descendants.
#29. The Search (1)
Stardate: 48213.1. Instead of waiting for the Jem'Hadar to attack, Sisko wants to try a different approach. He wants to take a new class starship to try to find the Founders.
#30. The Search (2)
Stardate: 48213.1. Odo has found his home and is introduced. Meanwhile Sisko finds out peace talks between the Dominion and the Federation have already started.
#31. Visionary
Stardate: Unknown. While a Romulan delegation tries to get information about the Dominion, O'Brien gets visions of unpleasant things that are about to happen in the future.
#32. The Changing Face of Evil
Stardate: Unknown. As Winn begins studying her uncertain role in following the path of the Pah-wraiths, the Federation engages in battle for the first time against the Dominion and their new Breen…
#33. Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges
Stardate: Unknown. When the mysterious Sloan attempts to recruit Bashir for an undercover mission on Romulus, Sisko orders Bashir to go along with the plan, in hopes of learning more about Section…
#34. Hard Time
Stardate: Unknown. O'Brien tries to re-integrate to life on the station after serving 20 years in a virtual prison.
#35. Tears of the Prophets
Stardate: Unknown. When Sisko is picked to head up an attack on the Cardassian homeworld, the Prophets appear to him in a vision, warning him of impending doom if he leaves the…
#36. The Magnificent Ferengi
Stardate: Unknown. When Quark and Rom's mother is abducted by the Dominion, the two brothers recruit an all-Ferengi team to embark on a dangerous mission to get her back.
#37. Waltz
Stardate: 51408.6. After being attacked by Cardassian forces, Sisko gets stranded with a very psychotic Gul Dukat, who was being transported to his trial. Meanwhile the crew of the Defiant races to…
#38. Shadows and Symbols
Stardate: 52152.6. As Sisko searches for the Orb of the Emissary, Kira prepares a blockade opposing the Romulans near the Bajoran moon Durna. Meanwhile, Worf and Martok lead a suicide mission in…
#39. Whispers
Stardate: 47581.2. Chief O'Brien's world is turned upside down when for no reason whatsoever he is being ignored by his family and friends and is being closed out of every essential job…
#40. Crossover
Stardate: 47879.2. Kira and Bashir find themselves in an alternate universe.
#41. Empok Nor
Stardate: Unknown. While salvaging components from DS9's sister station, the crew run afoul of a "surprise" left behind by the Cardassians.
#42. The Dogs of War
Stardate: 52861.3. With the Cardassian resistance movement crushed, Kira, Damar, and Garak find themselves trapped behind enemy lines. Meanwhile, Grand Nagus Zek announces his retirement and plans to name Quark his successor.
#43. Emissary
Stardate: 46379.1. Commander Benjamin Sisko and a new crew of Starfleet and Bajoran officers take command of an abandoned Cardassian space station and make an incredible discovery that will change the galaxy…
#44. Homefront (1)
Stardate: 49170.65. Sisko travels to Earth when a bombing at a Federation conference is determined to be the work of Changelings.
#45. To the Death
Stardate: 49904.2. A renegade group of Jem'Hadar plunders Deep Space Nine. Sisko agrees to a combat operation with loyal Jem'Hadar to prevent the renegades completing a planetary gateway.
#46. Who Mourns for Morn?
Stardate: Unknown. A former patron of Quark's bequeaths everything to him.
#47. Blaze of Glory
Stardate: Unknown. Sisko learns that the Maquis are planning a devastating attack on Cardassia, and must rely on the traitor Eddington to help him prevent it.
#48. Second Skin
Stardate: Unknown. Kira finds herself on Cardassia as a Cardassian. She is told she is called Iliana Ghemor and was a Cardassian spy.
#49. The Maquis (2)
Stardate: Unknown. Sisko tries to resolve the Maquis crisis by preventing a war, freeing Gul Dukat and offering the defected Hudson the chance to return.
#50. Extreme Measures
Stardate: 52645.7. Bashir and O'Brien capture Sloan and probe his mind in a search for the cure to Odo's disease.
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